A 50 year old woman presented with a subacute onset of vertigo and diplopia followed by an encephalopathy with confusion, spasticity, ataxia, myoclonus, and multiple branch retinal arteriolar occlusions and unilateral sensorineural deafness. Brain biopsy confirmed multiple microinfarcts with no vasculitis. After the procedure she had a right iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis and was found to be ...

The article describes a clinical case report of young patient with ischemic stroke on the background antiphospholipid syndrome (APLS). uniqueness this lies in complex diagnostic search that we performed. On admission, had general cerebral, infectious and focal syndromes. We suspected encephalitis due to peculiarities onset disease results computed tomography. However, after lumbar puncture, dia...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pharmacomechanical thrombectomy performed by using a rotational thrombectomy device for the treatment of deep vein thrombosis. METHODS Between April 2012 and November 2014, 17 patients with acute deep vein thrombosis underwent pharmacomechanical thrombolysis. The thrombectomy device was used in a single-session te...

Background Venous thromboembolism in pregnancy remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Case A young, gravid patient presented with a cyanotic, edematous left lower extremity with no distal pulses palpable. She was emergently taken to the operating room and was found to have extensive iliofemoral thrombosis requiring femoral angioplasty and embolectomy with 43.7-rad intraop...

The incidence of thrombo-embolic complications in pregnancy varies between 2 and 5 per 1000 deliveries. Deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) is classically associated with pulmonary embolism and chronic venous insufficiency, which are leading causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. An accurate diagnosis of iliofemoral or calf vein thrombosis should be confirmed by either Doppler ultrasonography, impe...

CASE REPORT A 46-yr-old injecting drug user was admitted with a history of repeated haemoptysis, pleuritic chest pain and fevers. He had a neutrophilia and elevated C-reactive protein. A pulmonary embolus was diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) pulmonary angiography and he was treated with low molecular weight heparin. He received i.v. antibiotics (flucloxacillin, amoxicillin, gentamicin and ...