Hemostatic matrix application after open synovectomy in a hemophilic patient.

Recurrent, spontaneous bleeding is common in patients with hemophilia. The joints are commonly and repeatedly affected, and this can result in chronic synovitis and joint damage. Synoviorthesis or synovectomy are indicated after failure of appropriate medical management.

Primary endobronchial anaplastic large cell lymphoma in a pediatric patient.

The authors describe a pediatric patient who presented with a 3-month history of dry cough, chest pain, progressive breathlessness, fever and recurrent pneumonia with atelectasis. A fiberoptic bronchoscopy revealed a whitish lesion at the left bronchus. A biopsy of the lesion demonstrated an anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL).

Plasma nitric oxide levels used as an indicator of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in rats.

Introduction: The clinical efficacy of doxorubicin is severely limited by its cardiotoxicity. The currently noninvasive techniques used to detect this complication lack sensitivity to identify its early stages. Nitric oxide (NO) is a free radical that has been implicated in the etiology of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity.