Refusal of treatment for acute leukemia in pregnancy: a case report.

Introduction: Acute leukemia is rare in pregnancy. The importance of promptly diagnosing and treating this disease in pregnancy stems from its life-threatening potential, both to the mother and fetus.

Case Presentation: We report a case of relapse of acute myeloid leukemia at 23 weeks of pregnancy in a 24-year-old Albanian woman.

Age-related Epstein-Barr virus-positive cutaneous ulcer arising after a self-limited subcutaneous abscess: a case report.

Introduction: Epstein-Barr virus-positive mucocutaneous ulcer is a newly recognized clinicopathologic entity in the spectrum of Epstein-Barr virus-positive lymphoproliferative disorders. This entity is characterized by a self-limited, indolent course.

Case Presentation: We report the case of a 74-year-old, type 2 diabetic man who presented with an ulceroinfiltrative skin lesion on the left side of his neck.

Ecthyma gangrenosum in a patient with acute leukemia.

Ecthymagangrenosum (EG)is a rare condition with characteristic clinical appearance of red maculae that progresses to a central area of necrosis surrounded by an erythematous halo. The most frequently it is caused by Pseudomonas bacteriaemia in neutropenic patient. The authors presents a patient with acute myloblastic leukemia M4 type in whom in relapse EG caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa was found.

The influence of left ventricular diameter on left atrial appendage size and thrombus formation in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.

Objectives: Patients with dilated cardiomyopathy are considered a high risk group for left ventricular (LV) thrombus formation. However, the left atrial appendage (LAA) might be an additional site for thrombus formation in this patient group. We evaluated the association between LV size and left atrium/LAA size and determined the incidence of spontaneous echo contrast (SEC)/thrombus in the LV, left atrium, and LAA in patients with and without enlarged LV dimensions.