Background: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare autosomal dominant condition. It is rarely seen in pregnancy and even more rarely has uterine manifestations. Case: A 29-year-old primigravid woman with HHT was noted to have vascular manifestations of her disease in the lower uterus, distal rectum, pelvis, and bladder before pregnancy. Prior to delivery, a case conference was he...

BACKGROUND Current guidelines recommend aspirin, statins, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs), and smoking abstinence for all patients with vascular disease. There is little data on the variation in adherence to guideline-recommended therapies among patients with different clinical manifestations of vascular disease. PURPOSE To analyze the variation in adherence to guideline-reco...

UNLABELLED Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a complication of underlying vascular thrombosis. The causes of PE are multi-factorial, and patients with PE present with various symptoms. We herein have presented the case of a 21-year-old man who initially developed palpitation, dyspnea, and seizure. Computed tomography of the chest ultimately indicated PE, and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) was diagnos...

objective: the clinical value of igg anticardiolipin antibody in patients with behçet's disease with or without vascular thrombosis was evaluated.   methods: igg isotype of anticardiolipin (acl) antibody was assessed in 40 behçet's disease (bd) patients with venous or arterial thrombosis, 40 bd patients without venous or arterial thrombosis and 80 healthy subjects as controls. the lev...

The article presents a clinical case of congenital arteriovenous dysplasia – Parkes Weber syndrome the lower extremities. features its picture and difficulties diagnosis are described. It is emphasized that rare disease vascular system, in some cases with absence typical manifestations combined other pathologies veins.

The aetiology of the diffuse systemic collagen diseases, embracing rheumatoid arthritis, sclero-derma, dermato-myositis, polyarteritis nodosa, and disseminated lupus erythematosus still remains obscure. The need persists for a wider concept of their clinical picture, with less emphasis on one particular system. Ellman (1947), in respect of rheumatoid arthritis, suggested " rheu-matoid disease" ...