Etiologies and risks of splenic decapsulation after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: case report and literature review.

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is an invasive diagnostic and interventional procedure used in conditions related to the pancreas and biliary tract. It has a complication rate ranging from 4 % to 10 %. Severe complications are few with the most common of them being post-ERCP pancreatitis, post-sphincterotomy bleeding, and perforation.

Drains and Blushes: A Case of Impaired Venous Drainage Mimicking Pulmonary Torsion.

A 47-year-old woman underwent elective right upper lobectomy with pneumopexy for adenocarcinoma. On postoperative day 2, she had tachycardia, and her chest radiograph, bronchoscopy, and computed tomography chest scan were suspicious for pulmonary torsion. She underwent emergent thoracotomy, and the right middle lobe was not torsed; it was purple, engorged, and not ventilated.

Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy from metastatic gallbladder carcinoma: an unusual cause of severe pulmonary hypertension.

Pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale due to tumor emboli causing pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (PTTM) is rare and extremely difficult diagnosis to make prior to death. Pulmonary hypertension due to metastatic tumor emboli should be included in the differential diagnosis of various causes of dyspnea in patients with a history of cancer or more common causes, including infection, thromboembolism, metastasis, adverse effects of drugs, and recurrent effusions. We describe a patient with gallbladder carcinoma who presented with progressive dyspnea and severe pulmonary hypertension.