Antibodies to Cardiolipin in Patients with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis by John Verrier Jones, Dianne P. Mosher, Edith Jones, C. Noel Williams, Dickran Malatjalian, Roland I. Carr, Mervat Mansour

“…It has been claimed that they are significantly associated with intravascular thrombosis and with obstetrical complications. Thus far they have been found to be less prevalent in other diseases. …”
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Detection of Postcoronary Stent Complication: Utility of 64-Slice Multidetector CT by Alpa Bharati, Suleman Merchant, Tilak Suvarna, Neha Parashar

“…Multiple long-term risks are also associated with drug eluting stents. 64-slice multidetector CT (MDCT) coronary angiography has been shown to detect poststent complications such as instent stenosis, thrombosis, stent migration and stent fractures. We report a case of stent fracture in a patient who underwent RCA stenting with associated RCA perforation and almost complete thrombosis of the RCA and peristent fibrinoid collection. …”
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Chronic Iliac Vein Occlusion and Painful Nonhealing Ulcer Induced by High Venous Pressures from an Arteriovenous Malformation by Daniel P. Link, Phillip J. Granchi

“…Chronic femoral vein compression (May-Thurner Syndrome) is a known rare cause of deep venous thrombosis. Subsequent angiogenesis and the development of arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in the setting of chronic venous thrombosis is by itself a rare and poorly understood phenomenon. …”
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Pylephlebitis Caused by Fusobacterium nucleatum in a Septuagenarian Healthy Caucasian Male: Atypical Presentation of Lemierre’s Syndrome by Muhammad Abbas, Monica Ioana Constantin, Akshay Narendra

“…This case report confirms previous reports of Fusobacterium nucleatum-associated LS variants presenting with abdominal vein thrombosis and illustrates clinical recovery after a combination of anticoagulation and antibiotic therapy.…”
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Left Gastric Vein Direct Anastomosis as Alternative to Portal Flow Reconstruction in Liver Transplantation by Raquel Lima Sampaio, MD, Gustavo Rego Coelho, MD, PhD, Denissa Ferreira Gomes Mesquita, MD, Carlos Eduardo Lopes Soares, BM, José Huygens Parente Garcia, MD, PhD

“…The most relevant limiting factor for performing end-to-end anastomosis is portal vein thrombosis (PVT), which leads to challenging vascular reconstructions. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Polymer-Free Ultrathin Strut Sirolimus-Probucol Coated Drug-Eluting Stents for Chronic Total Occlusions: Insights from the Coroflex ISAR 2000 Worldwide Regis... by Ahmad Syadi Mahmood Zuhdi, Florian Krackhardt, Matthias W. Waliszewski, Muhammad Dzafir Ismail, Michael Boxberger, Wan Azman Wan Ahmad

“…The 9-month accumulated rates of definite or probable stent thrombosis was 0% (0/101). Conclusion. Revascularizations for CTO with PF-SES are associated with low rates of TLR and MACE at 9 months with no stent thrombosis. …”
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Rare Case of a Young Male Presented with Abdominal Pain, Solid Colon Tumors, and Eosinophilia, Followed by Tremendous Thromboembolic Complications and Eventually Diagnosed with Idi... by Tomasz Zemleduch, Anna Czapla, Piotr Kimla, Bartosz Kudliński

“…The patient suffered from phlegmasia cerulea dolens and portal vein thrombosis, followed by pulmonary embolism and overt disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). …”
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Long-Term Suitability of Left Gastric Artery Inflow for Arterial Perfusion of Living Donor Right Lobe Grafts by Judyta A. Lipinska, Johnny Wang, Joseph N. Carey, Aaron A. Ahearn, Yuri S. Genyk

“…Poorer than expected, living donor liver transplant outcomes are observed after recipient graft artery thrombosis. At grafting, the risk for later thrombosis is high if a dissected hepatic artery is used for standard reconstruction. …”
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Delayed Acute Ischemia as a Consequence of Multi-Ligament Injury of the Left Knee Following a Motorcycle Accident by Laura Leci Tahiri, Lisa Tahiri

“…We present a case of a 34-year-old Albanian man with a multi-ligament knee injury and arterial thrombosis in his left leg following a motorcycle accident. …”
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Living, Caring, Learning – The power of qualitative research in bleeding disorders care: One voice, from soloist to choir by Fletcher Simon

