Calcified constrictive pericarditis treated with ultrasonic devices最新文献

{"title":"Trapped thrombus in patent foramen ovale with pulmonary embolism and homonymous paracentral scotoma","authors":"J. Hermsen, Kosuke Ujihira, S. Osaki","doi":"10.31487/j.SCR.2018.03.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31487/j.SCR.2018.03.011","url":null,"abstract":"A 37-year-old female presented with persistent dyspnea and syncope. Computed-tomography scan detected \u0000saddle pulmonary embolism, and echocardiogram revealed extensive thrombus crossing the interatrial \u0000septum and prolapsing across the mitral valve into the left ventricle. Consequently, the patient was treated \u0000with surgical extraction of the thrombus and pulmonary embolectomy. \u0000She was discharged after un-eventful hospital stay save a dark grey spot in her central vision, which \u0000was diagnosed as homonymous paracentral scotoma caused by pre-operative cerebral infarction.","PeriodicalId":363740,"journal":{"name":"Calcified constrictive pericarditis treated with ultrasonic devices","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115404228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dietary Magnesium Intake and Heart Health","authors":"D. Carpenter, Rija Zehra, Syed S. Fatmi","doi":"10.31487/j.JFNM.2018.01.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31487/j.JFNM.2018.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"With magnesium being the second most common intracellular cation in the human body and the presence \u0000of hypomagnesemia in 10% of hospital admissions, magnesium deficiency has become a clinically \u0000significant nutritional deficiency in context of heart health. Magnesium has long been used as a treatment \u0000modality for cardiac arrhythmias as serum magnesium concentration of 1.44 mEq/L to 1.8 mEq/L has been \u0000found to have a statistically significant inverse association with cardiovascular disease events. Patients with \u0000the highest intake of magnesium were found to have incidents of sudden cardiac death reduced by 77% \u0000while hypomagnesemia is found to be associated with increased risk of congestive heart failure and cardiac \u0000arrhythmias. It has also been demonstrated that high dietary intake of serum magnesium is associated with \u0000decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressure secondary to reduction in vascular tone and an increase in \u0000vasodilatory substances, like Prostaglandin E. Association of cardiovascular diseases with hypomagnesemia \u0000and the need for the fulfilment of RDA goals, authenticates the use of oral magnesium supplements, with \u0000established safety profile and lack of potential for toxicity.","PeriodicalId":363740,"journal":{"name":"Calcified constrictive pericarditis treated with ultrasonic devices","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129044418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus: a case of solitary metastasis to the tongue","authors":"H. Patwa, E. Levine, G. Devries, G. Yacoub, O. A. Hassan","doi":"10.31487/j.COR.2018.03.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31487/j.COR.2018.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"Malignant neoplasms that metastasize to the head and neck remain a rare occurrence. Metastatic lesions to \u0000the tongue are even more rarely encountered. The majority of the few reported cases have primary sites in \u0000the lung, breast, and kidney. Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus with isolated metastasis to the tongue is a \u0000unique occurrence with only a handful of cases with other extensive metastases ever reported. Herein we \u0000present the case of a patient with adenocarcinoma of the distal third esophagus who underwent a neoadjuvant \u0000therapy followed by margin negative esophageal resection, including negative lymph nodes, who \u0000subsequently presented with a solitary distant metastasis to the tongue.","PeriodicalId":363740,"journal":{"name":"Calcified constrictive pericarditis treated with ultrasonic devices","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132206912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Genes and proteins associated with chemotherapeutic resistance in breast cancer","authors":"E. Morales-Ávila, J. Guadalupe, Rodolfo López-Linares","doi":"10.31487/J.COR.2018.02.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31487/J.COR.2018.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"Breast cancer is the main type of cancer that affects women in the world. Treatment with chemotherapeutic \u0000agents for this type of cancer depends to a large extent on the phenotypic characteristics that appear in the \u0000tumor, such as some receptors. \u0000The treatment of breast cancer is complex since not all patients respond adequately to it and this is partly \u0000due to mechanisms of resistance to treatment. The resistance either acquired or intrinsic to \u0000chemotherapeutics against breast cancer is related to multiple genes and proteins that are actively involved \u0000in the development of resistance mechanisms, which may be inhibiting the binding of the drug to the target \u0000receptor, inhibiting the gene expression of the receptors, activating signaling pathways, inducing the action \u0000of transporters that expel the drug from the cell, etc. \u0000As a result of this review, the mechanisms of chemotherapeutic resistance in breast cancer derived from \u0000genes and proteins related to say disease are described, including genes related to different types of breast \u0000cancer, as well as with different therapeutic strategies. \u0000These genes and their products of expression include a wide range of interactions and activations of \u0000signalling pathways that trigger a poor response to treatment, which translates into a worse prognosis, higher \u0000risk of prevalence and death, favouring breast cancer to be the main cause of cancer death in women. \u0000Objective: Conduct an updated review of genes and proteins, that have been associated with conferring \u0000resistance to the different chemotherapeutic agents used for the treatment of breast cancer, including the \u0000mechanism of resistance and the type of cancer in which it is generated. \u0000Method: The search for indexed articles in the PubMed (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) and \u0000ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com) databases was performed, using the words “Breast cancer \u0000resistance” as a search criterion, articles published in the period 2015-2017 were selected.","PeriodicalId":363740,"journal":{"name":"Calcified constrictive pericarditis treated with ultrasonic devices","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121204057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}