Abstract Infections with Mycobacterium microti, a member of the M. tuberculosis complex, have been increasingly reported in humans and domestic free-ranging wild animals. At postmortem examination, infected animals may display histopathologic lesions indistinguishable from those caused by bovis or caprae, potentially leading to misidentification bovine tuberculosis. We report 3 cases microti in...

Background: An infected aortic aneurysm (IAA) is a rare and life-threatening disease. The aim of this study to elucidate mid-term outcomes IAA, incorporating patch angioplasty with bovine pericardium. Materials Methods: Between June 2011 August 2020, eight patients (one woman, seven men) aneurysms the thoracic abdominal aorta were treated surgically. Results: There was no surgical/hospital deat...

Nutcracker syndrome is an extrinsic compression of the left renal vein by superior mesenteric artery anteriorly and aorta posteriorly resulting in hallmark manifestations hematuria, proteinuria, flank/pelvic pain. This case illustrates a patient with history flank pain intermittent gross hematuria every 2 weeks. The denies any pelvic pain, gastrointestinal or lower extremity symptoms. Urinalysi...

BACKGROUND Calcification is the most frequent cause of clinical failure of bioprosthetic tissues fabricated from GA-fixed porcine valves or bovine pericardium. A multi-factorial approach using different mechanisms was recently developed to reduce the calcification of bioprosthetic tissues. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the synchronized synergism of using L-arginine and NaBH(4...

A male child aged 4 years and 5 months, born in Salvador, Bahia. The patient was diagnosed with a complex heart disease with univentricular physiology with following features: main ventricle: the left ventricle; significant pulmonary valve and subvalvar stenosis, partial anomalous connection of right superior pulmonary veins to the superior vena cava, and a wide ostium-secundum-type interatrial...