Correspondence: Mustafa ALDEMİR, MD Dicle Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi İlk ve Acil Yardım AD. 21280, Diyarbakır, Turkey. Tel: +90 412 248 8155. Fax: +90 412 248 8440. Email: [email protected] INTRODUCTION Spontaneous splenic rupture (SSR) is an uncommon but important clinical entity. Unfortunately, the diagnosis is often missed due to the absence of any history of trauma (1). The SSR has be...

Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a rare complication of pregnancy, which, in France, is the second leading cause of maternal mortality. It results from the passage of amniotic fluid into the maternal circulation, but mechanisms leading to clinical signs are not yet clearly identified. After a literature review, we report on the case of a 34 years old patient occurred during labor. Laboratory te...

Parasitic fibroids are generally diagnosed incidentally at the time of surgery performed for symptomatic uterine fibroids. Torsion of a parasitic fibroid causing severe acute onset pain is extremely rare. We report a torsed parasitic fibroid in a patient who underwent hysterectomy using power morcellation for specimen retrieval. A 40-year-old patient with a history of laparoscopic supracervical...

Central vein cannulation is associated with several complications, some of which may be fatal. This case report describes a life-threatening complication after insertion of a central venous line. An obese female patient with end-stage renal failure due to nephrotic syndrome developed a huge neck swelling and sudden airway obstruction after attempted cannulation of the internal jugular vein for ...

BACKGROUND Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is believed to cause more profound trauma-induced coagulopathy than other injuries of comparable severity. This has not been reported in a large series of combat casualties in which penetrating injuries predominate. METHODS Among US combat casualties severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan who received transfused blood products, isolated TBI patients (...

Pregnant women appear to be more severely affected by COVID-19. Coagulopathy is known as one of the most challenging effects COVID-19, and acute airway diseases resulting from coronavirus on pregnant mothers their fetuses can dangerous. Two who where suffering coagulopathy (one them with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) other hypercoagulation) COVID-19 infection are reported in this...

Sickle cell intrahepatic cholestasis (SCIC) is an uncommon but severe complication in sickle cell disease (SCD) patients homozygous for hemoglobin (Hb) S or with Hb S/ thalassemia.1–3 It is clinically characterized by marked conjugated hyperbilirubinemia, right upper quadrant pain, enlarged liver and moderately elevated hepatic enzymes. In more severe cases, coagulopathy and renal dysfunction m...

Expansion of traumatic Delayed and isolated intracerebral hemorrhage: intraventricular tension Treatment implications with pneumocephalus after recombinant factor VIIa shunting for normal pressure hydrocephalus Sir, I read with interest the recent article by Yadav et al. They reported an expansion in hematoma volume in about Sir, 16% of cases that were re-imaged within 24 hours of the Tension i...

Although excessive bleeding is widely recognized as a common complication of cardiac surgery, the recent success of antifibrinolytic drugs as prophylactic hemostatic agents has received little attention outside the surgical literature. The etiology of the coagulopathy following cardiac surgery is clearly multifactorial; however, the success of antifibrinolytic drugs as hemostatic agents suggest...