ACUTE APPENDICITIS PRESENTING WITH MIS-C SECONDARY TO COVID-19

Acute appendicitis presenting with MIS-C secondary to COVID-19

Acute Appendicitis (AA) is among the most common causes of abdominal pain in children.Several physical exam findings, scoring systems, and imaging studies, such as Activity Equipment ultrasonography and computed tomography, exist to assist clinicians in diagnosing acute appendicitis.Despite multiple tools for assessing suspected acute appendicitis,

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35 Obese microenvironmental signaling and junctional protein disruption in endometrial cells: an early pro-oncogenic change?

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to describe the impact of paracrine signaling of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) on endometrial epithelial junctional proteins in an obese microenvironment in order to gain insight into non-hormonal mechanisms of endometrial oncogenesis in the obese population.Methods: Immo

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Transplante heterotópico do coração sem auxílio da circulação extracorpórea: estudo experimental em cães Heterotopic heart transplant without extra-corporeal circulation: an experimental study in dogs

Os autores descrevem nova técnica de transplante heterotópico do coração.Foram operados 14 cães.A via de acesso foi toracotomia lateral esquerda e foram realizadas somente duas anastomoses, não sendo necessário o uso da circulação extracorpórea.Como resultado, houve boa adaptação dos cães ao procedimento e comprovou-se a eficiência do

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