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Biomedicines 2021 Feb 24;9(3). Epub 2021 Feb 24.

Aix Marseille Université, INSERM 1263, INRAE, C2VN, 13885 Marseille, France.

Venous thrombo-embolism (VTE) disease is the second most common cause of mortality in cancer patients, and evaluation and prevention of thrombosis risk is essential. VTE-associated risk varies according to the type of tumor disease. Oral cancer is the most frequent type of head and neck cancer, and it represents approximately 2. Read More

Medicine (Baltimore) 2021 Feb;100(8):e24892

Department of Anesthesiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China.

Rationale: Carbon dioxide pneumoperitoneum in laparoscopic surgery can bring about occult perioperative cerebral infarction, advancing our understanding of the causes of severe postoperative delayed recovery.

Patient Concerns: Here, we report the case of a 35-year-old woman who underwent a right renal tumor resection in our institution, during which a raised pneumoperitoneum pressure (from 15 to 20 mm Hg) was adopted by the surgeon to prevent errhysis and to help stop the bleeding. Despite an accidental minor tearing of the inferior vena cava, vital signs remained stable throughout the procedure, and no obvious abnormality was observed in either end tidal carbon dioxide values or blood gas analysis. Read More

Handb Clin Neurol 2021 ;177:43-56

Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States. Electronic address:

Approximately one-third of strokes are cryptogenic in origin. These patients have a higher prevalence of patent foramen ovale (PFO) compared to individuals with stroke of known origin. It has been proposed that some cryptogenic strokes (CSs) can be caused by paradoxical embolism across a PFO. Read More

Eur Heart J Case Rep 2020 Dec 7;4(6):1-6. Epub 2020 Dec 7.

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, 5501 Old York Road Unit 3, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA.

Background : Unroofed coronary sinus (UCS) is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly in which there is complete or partial absence of the roof of the coronary sinus (CS) resulting in a communication between the right and left atria. There are four types of UCS described in the literature. While usually asymptomatic and discovered incidentally on imaging, UCS can be the source of a brain abscess or paradoxical embolism. Read More

Turk Neurosurg 2020 Sep 19. Epub 2020 Sep 19.

Hatay State Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Hatay, Turkey.

The mediobasal temporal region (MTR) is a deep part of the brain covered by eloquent structures. In certain cases, accessing this region is challenging. According to the literature, the supracerebellar transtentorial (SCTT) approach provides safe access to the MTR. Read More