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Medicine (Baltimore)
October 2024
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, LAU Medical Center - Rizk Hospital, Zahar St., Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon.
Rationale: Since the onset of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic in 2019, considerable resources have been devoted to developing vaccines to reduce related deaths and the burden of disease. Various vaccine formulations eventually became available and were approved for clinical use. In this article, we have conducted a review of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) cases induced by different COVID-19 vaccines [Pfizer: BNT162b2, AstraZeneca: ChAdOx1-S, Moderna: mRNA-1273, and Janssen: Ad26.
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May 2024
Division of Internal Medicine C, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy.
"", published in 1984, was the first study to find a correlation between diet and mortality related to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Since then, many investigations have addressed the relationship between type of diet, or specific nutrients, and CVDs. Based on these findings, some traditional dietary models, such as the Mediterranean or Nordic diet, are recommended to prevent CVDs.
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November 2023
Laboratory of Neurosonology, Department of Neurology, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete, Albacete, Spain.
Introduction: The diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA) by ultrasonography including large vessels, apart from the temporal artery increases the sensibility of the study and informs about the risk of specific complications. However, there is less information about the study of these arteries, whose affection carries higher proportion of severe complications.
Objectives: To describe and analyze the value of the diameter of the cervical vertebral canal of the vertebral artery (VA) as a sign of vertebral vasculitis (VV) related to GCA and estimate the risk of stroke complications.
Autoimmun Rev
February 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Avicenne, AP-HP, Bobigny, France.
Objective: Describe the characteristics of patients presenting with TTS during the course of a broad spectrum of systemic diseases, in comparison to classic TTS.
Methods: French multicenter retrospective case-control study completed by a literature review.
Results: 19 new cases were included in the study.
Crit Rev Biomed Eng
November 2023
Department of Mechatronics Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Malignant tumors of the pancreas are the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths. This is mainly because they are often diagnosed at a late stage. One of the challenges in diagnosing focal lesions in the pancreas is the difficulty in distinguishing them from other conditions due to the unique location and anatomy of the organ, as well as the similarity in their ultrasound characteristics.
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