Publications by authors named "Danushan Sooriabalan"
Background: Diagnosis of prosthetic valve leakage by the transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) technique is more difficult. These limitations are diminished with the use of transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) techniques.
Case Report: A 71 year old Caucasian male presented with symptoms and signs of congestive heart failure.
Introduction: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy also known as transient left ventricular apical ballooning, stress-induced cardiomyopathy can present with retrosternal chest pain with EKG changes that can mimic a myocardial infraction.
Case Presentation: We present a 68 female with sudden onset retrosternal squeezing chest pain with positive cardiac enzymes and EKG changes suggestive of acute ST-elevation myocardial infraction. Patient was thrombolysed and cardiac cauterization done later showed normal coronaries with ballooning of the left ventricle apex.
Adverse drug events occur often in hospitals. They can be prevented to a large extent by minimizing the human errors of prescription writing. To evaluate the efficacy of a computerized prescription order entry (CPOE) system with the help of ancillary support in minimizing prescription errors.
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- Astrocytomas are brain tumors that arise from astrocytes and are classified into four grades (I-IV) based on the degree of cell abnormality.
- Patients with pilocystic astrocytomas have a mean survival of about 10 years, while those with glioblastoma typically survive less than a year.
- A case study highlights a 31-year-old man with grade III astrocytoma who, after receiving standard treatment and imatinib mesylate for concurrent chronic myelogenous leukemia, did not experience a recurrence of the astrocytoma 10 years later.
Neuronal intranuclear rodlets were described in normal brain over a century ago, but their functional significance and pathological relevance is unknown. Here, we show co-localization of tubulin and glucocorticoid receptor-like immunoreactivity in these intranuclear inclusions in human brain. In addition, we provide evidence for a massive reduction in their areal density in Alzheimer's disease brain, but not in another common neurodegenerative condition, dementia with Lewy bodies.
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