Introduction: Behcet's disease is a systemic vasculitis with vascular tropism usually manifested by phlebitis. Arterial manifestations are rare, most often result in aneurysms than occlusions. The objective of this article, is to relate our experience and pretherapeutic reasoning for the indication of an endovascular treatment of an atypical sacciform iliac aneurysm, in an elderly patient followed for Behcet's disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The false aneurysm of the aortic isthmus is, given its severity and case fatality rate, a subject of interest in vascular surgery. The interest of this article is the analysis of the different characteristics of this pathology based on the study of a case report and on a review of the literature.
Case Report: This is a 21-year-old patient admitted for the management of a severe polytrauma following a fall from a cliff, causing him paraplegia following a fracture of the dorsal spine which is objectified on the CT bodyscan, which also shows the presence of a localized dissection with ruptured false aneurysm of the isthmus.
Ann Med Surg (Lond)
July 2021
• PCD is a serious disease, because of its important morbi-mortality. • The suspicion of COVID-19 in front of any severe deep vein thrombosis. • Aponeurotomy and rapid medical management of compartment syndrome, can reduce the morbidity and mortality of phlegmasia cerulea dolens.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Cardiol Angeiol (Paris)
June 2021
Localized dissection of the descending thoracic aorta; class 3 of the classification proposed by the European Society of Cardiology; is a short and limited length dissection involving the descending thoracic aorta. It is a rare and unrecognized variant that poses a clinical and radiological diagnostic challenge. Indeed, it is manifested by an aspecific clinical profile represented by the acute aortic syndrome and characterized by a confused radiological aspect that entangled with the other differential diagnoses.
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