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Background Staged palliative surgery markedly shifts the balance of volume load on a single ventricle and pulmonary vascular bed. Blalock-Taussig shunt necessitates a single ventricle eject blood to both the systemic and pulmonary circulation.
Mao Kinoshita +9 more
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Complex Congenital Heart Disease: Echocardiographic Evaluation
Various combinations of congenital heart defects are included in complex congenital heart disease. Various pathologies of cardiac structures have varied embryological dysmorphology.
Srinivas Lakshmivenkateshiah +2 more
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Palliative care services in Australia 2013 [PDF]
This report provides detailed information on the national response to the palliative care needs of Australians. Summary This report on Australian palliative care services is the second in this series.
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This study identifies somatostatin receptor 4 (Sstr4) as a critical tumor suppressor against skin and head/neck cancers (HNSCC, cSCC, and BCC). The loss of Sstr4 removes a check on cell growth, causing hyperactivation of the MAPK‐ERK signaling pathway (↑).
Ali Taqvi +6 more
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Clinical study on anorexia in patients with terminal cancer
Objectives: Patients with terminal cancer tend to have an increased frequency of a variety of clinical symptoms, including anorexia, at 1 month of life expectancy. This study examined clinical symptoms affecting anorexia in patients with terminal cancer.
Miyo Murai +4 more
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The VHL tumor suppressor at the crossroad of protein folding, aggregation, and cancer
Mutations, environmental stress, and chaperone dysfunction can destabilize pVHL, promoting its conversion from the native folded state into amyloid‐like assemblies. This transition may contribute to protein storage, cell dormancy, survival, and drug resistance.
Lara Abad +2 more
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ABSTRACT Introduction Glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonists (GLP‐1 RAs) have demonstrated significant weight‐reducing effects and may offer benefits in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH); however, recent concerns about the risk of non‐arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) have emerged.
Faisal A. Al‐Harbi +9 more
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Natural Language Processing for serious illness communications in palliative surgical oncology
Approximately one-fifth of surgeries performed at major cancer centres worldwide are palliative in nature, and one-third of advanced cancer patients receive surgery during their last year of life.1,2 Serious illness communication (SIC) is an essential ...
Louis Choon Kit Wong +6 more
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Background: The study evaluates the frequency of and indications for bone-metastases (BM)-related surgery and/or radiotherapy in the palliative breast cancer (BC) situation and analyzes in which phase of the palliative disease course surgery and/or ...
Kirsten Steinauer +4 more
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ABSTRACT Objective Variants in SLC6A1, encoding the GABA transporter 1 (GAT‐1), cause epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder, and developmental delay via loss of GABA uptake, impaired trafficking, and ER retention. We previously found that 4‐Phenylbutyrate (PBA), an FDA‐approved drug, restores GABA uptake and reduces seizures in SLC6A1‐related disorders ...
Melissa B. DeLeeuw +5 more
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