A 66-year-old man visited our hospital with primary complaint of cough. Chest roentgenogram showed slight pleural effusion and pneumothorax in the left lung. Eosinophilia (22.8%) was also found in his peripheral blood. Multiple-dot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (dot-ELISA) for the detection of parasite-specific immunoglobulin (Ig) G antibody was used to screen his serum against various para...

A 62-year-old woman developed shock immediately after the insertion of a right-sided chest tube. A chest roentgenogram showed the chest tube to be overlying the heart and possibly compressing the right ventricle. An animal model was developed to replicate this clinical situation. Using a domestic goat model pulmonary artery, peripheral arterial catheters were inserted along with a right sided c...

the head for evaluation of memory loss. She received 100 ml of diatrizoate meglumine (Angiovist 282), an intravenous RCM. The patient had never previously been exposed to RCM and within 1 mm of its administration, she complained of severe dyspnea and a sensation of fullness in her neck, as if someone were choking her. The radiologist evaluating the patient did not report evidence of facial swel...

‘J’he patient is a 30-year-old asymptomatic man with a heart murmur first discovered two months prior to his referral to the Mayo Clinic for cardiac evaluation. Physical examination revealed right ventricular lift, grade 2/6 ejection systolic murmur at the pulmonic area, and persistently split second heart sound. A mid-diastolic flow murmur was heard at the left lower sternal border. The roentg...

A rare case of extramedullary plasmacytoma in the mediastinum is reported. An 80-year-old man was admitted for further examination of a mediastinal tumor. Chest computed tomography (CT) revealed a large mediastinal mass and right interlobar pleural effusion. Needle biopsy under CT guidance established a diagnosis of plasmacytoma. Immunohistochemical staining revealed that the tumor cells were p...