Successful Treatment of Massive Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy with Catheter-Directed Embolectomy.

 Pulmonary embolism (PE) is associated with approximately 10.5% of maternal deaths in the United States. Despite heightened awareness of its mortality potential, there islittle data available to guide its management in pregnancy.

Interest in and Barriers to Practicing Yoga among Family Caregivers of People with Cancer.

Background: Family caregivers of people with cancer report high levels of psychological distress. Yoga, with well-documented mental health benefits, could be a useful intervention to address distress in this population. However, little is known about yoga practices among cancer caregivers.

Pasteurella Endocarditis in a Patient with Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease.

BACKGROUND As a common member of the oral bacterial flora of cats and dogs, Pasteurella multocida can cause skin and soft tissue infection in humans after bites, licks, or scratches from animals. Uncommonly, infection due to Pasteurella can cause sepsis in humans. Even more rare is the development of infectious endocarditis from a Pasteurella infection.

Methaemoglobinaemia from Vagisil creme in a 50-year-old woman.

Methaemoglobinaemia is a life-threatening condition that results from increased methaemoglobin production. As methaemoglobin is unable to reversibly bind to oxygen potentially lethal hypoxia and functional anaemia can occur. Benzocaine can be used as a topical anaesthetic and can be found in many nonprescription preparations marketed for self-application.

Extensive catastrophic thromboses from elevation of factor VIII.

Catastrophic thrombotic syndrome, otherwise known as thrombotic storm (TS) is an extreme prothrombotic clinical syndrome that presents as rapid onset of multiple thromboembolic events affecting a large variety of vasculature. In recent studies, there has been a correlation of high plasma levels of factor VIII with thrombotic events. We present the case of a young man who exhibited multi-organ failure due to thrombotic storm.