conclusions children with chd are at risk of severe complications with the involvement of other organs. long-term febrile illness should be taken seriously in these children. they need hospitalization and careful evaluation. case presentation a 6-year-old girl with a ventricular septal defect (vsd) was presented. echocardiography revealed large vegetation in the right ventricular outflow tract ...

This case reveals a left pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM) as a cause of recurrent cerebral and cerebellar emboli. Extensive workup excluded other etiologies of emboli formation, and the patient was transferred to a tertiary care center for percutaneous embolotherapy. In the absence of a clear etiology, PAVM should be considered as a potential cause of recurrent cerebral emboli, espec...

Two cases of recurrent pulmonary emboli secondary to thrombosis in anomalies of the deep veins of the lower limb are presented. In both cases the source of emboli was not evident clinically, and it was only after venography that the venous anomalies were discovered, both being confined to one limb and amenable to surgical intervention. Such anomalies have not previously been reported as sources...

Only 4-6% of children with renal tumor show inferior vena caval or right atrial infiltration at presentation. Tumor emboli are even rarer, and so far, sudden death as the presenting symptom has only been described at presentation in Wilms' tumor in eight cases. We report a unique case of Wilms' tumor that presented with small pulmonary emboli and immediately after as that was diagnosed before d...

Cardiac complications are the most common complications in patients with infective endocarditis, and they can be related to significant mortality and morbidity. (1) Extracardiac manifestations along with their historical descriptions such as splinter hemorrhages, emboli, Osler’s nodes, Janeway and Bowman lesions of the eye, Roth’s spots, patechiae and clubbing generally result from thromboembol...