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Front Med (Lausanne)
December 2024
Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Central Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army, Wuhan, China.
is often considered a complex associated with a healthy plant-based diet that acts as a "probiotic" throughout the body's entire digestive tract from the mouth to the anus. Previous studies have not reported that this "probiotic" colonizing the human body could cause severe pneumonia. This case report describes a 56-year-old healthy female worker with gum pain followed by fever.
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December 2024
Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Department of Surgery, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
The systemic inflammatory response after cardiopulmonary bypass has been widely studied. However, there is a paucity of studies that focus on the local inflammatory changes that occur in the pericardial cavity. The purpose of this study is to assess the inflammatory mediators in the pericardial fluid of patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
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December 2024
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saint Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick, USA.
Acute esophageal necrosis (AEN), also known as black esophagus or Gurvits syndrome, is an uncommon endoscopic finding characterized by diffuse, circumferential, black discoloration of the esophagus that terminates at the gastroesophageal junction. The incidence of AEN has been reported to be 0-0.2% in autopsy series and up to 0.
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December 2024
Division of Respirology, Rheumatology, Infectious Diseases, and Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan.
BACKGROUND Fibrosing mediastinitis (FM) is a rare, fibroproliferative disorder within the mediastinum. It is extremely rare for hematologic malignancies to develop as FM. CASE REPORT A 32-year-old Japanese man with a 1-month history of headache and 2-week history of facial swelling underwent chest computed tomography (CT); a diffuse mass-like lesion was revealed in the anterior mediastinum with severe stenosis of vital mediastinal organs.
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December 2024
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China.
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have served as noninvasive tumor biomarkers in many types of cancer. Here, we detected CTCs in mediastinal neuroblastoma (mNB) patients for use as diagnostic and treatment response predictive biomarkers. We employed a cascaded filter deterministic lateral displacement microfluidic chip (CFD-Chip) to enrich CTCs in peripheral blood from 32 mNB patients and 7 healthy children.
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