Cerebral Venous Air Embolism Secondary to Mesenteric Infarction.

Cerebral air embolism is a rare, yet potentially fatal condition. We present a case of retrograde cerebral venous air emboli arising from the hepatic portal venous system, secondary to a mesenteric infarction. A 69-year-old man with a history of gastrointestinal amyloidosis presented with fever and lethargy.

Obesity and non-Hodgkin lymphoma survival in an ethnically diverse population: the Multiethnic Cohort study.

Purpose: Obesity increases mortality for several malignancies, but for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), the association between body mass index (BMI) and survival is unclear. We examined the association of pre-diagnostic BMI with overall and NHL-specific survival in the multiethnic cohort (MEC) study of African Americans, Native Hawaiians, Japanese Americans, Latinos, and Caucasians.

Methods: MEC participants free of NHL at cohort entry and diagnosed with NHL during follow-up were included in the analyses (n = 1,331).

Septic cavernous sinus thrombosis due to Campylobacter rectus infection.

We report a case of cavernous sinus thrombosis in a 55-year-old Chinese man who presented with headache, ophthalmoplegia and ptosis. Campylobacter rectus was eventually isolated from the blood cultures. He was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics, anticoagulation and steroids with improvement in his condition.