Aortic valve surgery for aortic regurgitation caused by Libman-Sacks endocarditis in a patient with primary antiphospholipid syndrome: a case report.

Background: Antiphospholipid syndrome is an antibody mediated pro-thrombotic state leading to various arterial and venous thromboses. The syndrome can be either primary or secondary to other autoimmune diseases, commonly systemic lupus erythematosus. Cardiac involvement, in particular valvular disease is common in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome, occurring in about a third of these patients.

Collapsed wall: destructive and reconstructive surgery of anterior abdominal wall tumour in a young girl.

Natural history of abdominal wall soft tissue sarcoma is still poorly understood due to its rarity. In unpublished data of our institution, only seven cases of abdominal wall soft sarcoma with ICD-10 coding of 49.4 were found for past 10 years.