A case series: uniportal VATS excision of pericardial cysts in symptomatic patients.

Background: Pericardial cysts are infrequent lesions. Most of these are asymptomatic and incidental findings during investigations for unrelated conditions. When they are symptomatic, they demonstrate most of the time a benign clinical course.

sepsis and hemoptysis as messengers of a rather impractically located mycotic aneurysm.

Background: Mycotic aortic aneurysms (MAA) arise due to infection of a pre-existent aneurysm or aneurysmal degeneration of an infected vascular wall. MAA of the thoracic aorta are relatively rare. Treatment is mainly guided by clinical experience as there are no large randomized trials available.

Symptomatic arterial thrombosis associated with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): report of two cases.

Since December 2019, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in China has rapidly spread throughout the world. During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, thrombotic complications have emerged as an important issue. We present two cases of symptomatic arterial thrombosis in patients with confirmed COVID-19.