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Respir Med Case Rep
November 2024
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Sarcoidosis is a rare chronic granulomatous disease with unknown etiology. Definite diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) is especially difficult to establish. Several guidelines exist to make a diagnosis of CS but those have not been clinically validated.
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December 2024
Surgery Clinic 3, Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Prof. Dr. Octavian Fodor", "Iuliu Hațieganul" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400394, Cluj-Napoca-Napoca, Romania.
Patients with esophageal cancer and concomitant liver cirrhosis (LC) pose a surgical challenge because of the increased risk of postoperative complications and mortality. Purpose of this study was to review the existing literature and estimate perioperative short-term outcomes of esophagectomy in this patient population. Systematic review and meta-analysis.
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December 2024
Department of Neonatal Surgery, Shanxi Provincial Children's Hospital, Taiyuan, China.
Background: Intrathoracic kidney (ITK) is a rare congenital disease, with only about 40 pediatric cases reported worldwide to date. ITK associated with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is even rarer, and we report a case of an infant with ITK combined with a giant CDH.
Case Description And Management: A six-month-old male infant was hospitalized due to "vomiting for 4 days".
Arch Orthop Trauma Surg
December 2024
Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China.
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the short-term outcomes of single-port thoracoscopic rib fracture reduction and internal fixation for the treatment of multiple rib fractures.
Methods: This study included 149 patients with multiple rib fractures admitted to the Second People's Hospital Affiliated with Fujian University of Chinese Medicine between June 2021 and April 2024. The patients were divided into two groups based on the surgical method.
J Zoo Wildl Med
December 2024
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Les Augrès Manor, La Profonde Rue, Jersey, JE3 5BP, Channel Islands.
The aye-aye () is an unusual lemur with a small population in human care. Cardiac pathologies, but not normal size parameters, have been reported in this species. This study aimed to determine whether radiographic cardiac scaling systems commonly used to evaluate heart size in domestic mammals have potential clinical application in aye-ayes.
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