Malignant Hypercalcemia Revealing Pulmonary Sarcoidosis.

Sarcoidosis is a systemic disorder characterized by the development of granulomatous inflammation in various organs of the body. Hypercalcemia is one of its manifestations. We present a case of malignant hypercalcemia in a 77-year-old man, diagnosed as sarcoidosis following multiple assessments and histological confirmation showing noncaseating granulomas.

Aripiprazole dose associations with metabolic adverse effect: Results from a longitudinal study.

Objective: Weight gain, blood lipids and/or glucose dysregulation can follow aripiprazole treatment onset. Whether aripiprazole dosage is associated with an increase in these metabolic parameters remains uncertain. The present study investigates aripiprazole dose associations with weight change, blood glucose, lipids, and blood pressure.

Lung Sarcomatoid Carcinoma: An Intriguing Case Report of a Rare Malignancy.

Sarcomatoid carcinoma (SC) is a rare primary malignant tumor belonging to the group of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The diagnosis requires proper tumor sampling to exclude sarcoma, which is the main differential diagnosis. However, the prognosis of these tumors is poor, with a median survival rate lower than other NSCLC cases, mainly due to their aggressiveness and resistance to chemotherapy, especially platinum salts.

Pleurisy as a Sign of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.

The diagnosis of chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL) is essentially based on a blood smear and immunophenotyping by flow cytometry of circulating lymphocytes. Unusual locations of the disease can sometimes be observed. Here we report the case of a patient admitted for the management of pleurisy.

Improvement of the hydrogen storage performance of t-graphene-like two-dimensional boron nitride upon selected lithium decoration.

In recent years, search for applicable bidimensional (2D) hydrogen storage materials with high capacity and excellent H physisorption properties has attracted considerable attention from scientists and researchers. According to the rational design, and using first-principles calculations, we propose a t-graphene-like boron nitride monolayer (t-BN) for hydrogen storage application by replacing C atoms in t-graphene with B and N atoms. The thermal stability and polarization mechanisms of lithium atoms adsorbed at the center of octagons on the t-BN system were evaluated at 300 K using molecular dynamics (AIMD) calculations.