Somatic Management of Psychiatric Patients in the Emergency Department.

This retrospective study aims to assess a potential difference in the management of patients with a psychiatric history in somatic emergencies. Indeed, the psychiatric population has higher mortality and morbidity rates than the general population. The negative stigmatization of patients with mental health disorders remains one of the factors to consider when studying this morbidity and mortality.

[Lockdown and their effects on hospital emergency department attendance].

In order to limit the spread of the COVID-19 infection, the Belgian authorities established a lockdown from the 18th of March to the 3rd of May 2020. To our knowledge, an analysis of the effect of the lockdown on the Emergency Department attendance by patients with non-urgent pathologies has not been realized yet. We reviewed the files of patients who presented to the Emergency Department of the Brugmann Hospital in Bruxelles during the lockdown period with affections that were evaluated at 4-5 according to the Manchester Triage System (MTS).

Deep venous thrombosis caused by congenital malformation of the inferior vena cava and heterozygous factor V leiden presenting as venous claudication.

A case of an 18-year-old man with deep venous thrombosis of the lower limbs caused by hypoplasia of the inferior vena cava in combination with heterozygous factor V Leiden is presented. Both anomalies were found when the patient complained of venous claudication in both thighs. Inferior vena cava malformation is a rare condition and may predispose to the development of deep venous thrombosis.

Penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer of the descending thoracic aorta: treatment by endovascular stent-graft.

Purpose: To present four cases of penetrating ulcer of the descending thoracic aorta treated by transfemoral insertion of an endoluminal stent-graft.

Methods: Four patients with penetrating aortic ulcers were reviewed. Three cases were complicated by rupture, false aneurysm, or retrograde dissection.

Adventitial cystic disease of the popliteal artery communicating with the knee joint. A case report.

We describe the case of a patient with adventitial cystic disease of the popliteal artery in which a direct anatomic communication between the cysts and the nearby knee joint was demonstrated by magnetic resonance imaging and confirmed by surgery. This unusual observation could shed some light on the much debated question of the cause, the pathogenesis, and the management of the affection. Moreover, it emphasizes the importance and the role of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of adventitial cystic disease of the popliteal artery.