Background: Emerging data and case reports have found coagulation abnormalities and thrombosis as sequelae of infection with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). Case reports have reported thrombotic complications caused by COVID-19-related coagulopathy leading to limb loss. Alarmingly, many of these patients had no underlying vascular disease prior to being infected with COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRectal foreign bodies (RFBs) present unique challenges to the emergency physician. Failure to emergently remove the RFB may lead to additional intraoperative procedures with increased likelihood of complications. We present a case of retained RFB in the emergency department, in which the usual standard approaches to transanal removal had failed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRenal ischemia remains a vexing issue in the repair of suprarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms (SR-AAAs). Multiple reconstruction methods have been described, including fish-mouth anastomoses, renal artery reimplantation, and aortorenal interposition grafts. We present an alternative method of SR-AAA repair that minimizes renal ischemia time.
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