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J Crit Care 2018 Dec 12;50:169-176. Epub 2018 Dec 12.

Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Emergenza, Anestesiologiche e della Rianimazione - UOC di Anestesia, Rianimazione, Terapia Intensiva e Tossicologia Clinica - Istituto di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy. Electronic address:

Purpose: To assess risk factors for 28-day mortality and cost implications in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAIs).

Methods: Single-center retrospective cohort study of prospectively collected data analysing ICU patients with a microbiologically confirmed complicated intra-abdominal infections.

Results: 137 complicated intra-abdominal infections were included and stratified according to the adequacy of antimicrobial therapy (initial inadequate antimicrobial therapy [IIAT], n = 44; initial adequate antimicrobial therapy [IAAT], n = 93). Read More

Differentiation 2018 Dec 5;105:14-26. Epub 2018 Dec 5.

Department of Research, IRCCS-ISMETT, Palermo, Italy.

We isolated a population of proliferating cells from cultured human fetal hepatocytes of 16-22 weeks gestational age. The cells shared a similar phenotype to that of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) according to the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT), including plastic adherence, antigen expression profile, and in vitro multilineage differentiation potential. Fetal liver (FL)-MSCs expressed the albumin gene, and harbored a subpopulation of CK18 cells (20-40%), which defined their hepatic origin. Read More

Int J Surg Case Rep 2018 Nov 27;54:83-86. Epub 2018 Nov 27.

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Higashiosaka City Medical Center, Nishiiwata 3-4-5, Higashiosaka, Osaka, 567-8588, Japan.

Introduction: Enteric duplication cysts are rare and, in addition, isolated enteric duplication cysts are lower morbidity prevalence rate. These cysts lack a connection to the gastrointestinal tract or the adjacent mesenteric vasculature and have only been reported in 10 case reports. In these reports, only two reports were cases with malignant transformation. Read More

J Ethnopharmacol 2018 Dec 12. Epub 2018 Dec 12.

Biopesticides Laboratory (LPIP), Center of Biotechnology of Sfax, University of Sfax, P.O. Box. 1177, 3018 Sfax, TUNISIA. Electronic address:

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Emex spinosa (L.) Campd. (E. Read More

Urology 2018 Dec 12. Epub 2018 Dec 12.

University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care.

Objective: To describe the presentation of a rare isolated ureteropelvic junction injury resulting from a mechanical fall on ice.

Materials And Methods: A 71-year-old previously healthy man presented to the emergency department at the University of Massachusetts Medical School three hours following falling on ice with complaints of gross hematuria and flank pain. Patient records were accessed via the institution's electronic medical records system between March 22, 2018 and April 22, 2018. Read More

Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2018 Dec 14. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, 1-847 Amanumacho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, 330-8503, Japan.

Background: Acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) is relatively uncommon in dialysis patients, and characteristics and repair outcomes are not fully understood.

Patients And Methods: Patients with ATAAD (n = 960) were divided into a dialysis group (n = 19) and non-dialysis group (n = 941), depending on whether they required dialysis for preoperative end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Hospital charts and imaging data were reviewed, and characteristics and outcomes were compared between the groups. Read More

Z Rheumatol 2018 Dec 14. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Klinik für Rheumatologie, Immunologie und Osteologie, Krankenhaus St. Josef Wuppertal, Bergstr. 6-12, 42105, Wuppertal, Deutschland.

Whipple's disease (WD) is a rare, chronic multiorgan disease which can caused by Tropheryma whipplei, a ubiquitous gram positive bacterium. Detection of T. whipplei is mostly performed histologically using periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) staining in affected tissues to visualize characteristic PAS-positive macrophages and by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Read More

Abdom Radiol (NY) 2018 Dec 14. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Department of Radiology, Michigan Medicine, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.

Purpose: To determine if symptomatic patients referred for radiographic stool quantification have equivalent stool burden to asymptomatic patients.

Method: This was an IRB-approved HIPAA-compliant retrospective equivalence cohort study. An a priori equivalence power calculation was performed. Read More

J Vasc Surg 2018 Dec 11. Epub 2018 Dec 11.

