We report a case of pheochromocytoma-induced segmental myocardial dysfunction and electrocardiographic abnormalities mimicking an acute anterior myocardial infarction, probably due to coronary spasm. Coronary angiography showed normal coronaries, and the electrocardiographic and echocardiographic changes resolved completely after therapy with an alpha-adrenergic blocker and tumor removal. Our c...

OBJECTIVE To report a case of a Segmental testicular infarction (STI) simulating a testicular tumour and to discuss the importance of the excisional frozen biopsy. METHODS We present the case of a patient with STI mimicking a testicular tumour. RESULTS The patient was treated with partial orchiectomy after excisional frozen biopsy. CONCLUSIONS The excisional frozen biopsy in testicular ma...

Background Accurate recognition of myocardial infarction (MI) is important, because of the benefits of immediate and correct treatment. Despite being the method of choice, echocardiographic assessment of segmental wall motion abnormalities (SWMA) in MI can be difficult and depends on operator skills, experience, and image quality. The purpose of this study was to investigate the echocardiograph...

Nephrotic syndrome in minimal change lipoid nephrosis and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis may be due to alteration of glomerular anionic sites by a lymphokine. Six adults with nephrotic syndrome who were resistant to treatment with corticosteroids and immunosuppressants were treated with cyclosporin A. In three patients with minimal change lipoid nephrosis who had been nephrotic for 3.5 to 2...

To determine changes in global and regional left ventricular function following acute myocardial function, 17 patients underwent radionuclide angiography at 3 and 10 days post infarction. Five patients had nontransmural myocardial infarction and 12 had transmural infarction (six anterior and six inferior). There were no previous infarctions in 16 (94%) patients. Regional ejection fractions were...

AIMS To study recovery of segmental wall thickening (SWT), ejection fraction (EF), and end-systolic volume (ESV) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients who underwent primary stenting with drug-eluting stents. Additionally, to evaluate the predictive value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based myocardial perfusion and delayed enhancement (DE) imaging. METHODS AND RESULTS Twent...

BACKGROUND Previous animal studies have demonstrated that the transmural extent of acute myocardial infarction defined by contrast-enhanced MRI (ceMRI) relates to early restoration of flow and future improvements in contractile function. We tested the hypothesis that ceMRI would have similar predictive value in humans. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-four patients who presented with their first my...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Brain infarction localized in the anterior cerebral artery territory is rather uncommon, and its etiology has not yet been fully elucidated. METHODS Based on computed tomographic findings, 17 patients with solitary anterior cerebral artery territory infarction were selected from among 3,619 patients admitted consecutively to our institute. Patients without angiographic ...