Erysipelas Complicated with Acute Exudative Pericarditis.

Erysipelas is a common skin infection of the upper dermis. Its most common complications are local; these include abscess formation, skin necrosis, etc. In the present article, we introduce a case of a 75-year-old patient with erysipelas of the face complicated with acute exudative pericarditis.

Infective endocarditis in an HIV-infected intravenous drug user.

Infective endocarditis is a common complication among injecting drug users. Disease risk among these patients is increased by the spread of HIV infection. In the following article, we discuss the exceptional clinical presentation of a 28-year-old patient who used intravenous drugs (heroin) for 10 years, had been infected with HIV for seven years and as a complication had developed Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis.

[JTc prolongation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy amd arterial hypertension].

Unlabelled: Pathological long duration of QTc and JTc intervals is non-questionable factor of sudden death. Information of the investigation of electrocardiogram increases during physical exercise test or transesophageal pacing of the left atrium.

Objective: The search of the factors of sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and arterial hypertension patients and healthy persons from their electrocardiographic changes of JTc interval applying transesophageal pacing of the left atrium.