This paper analyzes the syndrome of symmetrical digital gangrene that results from various pathologic processes. If a group of such patients is closely studied, it is apparent that among those who have suffered a sudden and widespread occlusion of the small arteries of the hands and feet some may be grouped apart by reason of the single nature of the attack and the good prognosis. Eleven such e...

HIV status should also be documented in patients with tuberculosis-associated symmetrical peripheral gangrene Sir, A major difference between the reporting of tuberculosis-associated 'simultaneous quadrilateral gangrene' in the era antedating awareness of the association of tuberculosis and human immune deficiency virus (HIV) infection, 1 and the reporting of tuberculosis-associated symmetrical...

A 10-year-old girl presented with sudden onset recurrent ventricular tachycardia and symmetrical distal peripheral gangrene. She also had pulmonary thromboembolism and cerebral sinus venous thrombosis. Investigations revealed anemia, hemolysis, hypocomplementemia, and elevated IgM anti-beta2 glycoprotein antibody levels. Electrocardiogram and echocardiogram suggested features of a rare cardiac ...

Infectious endocarditis is multisystem disease, which the result of infection (usually bacterial) endocardial heart surface. Despite latest medical achievements in diagnostics and treatment, infectious still a disease with high mortality rate severe complications. During last decades developed countries there are obvious changes demographic characteristics patients endocarditis, namely increasi...