A síndrome febril indeterminada no idoso coloca sempre alguma dificuldade diagnóstica. A endocardite infecciosa, pela relativa raridade e pela atipia das suas manifestações é muitas vezes esquecida neste grupo etário, onde outras causas, nomeadamente neoplásicas, são primeiramente consideradas. Os autores apresentam um caso clínico de uma doente idosa com endocardite infecciosa subaguda mitral e tricuspide, cuj...
Venous ulcers in patients with post thrombotic syndromes are complex situations with multiple therapeutic options. They are responsible for high morbidity rates, conservative treatment is very slow and recurrences are very common. Deep venous reconstructive surgery is an alternative, but it should be based on the morphologic and functional aspects of the venous system and only adopted after a very careful study...
OBJECTIVE: Venous aneurysms of the lower limbs are rare. When they involve the deep venous system, they can be associated with deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. The authors report the case of a 63-year-old women evaluated by duplex imaging and venography, in the context of a pulmonary embolism, and detected bilateral large aneurysms of the femoral veins (5 cm in the right femoral vein and 4 cm in t...
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