Methods We evaluated the sublingual microcirculation of patients with hyperdynamic (n = 20) and normodynamic (n = 20) septic shock, and in healthy volunteers (n = 20). We defined hyperdynamic septic shock as a cardiac index > 4.0 L/min/m. Videos were acquired with a SDF-imaging device and analyzed with the AVA 3.0 software. Microvascular variables were compared with one-way ANOVA. Histograms of...

Anetoderma is characterized by a loss of normal elastic tissue that presents clinically as localized areas of wrinkled or flaccid skin. We describe the case of a 30-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus-associated anetoderma and positive anti-phospholipid antibodies. We discuss the possible role of these antibodies in the pathogenesis of anetoderma, and, when detected, the need to ch...

BACKGROUND According to the current World Health Organization Classification of Lymphoid Tumours, follicular lymphoma is subclassified into three grades according to the number of centroblasts. Follicular lymphoma grade 3 can be further divided into types A and B. Almost all available genetic data on grade 3B follicular lymphomas have been generated from tumors with an additional diffuse large ...

follicular dendritic cells or dendritic reticulum cells are important components of the immune system essential for antigen presentation. malignancies arising from these cells are uncommon and the first case was reported in 1986. the most common sites of follicular dendritic cell sarcomas are lymph nodes, especially cervical, axillary and mediastinal regions, but extranodal sites including head...

this study was conducted to evaluate histochemical alterations of river buffalo’s uterine wall acid andalkaline phosphatases (alp and acp), lipase and carbohydrate ratio during follicular and luteal phases.forty apparently healthy and non pregnant river buffalos were considered for removal of the uterus aftersacrifice in slaughterhouse. all dissected uteri were divided into two luteal (by obser...

It is very difficult to differentiate follicular adenoma from follicular carcinoma in thyroid follicular lesions. The authors investigated the biological behavior of these thyroid follicular lesions using immunohistochemical techniques. Specimens taken from normal thyroid, 2 cases; follicular adenoma, 9; atypical adenoma, 7; and follicular carcinoma, 8; were observed. Proliferating cell nuclear...

Four patients are described in whom a follicular carcinoma developed following thyroidectomy for a benign follicular neoplasm. It is possible that the initial thyroid neoplasm was a well- differentiated follicular carcinoma which was microscopically indistinguishable from a benign adenoma. Realizing this pathologic pitfall in thyroid diagnosis, the need for meticulous examination of the pa...

INTRODUCTION Traditional genotyping assays detect viral variants present in at least 15-25% of the entire virus population. We tested the Next generation GS Junior System (NGS) setted with a detection limit of 0.05% and evaluated the clinical relevance of low prevalent mutations. METHODS NGS was performed on the plasma of 26 infected individuals who started a TDF/FTC/RPV (15 subjects) or TDF/...