Amniotic Fluid Embolism.

We report a case of 34-year patient who had uncomplicated elective caesarean-section. Postoperatively, she developed sudden hypotension, bradycardia, dyspnea and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), all signs associated with amniotic fluid embolism (AFE). Echocardiogram showed signs of acutely increased right ventricular after load including McConell's sign, i.

Time-efficient patient-specific quantification of regional carotid artery fluid dynamics and spatial correlation with plaque burden.

Purpose: Low wall shear stress (WSS) and high oscillatory shear index (OSI) influence plaque formation, yet little is known about their role in progression/regression of established plaques because of lack of practical means to calculate them in individual patients. Our aim was to use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models of patients with carotid plaque undergoing statin treatment to calculate WSS and OSI in a time-efficient manner, and determine their relationship to plaque thickness (PT), plaque composition (PC), and regression.

Methods: Eight patients (68 +/- 9 yr, one female) underwent multicontrast 3 T MRI at baseline and six-month post statin treatment.

Outcome among patients with acute renal failure needing continuous renal replacement therapy: A single center study.

Outcome of acute renal failure (ARF) and use of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) have shown a consistently high mortality. (1) Evaluate the short-term patient survival. (2) Evaluate dialysis-free survival.

Pericarditis: a rare complication of methotrexate therapy.

Serositis is a rare complication of methotrexate (MTX) administration. We report a 60-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis who developed pericarditis after taking his weekly MTX dose, which recurred within hours after 2 subsequent weekly MTX doses. Pericarditis has not recurred after discontinuance of MTX over 3 years ago.

B-type natriuretic peptide and cardiac dysfunction in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Serum levels of B-type natriuretic peptide have moderate utility for detection of early ventricular dysfunction in adults and in experimental muscular dystrophy. To determine if B-type natriuretic peptide levels are useful in the detection of early left ventricular dysfunction in Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients, measurements were obtained in 21 patients being evaluated by echocardiography for left ventricular dysfunction. Two patients with clinical evidence of heart failure were excluded (mean B-type natriuretic peptide level of 352 pg/ml).

Contribution of Doppler tissue imaging and myocardial performance index to assessment of left ventricular function in patients with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy.

Doppler tissue velocities (DTV) are abnormal in a variety of cardiac conditions when standard measures of ventricular function are normal. Detection of left ventricular dysfunction in Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (DMD) has relied on 2-dimensional imaging yet often these images are suboptimal. This study was undertaken to determine if DTV and the myocardial performance index (MPI) could provide additional diagnostic information in DMD.