systolic murmurs/headache

Liz... Josiane, a 9 year old girl, was admitted with a 24 hours history of severe headache and vomiting. On admission she was conscious, irritable and complained of a severe headache. Clinical examination revealed a right hemiparesis with cyanosis of the lips and extremities and clubbing of the

A 42-year-old black man, a physician, presented with a three week history of intermittent right arm and leg numbness and weakness, lasting about five minutes. This was not associated with headache, visual changes, seizures, aphasia or loss of consciousness. There was no history of head trauma,

METHODS A 30-year-old woman presented to our emergency department with severe headaches, dizziness and uncontrolled hypertension. She had arterial hypertension and a known heart murmur since adolescence. Previous medical work up did not reveal any cause for secondary hypertension. Recently her blood

The patient, a 43-year-old man, had paroxysmal headache three months ago, and he had complained the left occipital sharp pain, which could be alleviated by itself, with alalia and the right side of the upper limb numbness. Head computed tomography (CT) revealed a left temporal lobe intraparenchymal

A case of septic aneurysms complicated with simultaneous subdural and intracerebral hematoma is presented. A 13-year-old girl had been operated on for endocardial cushion defect when she was 5 years old, and residual mitral regurgitation was followed up. She suddenly complained of headache, vomited

A 51-year-old man gave a 2-year history of worsening mobility, cognitive decline and headaches. He had a history of thromboembolic stroke, recurrent transient ischaemic attacks and a spontaneous intraventricular haemorrhage. On examination, he had livedo reticularis and perniosis and a systolic

Brain abscesses can cause significant morbidity in patients with cyanogen heart disease. In countries with limited resources treatment, it is difficult and prognosis is guarded. Here we report a case of brain abscesses revealing a rare form of cyanogen heart disease, the trilogy of Fallot, in

Background: Brain abscesses are the rare and most severe form of actinomycosis, which usually manifests as abscesses of the occipital or parietal lobe due to direct expansion from an adjacent area, the oral cavity. In the medical literature, there are only a few

METHODS For 3 weeks a 54-year-old man had been unsuccessfully treated with antibiotics for ulcerating tonsillitis with fever, weight loss, occasional headaches, and hypertension. A year before he had suffered a transitory cerebral ischaemic attack. On admission he had a fever of 38.6 degrees C,

An 18-year-old girl was diagnosed as "bronchiectasis" for hemoptysis and treated by using embolization intervention 19 months ago. Two months ago she was diagnosed as iron-deficiency anaemia for fatigue. Eight days ago she was diagnosed again as hypertension for headache, anxiety, frowsty, nausea,

We report on a rare association of severe migraine headaches associated with coarctation of aorta that completely resolved following dilation of the constricted aorta. A 6-year-old girl presented with severe pounding headaches accompanied with recurrent vomiting, associated with photophobia and

The authors describe the results of studying the anti-inflammatory effect of indomethacin in 102 young men suffering from acute rheumatic fever (ARF). It has been shown that indomethacin has a remarkable anti-inflammatory effect both on the general disease manifestations and on the basic symptoms.

A 39-year-old female with mitral valve prolapse experienced left side hemisensory disturbance four months after gastric surgery. Echocardiogram disclosed vegetation on the mitral valve and blood cultures showed growth of enterococcus. With a diagnosis of thalamic infarction complicating infective

The authors studied the prevalence of mitral valve prolapse (MVP) in the group of 656 children and adolescents (329 males and 327 females), who were a representative sample (obtained with the Monte Carlo method of statistical trials) of all newborns in the city of Maribor, Republic of Slovenia, in

BACKGROUND Outbreaks of orally transmitted Trypanosoma cruzi continue to be reported in Brazil and are associated with a high mortality rate, mainly due to myocarditis. METHODS This study is a detailed report on the disease progression of acute Chagas disease in 13 patients who were infected during