In contrast to other internal organs, pulmonary arterial hypoperfusion does not always show ischemic changes in the lung parenchyma. Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE)-related lung injury is extremely rare except in the case of pulmonary infarctions, in which PTE occasionally causes necrosis of the parenchyma. We describe the case of an 86-year-old woman who presented with respiratory failure and ...

Hypertension is a major factor causing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, heart failure, stroke, and kidney failure. Polyherbal preparations containing garlic (Aliium sativum), temu ireng (Curcumae aeruginosae) cardamom (Amomi fructus) have been widely used to treat hypertension. Despite in community, its safety has not evaluated. This study aimed evaluate the single dose oral of polyherba...

A determinação qualitativa e quantitativa de carotenóides pode fornecer diferentes e importantes informações sobre os organismos que os contêm. Na análise de pigmentos por HPLC diversos detectores podem ser utilizados, como diode array (DAD) e eletroquímico (ED). O presente trabalho tem como objetivo desenvolver um método por HPLC utilizando uma coluna C 30 para a identificação e quantificação ...

Activation of cardiac sympathetic nerves is recognized as a triggering factor for cardiac arrhythmias. However, the mechanisms involved have only been speculated. Because evidence from studies in vitro has established a relation between catecholamines, delayed afterdepolarizations (DAD), and triggered rhythms, it seemed possible that in vivo adrenergic activation also might lead to the developm...

OBJECTIVE Pressure ulcer development is a quality of care indicator, as pressure ulcers are potentially preventable. Yet pressure ulcer is a leading cause of morbidity, discomfort and additional healthcare costs for inpatients. Methods are lacking for accurate surveillance of pressure ulcer in hospitals to track occurrences and evaluate care improvement strategies. The main study aim was to val...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a pervasive problem and a popular subject of academic assessment. The ability to take advantage of existing data, such as administrative databases, to study obesity is appealing. The objective of our study was to assess the validity of obesity coding in an administrative database and compare the association between obesity and outcomes in an administrative database versus ...

Anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA5) antibodies are specific indicators of patients with dermatomyositis, particularly clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM). CADM is occasionally accompanied by fatal, treatment-resistant, rapidly-progressive interstitial lung disease (RP-ILD). All previous reports showed that histopathological findings in RP-ILD with anti-MDA5 antibody-...

DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank International Nucleotide Sequence Database is still increasing, keeping doubling time only slightly longer than one year for the last these years. This situation affects the increase of DDBJ Amino acid sequence Database (DAD) [4], which is made from translation of nucleotide sequences in CDS regions annotated in DDBJ [3], and makes computation time for homology search of DAD l...