Lateral ST-elevation myocardial infarction from systemic air embolism after CT guided lung biopsy.

Systemic air embolism is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication of computed tomography (CT)-guided lung biopsy. The largest lung biopsy audits report an incidence rate of approximately 0.061% for systemic air embolism, with a mortality rate of 0.

Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Central Myanmar: Report of Nay Pyi Taw Population-Based Cancer Registry.

Background: Cancer is a major public health problem in Myanmar, and cancer registration activities are currently underway through both hospital-based and population-based approaches. So far, there are no population-based cancer incidence and mortality estimates in the country.

Methods: According to the 2014 census, the total population of Nay Pyi Taw Union Territory was 1,160,242 within the area of 70,571 km2.

Case Series of Clinical Findings of Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in Contrast to Kawasaki Disease.

Several months into the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there is growing concern over an increase in the incidence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-linked Kawasaki-like disease in the pediatric population. The pediatric patients presented to the emergency room with impending shock in the setting of an atypical Kawasaki picture. On May 14, 2020, the CDC Health Alert Network released a case definition for this evolving syndrome and named it multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).

Endotoxin Acts Synergistically With Clostridioides difficile Toxin B to Increase Interleukin 1β Production: A Potential Role for the Intestinal Biome in Modifying the Severity of C. difficile Colitis.

Background: Inflammation is a crucial driver of host damage in patients with Clostridioides difficile colitis. We examined the potential for the intestinal microbiome to modify inflammation in patients with C. difficile colitis via the effects of gut-derived endotoxin on cytokine production.

Clinical importance of the Mandalay spitting cobra (Naja mandalayensis) in Upper Myanmar - Bites, envenoming and ophthalmia.

Examination of 18 cobras brought to three hospitals in the Mandalay Region by patients bitten or spat at by them distinguished 3 monocled cobras (Naja kaouthia) and 15 Mandalay spitting cobras (N. mandalayensis), based on their morphological characteristics. We confirm and extend the known distributions and habitats of both N.

Inadequate knowledge about snakebite envenoming symptoms and application of harmful first aid methods in the community in high snakebite incidence areas of Myanmar.

Introduction: Every year millions of people in developing countries suffer from snakebite, causing a large number of deaths and long term complications. Prevention and appropriate first aid could reduce the incidence and improve the health outcomes for those who suffer bites. However, many communities where snakebite is a major issue suffer from a lack of information about prevention and first aid measures that a family or community member could take to prevent severe envenoming, complications and poor outcomes.

Genetic properties of the MAGIC maize population: a new platform for high definition QTL mapping in Zea mays.

Background: Maize (Zea mays) is a globally produced crop with broad genetic and phenotypic variation. New tools that improve our understanding of the genetic basis of quantitative traits are needed to guide predictive crop breeding. We have produced the first balanced multi-parental population in maize, a tool that provides high diversity and dense recombination events to allow routine quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping in maize.

Extensive genomic characterization of a set of near-isogenic lines for heterotic QTL in maize (Zea mays L.).

Background: Despite the crucial role that heterosis has played in crop improvement, its genetic and molecular bases are still elusive. Several types of structured populations were used to discover the genetic architecture underlying complex phenotypes, and several QTL related to heterosis were detected. However, such analyses generally lacked the statistical power required for the detailed characterization of individual QTL.

Preliminary study of a polycaprolactone membrane utilized as epidermal substrate.

Solvent-cast sheets of polycaprolactone were biaxially stretched to produce 10-15 microm thick films. PCL films were found to have a tensile strength of 55 MPa which is about two and a half times stronger than native skin. One of our previous studies using non-coated PCL membranes showed that only 36% of the membrane surface was covered with keratinocytes after 9 days of culture.

Premunition against Plasmodium falciparum in a malaria hyperendemic village in Myanmar.

Premunition, naturally acquired protective immunity against Plasmodium falciparum, has been described in hyperendemic areas of Africa and Papua New Guinea. However, its occurrence in Asia is debatable. In order to elucidate this question, a longitudinal study was undertaken in Oo-Do, a malaria endemic village in Myanmar [Burma] in 1995-97.

Well-breeding Anopheles dirus and their role in malaria transmission in Myanmar.

Mosquitos were collected with human and animal baits from March 1996 to January 1998 in four villages located along the Yadana gas pipe line in Yepyu township, Dawae district, Tanintharyi Division, southern Myanmar. A total of 23 anopheline species were collected. Anopheles dirus were abundant in pre-monsoon (May/June) an post-monsoon (October) months.