This article presents the case of a 15-year-old adolescent presenting with myocarditis 4 days after receiving the 2nd dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine (Comirnaty®) with no other identifiable cause. The main clinical symptom at presentation was chest pain. We found an elevated level of Troponin‑I with preserved left ventricular systolic function.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lumbar puncture (LP) may be challenging for patients with scoliosis and other conditions following previous posterior fusion and instrumentation from thoracic to sacral levels. Interventional radiologists have described CT approaches to transforaminal LP. We hypothesized that combined C-arm fluoroscopy and ultrasound could be a feasible approach to transforaminal LP for interventional pain physicians and regional anesthesiologists.
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