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Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation: Where We Stand Today
ABSTRACT Intestinal and multivisceral transplantation has evolved from an experimental to a life‐saving procedure for children and adults with complications of gut failure (GF). Suboptimal long‐term outcomes of transplant elicit recent advances in surgical and medical gut rehabilitation along with the introduction of glucagon‐like peptide‐2 (GLP‐2 ...
Mohamed Maklad +5 more
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SPLENIC ARTERY EMBOLIZATION IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING ORTHOTOPIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
Aim: to analyze the results of embolization of the splenic artery in fi ve patients after orthotopic liver transplantation.Materials and methods. Embolization of the splenic artery was performed 6 times in fi ve (3.2%) of 158 patients who underwent ...
D. A. Granov +5 more
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Abstract Background Platelet transfusion refractoriness (PTR) is a clinically important condition. The Human Leukocyte Antigen and Human Platelet Antigen (HLA/HPA) Platelet Program at Canadian Blood Services (CBS) provides platelet products to support such patients.
Natasha Rickards +5 more
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Key Clinical Message Our case report discusses the usefulness of administering romiplostim as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy in a cirrhotic patient with immune thrombocytopenia who developed corticosteroid‐induced Cushing's syndrome ...
Teresa Casanovas Taltavull +1 more
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ABSTRACT Red blood cells (RBCs) contain the highest purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) level per cell volume, yet the role of PNP in the pathogenesis of sickle cell disease (SCD) is incompletely understood, highlighting an important gap in our knowledge of the disease.
Adekunle Emmanuel Alagbe +5 more
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Beyond Hepatitis: A Rare Case of Multisystem Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis in a Child
ABSTRACT Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare neoplastic disorder involving abnormal proliferation of dendritic cells, with clinical presentations ranging from isolated lesions to life‐threatening multisystem involvement. This case report describes a 26‐month‐old girl who presented with progressive jaundice, fever, hepatomegaly, pruritic scalp
Dilip Neupane +4 more
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β-thalassemia major (β-TM) is a therapeutically challenging chronic disease in which ineffective erythropoiesis is a main pathophysiological factor. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane-enclosed vesicles released by cells into biological fluids ...
Carina Levin +9 more
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Splenic Arterial Embolization for Trauma and Beyond: A Case Series
Splenic artery embolization plays an important role in the management of various medical and surgical conditions that are non-traumatic in etiology, in addition to its well-established and widely discussed role in managing splenic trauma. In nontraumatic
Chun Hin Choy +4 more
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IntroductionPortal hypertension combined with hypersplenism (PHcH) is the main cause of hypocytosis and esophagogastric variceal hemorrhage in patients with liver cirrhosis.
Wang Guihu +26 more
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