Unilateral presentation of postpartum cardiomyopathy misdiagnosed as pneumonia.

A 34-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with severe dyspnoea 10 days following a normal-course caesarean delivery. She had been experiencing shortness of breath throughout the third trimester of pregnancy accompanied by tachycardia (110 bpm); however, her evaluation did not include ECG or chest radiography to elucidate the cause. Following delivery, chest radiography was performed demonstrating predominantly unilateral findings interpreted as pneumonia.

Proapoptotic and chemosensitizing effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors on T cell lymphoma/leukemia (Jurkat) in vitro.

While selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are commonly used for psychiatric indications, evidence implies them to possess anti-cancerous properties as well. We evaluated such in vitro effects in malignant T cells (Jurkat), finding that exposure to high concentrations of sertraline (IC(50)=9.5 microM) or paroxetine (IC(50)=18 microM) yielded a considerable reduction in cellular viability, exceeding equimolar doses of the chemotherapeutics vincristine and cyclophosphamide (P<0.