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Circulation: Heart Failure, 2020 Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Background: Accumulating evidence suggests that the failing heart reprograms fuel metabolism toward increased utilization of ketone bodies and that increasing cardiac ketone delivery ameliorates ...
Salva R. Yurista +12 more
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Liver Graft Failure after Plastic Stent Removal of an Anastomotic Biliary Stricture
The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022 A biliary anastomotic stricture developed 13 months after living donor liver transplantation in a 19-year-old male with congenital hepatic fibrosis. Endoscopic management with balloon dilation followed by the placement of a 7F plastic stent was performed
Jung Won Chun +3 more
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Constrictive Epicarditis as an Unusual Cause of Constrictive Physiology [PDF]
Circulation, 2005 This case represents typical clinical and hemodynamic features of constrictive pericarditis, but the underlying pathology was epicardial rather than pericardial scarring. The recognition of constrictive epicarditis as distinct from pericarditis is important because the surgical approach is different. An 83-year-old woman was …
Jong-Won Ha +6 more
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Intestinal Stricture in Crohn's Disease [PDF]
Intestinal Research, 2015 Crohn's disease (CD) is a disease with chronic inflammation of unknown etiology involving any part of the gastrointestinal tract. The incidence and prevalence of CD are increasing recently in Asia.
Chen-Wang Chang +5 more
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Cardiovascular Research, 2021 AIMS Free fatty acid receptor 4 (Ffar4) is a G-protein coupled receptor for endogenous medium/long-chain fatty acids that attenuates metabolic disease and inflammation. However, the function of Ffar4 in the heart is unclear. Given its putative beneficial
K. Murphy +15 more
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Interleukin-4 Induces the Release of Opioid Peptides from M1 Macrophages in Pathological Pain
Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 Interleukin-4 (IL-4) is an anti-inflammatory cytokine, which can be protective in inflammatory and neurologic disorders, and can alleviate pain. Classically, IL-4 diminishes pain by blocking the production of proinflammatory cytokines. Here, we uncovered
D. Labuz +3 more
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Endoscopic Balloon Dilation for Crohn’s Disease-Associated Strictures [PDF]
Clinical Endoscopy, 2017 Management of intestinal strictures associated with Crohn’s disease (CD) is clinically challenging despite advanced medical therapy directed toward mucosal healing to positively influence the natural course of CD-associated complications.
Thomas Klag, Jan Wehkamp, Martin Goetz
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IS THERE A PLACE FOR CHOLANGIOSCOPIC EVALUATION OF BILIARY ANASTOMOTIC STRICTURE AFTER DECEASED DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANT? [PDF]
Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, 2020 BACKGROUND Biliary complications remain one of the most important causes of morbidity and graft loss after liver transplant (LT). Endoscopic therapy of biliary complications has proven to be effective over time, leaving surgical treatment restricted to ...
Fernanda Prata MARTINS +4 more
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May-Thurner Syndrome, an Often Overlooked Cause of Deep Vein Thrombosis: A Case Report
Oman Medical Journal, 2021 Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a common medical condition, but the predisposing anatomical factors, which may be amenable to definitive treatment, are usually overlooked. Therefore, a high index of clinical suspicion is the key to early diagnosis.
Akhwand Shakeel Ahmad
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Tracheal Re-Stenosis after Resection and Anastomosis of Complete Tracheal Stenosis
Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, 2013 Tracheal stenosis is a difficult complication to treat. It begins as a complication and eventually becomes serious enough to compromise the airway, leading to surgery.
Walfrido C. Adan
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