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Cureus
November 2024
Department of Sports Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, GBR.
Prepatellar bursitis is a common cause of anterior knee pain. We present an unusual case of massive bilateral traumatic haemorrhagic prepatellar bursitis managed with surgical excision and describe our operative findings. The patient presented with large bilateral knee swellings which had been present for six years following a fall onto both knees.
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January 2025
U.O. Cardiologia, Dipartimento di Specialità Medico-Chirurgiche, Scienze Radiologiche e Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi, Brescia.
Tricuspid regurgitation can be due to different causes and mechanisms. Among these, cardiac involvement in carcinoid disease is a rare cause of tricuspid valve disease with a peculiar echocardiographic aspect. We report the case of a 59-year-old woman, with no past medical history, who was recently found to have a heart murmur and signs of right heart failure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn unusual family of bifunctional terpene synthases has been discovered in which both catalytic domains - a prenyltransferase and a cyclase - are connected by a long, flexible linker. These enzymes are unique to fungi and catalyze the first committed steps in the biosynthesis of complex terpenoid natural products: the prenyltransferase assembles 5-carbon precursors to form C geranylgeranyl diphosphate (GGPP), and the cyclase converts GGPP into a polycyclic hydrocarbon product. Weak domain-domain interactions as well as linker flexibility render these enzymes refractory to crystallization and challenge their visualization by cryo-EM.
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December 2024
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hamad Medical Cooperation, Doha 2001, Qatar.
Abdominal lymphangiomas are benign congenital abnormal dilatation and proliferation of lymphatic spaces primarily seen in children. The wide spectrum of symptoms challenges preoperative diagnoses. We present a rare case of a 2-year-old boy presented to pediatrician with massive abdominal distention and left scrotal swelling since the age of 1½ years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElife
December 2024
Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States.
Malaria parasites have evolved unusual metabolic adaptations that specialize them for growth within heme-rich human erythrocytes. During blood-stage infection, parasites internalize and digest abundant host hemoglobin within the digestive vacuole. This massive catabolic process generates copious free heme, most of which is biomineralized into inert hemozoin.
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