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Successful Management of COVID-19-Associated Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome Using Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Case Report.
Cureus
December 2024
Department of Critical Care Medicine, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, JPN.
Systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS) is a rare and life-threatening disorder characterized by acute hypotension, hypoalbuminemia, and hemoconcentration, which often results in severe respiratory complications, such as pulmonary edema. SCLS can be triggered by infections, including COVID-19, and is associated with a high mortality rate. Here, we report a case of COVID-19-associated SCLS in a 68-year-old man.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPotential Cisatracurium-Induced Malignant Hyperthermia: A Case Report.
Cureus
December 2024
Pulmonology and Critical Care, Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, USA.
Malignant hyperthermia is a pharmacogenetic disorder that manifests clinically as a hypermetabolic crisis when a patient with a mutation in the ryanodine or dihydropyridine receptor genes is exposed to neuromuscular blocking agents. Depolarizing neuromuscular agents are known to cause malignant hyperthermia, but cases caused by nondepolarizing agents are rarely reported. We present a case consistent with malignant hyperthermia after receipt of cisatracurium, a nondepolarizing anesthetic agent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTranscatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement With EVOQUE and Mitral Valve Repair With PASCAL in One Procedure.
JACC Case Rep
January 2025
Department for Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation, linked to high morbidity and mortality, are increasingly treated with interventional edge-to-edge repair, showing excellent results in favorable anatomy. Recently, interventional valve replacement strategies have emerged. We present a patient with severe dyspnea and leg edema who was diagnosed with severe mitral and torrential tricuspid regurgitation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPickering Syndrome Manifesting as Recurrent Pulmonary Edema in an Older Woman With Renal Artery Stenosis.
JACC Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Cardiology, Málaga Regional University Hospital, Málaga, Spain.
Pickering syndrome, characterized by recurrent episodes of flash pulmonary edema (FPE) and renal impairment, is associated with renal artery stenosis (RAS). This case highlights its manifestation and management in an older adult patient. An 86-year-old woman with hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and a single functioning kidney presented with recurrent FPE episodes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLate presentation of Coats disease in a 12-year-old boy: a case report.
Pan Afr Med J
January 2025
Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Airlangga, Dr Soetomo Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia.
Coats disease is a rare abnormality characterized with retinal telangiectasia and aneurysms with retinal exudation, most often seen in young males and usually affecting only one eye. A 12-year-old boy came in with a three-month history of vision loss and pain in his right eye, alongside progressively worsening blurred vision over the last year. His visual acuity was reduced to only light perception in the right eye, while his left eye maintained 5/5 vision.
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