Vascular Medicine
- Follow-up blood cultures are often needed after bacteremia
Without follow-up cultures, the adequacy of treatment can be difficult to assess.
- Which patients with pulmonary embolism need echocardiography?
The decision should be based on clinical presentation, burden of pulmonary embolism, and other imaging fi ndings.
- Renal vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
A man with membranous nephropathy presents with dyspnea, cough, and epigastric discomfort.
- Back pain as a sign of inferior vena cava filter complications
Complications can include filter movement, fracture, occlusion, and penetration.
- Pulmonary infarction due to pulmonary embolism
A 76-year-old man is admitted with pleuritic chest pain and shortness of breath 48 hours after undergoing surgery.
- When stroke runs in the family
CADASIL—cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy—is due to a mutation in NOTCH3.
- Aortic aneurysm: Fluoroquinolones, genetic counseling, June 2018
Readers comment on the pathogenesis and management of aortic aneurysm (June 2018).
- Fournier gangrene
The patient died of rapidly progressive necrotizing fasciitis of the perineum 2 hours after hospital admission.