Mitro-aortic fibrosa pseudoaneurysm and concomitant aortic stenosis: How to kill two birds with a stone.

Pseudoaneurysm of mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa (P-MAIVF) is a rare acquired malformation of the mitral-aortic intervalvular area. It appears as a pulsatile cavity in the mitral-aortic junction communicating with the left ventricular outflow tract. P-MAIVF has been reported as a complication of aortic and mitral valve surgery, infective endocarditis, and thoracic trauma.

Public understanding of food risks in four European countries: a qualitative study.

Background: In the wake of the 'bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis' there was renewed interest in how those responsible for public health could take account of public views, both to 'democratize' policy making and to increase the likelihood of information about health risks resonating with public concerns. This study explored how members of the public in four European countries (Finland, Germany, Italy and the UK) understood food risks in general, and risks arising from BSE in particular. The aims were to identify the sources of knowledge used and trusted by the public and to explore how public views could be accessed for public health information policy.

[Discordance between clinical and immunological aspects in a case of chronic B-type lymphoproliferative syndrome].

Chronic lymphoproliferative disorders are extremely heterogeneous from a clinical, morphological and immunological point of view. The paper reports the case of a woman with chronic prolymphocytic leukemia. The neoplastic clone revealed the typical immunological features of pre-B lymphocytes, which are at an earlier stage of differentiation in respect to prolymphocytes.