Division of Vascular Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich. Electronic address:

Objective: The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and outcome after abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair is largely unknown. This study aimed to determine the influence of SES on postoperative survival after AAA repair.

Methods: Patients undergoing surgical treatment of AAA at a tertiary referral center between January 1993 and July 2013 were retrospectively collected. Read More

J Vet Cardiol 2018 Dec 11. Epub 2018 Dec 11.

Department of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80525, USA. Electronic address:

Epicardial pacemaker implantation can be performed as a lone procedure or in combination with another thoracic or abdominal surgery. This article reviews the current literature and describes a minimally invasive approach for epicardial pacemaker implantation in small animals. The principal advantage of epicardial pacing is that it avoids contact with blood and intracardiac structures and thereby avoids uncommon but potentially devastating complications associated with endocardial pacemaker implantation. Read More

Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2018 Dec 11. Epub 2018 Dec 11.

German Aortic Centre Hamburg, Department of Vascular Medicine, University Heart Centre, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address:

J Geriatr Oncol 2018 Dec 11. Epub 2018 Dec 11.

Department of Oncology, University and General Hospital, Udine, Italy; Department of Oncology, San Bortolo General Hospital, ULSS8 Berica - East District, Vicenza, Italy. Electronic address:

Objectives: Although gastric cancer (GC) incidence rises with age, older patients are poorly represented in clinical trials, whose results are therefore difficult to translate into standard management of older patients. Purpose of this study was to compare clinico-pathological features and survival outcomes between older and non-older patients with advanced GC treated with at least two chemotherapy lines.

Materials And Methods: Clinico-pathological characteristics, basal values, and treatment data of older (≥70 years at second-line start) and non-older patients were compared using chi-square test or 2-tailed Fisher exact test. Read More

J Sex Med 2018 Dec 11. Epub 2018 Dec 11.

Division of Urology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, East Orange, NJ, USA. Electronic address:

Background: Removal of the penile prosthesis reservoir can be technically challenging because of its difficult locations either deep in the pelvis or high in the abdominal wall.

Aim: To describe a detailed surgical technique for reservoir removal through a penoscrotal approach.

Methods: We describe our preferred method for removal of prosthetic reservoir and present a retrospective review of patient outcomes after reservoir removal. Read More

Curr Opin Insect Sci 2018 Oct 11;29:41-48. Epub 2018 Jun 11.

Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA. Electronic address:

Insects utilize an open circulatory system to transport nutrients, waste, hormones and immune factors throughout the hemocoel. The primary organ that drives hemolymph circulation is the dorsal vessel, which is a muscular tube that traverses the length of the body and is divided into an aorta in the head and thorax, and a heart in the abdomen. The dorsal vessel is myogenic, but its rhythmicity is modulated by neuropeptides and neurotransmitters. Read More

Int J Mol Sci 2018 Dec 13;19(12). Epub 2018 Dec 13.

Research Center & Phytotherapeutics Group, Viromed, Co. Ltd., Seoul 08826, Korea.

Functional dyspepsia (FD) is the most common functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID). FD is characterized by bothersome symptoms such as postprandial fullness, early satiety, and epigastric pain or burning sensations in the upper abdomen. The complexity and heterogeneity of FD pathophysiology, which involves multiple mechanisms, make both treatment and new drug development for FD difficult. Read More

Nutrients 2018 Dec 13;10(12). Epub 2018 Dec 13.

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 Munich, Germany.

Ageing, sarcopenia, and malnutrition are associated with quantitative and qualitative changes of body composition. There are several imaging modalities, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), for the assessment of trunk muscle tissue composition. In this study, we investigated the gender- and age-related changes in trunk muscle composition using chemical shift encoding-based water⁻fat MRI. Read More

Biomed Pharmacother 2019 Jan 26;109:1907-1914. Epub 2018 Nov 26.

