Vascular Medicine
- A 60-year-old man with prostate cancer and embolic strokes
Step-by-step evaluation of a patient with stage IV prostate cancer and embolic stroke, but no history of heart valve disease, arrhythmia, or coagulopathy.
- When should antithrombotic therapy be resumed after gastrointestinal bleeding?
The timing should be individualized after considering factors related to the bleeding event, thromboembolic risk, and patient comorbidities.
- Mondor disease of the breast
A 43-year-old woman had 2 weeks of pain and skin tightness over the right breast. Ultrasonography revealed a noncompressible, dilated, subcutaneous vein without flow.
- Hampton hump in acute pulmonary embolism
A 50-year-old patient presented with worsening dyspnea and cough with bilateral swelling of the lower extremities, with left-side swelling greater than right-side swelling.
- Lacrimal gland involvement in a patient with sarcoidosis
The differential diagnosis included infection, malignancy, and inflammatory disorders such as immunoglobulin G4-related disease and sarcoidosis.
- Managing stage 1 hypertension: Consider the risks, stop the progression
Guidelines on managing patients with stage 1 hypertension and a low 10-year risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
- Evaluation and management of orthostatic hypotension: Limited data, limitless opportunity
Orthostatic hypotension is common and can have serious consequences. The author offers a systematic approach to evaluation and management.
- Cardiac considerations in liver transplantation
Today’s transplant patients are older and more likely to have cardiac comorbidities, and effects of advanced liver disease on the circulatory system pose challenges in perioperative management.