Ultrasound Case 059
A 76 year old man has renal colic. You look at his aorta.
Ultrasound Case 031
A thin 17 year old male presents with right iliac fossa pain. He has had a recent viral illness and you wonder whether this is mesenteric adenitis.
Ultrasound Case 058
A 71 year old man presents with severe back pain and hypotension. You suspect abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).
Ultrasound Case 057
A 68 year old man is brought in by ambulance with severe lower back and lower limb pain and paralysis. Clinically he has lower limb ischaemia and you wonder about aortic dissection as the cause.
René Leriche
Henri Marie René Leriche (1879–1955) French surgeon. Described as the father of vascular surgery. Leriche syndrome (1940), Leriche operation (1913)
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 071
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 071 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Ultrasound Case 056
84 year old chap with ?renal colic deteriorates. On review you find his pain has worsened and he is pale, sweaty and hypotensive. Is this a vagal response to pain, a reaction to his analgesia or something else? You scan his aorta.
Acute mountain sickness is more than one syndrome
Acute mountain sickness is more than one syndrome. When acute mountain sickness affects up to half of those who ascend beyond 4500m, it's something we really don't know as much about as we would like.
Ultrasound Case 055
A 78 year old woman has a pulsatile mass in her mid abdomen. You wonder whether it is an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Death by caterpillar. Consider zebras, but don’t memorize them
I’ve given lectures on lepidoptera before. There are between 200-3500 envenomations from lonomia spp reported every year in Brazil, but they’ve increased yearly since 2000. This is most likely from increased time in the rain forest by loggers and people…
Woldemar Mobitz
Woldemar Mobitz (1889-1951) was a Russian-German physician. Applied mathematical approach to arrhythmias 1924 Mobitz Type I and II AV Block
Ultrasound Case 054
An echo reveals a dilated and poorly functioning right ventricle with RV wall thickness of 6mm (≤5mm). You wonder whether this is a massive pulmonary embolism or just the changes of chronic pulmonary hypertension.