One-step Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair With CO2 contrast and Robotic Partial Nephrectomy for Renal Cell Carcinoma: Case Report.

Introduction: Although rare, as the population ages, abdominal aortic aneurysm synchronous to abdominal malignancies, as renal cell carcinoma, is expected to become more prevalent. There are only two case reports of minimally invasive surgeries to treat these synchronous diseases, with endovascular aortic repair and laparoscopic nephrectomy, but they were performed in two stages, with iodinated contrast and without robotic assistance.

Case Report: We herein present a case of a 71-year-old patient with chronic kidney disease, a 6.

Comparative Analysis of Artery Anatomy Evaluated by Postmortem Tomography, CT Angiography, and Postmortem and Predeath CT Scans.

Background: To date, no study has been performed analyzing changes in the vascular system comparing paired examinations of patients alive and after death with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass and computed tomography (CT) angiography.

Materials And Methods: The aim of this study was to analyze in a large series (38 patients) the aorta and its branches by CT (without contrast) and CT angiography of patients still alive and after death comparing their diameters and length variations.

Results: The variation between in vivo tomography and virtopsy methods was greater in the evaluation of distances between vascular segments than in the diameters; less than 30% of the distances evaluated in the entire study had acceptable variation between methods, regardless of the use of contrast scans.

Exposure to microplastics cause gut damage, locomotor dysfunction, epigenetic silencing, and aggravate cadmium (Cd) toxicity in Drosophila.

The interactions of microplastics (MPs) with other chemicals and the range of outcomes are of great importance to enhance understanding of their environmental impacts and health risks. Cadmium (Cd) and cadmium compounds are widely used as pigments and stabilizers in plastics, but they readily leach out. Here we addressed the impacts of MPs, Cd, and their joint exposure in a tractable Drosophila melanogaster model.

Accumulation of different shapes of microplastics initiates intestinal injury and gut microbiota dysbiosis in the gut of zebrafish.

Different shapes of microplastics are widely detected in the environment and organisms and most of them remain in the gut. However, the influences of shapes on the bioaccumulation and toxicity of microplastics in the gut are largely unknown. Three shapes (bead, fragment, and fiber) of microplastics of comparable size in one dimension were prepared to exposure to zebrafish.

Analysis of the Correlation Between Central Obesity and Abdominal Aortic Diseases.

Background: Atherosclerosis and abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) have several similar risk factors but different pathogenesis. Inflammation of the arteries is common to both. Central obesity can act as an endocrine organ through the secretion of inflammatory cytokines, and the perivascular fat has a local effect that could contribute to diseases of the abdominal aorta.

Epidemiologic analysis of prevalence of the hyperhidrosis.

Background: The present paper aims to study the prevalence of the various manifestations of hyperhidrosis in patients who sought treatment in a specialized ambulatory in the state of São Paulo.

Objectives: Opposite to previous studies, this paper studies the different combinations of sweating sites, not being restricted to the main complaint site of the patients, but taking into consideration secondary complaints patients may present.

Methods: This was a retrospective approach of a database containing more than 1200 patients in which were mapped: combination of sweating sites, age of onset, age spectrum, mean age, body mass index and gender of patients.