Difficulties in establishing a timely diagnosis of pulmonary artery sarcoma misdiagnosed as chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary disease: a case report

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Pulmonary artery sarcomas are rare neoplasms that are often confused with chronic thrombo-embolic disease, as both can have similar clinical and imaging presentation.</p> <p>Case presentation</p> <p>In this report, we present a case of a 50-year-old man initially diagnosed with chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary disease, but who was later found to have pulmonary artery sarcoma with poor survival prognosis. We review the clinical and imaging characteristics of the two diseases and discuss the difficulties in establishing a timely diagnosis.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Similar clinical features and imaging presentation of pulmonary artery sarcoma and chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary disease make definitive diagnosis difficult. This case report also illustrates and emphasizes that in any case with no predisposition factors for embolism, no evidence of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary emboli, and inadequate relief of symptoms with anticoagulation, an alternative diagnosis of pulmonary artery sarcoma should be considered. If pulmonary artery sarcoma is diagnosed late in the course of the disease, there is usually a poor survival outcome.</p

THE LEVEL OF SPEECH DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION ABILITIES OF THE CHILDREN BORN WITH RISK AT THE YOUNGEST SCHOOL AGE

In this work authors presents results which were got through research on the level of intellectuals, developmental and speech abilities of the 100 children whose at youngest school age born with risk. In the mentioned abilities children born with the risk and the children from the control group

Photocatalytic degradation of wastewater polluted by methyl-tertiary-butyl-ether using titanium-dioxide and doped titanium-dioxide

The subject of this research was utilization of concentrated solar radiation simulated with a sodium lamp SONT UV100, in lab condition, on removal of wastewater polluted by methyl-tertiary-butyl-ether (MTBE). The effects of titanium dioxide catalyst (commercial: Degussa P-25 (R) and 100% anatase, as well as sol-gel obtained titanium) on degradation of MTBE have been investigated. The processes were performed in slurry-catalyst batch circulating reactor. The photocatalytic degradation with different concentrations of TiO2 Degussa P-250 (R) catalyst: 2.5 g/L, 1 g/L and 0.50 g/L was studied. Our results showed that the MTBE degradation reached 50.80% in only 60 minutes, when 2.5 g/L of that catalyst was used. Also, the concentrated irradiation in combination with TiO2 (100% anatase) and FeCl3 caused high total degradation degree of 58.22%, for only 30 minutes. We synthesized titanium-dioxide, nanopowders doped with LaCl3 center dot 7H(2)O and FeCl3 center dot 6H(2)O, by sol-gel procedure. The highest degradation rate showed La-TiO2, for only 30 minutes and 48.60% of total degradation