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This is a case report of a 66-year-old male patient with spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 and a family history of anaesthesia-related death was anaesthetised with total intravenous anaesthesia and neuromuscular blockade for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Anaesthesia and surgery were uneventful. In the post-anesthesia care unit, the patient developed acute respiratory distress and was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for mechanical ventilation.

[Red yeast rice as the presumed cause of acute kidney and liver failure].

Alternative medicine and food supplements are getting increasingly popular. The regulation of these remedies is lenient compared to the regulation of traditional medicine. Hence knowledge about adverse effects from alternative medicine and food supplements is scarce.

[Iatrogenic clinically cardiac arrest after administration of nitroglycerin].

This case report highlights the importance of preload in cardiac tamponade, as cardiac arrest with pulseless electrical activity was unintentionally induced after sublingual administration of nitroglycerin in an 83-year-old woman with unrecognised haemopericardium. Cardiac tamponade is a life-threatening condition, as accumulation of fluids in the pericardial sac diminishes preload which can ultimately lead to cardiac arrest. Primary elements in the development of critical haemodynamic tamponade are rate of fluid-accumulation and compensatory mechanisms, mainly tachycardia and vasoconstriction.

Frequencies of Immune Cells in the Human Small Bowel During Normal Gestation and in Necrotizing Enterocolitis.

Background: Only few studies have quantitated the frequencies of immune cells in the small bowel mucosa and submucosa during gestation. The aims of this study were to describe the frequencies of T and B cells, eosinophils and mast cells in the normal small bowel mucosa and submucosa (NSB) in relation to gestational age (GA) and in the uninvolved small bowel (USB) of premature newborns with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).

Methods: We obtained 36 NSB specimens (GA 12-41 weeks) and 8 NEC-USB specimens (GA 24-32 weeks) from autopsies and surgeries and performed immunostaining for CD3, CD79a, BMK-13 and tryptase as well as the histochemical stains giemsa and toluidine blue.