SILENT DOUBLE AORTIC ARCH IN AN ELDERLY PATIENT

Silent double aortic arch in an elderly patient

A 63-year-old woman with COPD presented to BAG/HUCO Ballasts our hospital with complaints of breathlessness on exertion, productive cough and weight loss.Chest X-ray showed a bright silhouette extending from the aortic knob in the right paratracheal area on the PA-view and a posterior indentation of the tracheal air column on the lateral view.No ot

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Design and Application of a New Automated Fluidic Visceral Stimulation Device for Human fMRI Studies of Interoception

Mapping the brain centers that mediate the sensory-perceptual processing of visceral afferent signals arising from the body (i.e., interoception) is useful both for characterizing normal brain activity and for understanding clinical disorders related to abnormal processing of visceral sensation.Here, we report a novel closed-system, electrohydrosta

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In vitro effect of eltrombopag alone and in combination with azacitidine on megakaryopoiesis in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome

Thrombocytopenia is a severe complication for patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).Eltrombopag increases platelet count in MDS patients but its combination with azacitidine elicited controversial results.We aimed to quantify the colony forming units of megakaryocytes (CFU-Mk) obtained from CD34+ bone marrow cells isolated from patients with

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