Medicine
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Meta Analysis
Prognostic value of pretreatment skeletal muscle index in pancreatic carcinoma patients: A meta-analysis.
The association between pretreatment skeletal muscle index (SMI) and long-term survival of pancreatic carcinoma patients remains unclear up to now. ⋯ Pretreatment SMI could serve as a promising and reliable prognostic factor for pancreatic carcinoma patients and lower pretreatment SMI predicted worse prognosis.
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Review Case Reports
Testosterone elevation in ovarian adult granulosa cell tumor: A case report and review of the literature.
Adult granulosa cell tumors (AGCT) mainly secret estrogen, but few androgens. It is rarer to have amenorrhea and hyperandrogenemia as clinical features. Here, we report a rare case of right side AGCTs with amenorrhea and hyperandrogenemia in a 19-year-old female. ⋯ Androgen-secreting AGCT is rare. We hope that this case can strengthen gynecologists' early diagnosis and treatment of this disease and improve the prognosis.
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Chronic heart failure is a public health problem with a high prevalence worldwide and an important topic in clinical cardiology. Despite of advances in the drug treatment strategy for heart failure, the number of deaths from this condition continues to rise. ⋯ Traditional medicine has a potential to introduce different approaches for treatment of some disorders. We here reviewed top medicinal plants, according to traditional medicine to experimental studies, and their potency for the treatment of chronic heart failure based on the evidence of their functions.
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Review Case Reports
Typical clinical presentation of acute myocardial infarction and confusing coronary angiography: A case report and literature review of coronary embolism.
The purpose of this article is to discuss the characteristics, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of cases of multiple coronary embolism (CE) highly suspected to be caused by a dislodged aneurysm of the ventricular membranous septum (AVMS) thrombus. ⋯ AVMS is a potential source of embolism in patients with CE. CE has features that distinguish it from atherosclerosis, and a timely and correct diagnosis can help improve patient clinical outcomes.
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Hepatic macrophages are a complex population of cells that play an important role in the normal functioning of the liver and in liver diseases. Autophagy, as a maintainer of cellular homeostasis, is closely connected to many liver diseases. And its roles are not always beneficial, but manifesting as a double-edged sword. ⋯ More attention should be paid to autophagy of hepatic macrophages in liver diseases. In this review, we focus on the regulatory role of hepatic macrophages' autophagy in a variety of liver diseases; especially on the upstream regulator of polarization and inflammasomes activation of the hepatic macrophages. We believe that the autophagy of hepatic macrophages can become a potential therapeutic target for management of liver diseases.