Comparative Effects of Candesartan Versus Enalapril on Apelin, Visfatin, and Lipid Levels in Non-obese Hypertensive Patients by Yaseen K. JUMAAH, Zainab H. FATHI, Jehan A. MOHAMMAD

“…Objective: Apelin and visfatin are adipokines secreted from adipose tissue that play important roles in regulating blood pressure. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the effects of candesartan versus enalapril on apelin, visfatin, and lipid profiles in hypertensive patients. …”
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Emergence in Elderly Patient Undergoing General Anesthesia with Xenon by Maria Sanfilippo, Ahmed Abdelgawwad Wefki Abdelgawwad Shousha, Antonella Paparazzo

“…The patient was monitored by IBP, NIBP, ECG, cardiac frequency, respiratory rate, capnometry, TOF Guard, blood gas analysis, and BIS. For maintenance we administrated oxygen, remifentanil, rocuronium bromide, and xenon gas 60–65%. …”
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Prevalence of Hypertension in Akwa Ibom State, South-South Nigeria: Rural versus Urban Communities Study by Effiong Ekong Akpan, Udeme E. Ekrikpo, Aniema I. A. Udo, Bassey Edet Bassey

“…The rural populace had higher systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial blood pressure than the urban populace (P<0.001, < 0.002, < 0.001, resp.). …”
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Safety and Immunogenicity of Pertussis Vaccine Immunization during Pregnancy: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials by Aidibai Simayi, Liguo Zhu, Hui Jin

“…GMCs were determined with a standardized mean difference (SMD), and the pooled SMD of anti-PT, anti-FHA, and anti-PRN IgG from cord blood were 0.91 (95% CI: 0.58, 1.24), 1.03 (95% CI: (0.70, 1.35)), and 1.55(95% CI: 1.22, 1.88), respectively. …”
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Efficacy of Next-Generation Sequencing in Identifying Genetic Markers for Prostate Cancer Risk by Fahad H. Alaithan, Raghad H. Alaithan, Tauheed Ahmed

“…DNA samples were extracted from blood and tumor tissues, followed by library preparation and sequencing using an Illumina platform. …”
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Non-O1, Non-O139 Vibrio cholerae Bacteremia in an Autoimmune Pancreatitis Patient by Cheng-Jing Gu, Ming-Dong Ding, Da-Ming Zhou, Jie Li, Wen-Qing Yu, Yong-Lin Yang

“…The clinical manifestations of bacteremia were fever and mild digestive symptoms. The blood cultures showed V. cholerae, which was identified as a non-O1, non-O139 serogroup by slide agglutination tests and PCR. …”
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Correlation of Plasma MMP-1 and TIMP-1 Levels and the Colonic Mucosa Expressions in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis by Ying-De Wang, Xiao-Yan Tan, Ke Zhang

“…Colonic mucosal lesions and venous blood samples were collected from 30 patients with UC and 15 normal subjects. …”
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FV Leiden, Prothrombin II, and MTHFR C677T Mutations in Children and Young Adults with Thromboembolic Diseases by Sura O. AL-Dewachi, Wasem Alkafaf, Farah Mudhafar Fattah, Salman Haza, Muna A. Kashmoola

“…Detection of gene polymorphism was done in three steps started by isolation of DNA from the blood samples followed by in vitro polymerase chain reaction amplification then hybridization of amplification products at 45°C. …”
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Short-Term Efficacy of Laparoscopic Treatment for Colorectal Cancer in Patients with Schistosomiasis Japonica by Zhu Yi, Jiang Hong-Gang, Chen Zhi-Heng, Lu Bo-Hao

“…The mean operative time was higher in the LAC group (180 min versus 158 min; P<0.001), while the mean blood loss was similar (95 mL versus 108 mL; P=0.196) between groups. …”
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Chemokine Expression in Human Astrocytes in Response to Shiga Toxin 2 by Naomi Kioka, Koichi Minami, Akira Tamura, Norishige Yoshikawa

“…It has been suggested that Stx-induced damage to human brain endothelial cells, which are essential constituents of the blood-brain barrier, plays a crucial role in the development of the CNS complications. …”
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Tuberculous cardiac tamponade presenting as severe hypoxic hepatitis by Valdes Roberto Bollela, Fernanda Guioti Puga, Rodrigo Carvalho Santana

