Massive Life-Threatening Saddle Pulmonary Embolism in a Healthy 28-Year-Old.

When Virchow's triad is disrupted, a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) can often occur and progress into a pulmonary embolism, and in rare cases, a saddle pulmonary embolism. This 28-year-old male patient showed up at the emergency department (ED) with shortness of breath, chest palpitations, and right calf pain. Additional imaging showed a massive saddle pulmonary embolism, and he was taken to immediate right femoral catheterization for thrombectomy.

Surgical and orthodontic management of fused maxillary central and lateral incisors in early mixed dentition stage.

Fusion is one of the developmental dental anomalies in which two adjacent teeth are joined at the crown level forming a single tooth with an enlarged crown. Fusion causes some clinical problems such as unaesthetic appearance, pain, caries, and malocclusion. The management of fusion often needs multidisciplinary approach to give best possible esthetic and functional outcome.

Ellis-van Creveld.

Ellis-van Creveld (EVC) syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder that is also known as chondro-ectodermal dysplasia. The common manifestations of this syndrome are short ribs, postaxial polydactyly, growth retardation, and ectodermal and cardiac defects. The present case report is about an 8-year-old boy who had the features of bilateral hexadactyly, knocked knees, cardiac problems, congenital absence of incisors, fused upper and lower labial frenulum, and mulberry molars.

Small- and moderate-size right-to-left shunts identified by saline contrast echocardiography are normal and unrelated to migraine headache.

Background: We suspected, based on clinical experience, that the prevalence of both intracardiac and pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) is higher than previously reported in a healthy population when using modern ultrasound technology combined with a rigorous saline contrast echocardiogram (SCE) protocol. We hypothesized the prevalence of right-to-left shunts (RLSs) would be so high when using this sensitive technique that there would be no significant association of RLS with migraine headache.

Methods: We recruited 104 healthy volunteers to undergo an SCE followed by completion of a migraine questionnaire.