Background: Aeromonas virulence may not be entirely dependent on the host's immune status. Pathophysiologic determinants of disease progression and severity remain unclear.
Methods: One hundred five patients with Aeromonas infections and 112 isolates were identified, their clinical presentations and outcomes were analyzed, and their antimicrobial resistance (AMR) patterns were assessed.
Pseudoaneurysm of vessels (most common in arteries), in general, happens when a blood vessel wall is damaged leading to leakage of blood and its collection in the surrounding tissue, essentially resulting in a false aneurysm. These false collections can be problematic and can develop in any location. However, their most common clinical presentation is in the femoral arteries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFABCC6 mediates release of ATP from hepatocytes into the blood. Extracellularly, ATP is converted into the mineralization inhibitor pyrophosphate. Consequently, inactivating mutations in ABCC6 give low plasma pyrophosphate and underlie the ectopic mineralization disorder pseudoxanthoma elasticum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo important goals in allied health education are to prepare future allied health professionals to function as members of interdisciplinary teams and to increase their awareness of issues related to the growing older adult population. The responsibility for achieving these goals rests on the faculty and administrators of allied health education programs, who may not themselves be proficient in either of these domains. A multidisciplinary team of health educators and administrators was brought together to produce six problem-based learning (PBL) cases related to older adults.
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