Cardiac arrest after a cerebral gas embolism. Case report.

Cerebral arterial gas embolism is a serious and often iatrogenic fatal event associated with invasive procedures. It is a possible cause of a cardiac arrest and the diagnosis is challenging. We report a case of a cardiac arrest after a cerebral arterial gas embolism, in a 63-year-old male subjected to a Computed Tomography-guided Transthoracic Needle Aspiration Biopsy, which was successfully managed with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Dilemmas in primary spinal glioblastoma management during pregnancy.

Primary spinal glioblastoma (GBM) is a clinically rare entity with rapid progression and a dismal outcome despite aggressive treatment. In a pregnant woman, this malignancy is particularly dramatic because the potential benefits to the mother offered by standard GBM treatment must be balanced against the risks to the fetus. There is little guidance in the literature on how to manage pregnant patients with malignant neuraxial tumours and, to the authors' knowledge, no reports have been published so far regarding this specific neoplasm in such population.

Total Aortic Arch Replacement With E-Vita OPEN PLUS Hybrid Prosthesis - Initial Experience From A Single Surgical Center.

We report a rare case of an advanced stage thymoma with right superior pulmonary lobe, superior vena cava, innominate vein and pericardium invasion in a patient with Good's syndrome. In a multidisciplinary discussion, surgical resection was deemed the best initial approach, since invaded structures could be safely managed. The tumor was fully resected and included partial resection of the superior pulmonary lobe, superior vena cava and innominate vein.

[Takotsubo cardiomiopathy in the context of a general anaesthesia - Case report].

Takotsubo cardiomiopathy was first described in 1900 by Sato et al and reported in the anaesthetic literature by Mizutani et al and Takigawa et al in 20061,4. Doron Gavish et al. were the first to publish a case report concerning a general anaesthesia.