Plantar fat pad atrophy after corticosteroid injection for an interdigital neuroma: a case report.

A case of bilateral interdigital (Morton's) neuroma treated with steroid injection therapy developed plantar fat pad atrophy, shown on magnetic resonance imaging. Some pathologic changes at the site of injection (such as subcutaneous fat atrophy, depigmentation of the skin, and telangiectasias) are well known disadvantages of local steroid injection for the treatment of the Morton's neuroma. Scientific literature reports these problems (mainly as an aesthetic problem) in the dorsal aspect of the foot.

Idiopathic left ventricular aneurysm: an unusual substrate of ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.

Idiopathic left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) is a very rare clinical condition. This article describes a patient with idiopathic LVA associated with episodes of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. Clinical and instrumental examinations did not reveal the pathogenesis of the aneurysm.

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging findings in patients with right ventricular outflow tract premature contractions.

Aims: To assess prospectively the value of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in patients with apparently idiopathic premature contractions arising from the right ventricular outflow tract.

Methods: We compared magnetic resonance imaging scans in 19 patients (13 males and six females, mean age 44 years) with frequent (> 100 per hour), monomorphic (left bundle branch block and inferior axis morphology) extrasystoles, and in 10 volunteers (four males and six females, mean age 36.7 years) without structural heart disease.

Percutaneous treatment of iliac aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms with Cragg Endopro System 1 stent-grafts.

Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility and short-term follow-up results of treating iliac aneurysms by the Cragg Endopro System 1 stent-graft.

Methods: Nine lesions (two pseudoaneurysms and seven atherosclerotic aneurysms) were treated in eight patients by percutaneous implantation of a total of 10 stent-grafts. The procedure was followed by anticoagulation with heparin for 6 days, then antiplatelet therapy.

[Percutaneous occlusion of small patent ductus arteriosus with detachable Gianturco spring coils. Preliminary results].

Introduction: Botallo's duct occlusion with Gianturco coils is effective in the fistulas with max. diameter of 3.3 mm.