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J Med Case Rep ; 15(1): 319, 2021 Jun 17.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34140042

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BACKGROUND: Obturator hernia is rare and accounts for less than 1% of all abdominal wall hernias. It represents a diagnostic challenge due to its nonspecific signs and symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of an 89-year-old caucasian female with a 12-hour history of right medial thigh pain. Computed tomography scan revealed a right obturator hernia with small bowel obstruction. The hernia was successfully repaired laparoscopically without any need for small bowel resection. She was discharged on postoperative day 2 with an uneventful recovery and zero complications. CONCLUSION: This case report highlights the importance of rapid diagnosis and repair of obturator hernia even in the setting of an improving clinical picture. It also demonstrates the safety of laparoscopic repair in this setting.


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Parede Abdominal , Hérnia do Obturador , Obstrução Intestinal , Laparoscopia , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Hérnia do Obturador/diagnóstico , Hérnia do Obturador/diagnóstico por imagem , Humanos , Obstrução Intestinal/diagnóstico por imagem , Obstrução Intestinal/etiologia , Obstrução Intestinal/cirurgia , Intestino Delgado
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Am J Case Rep ; 22: e933975, 2021 Oct 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34697281

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BACKGROUND Platypnea orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) presents with positional dyspnea and hypoxemia defined as arterial desaturation of at least 5% or a drop in PaO2 of at least 4 mmHg. Causes of POS include a variety of cardiopulmonary etiologies and has been reported in patients recovering from severe COVID-19 pneumonia. However, clinical presentation and outcomes in a patient with multiple interrelated mechanisms of shunting has not been documented. CASE REPORT An 85-year-old man hospitalized for hypertensive emergency and severe COVID-19 pneumonia was diagnosed with platypnea orthodeoxia on day 28 of illness. During his disease course, the patient required supplemental oxygen by high-flow nasal cannula but never required invasive mechanical ventilation. Chest imaging revealed evolving mixed consolidation and ground-glass opacities with a patchy and diffuse distribution, involving most of the left lung. Echocardiography was ordered to evaluate for intracardiac shunt, which revealed a patent foramen ovale. Closure of the patent foramen ovale was not pursued. Management included graded progression to standing and supplemental oxygen increases when upright. The patient was discharged to a skilled nursing facility and his positional oxygen requirement resolved on approximately day 78. CONCLUSIONS The present case highlights the multiple interrelated mechanisms of shunting in patients with COVID-related lung disease and a patent foramen ovale. Eight prior cases of POS after COVID-19 pneumonia have been reported to date but none with a known patent foramen ovale. In patients with persistent positional oxygen requirements at follow-up, quantifying shunt fraction over time through multiple modalities can guide treatment decisions.


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COVID-19 , Forame Oval Patente , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Dispneia/etiologia , Forame Oval Patente/complicações , Forame Oval Patente/diagnóstico por imagem , Humanos , Hipóxia/etiologia , Masculino , SARS-CoV-2
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Sci Rep ; 11(1): 17262, 2021 08 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34446808

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Unregulated neuro-inflammation mediates seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Our aim was to determine the effect of CD40-CD40L activation in experimental seizures. CD40 deficient mice (CD40KO) and control mice (wild type, WT) received pentenyltetrazole (PTZ) or pilocarpine to evaluate seizures and status epilepticus (SE) respectively. In mice, anti-CD40L antibody was administered intranasally before PTZ. Brain samples from human TLE and post-seizure mice were processed to determine CD40-CD40L expression using histological and molecular techniques. CD40 expression was higher in hippocampus from human TLE and in cortical neurons and hippocampal neural terminals after experimental seizures. CD40-CD40L levels increased after seizures in the hippocampus and in the cortex. After SE, CD40L/CD40 levels increased in cortex and showed an upward trend in the hippocampus. CD40KO mice demonstrated reduction in seizure severity and in latency compared to WT mice. Anti-CD40L antibody limited seizure susceptibility and seizure severity. CD40L-CD40 interaction can serve as a target for an immuno-therapy for TLE.


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Antígenos CD40/metabolismo , Ligante de CD40/metabolismo , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Regulação para Baixo , Epilepsia do Lobo Temporal/metabolismo , Convulsões/metabolismo , Animais , Antígenos CD40/genética , Epilepsia do Lobo Temporal/induzido quimicamente , Epilepsia do Lobo Temporal/genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença/genética , Hipocampo/metabolismo , Hipocampo/patologia , Humanos , Masculino , Camundongos da Linhagem 129 , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , Neurônios/metabolismo , Pentilenotetrazol , Convulsões/induzido quimicamente , Convulsões/genética , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , Estado Epiléptico/metabolismo
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PLoS One ; 14(10): e0224123, 2019.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31634380

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Combining population genetic studies with demographic surveys in long-lived clonal herbs can yield insight into the population dynamics of clonal plant populations. In this study, we assayed clonal diversity and spatial genetic structure in a population of a long-lived understory herb, Trillium recurvatum, that has been the focus of a demographic study spanning 26 years at the Meeman Biological Station in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Using a set of five newly developed simple sequence repeat markers first reported here, we assessed 1) the extent of clonal diversity within the Meeman site, 2) the degree to which genetic diversity varies with stage class (juvenile, non-flowering, and flowering adults) at this site, 3) whether there is spatial genetic structure at the Meeman site, and 4) how measures of genetic diversity and inbreeding at the Meeman site compare to two additional nearby populations. Along with these analyses, we calculated and compared traditional population genetic metrics with information theory-based diversity indices. Although clonal propagation was present, the focal population displayed moderate levels of clonal diversity comprising 81 genets from the 174 individuals sampled. In the focal site, we also found that genetic diversity was highest in the flowering stage class when compared to the non-flowering and juvenile classes. We report that genets exhibited spatial genetic structure in the focal site exhibiting values for the Sp statistic of 0.00199 for linear distance and 0.0271 for log distance. Measures of unbiased gene diversity and the inbreeding coefficient were comparable across the sampled populations. Our results provide complementary genetic data to previous demographic studies in T. recurvatum, and these findings provide data for future studies aimed at integrating the degree of clonality, genetic variation, and population dynamics in this species. Our findings suggest that T. recurvatum at the focal Meeman site displays higher levels of sexual reproduction than were previously suggested, and spatial genetic structure estimates were comparable to other plant species with mixed and outcrossing mating strategies.


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Células Clonais , Marcadores Genéticos , Variação Genética , Genética Populacional , Magnoliopsida/genética , Reprodução , Endogamia , Magnoliopsida/classificação
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