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J Cardiothorac Surg
January 2025
Echocardiography and Vascular Ultrasound Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 79 Qingchun Road, Hangzhou, 310003, China.
Background: Interventricular septal dissection is a critical disease characterized by the separation of the intraventricular septum into two layers, forming an intermediate layer with a cystic cavity that communicates with the root of the aorta or ventricle. It has low morbidity and high mortality rates.
Case Presentation: Case 1: A 58-year-old male with a history of hypertension and smoking presented to a local hospital due to chest tightness and pain for 4 days.
Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis
January 2025
Laboratory of Epidemio-surveillance, Health, Production & Reproduction, Cell Therapy of Domestic and Wild Animals, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Nature and Life Sciences, University of Chadli Bendjedid, El Tarf 36000, Algeria.
Animal trade has become a serious criminal practice in the world. Every day thousands of exotic wild animals, including reptiles, are farmed and sold worldwide. The illegal collection of turtles and tortoises remains completely unsupervised and represents a big challenge for responsible authorities.
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January 2025
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego; Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA. Electronic address:
Objective: To describe the clinical course and outcome of 33 patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) treated with cyclosporine (CSA) for coronary artery abnormalities (CAA) or treatment resistance.
Study Design: Single-center, retrospective study of patients with KD treated from 2013 through 2023 for CAA or treatment resistance. Demographics, laboratory studies, medications, adverse events, and echocardiographic data were analyzed.
Lancet Neurol
February 2025
Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; Department of Cognitive Neurology, St Joseph's Health Care London, London, ON, Canada. Electronic address:
Background: No treatments exist for apathy in people with frontotemporal dementia. Previously, in a randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-finding study, intranasal oxytocin administration in people with frontotemporal dementia improved apathy ratings on the Neuropsychiatric Inventory over 1 week and, in a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study, a single dose of 72 IU oxytocin increased blood-oxygen-level-dependent signal in limbic brain regions. We aimed to determine whether longer treatment with oxytocin improves apathy in people with frontotemporal dementia.
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