Background and Objective: As one of the widely used drugs, aspirin (acetyl-salicylic acid, ASA) plays an important role in stroke treatment and prevention. In a previous study, we demonstrated ASA injection at 30 min after ischemia onset is neuroprotective. To determine whether the neurons protected by ASA had a normal ultrastructure, hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons were examined by Transm...

A 48-year-old male presented with an acute change in mental status due to a marked elevation of plasma NH3 and was diagnosed with citrullinemia with amino acid analysis of blood. Hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration were performed, but serum chemical analysis did not show any improvement which led us to terminate dialysis following intensive care for 3 days. Surprisingly, NH3 level had decreased ...

M oday, Sptem er 6, 2016 days (40–1083). There were a number of surgical indications: malignancy (n=25), risk reduction (n=40), revision (n=32) and delayed reconstruction (n=8). Incision type varied; wise pattern (32), IMF (48) and transverse/vertical (20). Mean mastectomy weight was 473g (73–1679), and median implant volume: 409cc (165–620). Length of stay was 0.96 days. Four patients experien...

The role of progesterone (P4) in the regulation of inflammatory mediators interleukin-8 (IL-8), monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and in the recruitment of leukocyte subpopulations in the endometrium has been examined, by employing a model of P4 withdrawal and maintenance in vivo. Messenger RNA and protein expression have been investigated in endometrial biopsies:...

We used a slide culture technique to detect tubercle bacilli surviving in sputum smears (n=46) after conventional heat fixation and Ziehl-Neelsen staining. In all heat-fixed sputum smears, tubercle bacilli survived after time 0 (n=22), 24 h (n=7), 48 h (n=7), 72 h (n=4), and seven days (n=6). None of the stained sputum smears showed growth on slide cultures. Viable tubercle bacilli remaining in...

BackgroundMechanical thrombectomy provides rapid hemodynamic improvements after acute pulmonary embolism (PE), but long-term benefits are uncertain.MethodsFlowTriever All-comer Registry for Patient Safety and Hemodynamics is a prospective, single-arm, multicenter registry of patients with PE treated the FlowTriever System (Inari Medical). Six-month outcomes including modified Medical Research C...

Barnes, G. L., and Townley, R. R. W. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 343. Duodenal mucosal damage in 31 infants with gastroenteritis. Duodenal biopsies taken in the acute stage of gastroenteritis in 31 infants have shown histological abnormality and disaccharidase depression in the majority. In 5, mucosal damage was severe with changes similar to those seen in coeliac disease. Rep...

Twenty-three patients with bacterial keratitis had penetrating keratoplasties performed for deep indolent ulceration or descemetoceles, during the acute period. The period in hospital (17.6 days) was significantly lower than for a control group (35.4 days) who were treated medically and had subsequent grafts. The number of grafts remaining clear was similar, 70% and 72% respectively. Eleven pat...