A Right Atrial Mass Discovered Postpartum: A Diagnostic Challenge.

• Most primary cardiac tumors are benign with a broad differential diagnosis. • Imaging helps characterize tumors, but pathology is required for final diagnosis. • Cardiac hemangiomas are rare and often misdiagnosed, requiring biopsy.

Left Ventricular Metastases from Penile Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

• Cancer of the penis is rare in developed countries. • Left ventricular metastases are very rare and not well documented. • Complications of myocardial infiltration are tamponade, arrythmias, and myocardial rupture.

[Gender Differences of Behavioral Risk Factors in Saint-Petersburg Inhabitants].

Background: In developed countries there are significant gender differences in lifetime expectancy that can be explained by behavioral risk factors (RF).

Objective: The aim of our study was to estimate gender features of behavioral RF in general population of Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

Methods: As a part of all-Russian epidemiology survey ESSE-RF a random sampling of 1600 Saint-Petersburg inhabitants (25-64 y.

[Neurological complications due to vitamin deficiencies after bariatric surgery].

The most effective treatment for pathological obesity is bariatric surgery; however, a patient may postoperatively develop vitamin deficiencies. In inadequate intake of food and its malabsorption after surgery, there are chiefly deficiencies of vitamins B1, B6, B12, and vitamin E, leading to complications as central and peripheral nervous system dysfunctions. The most marked nervous system changes are observed as polyneuropathy and severe Wernicke's encephalopathy in vitamin B, deficiency.