Formation of a carotid free-floating thrombus (CFFT) is a rare and life-threatening condition without an optimal management plan. A 78-year-old woman with a history of prior right internal carotid artery (ICA) mechanical thrombectomy and antiplatelet noncompliance presented with transient ischemic attacks secondary to a recurrent CFFT in the right ICA. Given her symptoms and recurrent CFFT, endovascular mechanical thrombectomy was performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOne type of parental effect occurs when changes in parental phenotype or environment trigger changes to offspring phenotype. Such nongenetic parental effects can be precisely triggered in response to an environmental cue in time-locked fashion, or in other cases, persist for multiple generations after the cue has been removed, suggesting multiple timescales of action. For parental effects to serve as reliable signals of current environmental conditions, they should be reversible, such that when cues change, offspring phenotypes change in accordance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring operation, 102 patients were continually monitored for heart function using transoesophageal echocardiography. Echo-contrast particles (mostly of mi-minute echo-contrast particles were also monitored through the right and left hearts. The most frequent and significant evidence was found in the right heart in the left ventricle.
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January 1985
Normal human thyroid cells and cells from patients with Grave's disease were cultured for 5 months (11 passages) in vitro. Both normal and diseased thyreocytes, similar in morphology, proliferated actively and responded to thyrotropin stimulation by cytoplasmic arborization of a part of the population. Slight inhibition of mitotic activity was present under the influence of thyrotropin.
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