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Background: Cardiac arrest is a critical condition that can occur unexpectedly in prehospital settings. In rare instances, patients may experience a phenomenon known as autoresuscitation, or the Lazarus phenomenon, where spontaneous circulation resumes after resuscitation efforts have ceased.
Case Presentation: A 90-year-old woman suffered prehospital cardiac arrest.
Cureus
January 2025
Neurosurgery, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, COD.
Pediatric spinal tumors include a variety of developmental lesions and uncommon neoplasms that differ significantly from those seen in adults. These conditions are underreported in the sub-Saharan medical literature. We present the case of a 10-year-old girl brought by her family to the University Teaching Hospital of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo with progressive lower limb functional impairment.
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February 2025
Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra India.
The subclavian artery's intrathoracic segment is a rare peripheral artery aneurysm site. Common causes are atherosclerosis, trauma, vasculitis, and infection. Subclavian artery aneurysms have a higher propensity for rupture, thrombosis, embolization, and compression of surrounding structures, thus necessitating urgent surgical care.
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December 2024
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Unlabelled: The combination of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with outflow tract obstruction, severe pre-capillary and post-capillary pulmonary hypertension, and severe primary mitral regurgitation is rare and presents distinct management challenges.
Background And Clinical Significance: Pulmonary hypertension is an independent predictor of all-cause mortality in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy managed medically and often precludes patients from undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass due to increased surgical morbidity and mortality. In studies specifically evaluating surgical myectomy, however, survival is favorable in patients with moderate-to-severe pulmonary hypertension.
Eur Heart J Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Radiological and Hematological Sciences, Section of Radiology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8 - 00168 Rome, Italy.
Background: Cardiac strangulation (CS) from epicardial pacing leads (EPLs) is a rare and potentially lethal mechanical complication associated with epicardial pacemaker (PM) implantation.
Case Summary: We report a case of a 44-year-old-female patient presenting with chest and left shoulder pain in the absence of reported trauma with history of congenital atrioventricular block treated with epicardial PM implantation during the childhood and subsequent transvenous reimplantation over the years. Troponin I resulted within normal values and ECG, transthoracic echocardiography and chest X-ray documented no acute cardiopulmonary findings.
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