Right-sided endocarditis accounts for 5–10% of all cases of infective endocarditis.1 Its epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment differ from that of left-sided endocarditis, making it a distinct entity. This article presents a case of tricuspid valve endocarditis in an intravenous drug user, and discusses the presentation, diagnosis, and therapeutic considerations unique to right-sided endocardi...

OBJECTIVE/BACKGROUND This report presents a superior mesenteric artery (SMA) embolism managed by percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy (PMT). METHODS A 61 year old woman diagnosed with SMA embolism was admitted. Emboli were found in the middle and distal segments of the SMA on abdominal computed tomography angiography. Under local anaesthesia, a 6 F Rotarex system was used to remove the emboli...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There are concerns that cardiac catheterization may cause retinal embolization, a risk marker for cerebrovascular emboli and stroke. We describe the incidence of acute retinal embolism after cardiac catheterization. METHODS One hundred unselected patients attending a tertiary referral center for diagnostic cardiac catheterization were recruited. Digital retinal photogra...

Systemic emboli released during total knee replacement have been implicated as a cause of peri-operative morbidity and neurological dysfunction. We undertook a prospective, double-blind, randomised study to compare the cardiac embolic load sustained during computer-assisted and conventional, intramedullary-aligned, total knee replacement, as measured by transoesophageal echocardiography. There ...

A 61-year old Hispanic woman with a history of primary antiphospholipid syndrome with pulmonary emboli and who was status post a vena caval filter placement to prevent recurrent pulmonary emboli, presented with acute onset of right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Acute cholecystitis was diagnosed and she underwent a surgically uncomplicated cholecystectomy. The postoperative course was complicat...

via and lower extremity veins using ttmTc-albu. mm microspheres was performed in 53 patients with pulmonary emboli or venous disease. In 25 patients who underwent both contrast and RNV studies, there were no false-positive studies and one false-negative. In this series the accu racy of RNV exceeded that of Doppler alone. When the results of these two methods were combined, false-negative studie...

We discuss the physics of embolic stroke using a minimal model of emboli moving through the cerebral arteries. Our model of the blood flow network consists of a bifurcating tree into which we introduce particles (emboli) that halt flow on reaching a node of similar size. Flow is weighted away from blocked arteries inducing an effective interaction between emboli. We justify the form of the flow...

A best evidence topic in cardiothoracic surgery was written according to a structured protocol. The question addressed was whether there is any benefit to the use of carbon dioxide (CO(2)) field flooding techniques in open heart surgery in order to reduce post-operative gaseous emboli. Altogether 103 papers were found using the reported search, of which 3 presented the best evidence to answer t...