Publications by authors named "R Vimal Chander"
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- * This case report highlights an elderly female patient with symptoms like vomiting and abdominal pain who was suspected to have cancer in her appendix. After surgery, she was diagnosed with MALT lymphoma affecting the appendix.
- * Post-surgery, she experienced severe complications including blood clots leading to gangrene in her foot, resulting in both a thromboembolectomy and a below-knee amputation, illustrating the unusual association of lymphoma with blood clotting issues.
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- The study investigated how individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia perform on social cognition tests, comparing these results to those without cognitive impairment.
- It involved a cross-sectional analysis of 321 older adults aged 80 and above, utilizing various social cognitive assessment tools and screening for levels of apathy and neurocognitive function.
- Findings indicated that participants with dementia showed notably worse social cognitive abilities compared to those with MCI and no cognitive impairment, particularly in emotional recognition and perspective-taking tasks.
The concurrent presentation of a low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN) and a borderline Brenner tumor (BT) of the ovary are exceedingly rare. Brenner tumors stand out as a particularly uncommon form, making up only around 5% of all benign epithelial tumors of the ovary. Among the ovarian Brenner, the borderline subtype is even rarer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a rare genetic condition with a broad phenotypic presentation. This study aims to establish the first Australian cohort of individuals affected by CADASIL (AusCADASIL) and examine its clinical features and longitudinal course, and to investigate neuroimaging and blood biomarkers to assist in early diagnosis and identify disease progression.
Methods: Participants will be recruited from six study centres across Australia for an observational study of CADASIL.
A sarcomatoid variant of urothelial carcinoma (SVUC) is an extremely rare variant, which accounts for only 0.1-0.3% of all urothelial carcinomas of the bladder.
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