Publications by authors named "Sudha Ayyagari"
Seriously ill patients presenting with purpura fulminans, sepsis and multi-organ failure often require extensive diagnostic workup for proper diagnosis and management. Host of common infections prevalent in the tropics, e.g.
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- Metastatic tumors to the heart typically affect the right side, but this case involves a left atrium mass due to a malignant phyllodes tumor from the breast.
- The metastasis occurred through direct invasion from small, undetected tumors in the mediastinum.
- The presence of this mass in the left atrium led to arrhythmia in the patient.
Castleman's disease (CD), also called giant lymph nodal hyperplasia, is a lymphoproliferative disorder secondary to lymphoid follicle hyperplasia and marked capillary proliferation with endothelial hyperplasia. It presents as enlarged lymph nodes in the mediastinum, neck, groin, axilla and other sites. On clinical examination as well as gross examination, this disease mimics lymphomas and tuberculosis.
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