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Awake video-assisted surgical lung biopsy for the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease.
Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg
January 2025
Division of Thoracic Surgery University of Padua via Giustiniani 2 35128 Padua Italy.
In patients with suspected interstitial lung disease, diagnostic confirmation can be achieved through an awake video-assisted surgical lung biopsy. This procedure enables the collection of a substantial amount of parenchymal tissue for diagnostic purposes while minimizing perioperative complications associated with mechanical ventilation with the patient under general anaesthesia, given the impaired lung function due to the underlying condition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCase report: Watch-and-wait strategy in resectable esophageal cancer following neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy: a case series.
Front Immunol
January 2025
Department of Thoracic Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.
Neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy (NCIT) has improved pathological complete response and conferred survival benefits in patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer. However, surgical complications unrelated to the tumor continue to detract from patient outcomes. While the "watch-and-wait" strategy has been implemented in clinical complete responders following neoadjuvant therapy for rectal cancer, there is a lack of evidence supporting its practicability in esophageal cancer after NCIT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis case report presents a rare occurrence of Sarcina ventriculi in a 15-year-old male patient with a clinical history of renal failure due to chronic rejection status post kidney transplantation, with persistent symptoms of diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and fatigue. Despite exhibiting normal gastrointestinal mucosa upon endoscopy, biopsy analysis revealed chronic gastritis accompanied by the presence of Sarcina ventriculi in a tetrad arrangement across the stomach, duodenum, and distal esophagus. Interestingly, immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining targeting the Helicobacter pylori organism (H.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiffuse Mesenteric and Bowel Angiodysplasia: A Case Report.
Cureus
December 2024
General Surgery, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, SAU.
Angiodysplasia is one of the causes of recurrent episodes of lower gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Angiodysplasia could be associated with few lesions or multiple diffuse lesions, causing diversity in the clinical presentation of such patients. We report a case of a 19-year-old male presenting with life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding due to diffuse angiodysplasia of the bowel extending from the jejunum to the sigmoid colon and requiring multiple investigations and management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAutoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type 3: A Case Report.
Cureus
December 2024
Internal Medicine, Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, PRT.
Autoimmune polyglandular syndromes (APS) are characterized by associations of two or more autoimmune diseases (AID). APS type 3 is characterized by the presence of autoimmune thyroid disease associated with other AID, excluding adrenal gland involvement. Here we report a case of a 64-year-old male, with history of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), diagnosed at the age of 32, who was referred to a Diabetes consultation in 2014 due to poor metabolic control.
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