Publications by authors named "Abouradi S"

Background: Cerebral cardiac embolism accounts for an increasing proportion of ischemic strokes and transient ischemic attacks. Calcified cerebral emboli are rare and mostly iatrogenic secondary to heart or aorta catheterization. However, spontaneous cerebral calcified embolism in the case of calcified aortic valve is very rare and there are less than 10 case reports in the literature.

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Background: Behçet's disease BD is a rare multisystemic disease, with rare cardiac involvement. This case illustrates a rare cardiac involvement as a giant intracavitary thrombus which was the revealing form of Behçet disease.

Case Presentation: An 15-year-old male admitted to the emergency department for progressive dyspnoea, hemoptysis for which an echocardiogram displayed a large echogenic mass in the right ventricle and angio CT revealed associated bilateral pulmonary embolism.

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Introduction: and importance: Leuconostoc is a genus of gram-positive bacteria, this type of bacteria, which can be found in green vegetables and are used in wine, cheese, and sugar production, is an uncommon cause of disease in human beings.

Case Report: We report the case of a 60 years old male, with a medical history of nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated by chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The patient was admitted for total hematuria and episodic fever for the last 2 months.

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