A novel approach to surviving an acute aorto-oesophageal fistula: A case report.

Introduction And Importance: Acute aorto-oesophageal fistula poses a significant mortality risk, requiring immediate and decisive medical intervention. This report highlights the critical need for innovation in emergency surgical responses.

Case Presentation: A 57-year-old male, with a history of aortic repair, presented with chronic anaemia and dysphagia.

Single port thoracoscopic diaphragm plication: A novel treatment approach to bilateral phrenic nerve palsy and diaphragm paralysis.

Introduction And Importance: The diaphragm is the primary muscle of respiration. Bilateral paralysis of the diaphragm due to phrenic nerve palsy causes severe dyspnoea and is life threatening. Diaphragmatic Plication has shown great promise in treating diaphragm paralysis and has evolved as operative treatment from an open thoracotomy to multiport and robotic video assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

A Universal and Robust Integrated Platform for the Scalable Production of Human Cardiomyocytes From Pluripotent Stem Cells.

Unlabelled: Recent advances in the generation of cardiomyocytes (CMs) from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), in conjunction with the promising outcomes from preclinical and clinical studies, have raised new hopes for cardiac cell therapy. We report the development of a scalable, robust, and integrated differentiation platform for large-scale production of hPSC-CM aggregates in a stirred suspension bioreactor as a single-unit operation. Precise modulation of the differentiation process by small molecule activation of WNT signaling, followed by inactivation of transforming growth factor-β and WNT signaling and activation of sonic hedgehog signaling in hPSCs as size-controlled aggregates led to the generation of approximately 100% beating CM spheroids containing virtually pure (∼90%) CMs in 10 days.

A rare case of ameloblastic carcinoma.

Ameloblastic carcinoma is a rare type of ameloblastoma that has received little mention in the literature. While a number of cases have been published over many years, no institution has been able to produce a substantial case series. Ameloblastic carcinoma originates in the embryonic tooth components.