the radiologic features of intralobar pulmonary sequestration (ilps) have been describe and include the identification of a feeding systemic artery with venous drainage through pulmonary veins. primary sequestration associated with typical hamartoma signs is really rare and has been described only once. we describe a patient with ilps whose radiographic findings were unusual for two reasons. fi...

introduction: pulmonary embolism is one of the leading causes of mortality in patients.the mortality rate of this disease can be significantly reduced with appropriate treatment. surgical intervention can be highly effective for the treatment of acute massive pulmonary embolism. this article presents a report on the experience of acute pulmonary embolectomy. materials and methods: demographic d...

background: considering the importance of using more appropriate imaging technique for accurate diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism (pte) with less side eff ects, we aimed to evaluate the quality of pulmonary 64-multidetector computed tomographic (mdct) angiography in pregnant and postpartum women with suspected pte in isfahan. materials and methods:in this descriptive study, radiological fi...

background thrombolytic therapy in patients with sub-massive pulmonary embolism (smpte) needs further assessment. objectives the current study aimed to assess a potential benefit of thrombolytic and non-thrombolytic therapy in patients with smpte. patients and methods one hundred-nineteen patients were enrolled with smpte from 2006 to 2010 in the tertiary care center of rajaie medical and resea...

a 46- year–old man with pulmonary tuberculosis which had treated with ant tuberculosis drugs was referred to medical mycology laboratory, school of public health and institute of public health research for coughing and bloody sputum. chest x-ray revealed a cavern with a moveable mass in right apical lobe. direct examination of sputum showed wide septated dichotomous hyphae and aspergillus fumig...

despite all the diagnosis and treatment processes of pulmonary thromboembolism (pte), it is still associated with a high rate of mortality. we describe a massive pte case of a 73-year-old woman with unusual clinical manifestations.

background human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) testing strategy for tuberculosis (tb) patients in some high hiv incidence countries has been recommended based on interaction between hiv and tb. objectives the present study aimed to determine the prevalence of hiv infection among newly detected pulmonary tb patients. patients and methods in a cross sectional study,104 cases including 95 non injec...