A 35-year-old patient, a native of Uzbekistan, had shortness breath and swelling the lower extremities at 35th week fourth pregnancy. She gave birth 39th gestational naturally. Symptoms progressed within 3 months after delivery: ascites hydrothorax appeared. According to echocardiography, dilation heart chambers was detected, left ventricular ejection fraction 30%. diagnosis peripartal cardiomy...

Sir, Hydrothorax is a serious, although usually not life-threatening, complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD). It may be asymptomatic and detected accidentally. In most cases, no triggering factor is identi®ed w1x. We were recently confronted with a patient in whom hydrothorax has been secondary to rib fractures. Case. A 45-year-old male had been treated by PD for the past 9 years. He had been...

The Chinese human adenovirus 7 (HAdV7) 0901HZ/ShX/CHN/2009 was isolated from the hydrothorax fluid of an infant with fatal pneumonia in Shaanxi, China, in 2009. Comparison of the entire genome with the genomes of the other 10 strains of HAdV7 from GenBank revealed homologies of 89.9 to 99.9%, with geographic polymorphism among HAdV-7 field strains circulating in mainland China.

A 30-year-old African-American female presented to the Emergency Department with a complaint of a cough for two months. The patient had a history of developmental delay, seizure disorder and ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) shunt. Physical exam was significant for a blood pressure at 101/71 mm Hg, heart rate at 111 beats per minute, respiratory rate at 18 breaths per minute and temperature of 98o F. ...