Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), a common and troublesome complication in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), contributes to a higher risk of diabetic foot ulcer and lower limb amputation. These situations can negatively impact the quality of life of affected individuals. Despite its high prevalence and clinical importance, most diabetes mellitus patients not only do not recogni...

BACKGROUND Liver failure in the neonatal population is a life-threatening complication and has a wide array of etiologies, including infectious, immune-mediated, metabolic, or drug-induced. Although neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) hepatitis only accounts for 1% of all acute liver failures, it has an extremely aggressive clinical course that carries a mortality rate of 85%. CASE REPORT We re...

Herpes zoster is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which affects nerve ganglions. VZV infection may be associated with neurologic complications, which are usually observed after vesicular exanthem. Acute aseptic meningitis is a rare complication of VZV reactivation. We report the case of a previously healthy 14-year-old boy who suffered from aseptic meningitis that was attributed to r...

nous sedation and analgesia are required. The procedure is less invasive than open surgery, and does not entail the risks of significant blood loss that may be encountered with invasive therapy. Embolization, although extremely helpful in preoperative treatment of these lesions, cannot directly reach or destroy the hemangioma because of the presence of an intervening capillary bed separating fe...

Paraplegia or paraparesis secondary to spinal cord ischemia is an extremely rare complication after elective repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm. We report delayed paraparesis after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in which one hypogastric artery was unintentionally occluded due to atheroembolism. A spinal catheter was immediately inserted after onset of paraplegia to promote cereb...

Hyperglycemic hyperosmolar nonketotic syndrome (HHNS) is one of the most severe acute complications of diabetes. The hallmark of HHNS is profound dehydration, marked hyperglycemia, and often some degree of neurologic impairment with mild or no ketosis [1]. Rhabdomyolysis is an unusual but underestimated complication of HHNS [2]. HHNS accompanied with rhabdomyolysis in diabetic patients was repo...

To decrease the risk of iatrogenic thromboembolic complications during interventional procedures with coaxial catheter systems, aspirin and systemic heparinization were used in 57 consecutive cases. No thromboembolic complications occurred. This group was compared with a second group of 25 patients who also had interventional procedures with coaxial systems but who had only a continuous heparin...

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) is being extensively applied to treat arteriosclerotic lesions. However, this application has not been widely accepted for the treatment of carotid artery stenosis. Successful attempts to relieve cerebral ischemia from extracranial carotid arterial stenosis by PTA are reported. Twenty-seven patients with arteriosclerotic stenosis, fibromuscular diseas...

Delayed postoperative oculomotor nerve palsy is a rare complication that occurs in the setting of microsurgical aneurysm clipping. While a number of theories have been postulated to explain the development of delayed postoperative oculomotor nerve palsies, the underlying pathophysiology of such complications still remain to be elucidated. In this report, we present a case of delayed postoperati...

BACKGROUND Microclip placement during AVM resection is generally accepted to be a safe practice in neurosurgery. Here, we describe an unusual complication involving cranio-spinal clip migration discovered five years after the initial AVM surgery. CASE PRESENTATION A 53-year-old man underwent resection of a superior vermian AVM that required the placement of two microclips during the procedure...