“…Tuberculosis cardiac tamponade usually does not have an acute clinical presentation and is a rare but life-threatening cause of severe hypoxic hepatitis, which may lead to mal-perfusion secondary to blood stasis in the liver. As soon as the cause of liver hypoxemia is removed there will be a rapid and impressive improvement in the liver damage and function markers.…”
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Multiple Renal Abscesses due to ESBL Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli Causing Acute Pyelonephritis and Bacteremia: A Case Report with a Good Outcome (No... by Abdalla Khalil, Musaad Qurash, Asem Saleh, Rasha Ali, Mohamed Elwakil

“…The patient was admitted, received IV meropenem, and continued to be febrile for three days. His urine and blood culture at ER grew the same ESBL-producing E. coli as in his urine culture from the Endocrine Clinic. …”
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NGS Analysis of Clonality and Minimal Residual Disease in a Patient with Concurrent Richter’s Transformation and CLL/SLL by Shrihari S. Kadkol, Joshua Bland, Ashley Kavanaugh, Hongyu Ni, Vijeyaluxmi Nehru, David Peace

“…However, a small number of tumor cells were still detected in the peripheral blood after R-CHOP therapy. Subsequent allogeneic transplantation was successful in eradicating the tumor clone and achieving deep molecular remission. …”
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Conventional and High-Speed Intravital Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscopy of Microvasculature, Lymphatics, and Leukocyte-Endothelial Interactions by Timothy P. Padera, Brian R. Stoll, Peter T.C. So, Rakesh K. Jain

“…Intravital epifluorescence microscopy has provided powerful insight into gene expression, tissue pH, tissue pO 2 , angiogenesis, blood vessel permeability, leukocyte-endothelial (L-E) interaction, molecular diffusion, convection and binding, and barriers to the delivery of molecular and cellular medicine. …”
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Educational role of nurses in joining the treatment of Systemic Arterial Hypertension: integrative literature review by Yasmin Fernandes Costa, Ocione Cristina de Araújo, Lucas Bruno Matias de Almeida, Selma Maria da Fonseca Viegas

“…High blood pressure (HBP) is characterized as a chronic disease with a high prevalence of deaths worldwide. …”
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Retsmedicinske findestedsundersøgelser by Peter Mygind Leth, Stine Hovvang, Asser Hedegård Thomsen

“…Actions by alcohol or drug intoxicated individuals may resemble a crime scene. Blood stains can arise from natural causes. Suicide by stabbing or shooting may give rise to a suspicious scene, as may deaths during autoerotic procedures and deaths due to hypothermia. …”
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Lactobacillus acidophilus Endocarditis Complicated by Pauci-Immune Necrotizing Glomerulonephritis by Vivian O. Chukwurah, Comfort Takang, Chinelo Uche, David B. Thomas, Waguih El Masry, Hakan R. Toka

“…After four weeks of antibiotic therapy and with blood cultures remaining negative, he was treated with rituximab. …”
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Late-Onset Isolated Corticotrope Deficiency in a Woman with Down Syndrome by Ibtissem Oueslati, Marwa Ben Jemaa, Meriem Yazidi, Fatma Chaker, Melika Chihaoui

“…A 33-year-old woman with Down syndrome was referred to our department for the investigation of low blood pressure. She complained of asthenia, dizziness, and palpitation with arterial hypotension for the past 4 years. …”
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RGD-Human Serum Albumin Conjugates as Efficient Tumor Targeting Probes by Kai Chen, Jin Xie, Xiaoyuan Chen

“…One major drawback, however, is their short blood circulation half-lives, which greatly compromises their targeting efficacy. …”
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Pleural Mesothelial Cells-Induced Monocytes to the Pleural Cavity through the Effect of C3 Lytic Products in Tuberculous Pleural Effusion by Lisha Luo, Juntao Feng, Shuanglinzi Deng, Xinyue Hu, Bingrong Zhao, Wei Tang, Xiaozhao Li

“…In patients with TPE, C3 lysis was more active than peripheral blood in pleural cavity. Tuberculous protein Mpt64 and anaphylatoxin C3a could significantly promote CXCL12 production in human PMCs isolated from TPE. …”
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