[Aneurysm of the popliteal vein causing pulmonary thromboembolism that required resuscitation].

History And Admission Findings: A previously healthy 40-year-old varnisher was admitted because of increasing dyspnoea. His clinical status rapidly deteriorated. He was referred to a cardiology intensive care unit but had to be resuscitated during transport.

Persistent wound infection after herniotomy associated with small-colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus.

A small-colony variant (SCV) of Staphylococcus aureus was cultured from a patient with a persistent wound infection (abscess and fistula) 13 months after herniotomy. The strain was nonhemolytic, nonpigmented and grew only anaerobically on Schaedler agar. As it was coagulase-negative, it was initially misidentified as a coagulase-negative Staphylococcus.