Young patient presenting with cardiogenic shock and refractory ventricular tachycardia: a case of unsuspected arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy leading to urgent heart transplantation.

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy is an important differential diagnosis in young patients presenting with palpitations and/or dyspnea and must be appropriately investigated. A 23-year-old man presented with cardiogenic shock and monomorphic ventricular tachycardia. He reported palpitations and progressive dyspnea for more than two years, but those symptoms were attributed to anxiety without any further investigation by his family physician.

A methodology for estimating SARS-CoV-2 importation risk by air travel into Canada between July and November 2021.

Background: Estimating rates of disease importation by travellers is a key activity to assess both the risk to a country from an infectious disease emerging elsewhere in the world and the effectiveness of border measures. We describe a model used to estimate the number of travellers infected with SARS-CoV-2 into Canadian airports in 2021, and assess the impact of pre-departure testing requirements on importation risk.

Methods: A mathematical model estimated the number of essential and non-essential air travellers infected with SARS-CoV-2, with the latter requiring a negative pre-departure test result.

Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Dublin and Thermotolerant in Liver from Veal Calves in Québec, Canada.

Dublin and spp. are two foodborne pathogens of importance. A small number of studies reported that consumption of veal liver was associated with an increased risk of human illness from these two pathogens.

Validation of reference gene stability for miRNA quantification by reverse transcription quantitative PCR in the peripheral blood of patients with COVID-19 critical illness.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgency to study the host gene response that leads to variable clinical presentations of the disease, particularly the critical illness response. miRNAs have been implicated in the mechanism of host immune dysregulation and thus hold potential as biomarkers and/or therapeutic agents with clinical application. Hence, further analyses of their altered expression in COVID-19 is warranted.