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Ocul Immunol Inflamm
January 2025
Ocular Oncology Service, Institute of Oncology, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Purpose: To present the case of a young patient with BRAF V600E-mutant cutaneous melanoma who developed bilateral choroidal metastases complicated by neovascular glaucoma (NVG) in both eyes following the interruption of nivolumab therapy.
Methods: A 28-year-old female with primary cutaneous melanoma of the left hand underwent surgical resection and adjuvant nivolumab. Immunotherapy was discontinued due to immune-related acute interstitial nephritis.
Pediatr Dev Pathol
January 2025
Département d'Anatomie et Cytologie pathologiques, Hôpital Menzel Bourguiba, Menzel Bourguiba, Tunisia.
The patients with Arthrogryposis-Renal dysfunction-Cholestasis (ARC) syndrome have genetic susceptibility to the opportunistic infections due to the involvement of VPS33B (vacuolar protein sorting 33 homolog B) in phagolysosome fusion in macrophages. Detailed pathologic studies in ARC patients are missing in literature due to the lack of autopsy. We described the first autopsy case of ARC syndrome in a 2-month-old male infant.
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January 2025
From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Background: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). There are limited data on the improvement of anxiety symptoms in patients receiving ECT for TRD.
Objective: The aim of the study was to examine the extent to which anxiety symptom severity improves, relative to improvements in depressive symptoms, in TRD patients receiving an acute course of ECT.
NMC Case Rep J
December 2024
Department of Neurological Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
Persistent primitive olfactory arteries (PPOAs) are a rare variant of the anterior cerebral artery (ACA). Cerebral aneurysms may arise in the PPOA; most are saccular and on the unilateral PPOA. We report a 66-year-old male with bilateral PPOAs and a fusiform aneurysm on the left side detected at a health check-up.
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December 2024
Neurology, Neurology and Neurophysiology Center, Vienna, AUT.
The combination of thumb aplasia, epilepsy, cognitive impairment, skeletal deformities, and myopathy has not been previously reported. The patient is a 22-year-old man with congenital bilateral thumb aplasia, developmental delay, and cognitive impairment who suffered a first tonic-clonic seizure at the age of 16 and was treated with valproic acid (VPA). At the age of 22, lamotrigine was added due to seizure recurrences and absences.
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