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Living with acuteness in chronic illness: The temporal underpinnings of endometriosis
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how acuteness is experienced by people with endometriosis in Finland. Drawing on in‐depth interviews as well as anonymous written endometriosis stories, we trace instances when the sense of chronicity and cyclicality of endometriosis is disrupted by a possibility of risk to life. These instances include when endometriosis
Venla Oikkonen, Elina Helosvuori
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Uncertainty experienced by newly qualified doctors during the transition to internship
Medical Education, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Uncertainty is an inherent feature of medical practice. Uncertainty Tolerance (UT) describes how individuals experience and respond to uncertainty, with lower UT associated with negative outcomes, including burnout. Periods of career transition can be particularly uncertain, but there is little research into newly qualified ...
Molly Dineen +2 more
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Impact of Race and Insurance on Door-to-Appendectomy Time among Pediatric Patients
, 2018 Racial and ethnic disparities in the rate of appendiceal rupture have been widely reported among the pediatric population. The main reasons for this remain largely unknown given that previous explanations pointing to signs of poor health care access have
Christison-Lagay, Emily R +2 more
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Extracellular matrix remodelling proteases in acute appendicitis and their impact on appendiceal perforation [PDF]
, 2010 Background Appendicitis is associated with varying degradation of extracellular matrix involved in tissue injury. The principal aim of this study was to investigate whether immunoreactive techniques could illustrate the course and severity of ...
Solberg, Anna
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Appendicectomy and multiple sclerosis risk
, 2011 Background: Appendicectomy for acute appendicitis, but not for other causes, is inversely associated with immune-mediated diseases such as ulcerative colitis, suggesting appendicitis is a marker of immune characteristics influencing immune-mediated ...
Bahmanyar, S. +4 more
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Ileocecal appendix involvement in fabry disease mimicking an acute abdomen [PDF]
, 2014 Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD) is a rare, X-linked, lysosomal storage disorder due to a deficiency of alphagalactosidase A. The direct consequence is a lipid storage with the accumulation of glycosphingolipids throughout the body.
Cristi E +5 more
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Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 2011 Gastrointestinal tuberculosis is quite rare, representing only 3% of all extrapulmonary cases. Involvement of the appendix is rare, only occurring in about 1% of cases. It is usually secondary to tuberculosis elsewhere in the abdomen. A prompt diagnosis depends on a high index of suspicion as clinical signs may be nonspecific and microbiological ...
Khalid Rabbani +5 more
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The human colon: Evidence for degenerative changes during aging and the physiological consequences
Neurogastroenterology &Motility, EarlyView.Reduced nociceptor innervation can explain diminished abdominal pain among the elderly. Degenerative changes occur within the colon wall, especially ascending colon. Mechanisms may include senescence‐like activity and inflammaging. Constipation is more likely to occur during age‐related challenges affecting functions of the bowel that now have reduced ...
Nicholas Baidoo, Gareth J. Sanger
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Demystifying “Hyaline Angiopathy” of Pulse Granuloma in Oral and Extraoral Surgical Pathology
Oral Diseases, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Pulse granuloma (PG), or giant cell hyaline angiopathy, is an immune‐mediated reaction often following the implantation of plant‐derived food particles. PGs are primarily found in the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract and may represent a histopathological pitfall, being mistaken for other granulomatous conditions
Felipe Fornias Sperandio +3 more
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The Moldovan Medical Journal, 2018 Background: It has been more than 130 years since Reginald Fitz described for the first time the pathomorphological changes of the acute appendicitis and after the first appendectomy that was performed by H. Hancock, in the case of acute appendicitis, but the problem remains to be actual till now.
Bazeliuc, Iurii +2 more
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