We reported a very rare case of tiger bite injury. The patient was a 57-year-old male who was a keeper at Asahiyama zoological park in Asahikawa city. He was attacked by an Amur tiger which seriously injured upper half of his body, including intracranial trauma. We performed an operation to save his life. There was severe bleeding from the cervical wound because the left internal jugular vein w...

Two patients who developed unilateral neck vein distention following insertion of a Swan-Ganz catheter are described. One patient developed unilateral swelling of the arm used for catheter insertion. Following removal of the Swan-Ganz catheter in this patient, venograms of both upper extremities revealed internal jugular vein thrombosis and subclavian vein thrombosis of the involved extremity. ...

background : immunogenicity of streptokinase (stk), as a thrombolytic drug, have limited its clinical use. elimination of the amino acid residues that are responsible for immunogenicity while don’t affect the bioactivity of stk is worthy. recently, we modified the stk through elimination of 42 amino acids from its’ c-terminal and assessed its bioactivity in vitro . objective : in this study, bi...

OBJECTIVE To describe and evaluate the functional and oncologic results of one internal jugular vein replacement after bilateral radical neck dissection (RND). STUDY DESIGN A retrospective historical cohort study. METHODS Since 1972 all patients (n = 9) undergoing bilateral RND with resection of both internal jugular veins had a reconstruction of one internal jugular vein. In six cases the ...

Purpose. Collet-Sicard syndrome is a very rare condition characterised by unilateral palsy of the IX-XII cranial nerves. It is distinguished from Villaret syndrome by lack of presence of sympathetic involvement. Current literature contains only two cases of Collet-Sicard syndrome due to idiopathic internal jugular vein thrombosis. Method and Results. We report the case of Collet-Sicard syndrome...

A 27-year-old man with congenital external carotid-jugular arteriovenous fistula presented with a diminished level of consciousness and an ataxic gait. Axial fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR) MR imaging revealed venous congestion, a dilated right jugular vein, and an area of high signal intensity in the brain stem and cerebellum. Angiography showed a dilated right external carotid art...

A 63-year-old man commenced haemodialysis for acuteon-chronic kidney disease following urgent coronary artery bypass grafting on a background history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Following initial treatment with a temporary dialysis catheter placed into the right femoral vein, a dual-lumen permanent catheter (Tesio line) was placed via the left internal jugular vein. The left i...