Acquired digital arteriovenous malformations (ADAVM) are uncommon acral vascular lesions most often affecting the finger. Treatment usually requires complete excision of the lesion with complex advancement flap or skin graft reconstruction. However, in recent years, some authors have reported satisfactory outcomes with laser treatment. We describe a series of 6 patients with ADAVM, 5 of whom re...

A 16-month-old male presented with focal motor seizures with secondary generalization. On physical exam, a bilateral facial cutaneous angioma, sharply demarcated by the distribution of the ophthalmic and maxillary branches of the trigeminal nerve, was noted (Figure 1). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated calcification and atrophy of the right frontal lobe as well as an associated pial...

BLOOD, VOL. 23, No. 2 (FEBRUARY), 1964 By Jitssic & H. Li wis A HEMORRAGIC DISEASE, first described by von Willebrand in 1926’ in a large family living on the Aland Islands, has gone through a fascinating diagnostic metamorphosis. Initially it was thought to be due to a platelet abnormality,2’3 later to a vascular abnormality;4’5 more recently, to lack of a plasma factor( s ) .#{176} ‘ This cha...

Digital volume pulse maximum dilation was determined in 27 patients with borderline essential hypertension (BHT) and 28 age-matched normotensive controls (NT). Finger pulse volume (PV) and finger systolic pressure (SBP) were measured by pneumoplethysmography during vasodilation induced by combining direct and reflex heat dilation and reactive hyperemia. Finger SBP was higher (p less than 0.01) ...

s:865:"We read with interest the manuscript entitled "Serum and peritoneal fluid levels of vascular endothelial growth factor in women with endometriosis" recently published in the International Journal of Fertility and Sterility (1). The authors measured the levels of vascular endothelial growth factor in serum and peritoneal fluid of 179 women, 90 of whom were diagnosed with endometriosis, an...

Agenesis of the inferior vena cava is an extremely rare abnormality, most often discovered by accident. This paper reports the case of a 41-year-old male patient, admitted to the IIIrd Emergency General Surgery Clinic of the Emergency University Hospital with the diagnosis of bilateral pelvic limb post-thrombotic syndrome. According to his personal history he had the first vascular surgical int...

BACKGROUND Studies of mental disorders using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) have been done for many years in China. Many results have been obtained. We review these findings and introduce them to the outside world. METHODS SPECT papers available on the Chinese Biomedical Bibliographic Database, focusing on depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease (AD), vascular demen...