Purpose: To report a rare case of slow progression carotid cavernous fistula (CCF) with central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO).Case summary: A 66-year-old man presented conjunctival injection and proptosis in the right eye. Best-corrected visual acuity was 0.8 0.5 left eye, respectively, vessel enlargement subconjunctival hemorrhage were observed eye on slit lamp examination. Due to suspicion CC...

BACKGROUND Peripapillary loops of venous origin are extremely rare. CASE A 55-year-old woman was referred to us for further examination of peripapillary vascular abnormalities. OBSERVATIONS Fundus examination and fluorescein angiography clearly showed a venous and an arterial peripapillary loop in both her right and left fundi. The venous loop in the right eye was in a large hairpin configu...

BACKGROUND Worldwide, stillbirth is one of the leading causes of death. Altered fetal growth and placental abnormalities are the strongest and most prevalent known risk factors for stillbirth. The aim of this study was to identify patterns of association between placental abnormalities, fetal growth, and stillbirth. METHODS AND FINDINGS Population-based case-control study of all stillbirths a...

Iultiple organ failure (MOF) denotes a clinical syndrome that is characterized by a process of dysfunction and ultimately failure of vital organs. Commonly found in association with infection in critically ill patients,’ it has supplanted refractory hypoxemia as the major cause of late mortality in patients with the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).2 Although ARDS is often an initial ...

Uterine vascular lesions are rare but potentially life-threatening lesions that should be suspected in women of reproductive age with unexplained vaginal bleeding and in postmenopausal women in whom anechoic structures are detected at ultrasonography (US). This is especially true in patients with a history of infection, curettage, therapeutic abortion, pelvic surgery, endometrial carcinoma, or ...

Epidemiological studies have shown that hypertension and hypercholesterolemia are both risk factors for the development of cardiovascular disease.Although most investigations have focused on the independent nature of the risks resulting from hypertension and hypercholesterolemia, the data have also indicated a possible synergism in the combined influences of these and other risk factors on vasc...

Introduction Current dogma regarding the etiology of hypertension states that renal abnormalities of sodium handling cause an increase in blood volume that overwhelms vascular counter-regulatory responses, resulting in hypertension. Although it is known that acute changes in vascular morphology and tone can cause an increase in vascular resistance and blood pressure, we have hypothesized that p...

This study examined the effect of Carthamus tinctorius (CT) extract plus captopril treatment on blood pressure, vascular function, nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability, oxidative stress and renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in N(ω)-Nitro-l-arginine methyl ester (l-NAME)-induced hypertension. Rats were treated with l-NAME (40 mg/kg/day) for five weeks and given CT extract (75 or 150 or 300 or 500 mg/k...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Disruption of the blood-brain barrier has been proposed to be important in vascular cognitive impairment. Increased cerebrospinal fluid albumin and contrast-enhanced MRI provide supporting evidence, but quantification of the blood-brain barrier permeability in patients with vascular cognitive impairment is lacking. Therefore, we acquired dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI to q...

Patients with spinal vascular lesions present with unique symptoms and have important anatomical and physiologic changes that must be considered prior to treatment. In this mini-review, we provide an overview of normal spinal vascular anatomy and discuss several key spinal vascular lesions. We provide an overview of cavernous malformations, intradural arteriovenous malformations, perimedullary ...