Department of Pharmacy, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address:

NADPH oxidases (Noxs) 1/4 dual inhibitor GKT137831 prevents hypertensive cardiac remodelling in angiotensin II-infused transgenic mice with cardiomyocyte-specific human Nox4 (c-hNo x 4 Tg); however, further research is still required to determine the beneficial role of GKT137831 in hypertensive cardiac remodelling in other types of hypertensive models because this hypertensive model is insufficient to mimic the complicated pathological mechanisms of hypertension. A disintegrin and metalloprotease 17 (ADAM17) promotes the shedding of tumour necrosis factor α (TNF-α), TNF-α receptor, interleukin 1 receptor-II and interleukin 6 (IL-6) receptor from cells, thereby mediating the signalling pathways induced by corresponding proinflammatory cytokines. This study aimed to determine whether GKT137831 prevents hypertensive cardiac remodelling and its mechanisms of action in the rats with abdominal artery coarctation (AAC). Read More

Biomed Pharmacother 2019 Jan 13;109:1428-1436. Epub 2018 Nov 13.

Medical Research and Education Center, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation; Faculty of Medicine, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation. Electronic address:

Male infertility represents a severe social and medical challenge. In recent years the progress in regenerative medicine promoted the development of novel options to overcome this medical condition. We are elaborating a promising approach to restore spermatogenesis using mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) secretome components as a novel class of cell-free cell therapy medicinal products for regenerative medicine. Read More

Biomed Pharmacother 2019 Jan 7;109:1221-1232. Epub 2018 Nov 7.

Pharmaceutical College, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, 530021, Guangxi, PR China. Electronic address:

Nephrol Nurs J 2016 Nov-Dec;43(6):527-534

Clinical Manager of Abdominal Organ Transplant, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.

Life Sci 2018 Dec 11. Epub 2018 Dec 11.

Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Acute Abdominal Diseases of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Tianjin 300100, China; Nankai Clinical College, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300107, China. Electronic address:

Aims: Pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) play a critical role in the development of pancreatic fibrosis. Any agents that can affect PSC activation could become potential candidates for treating pancreatic fibrosis. FTY720 can attenuate chronic pancreatic fibrosis by suppressing T-cell infiltration, but its effect on PSCs remains unknown. Read More

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2018 Dec 11. Epub 2018 Dec 11.

Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.

Purpose/objective(s): To develop an automatic and accurate atlas based technique for synthetic CT (sCT) generation to be used for online adaptive replanning during MRI guided radiation therapy (RT).

Materials/methods: The proposed method utilizes deformable image registration (DIR) of daily MRI and reference CT with additional corrections to maintain bone rigidity and also transfer of random air regions by thresholding. The DIR is performed with constraints on the bony structures using a special algorithm of ADMIRE (Elekta). Read More

Medwave 2018 Dec 11;18(8):e7370. Epub 2018 Dec 11.

Proyecto Epistemonikos, Santiago, Chile; Centro Evidencia UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Departamento de Medicina Interna, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Email: Address: Centro Evidencia UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Diagonal Paraguay 476, Santiago, Chile.

Introduction: The treatment of acute appendicitis using laparoscopy reduces the risk of wound infection, hospitalization time and return to normal activity. However, it increases the risk of intra-abdominal abscess, which is one the main complications of complicated appendicitis.

Methods: We searched in Epistemonikos, the largest database of systematic reviews in health, which is maintained by screening multiple information sources, including MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane, among others. Read More

Am J Transplant 2018 Dec 14. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Stanford Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

Stem cell-based approaches have the potential to address the organ shortage in transplantation. Whereas both embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells have been utilized as cellular sources for differentiation and lineage specification, their relative ability to be recognized by immune effector cells is unclear. We determined the expression of immune recognition molecules on hepatocyte-like cells (HLC) generated from murine embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells, compared to adult hepatocytes, and we evaluated the impact on recognition by NK cells. Read More

Liver Int 2018 Dec 14. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Department of Pathology, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Laboratory tests in an asymptomatic 70-year-old Caucasian man revealed biological cholestasis with an increased level of γ-GT. Abdominal tomography showed a mass in the left hepatic lobe, nearly four centimeters in diameter and associated with a dilated left bile duct. PET imaging revealed high glucose uptake. Read More

J Ultrasound Med 2018 Dec 14. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Infectious Diseases, Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, Brazil.

Objectives: To evaluate whether abdominal ultrasound (US) with a gallbladder (GB) contractility study or motor function test can be used as a diagnostic tool in patients with dengue and warning signs in acute and recovery phases.

