Racial and ethnic characteristics and cancer-specific survival in Primary Malignant Cardiac Tumors.

Background: There is limited insight into the epidemiological characteristics and effect of race and ethnicity on Primary Malignant Cardiac Tumors (PMCTs).

Objectives: Comparison of clinical characteristics and cancer-specific survival outcomes of major races in the United States from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End-Result (SEER) registry.

Methods: ICD-O-3 codes were used to identify PMCTs for the years 1975 to 2015.

A conservative surgical approach for management of iatrogenic pulmonary artery perforation.

Accidental malposition of a chest tube in the pulmonary artery is a potentially fatal complication. Here we describe a 66 year-old obese woman with prior cardiac transplantation, intubated for respiratory failure and felt to have a large left pleural effusion. A chest tube was inserted using a trocar tube, and resulted in near-exsanguinating hemorrhage immediately, with development of hypovolemic shock.

Possible lenalidomide-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome during treatment for multiple myeloma.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome is a rare, severe cutaneous reaction most often associated with drug therapy. Lenalidomide is a derivative of thalidomide used in the treatment of multiple myeloma. We describe a case of Stevens-Johnson syndrome possibly induced by lenalidomide in a 73-year-old Caucasian female undergoing induction therapy for multiple myeloma.

Submitral aneurysm: a case report.

Submitral aneurysm is a congenital out pouching of the left ventricular wall invariably occurring adjacent to the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve. This rare cardiac entity was initially described among the natives of South and West Africa and is considered rare in the Indian subcontinent. The clinical picture is dominated by congestive cardiac failure in the presence of mitral regurgitation.