“…With over three decades of nursing experience, Simon reflects on his experience as a research nurse at the Oxford Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre at a time of huge change for haemophilia care and treatment. …”
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Central Retinal Vein Occlusion with Therapeutic Level of Anticoagulation by Sarwat Salim, Wai-Ching Lam, Wahid Hanna

“…To describe a patient with two episodes of deep venous thrombosis and factor V Leiden mutation who presented with central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) despite prophylactic use of warfarin sodium (Coumadin). …”
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Extensive Intracardiac and Deep Venous Thromboses in a Young Woman with Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and May-Thurner Syndrome by Yekaterina Kim, Daniel C. Choi, Ali N. Zaidi

“…Subsequent imaging confirmed multiple right atrial thrombi along with LLE venous stent thrombosis and a new right LE acute DVT. Anticoagulation with argatroban for HIT thrombosis was started. …”
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Hyperlipidemia May Synergize with Hypomethylation in Establishing Trained Immunity and Promoting Inflammation in NASH and NAFLD by Charles I. V. Drummer, Fatma Saaoud, Yu Sun, Diana Atar, Keman Xu, Yifan Lu, Ying Shao, Candice Johnson, Lu Liu, Huimin Shen, Nirag C. Jhala, Xiaohua Jiang, Hong Wang, Xiaofeng Yang

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A “Catastrophic” Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia by D. Barcellona, M. Melis, G. Floris, A. Mameli, A. Muroni, G. Defazio, F. Marongiu

“…The patient was successfully treated with fondaparinux without recurrent thrombosis or bleeding. The clinical scenario could be named “catastrophic HIT” like the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome since they have a similar pathogenetic mechanism involving both platelets and monocytes procoagulant activities and a similar clinical manifestation with a life-threatening multiple arterial and/or venous thromboses. …”
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Peripartum Severe Acute Pancreatitis with Rare Complications: Case Report and Review of Literature by Syed Muhammad Ali, Nissar Ahmed Shaikh, Zia Aftab, Ejaz Latif, Muhammad Sameer, Muhammad Burhan Khan, Mohannad Al-Tarakji

“…Peripartum pancreatitis can be complicated by ACS, PRES, and splanchnic and extrasplanchnic thrombosis.…”
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Evaluating the use of Uromune® autovaccine in recurrent urinary tract infections: a pilot unicenter retrospective study in Reus, Spain by Simona Iftimie, Paula Ladero-Palacio, Ana F. López-Azcona, Laia Pujol-Galarza, Antoni Pont-Salvadó, Xavier Gabaldó-Barrios, Jorge Joven, Jordi Camps, Antoni Castro, Mercè Pascual-Queralt

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CD40-TRAF6 inhibition suppresses cardiovascular inflammation, oxidative stress and functional complications in a mouse model of arterial hypertension by Lea Strohm, Henning Ubbens, Dominika Mihalikova, Alexander Czarnowski, Paul Stamm, Michael Molitor, Stefanie Finger, Matthias Oelze, Dorothee Atzler, Philip Wenzel, Philipp Lurz, Thomas Münzel, Christian Weber, Esther Lutgens, Andreas Daiber, Steffen Daub

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Isolated Pulmonary Embolism following Shoulder Arthroscopy by Nicole H. Goldhaber, Christopher S. Lee

“…Although rare, sudden development of an isolated PE is possible, and symptoms such as sudden hand swelling, trouble breathing, and systemic symptoms should be evaluated aggressively with a pulmonary CT angiogram given the fact that an extremity ultrasound may be negative for deep vein thrombosis.…”
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Catheter-Related Right Atrial Thrombus and Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Report and Systematic Review of the Literature by Karen EA Burns, Andrew McLaren

“…One of the foremost complications associated with their use is the potential for symptomatic or asymptomatic thrombosis. CVC thrombosis, in turn, may not only result in vascular and catheter occlusion but also infection, pulmonary embolism, and formation of right heart thromboemboli. …”
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The Relevance of the Virchow Node and Virchow Triad in Renal Cancer Diagnosis by Luiza-Roxana Dorobantu-Lungu, Viviana Dinca, Andrei Gegiu, Dan Spataru, Andreea Toma, Luminita Welt, Mihaela Florentina Badea, Constantin Caruntu, Cristian Scheau, Ilinca Savulescu-Fiedler

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> IVC thrombosis is often associated with neoplastic disease due to the procoagulant state of these patients, the most common malignancies related to IVC thrombosis being represented by RCCs (38%), genitourinary cancers (25%), bronchus and lung cancers, retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma, and adrenal cortical carcinoma. …”
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