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Background: Acute psychological stress can provoke mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia (MSIMI) in coronary artery disease (CAD). Stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF1) is released in response to hypoxia, and higher levels of SDF1 are associated with adverse outcomes. We examined whether an increase in SDF1 level in response to mental stress predicts adverse outcomes in CAD patients.

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The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma PROspective Observational Vascular Injury Treatment (PROOVIT) registry: multicenter data on modern vascular injury diagnosis, management, and outcomes.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg

February 2015

From the University of Texas Health Sciences Center-Houston (J.J.D., J.B.H.), Houston, Texas; University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center-Memphis (S.A.S., T.C.F.), Memphis, Tennessee; R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center (J.M., T.S., T.E.R.), University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland; University of Florida-Jacksonville (D.S.), Jacksonville, Florida; East Carolina Medical Center (N.P.), Benson, North Carolina; and Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Hospital (K.C., K.I.), Los Angeles, California.

Article Synopsis
  • - A new registry called the PROspective Vascular Injury Treatment (PROOVIT) was created to track in-hospital and long-term outcomes related to vascular injuries, which are serious types of trauma.
  • - The study collected data on 542 vascular injuries from 14 trauma centers, showing that most patients were male (70.5%) and had significant injuries, with a variety of types of arterial and major venous injuries recorded.
  • - Treatment approaches varied, with over half of the cases managed nonoperatively, and notable outcomes included a 12.7% hospital mortality rate and a 7.7% rate of amputations for extremity injuries.
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Metabolic syndrome (MetS), Type 2 diabetes (T2D), and cardiovascular disease (CVD) share an inflammatory etiology and are known to be influenced by diet. We investigated associations of hypothesized prooxidative (Fe) and antioxidative (Zn, Mg, β-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E) micronutrients with incident MetS, T2D, and CVD in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Participants, 45-84 y at baseline (2000-2002), were followed through 2010.

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We describe a rare case of Pneumocystic jirovecii-associated organizing pneumonia (PJP) in an HIV-infected individual on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) with a CD4(+) T-cell count of 835 x 10(3) cells/mL and a low viral load. PJP was confirmed using transbronchial biopsies and bronchoalveolar lavage. The presentation in this patient suggests immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) after institution of antiretroviral therapy (ART).

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