Liver Transplantation
Liver Transplantation L. Hannah Bell Vivek K. Moitra A 66-year-old woman with a history of alcoholic cirrhosis and portal hypertension is admitted to the intensive care unit with altered mental…
Intestinal Obstruction
Intestinal Obstruction Joseph Tjan A 73-year-old woman with an acute abdomen was scheduled to undergo an emergency exploratory laparotomy. She complained of severe abdominal pain with periodic bouts of bilious…
Ischemic Heart Disease and Noncardiac Surgery
Ischemic Heart Disease and Noncardiac Surgery Shamsuddin Akhtar Paul G. Barash A 72-year-old man is scheduled for right hemicolectomy for colon cancer. Past history reveals a myocardial infarction (MI) 5…
Heart Transplantation and Subsequent Noncardiac Surgery
Heart Transplantation and Subsequent Noncardiac Surgery Jeff T. Granton Davy C. H. Cheng A 41-year-old man with a history of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM) is admitted to the cardiac care…
Hypertension
Hypertension Cindy Wang Fun-Sun F. Yao A 70-year-old man with cholelithiasis was scheduled for a cholecystectomy. His blood pressure (BP) was 230/120 mm Hg; pulse, 60 beats per minute. Hematocrit…
Cardiac Tamponade
Cardiac Tamponade Nikolaos J. Skubas James Osorio A 69-year-old woman presents with shortness of breath, orthopnea, oliguria, and overt weakness 4 days after two-vessel coronary artery bypass graft procedure and…
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Shreysjit R. Kumar Cindy Wang Anup Pamnani Fun-Sun F. Yao The patient is a 76-year-old man with a 6-cm infrarenal aortic aneurysm discovered on routine physical…
Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms Sharon McCartney Stephen Gregory J. Mauricio Del Rio Mani A. Daneshmand Madhav Swaminathan A 68-year-old man presents for surgical repair of a thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA). He…
Valvular Heart Disease
Valvular Heart Disease Natalia S. Ivascu Gregg S. Hartman Nikolaos J. Skubas A 78-year-old man was admitted with increasing shortness of breath. He had chest pain in the past but…
Pacemakers, Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators, and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices
Pacemakers, Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators, and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices Alan Cheng Fun-Sun F. Yao A 63-year-old woman was scheduled for urgent open cholecystectomy. She underwent a dual-chamber permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation…
