Heated tobacco products release nicotine without burning with an electronically controlled heating system. 56-year-old male patient admitted sudden onset of chest pain and shortness breath. He had been using a heated product (I quit ordinary smoking, IQOS) for 2.5 years. Thoracic computed tomography scan revealed pleural-based atelectasis fibroatelectatic changes in the lower lobe right lung, p...

The term "hyaline degeneration ", first employed by von Recklinghausen (1883), denotes a physical state rather than a chemical composition. " Hyalin" includes a heterogenous group of substances which share the properties of being translucent, refractile, and structureless (Gk, hyalos-glass). They stain readily with acid dyes, are resistant to strong acids and alkalis, and are all of a protein n...

introduction: indian childhood cirrhosis is a chronic liver disease usually seen in paediatric age group and is unique to the indian subcontinent. the definitive causative factor for the disease is not found till now but excess copper ingestion has been associated with it.case presentation: an indian origin one and half year old premorbidly normal male child presented with history of gradual di...

In normally fertilized eggs the development of the aster is attributed to a substance carried into the egg by the spermatozoon. The aster first makes its appearance in the form of diminutive radiations surrounding the neck-piece of the spermatozoon within a few minutes after it has entered the egg. The writer 1 has shown that the formation of the radiations is accompanied by a jellying of the c...

background nephrotoxicity is characterized and scored by many parameters such as vacuolization, dilatation, hyaline cast, debris or degeneration in injured renal tissue. in this short report, we attempt to find, the most correlated parameters with kidney tissue pathology damage score (pds) in cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity. method a total of 207 normal and toxic rats’ kidney tissue (induced b...