A 52-year-old woman, previously treated with chemo- and radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease, developed an acute non-lymphoid leukemia and, contemporarily, an IgG-kappa paraproteinemia. Cytogenetic analysis showed a major clone, representing 90% of observed metaphases, with monosomy of chromosomes 5 and 14. In addition, leukemic cells exhibited a high expression of the P-glycoprotein, a transmembrane glycoprotein involved in the multidrug-resistance mechanism. Possible explanations for this cluster of findings are provided.
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BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
January 2025
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bathinda, Punjab, 151001, India.
Background: Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) disorder is a fatal condition responsible for obstetric haemorrhage, which contributes to increased feto-maternal morbidity and mortality. The main contributing factor is a scarred uterus, often from a previous cesarean delivery, myomectomy, or uterine instrumentation. The occurrence of PAS in an unscarred uterus is extremely rare, with only anecdotal cases reported so far in the literature.
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January 2025
Department Animal Medicine and Surgery, Universidad CEU-Cardenal Herrera, CEU Universities, Alfara del Patriarca, Valencia, Spain.
Background: Understanding of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) myeloencephalopathy (EHM) is complicated by disparities among studies.
Objective: Compare clinical findings and outcome in horses involved in 2 recent EHM outbreaks.
Animals: Twenty-five and 10 horses affected during 2 natural EHM outbreaks were admitted to a veterinary teaching hospital (VTH) in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
Appl Clin Inform
January 2025
Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
Objective: Commercially available large language models such as Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) cannot be applied to real patient data for data protection reasons. At the same time, de-identification of clinical unstructured data is a tedious and time-consuming task when done manually. Since transformer models can efficiently process and analyze large amounts of text data, our study aims to explore the impact of a large training dataset on the performance of this task.
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December 2024
Department of Radiation Oncology, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, Guangxi, China.
The simultaneous occurrence of head and neck squamous carcinoma in two anatomical sites is rare, posing challenges in treatment selection. This paper presents a clinical case of concurrent hypopharyngeal carcinoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma, successfully treated with a combination of chemoradiotherapy and an immune checkpoint inhibitor. The patient achieved complete remission and progression-free survival of nearly 3 years, with preserved organ function and minimal toxic side effects, leading to a good quality of life.
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January 2025
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Background: The increase in the dual burden of HIV and cardiovascular diseases (CVD), calls for the provision of integrated HIV/CVD care. This study aimed to explore barriers and facilitators to the integration of HIV/CVD care within HIV care and treatment clinics (CTCs) in urban, Tanzania.
Methods: Between March and April 2023, we conducted 12 key informant interviews with healthcare providers at six HIV CTCs in urban, Tanzania.
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