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Vet Parasitol
January 2025
Department of Veterinary Clinic and Surgery, Veterinary School, Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; National Institute of Science and Technology in NanoBiopharmaceutics (INCT-Nanobiofar), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Cardiovascular involvement in Leishmania sp. infections still requires further elucidation, with cutaneous and organic changes being more frequently observed. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of cardiovascular involvement in dogs with canine visceral leishmaniasis, considering a publication span of over 80 years.
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January 2025
Department of Cardiology, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 1665 Kongjiang Road, Shanghai, 200092, China.
Background: Systemic light chain amyloidosis is a rare and debilitating disease, especially for which initially presented with digestive tract involvement. Myocardial amyloidosis is highly aggressive with generally poor prognosis and often resulted in missed diagnosis or misdiagnosis with routine examination tools. Multimodality imaging play an important role in diagnosing the amyloidosis effect on multiple organs.
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December 2024
The Department of Ultrasound, Tianyou Hospital of Shanghai, No 528, Zhennan Road, Putuo District, Shanghai, 200331, China.
Persistent myocardial impairment proved by histopathologic studies universally existed in patients with Kawasaki disease (KD); however, the long-term effects on myocardial contractile reserve in KD patients, especially on patients without coronary artery lesions (CALs), is still unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate myocardial contractile reserve in KD patients during late convalescent stage by speckle-tracking adenosine triphosphate (AT) echocardiography. A total of 63 antecedent KD patients at least 4 years after the disease onset and 40 age- and gender-matched normal controls were prospectively enrolled.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer Rep (Hoboken)
December 2024
Vietnam National Heart Institute, Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Introduction: Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) is a rare cardiac manifestation in patients with advanced malignancies of the lungs, pancreas, gynecological system, and gastrointestinal tract. It is often confirmed postmortem by histopathological evidence of sterile platelet-fibrin deposits attached to the endocardium, most often on heart valves. To the best of our knowledge, our case is the first to report multiple heart lesions caused by the systemic effect of cholangiocarcinoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Transplant
November 2024
Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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