Methods: Fifty-one individuals in the acute phase of dengue presenting with warning signs (dengue group) and 49 healthy individuals without a history of dengue or hepatobiliary disease (control group) were studied with abdominal US and a GB contractility study.

Results: Statistical differences in US measurements of the liver (right lobe, P = . Read More

Lasers Surg Med 2018 Dec 14. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic.

Objectives: While controlled thermal changes in subcutaneous tissue have been used to trigger apoptosis of fat cells and have been proven clinically efficacious, another mechanism of electromagnetic stress suggests that fat apoptosis could be achieved by a non-thermal manner as well. This animal model study investigates the use of a non-invasive high-intensity magnetic field device to induce apoptosis in fat cells.

Methods: Yorkshire pigs (N = 2) received one treatment (30 minutes) in the abdominal area using a High-Intensity Focused Electromagnetic (HIFEM) device. Read More

Eur J Clin Invest 2018 Dec 14:e13060. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Department of Nursing, University of Granada, Av. Ilustración, 60, 18016, Granada, Spain.

Background: Waist circumference has been suggested as predictor for metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adolescents but it has not been compared with newly proposed anthropometric indexes. This study aimed to disclose the capacity of ten classic and novel anthropometric indexes to discriminate by the presence of MetS in this young population.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed on 981 adolescents (13. Read More

Asian J Endosc Surg 2018 Dec 13. Epub 2018 Dec 13.

Department of Morphology, Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Section of General and Thoracic Surgery, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.

Introduction: Laparoscopic reversal of Hartmann's procedure (LHR) is considered a technically complex major surgical procedure. We present a retrospective analysis of a single-institution experience that assesses the treatment patterns and outcomes of patients who underwent LHR.

Materials And Surgical Technique: The study involved patients who underwent LHR between January 2004 and December 2017. Read More

Asian J Endosc Surg 2018 Dec 13. Epub 2018 Dec 13.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.

Introduction: Laparoscopic surgery is a minimally invasive surgery, and the rate of postoperative adhesions is low. Although Seprafilm® helps to reduce adhesions, its application in the abdominal cavity during laparoscopic surgery is difficult because of its material. Therefore, we propose an easy method for applying this adhesion barrier. Read More

J Dig Dis 2018 Dec 14. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Department of Gastroenterology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.

Sinistral portal hypertension (SPH), also known as left-sided portal hypertension, accounts for 5% of all portal hypertension (PH) cases. SPH is commonly secondary to acute or chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer and rarely secondary to peritoneal inflammatory disease, abdominal tumors or diseases of the spleen . Splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) is a rare type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that originates from the lymphocytes of the splenic white pulp. Read More

Neurogastroenterol Motil 2018 Dec 13:e13509. Epub 2018 Dec 13.

Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

Background: Anxiety and depression are implicated as contributors to abdominal pain in pediatric irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) but is unclear if this pain is associated with other psychological factors. The study objective was to test if the impact of anxiety or depression on IBS symptom severity is mediated by somatization and/or pain catastrophizing.

Methods: We utilized baseline data from local pediatric IBS clinical studies. Read More

Prostate 2018 Dec 14. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Research Laboratories, Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd., Minami-ku, Kyoto, Japan.

Background: Experimental autoimmune prostatitis (EAP) and prostatitis induced by 17β-estradiol treatment combined with castration (hormone/castration-induced prostatitis; HCP) are the most commonly used rodent models of nonbacterial prostatitis. We studied the effect of the phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor tadalafil on chronic pelvic pain in two such models in rats.

Methods: EAP was induced by intradermal injection of rat prostate antigen and complete Freund's adjuvant on Days 0 and 28. Read More

J Small Anim Pract 2018 Dec 13. Epub 2018 Dec 13.

Lodi's ICU and Sub ICU Head, ASST Lodi 26900, Italy.

Objective: To describe the technique and findings of the 'veterinary focused assessment with sonography for trauma-airway, breathing, circulation, disability and exposure' protocol in dogs suffering from trauma.

Materials And Methods: Prospective observational study on a new point-of-care ultrasound protocol on 64 dogs suffering from trauma and comparison of findings with radiology.

