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A Rare and Unusual Cause of Recurrent Hemoptysis: Alive Intratracheal Leech Infestation
Acta Medica Iranica, 2021 Hemoptysis is defined as blood expectoration from below the vocal cords. Foreign bodies inhaled or consumed can be the causes of hemoptysis. Among alive foreign objects, leech infestation, happens via drinking infested bodies of water. Leech infestation
Ebrahim Nadi, Marzieh Naderishahab
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A case of living leech in nasal cavity
Otolaryngology Case Reports, 2021 This paper presents a case of a patient with a 3-month history of recurrent right-sided epistaxis with heavy bleeding for 4-days. Leech infestation in the nasal cavity was found to be the main cause of the epistaxis via endoscopic examination.
Nan Hou +5 more
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Taxonomy, 2022 The genus Placobdella (Glossiphoniidae) has a centre of species concentration in North America. The type species P. costata is the only representative in the Palaearctic region.
Roy T. Sawyer
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The Healing of Wounds Infected with Staphylococcus aureus is Accelerated by Leech Saliva Ointment [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Veterinary SurgeryThis study aimed to explore the impact of pure leech saliva and its combination with Eucerin on wounds infected with Staphylococcus aureus. The experimentation involved inducing wounds on the dorsal area of the animals’ chest.
Bagher Nikrou +3 more
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May salivary gland secretory proteins from hematophagous leeches (Hirudo verbana) reach pharmacologically relevant concentrations in the vertebrate host? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Saliva of hematophagous leeches (Hirudo sp.) contains bioactive proteins which allow the leech proper feeding and storage of ingested blood, but may also exert effects in the host.
Sarah Lemke +4 more
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Kinetic and thermodynamic analysis of leech-derived tryptase inhibitor interaction with bovine tryptase and bovine trypsin [PDF]
, 2000 The interaction of leech-derived tryptase inhibitor (LDTI) with bovine liver capsule tryptase (BLCT) and bovine trypsin has been studied using both thermodynamic and kinetic approaches.
Fiorucci, L. +10 more
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Review of Mirella Agorni, Translating Italy for the Nineteenth Century. Translators and an Imagined Nation in the Early Romantic Period 1816-1830s, Bern, Peter Lang, 2021 [PDF]
, 2023 A review of Mirella Agorni's Translating Italy for the Nineteenth Century. Translators and an Imagined Nation in the Early Romantic Period 1816-1830s (Bern, Peter Lang, 2021)
Patrick Leech, Leech, Patrick
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Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine, 2020 The use of medicinal leech therapy (MLT) is the subject of many articles describing basic pharmacological principles, application procedures, or efficacy and safety of the broad range of therapeutic indications.This review is focused on the information ...
Detlev Koeppen +3 more
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2018 Background Leech therapy in plastic/reconstructive microsurgery significantly improves a successful outcome of flap salvage but the drawback is a risk of severe infection that results in a drop of the salvage rates from 70-80% to below 30%. We report the
Delphine Grau +4 more
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