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Spontaneous Conus Medullary Infarction In The Absence Of Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Bavica Gummadi, Jaffer Ahmed, Swarna Rajagopalan
Spontaneous Conus Medullary Infarction In The Absence Of Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Bavica Gummadi, Jaffer Ahmed, Swarna Rajagopalan
Rowan-Virtua Research Day
Spinal cord infarction (SCI) is rare and most often occurs in individuals with predisposing cardiovascular risk factors and traumatic injuries
As there are no distinct diagnostic criteria for SCI, diagnosis is difficult in patients presenting without predisposing factors and is often mistaken for transverse myelitis.
Delay in early diagnosis contributes to the high case fatality rate of SCI.
This case highlights the importance of including SCI in the differential of a patient with acute paraparesis even in the absence of co-existing risk factors.
Omental Infarction: A Rare Cause Of Abdominal Pain, Eric Doane, Emily Nguyen
Omental Infarction: A Rare Cause Of Abdominal Pain, Eric Doane, Emily Nguyen
Rowan-Virtua Research Day
Omental infarction is a rare cause of acute abdomen pain first described by Eitel in 1899 and has been described in the literature with total numbers ranging from 250-400 worldwide with many coming from individual case reports. Risk factors for developing omental infarction are thought to be obesity, trauma, intense exercise or secondary to torsion from adhesions. Historically, the diagnosis of omental infarction was made incidentally in the operating room for patients with an acute abdomen with a different suspected diagnosis. Most often being appendicitis with associated right lower quadrant abdominal pain and smaller subset from suspected diverticulitis and cholecystitis …