A 71-year-old man developed coma with severe respiratory failure, hypotension, and tachycardia induced by the intentional ingestion of quetiapine fumarate extended release (XR) 20 g. At the time, he had been treated for bipolar depression with venlafaxine 75 mg/day, lamotrigine 100 mg/day, pregabalin 75 mg/day, and quetiapine XR 400 mg/day for approximately 1 year. Comorbidities were hypertensi...

INTRODUCTION Myasthenia gravis is a rare neuromuscular disorder associated with a reduction in the availability of acetylcholine receptors at the post-synaptic membranes of skeletal muscles. This is caused by the production of anti-acetylcholine receptor antibodies at the neuromuscular junction due to an autoimmune insult, leading to a compromised neuromuscular transmission. Verapamil can influ...

The death of Professor-Emeritus John Glaister took place on 4 October 1971. He occupied the regius chair of forensic medicine at Glasgow University for thirty-one years. Like his father who held the same chair before him, Professor Glaister was a distinguished figure in the field of forensic medicine, especially in Scotland. But it was an English murder that made him well known to the public at...

leiomyomas are benign tumors that originate from smooth muscle cells. leiomyomas are well known to be the commonest neoplasm arising from the uterus but leiomyomas originating from the scrotum is a rare entity. they originate from the subcutaneous tissue or tunica dartos and can be solitary or multiple. we present a case of solitary scrotal leiomyoma in a 75 years old male who presented with a ...

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We report on the finding of the strongest Hα emission – pseudoequivalent width of 705 Å – known so far in a young, late type dwarf. This object, named as SOri 71, is a substellar candidate member of the 1–8Myr star cluster σOrionis. Due to its overluminous location in color-magnitude diagrams, SOri 71 might be younger than other cluster members, or a binary of similar components. Its mass is in...

Immortalization of primary cells with telomerase is thought to maintain normal phenotypic properties and avoid chromosomal abnormalities and other cancer-associated changes that occur following simian virus 40 tumor antigen (SV40 Tag) induced immortalization. However, we report that the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT)-immortalized SWAN-71 trophoblast cell line has a near pentaplo...