Results: Comparison of the results of this new ultrasound protocol for trauma patients with radiography findings for pneumothorax, pleural effusion, alveolar-interstitial syndrome and abdominal effusion revealed positive agreement of 89, 83, 100 and 87% and negative agreement of 76, 83, 76 and 92%, respectively. Read More

Compr Physiol 2018 Dec 13;9(1):127-148. Epub 2018 Dec 13.

Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (NMHI), School of Molecular & Systems Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Neuroprostheses (NPs) are electrical stimulators that activate nerves, either to provide sensory input to the central nervous system (sensory NPs), or to activate muscles (motor NPs: MNPs). The first MNPs were belts with inbuilt batteries and electrodes developed in the 1850s to exercise the abdominal muscles. They became enormously popular among the general public, but as a result of exaggerated therapeutic claims they were soon discredited by the medical community. Read More

Int J Dermatol 2018 Dec 13. Epub 2018 Dec 13.

Facultad de Medicina, Human Anatomy Department, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.

Background: Currently, the exact incidence of Polymorphic Eruption of Pregnancy (PEP) in the Mexican population is unknown. PEP tends to manifest in the abdomen, primarily in the stretch marks caused by distension. It is characterized by severely pruritic urticarial-like papules that converge in plaques, extending to the buttocks and proximal thighs. Read More

Asian J Endosc Surg 2018 Dec 12. Epub 2018 Dec 12.

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Fukuyama City Hospital, Fukuyama, Japan.

Introduction: Some cystic liver tumors are huge when the diagnosis is made or surgery is needed. Although reducing tumor size by preoperative aspiration or drainage of the contents of the cystic tumor is helpful for liver resection, such procedures have a risk of tumor dissemination.

Materials And Surgical Technique: After the round ligament was dissected, a 12-Fr drainage catheter was inserted into the tumor via the round ligament under ultrasonography. Read More

Transpl Infect Dis 2018 Dec 12:e13037. Epub 2018 Dec 12.

Division of Infectious Diseases, Carver College of Medicine University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.

Q fever is uncommon in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. We describe a case of granulomatous lung disease as an unusual presentation of chronic Q fever in a kidney-pancreas transplant recipient. This article is protected by copyright. Read More

Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2018 Dec 12;12:CD012669. Epub 2018 Dec 12.

Centre for Clinical Research, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 12683.

Background: Point-of-care sonography (POCS) has emerged as the screening modality of choice for suspected body trauma in many emergency departments worldwide. Its best known application is FAST (focused abdominal sonography for trauma). The technology is almost ubiquitously available, can be performed during resuscitation, and does not expose patients or staff to radiation. Read More

Colorectal Dis 2018 Dec 7. Epub 2018 Dec 7.

Department of Colorectal Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

Aim: Perineal wound complications and pelvic abscesses remain a major source of morbidity after total pelvic exenteration. The void created in the pelvis after these multi-visceral resections leads to fluid accumulation and translocation of bowel within the pelvic cavity, which may increase the risk of pelvic abscess, perineal fluid discharge with perineal wound dehiscence and prolonged ileus. This study describes a novel technique using degradable synthetic mesh with overlying omentum to preclude small bowel and fill the empty space after total pelvic exenteration, and aimed to investigate the rate of pelvic abscess and perineal wound-related complications in this group. Read More

Nurs Crit Care 2018 Dec 9. Epub 2018 Dec 9.

Nursing Department, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

Background: Previous studies have shown that feeding a high-energy formula (HF) to infants after cardiac surgery increases energy intake, with fewer side effects on cardiopulmonary function. However, impacts on weight gain and gastrointestinal function remain unclear.

Aims And Objectives: To determine the impact of HF compared with standard formula on weight gain and gastrointestinal tolerance in postoperative infants with congenital heart disease. Read More

Med Sci Monit 2018 Dec 14;24:9063-9072. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Department of Gynecology, Maternal and Child Care Service Center, Zhenjiang 4th Hospital, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China (mainland).

