The patient is a 65-year-old white male who presented with a five-day history of abdominal and left flank pain. Past medical history was remarkable for hypertension, a left pneumonectomy for squamous ...
A 52-year-old male presents to Boston Medical Center with severe abdominal pain. His medical history is significant for alcohol abuse, grade III esophageal varices verified by upper endoscopy, and recurrent upper gastrointestinal bleeding despite medical and endoscopic management.
A 55-year-old Caucasian woman presented to the Emergency Department with a 1-week history of intermittent melena and 3 episodes of hematemesis a few hours prior to admission.
A 26-year-old woman with a long-standing history of Crohn’s disease and multiple bowel resections presented with abdominal pain. She was diagnosed with a Crohn’s flare and admitted for IV steroids and bowel rest.
The patient is a 46-year-old male who presented with a left parotid/neck mass in December 2008. CT imaging of the neck was performed. Biopsy demonstrated a parotid squamous cell carcinoma with mucinous features.
A 60-year-old male patient was referred from his general practitioner for evaluation of clinically evident pubic venous collaterals. The patient had recently undergone left-sided varicose vein surgery with crossectomy...
The patient is a 29-year-old otherwise healthy male who presented with a one-month history of a dry cough, progressive fatigue, and right-sided chest pain. He was seen in the emergency room, where a chest x-ray and CT scan...
A 63-year-old male presented with bilateral buttock claudication after a pain-free walking distance of about 200 meters. Sixteen years prior to admission the patient had undergone aorto-bilateral bypass for chronic distal aortic occlusion...
The patient is a 28-year-old usually healthy man who developed acute onset of diaphoresis, nausea, and severe chest discomfort. He called 911 and was brought to the emergency room. His past medical history and family history were unremarkable...
The patient is a 76-year-old man that was transferred from a nearby ER on March 26, 2007. He presented with abdominal and left flank pain that was found to be secondary to a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) measuring 7.3 cm...
A 55-year-old man presented with complaints of angina with maximal exertion. The patient had been referred by his family practitioner after his wife insisted he get a check-up. The referring physician performed a stress test that was not diagnostic...
The patient is a 49-year-old woman with history of chronic renal failure secondary to membranous glomerulonephritis. On exam, her brachiocephalic AVF is pulsatile; she has failed to reach sufficient blood flow volume for the past two hemodialysis sessions...
A 24-year-old Caucasian male presented to our tertiary cardiopulmonary care center with a 3-month history of recurrent hemoptysis. He denied chest pain, syncopal episodes exertional dyspnea/orthopnea, or any other cardiopulmonary...
A 75-year-old female patient presents to her primary care physician with a history of increasing left foot rest pain during the previous month. Her past medical history includes smoking, hypertension...
Author: Jeffrey J. Popma, MD | Director, Innovations in Interventional Cardiology |Senior Attending Physician | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Associate Professor of Medicine | Harvard Medical School
An otherwise healthy 74 year old male with osteoarthritis had undergone total knee arthroplasty in 2000. At the time of surgery, there were no untoward complications and the patient continued to reco...
A 40-year-old male patient was referred to the interventional radiology suite approximately two weeks after being struck in the perineum with a manhole cover. His injury was associated with significant ecchymosis of the perineum and penis...
This case was presented at Controversies in Dialysis Access, October 2008 by Bart Dolmatch, MD, Professor of Radiology, Director of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
A 47-year-old AA female presented to our tertiary care cardiovascular center with a 1-year history of progressively worsening swelling of lower limbs extending on to the abdominal wall, associated with itching and abdominal discomfort...
A 73 year-old-male presented with rest pain of the right foot starting one week ago. Prior to this admission, he had undergone endovascular aspiration thrombectomy of the right deep femoral artery due to embolic occlusion...
A 26-year-old female with past medical history significant for only episodic tension type headaches, presented to the emergency room with a severe headache. Initial laboratory tests...
A 74 year-old-man with a PMH significant for HTN, CAD s/p MI and a ruptured AAA repair in 2003 via a left retroperitoneal approach presented with pain in the right groin. The patient was driving when...
A 67-year-old male patient, known to be a heavy cigarette smoker, presented with grade II hypertension. He also and mentioned that he had difficulty walking 50 meters where he had to stop because of severe...
A 54-year-old man presented with headache, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnea. His medical history included diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and a stroke with residual left-sided weakness...
An 81-year-old Caucasian woman was referred to our tertiary care vascular center for 7-years history of right arm progressive swelling, since she had right auxiliary lymphnodal dissection and radiation therapy...
The patient is a 39 year old female with a past medical history significant for systemic lupus erythematosis and end stage renal disease secondary to lupus nephritis. She has had multiple...
A 47-year-old Caucasian woman presented to our tertiary care vascular center with 1-year history of progressively worsening bilateral thigh and buttock pain within 200- yards of walking...
One of only a handful of cardiac surgeons in the United States performing the procedure, Dr. Robert Poston demonstrates a robot-assisted coronary artery bypass graft (RA-CAB)...
The patient is an 80-year-old female who presents with left-hand numbness. Her medical history includes hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and lung cancer. Following the angiogram, the plan for this...
