Long COVID Complicated by Fatal Cytomegalovirus and Aspergillus Infection of the Lungs: An Autopsy Case Report.

After the acute phase of COVID-19, some patients develop long COVID. This term is used for a variety of conditions with a complex, yet not fully elucidated etiology, likely including the prolonged persistence of the virus in the organism and progression to lung fibrosis. We present a unique autopsy case of a patient with severe COVID-19 with prolonged viral persistence who developed interstitial lung fibrosis complicated by a fatal combination of cytomegalovirus and infection.

Primary thyroid leiomyosarcoma with transvenous extension to the right atrium: a case report.

Background: Primary thyroid leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a very rare tumour with less than 40 published cases yet. Direct metastatic extension into the great cervical veins and caval veins is extremely uncommon. Extension to the right heart has not yet been reported.

[Fatal coincidence of inapparent SARS-CoV-2 infection and drug toxicity in the field of immunosuppression in a 33-year old woman].

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a wide-ranging form of involvement from asymptomatic through mild respiratory form to bilateral bronchopneumonia with acute respiratory and multiorgan fatal failure. Patients with comorbidities (obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus) are particularly at risk of a more severe course of infection. We present a 33-year old lean patient with a medical history of ulcerative colitis on immunosuppressive treatment with Azathioprine, after unsuccessful in vitro fertilization one week before the onset of symptoms, admitted to hospital for two-week-long cough with sore throat with fever ap to 40°C.

The use of high-frequency jet ventilation for removal of obstructing casts in patients with plastic bronchitis.

Objective: To describe improved cast removal with short periods of high-frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) in patients with single ventricle physiology.

Design: Case report.

Setting: Pediatric cardiac intensive care unit.

Renovascular hypertension in infant presenting with cardiogenic shock.

A 35-day-old infant admitted with cardiogenic shock was hypertensive shortly after initial resuscitation therapy. The hypertension did not respond to increasing doses of sodium nitroprusside. An abnormal blood flow in the right renal artery was detected by pulsed Doppler ultrasonography, and a prompt blood pressure response to oral captopril suggested a diagnosis of renovascular disease.

Changes in sialic acid expression in the lung during intrauterine development of the human fetus.

Sialic acid is a component of glycoproteins that influences enzymatic and receptor functions of cells. During proliferation and differentiation of tissues, sialic acid can serve as a recognition determinant in intercellular communication and interactions of cells with the extracellular matrix. In the present study, sialic acid expression in relation to developmental maturity of the lung has been studied.