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to observe the influence of different time intervals between prior cervical conization and posterior hysterectomy on postoperative infection in female patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia or cancer. MATERIAL AND METHODS Medical records of 170 patients who underwent hysterectomy following cervical conization between November 2010 and September 2016 at the Zhenjiang 4th Hospital were reviewed. According to the interval between hysterectomy and cervical conization, patients were classified into 1-2-week, 4-5-week, and 6-week groups. Read More

Ugeskr Laeger 2018 Dec;180(50)

Situs inversus is a medical condition with transposition of the organs in chest and abdomen. The condition may cause misdiagnosis due to inverted location of the origin of acute abdominal pain in cases of e.g. Read More

J Ovarian Res 2018 Dec 14;11(1):100. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Department of Radiology, Osaka Medical College, 2-7 Daigaku-machi, Takatsuki City, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan.

Background: Ovarian granulosa cell tumors (GCTs) are divided into adult GCT (AGCT) and juvenile GCT (JGCT). The AGCT is more common type, conversely, less than 5% of tumors are the JGCT and occur in mainly premenarchal girls and in women younger than 30 years. Although JGCT have different histologic features compared to AGCT, the two types have similar imaging features because they have similar gross appearance. Read More

BMC Ecol 2018 Dec 14;18(1):57. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Limnological Institute, University of Konstanz, Mainaustrasse 252, 78464, Constance, Germany.

Background: The relative importance of nutrients derived from different sources for tissue synthesis is crucial for predicting a species responds to changes in food availability. The ecological and physiological strategies that govern the incorporation and routing of nutrients for reproduction are often well understood. However, the role and adaptive value of both species and individual variation during early life-stage remain elusive. Read More

BMC Vet Res 2018 Dec 14;14(1):398. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Department of Pathology, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "Ion Ionescu de la Brad", Iași, Romania.

Background: In both humans and animals, cardiac fibrosarcoma is rare among primary cardiac malignant neoplasia. The overall prevalence of cardiac neoplasia in dogs is low, reported to be between 0.17% and 0. Read More

Radiographics 2018 Dec 14:180043. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

From the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 510 S Kingshighway Blvd, Campus Box 8131, St Louis, MO 63110.

For the radiologist performing body MRI, chemical shift imaging is a unique tool available to investigate the cellular composition of tissue. By leveraging the inherent difference in resonant frequency between water and fat protons that is due to their local chemical environment, chemical shift image acquisition can be timed to image water and fat protons when their collective signals are in phase or out of phase, to determine the relative amount of fat signal and water signal within an individual voxel. Loss of signal intensity between the in-phase and opposed-phase MR images indicates intravoxel lipid and can be used to make definitive benign diagnoses, characterize the tissue composition of solid organs, and serve as an adjunct imaging feature aiding in the diagnosis of a variety of benign and malignant processes in the chest and abdomen. Read More

J Endovasc Ther 2018 Dec 14:1526602818815821. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

1 Department of Vascular Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Purpose: To describe endovascular treatment of mesenteric malperfusion in a multichannel aortic dissection (MCAD) with full true lumen (TL) collapse following thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR).

Case Report: A 54-year-old man presented with chronic mesenteric ischemia and a previous TEVAR for MCAD complicated by superior mesenteric artery (SMA) malperfusion. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) demonstrated a 3-channel aortic dissection with a "false-true-false" configuration. Read More

Nutr Hosp 2018 Apr 3;35(Spec no2):34-38. Epub 2018 Apr 3.

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days of hospitalization, a greater number of complementary tests, the need for artificial nutritional support and / or drugs to treat complications, which is a very important economic burden. Most patients who are malnourished, or at risk, can benefit from oral nutritional support, which includes dietary modifications (fortification, extra snacks, etc.), prescription of a personalized diet by a registered dietitian and the use of oral nutritional supplements (ONS). Read More

J Cardiol Cases 2014 Jan 13;9(1):32-34. Epub 2013 Dec 13.

Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.

Venous occlusions or anatomic variants are unexpectedly encountered during transvenous pacing lead implantation procedures. A 78-year-old man, who had been medically treated for a thoracic and abdominal dissecting aortic aneurysm was referred to our hospital for treatment of congestive heart failure due to complete atrioventricular block with bradycardia. At the time of the pacemaker implantation, the guidewire for inserting the introducer sheath could not be advanced into the left brachiocephalic vein. Read More