Deep Venous Thrombosis with Pulmonary Embolism Related to IVIg Treatment: A Case Report and Literature Review by Michael T. Flannery, Deborah Humphrey

“…While venous events occurred less commonly they were associated with traditional risk factors and occurred later, typically, 1–7 days following infusion of IVIg. …”
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Primary Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma: A Rare Case by Anastasios Katsourakis, George Noussios, Iosif Hadjis, Neofitos Evangelou, Efthimios Chatzitheoklitos

“…Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) of the small intestine is an extremely rare condition. It occurs most commonly in the extremities and the trunk. We report a case of a 67-year-old woman who admitted with fever, myalgia, and altered status. …”
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Coincidence Point Results on Relation Theoretic Fw,Rg-Contractions and Applications by Muhammad Aslam, Hassen Aydi, Samina Batul, Amna Naz

“…Further, using an additional condition of weakly compatible mappings, a common fixed-point theorem and a fixed-point result are proved for Fw,Rg-contractions in metric spaces equipped with a transitive binary relation. …”
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THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN RESOURCES CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT by Yu. A. Zinnurova, E. M. Shironina

“…Human resources capacity in research is considered through the identification of HR capacity and labor potential by identifying common features or differentiating the concepts of HR capacity and labor potential. …”
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Infectious Keratitis: Secreted Bacterial Proteins That Mediate Corneal Damage by Mary E. Marquart, Richard J. O'Callaghan

“…Ocular bacterial infections are universally treated with antibiotics, which can eliminate the organism but cannot reverse the damage caused by bacterial products already present. The three very common causes of bacterial keratitis—Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae—all produce proteins that directly or indirectly cause damage to the cornea that can result in reduced vision despite antibiotic treatment. …”
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Secondary Pulmonary Hypertension and Right-Sided Heart Failure at Presentation in Grave’s Disease by Swapnil Panjabrao Ganeshpure, Gaurang Nandkishor Vaidya, Vipul Gattani

“…Because of her normal left ventricular function and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, the most probable site of etiology seemed to be the pulmonary vasculature. All the common possible secondary causes of PAH were ruled out, but during the investigations, she was found to have elevated thyroid function tests compatible with the diagnosis of Grave’s disease. …”
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Thromboelastometric Profiles of Horses Affected by Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhages by Alessia Giordano, Cecilia Meazza, Marco Salvadori, Saverio Paltrinieri

“…Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) commonly occurs in race horses. Thromboelastometry (TEM) investigates the whole hemostatic process by evaluating the viscoelastic properties of the blood clot from its formation to fibrinolysis. …”
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University of Florida Potato Variety Trials Spotlight: Elkton by Mario H. M. L. Andrade, Lincoln Zotarelli, Douglas Gergela, Kathleen Haynes

“…In these trials, ‘Elkton’ demonstrated resistance to internal heat necrosis and hollow heart, which are common tuber physiological disorders under high temperature growing conditions. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/hs1237 This is a minor revision. …”
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Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis Associated with Autoimmune Disease: Pathogenesis and Treatment by Yan Cao, Wensong Zhang, Jie Wu, Hong Zhang, Hongyan Zhou

“…PUK may have a connection to systemic conditions, such as long-standing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Wegener granulomatosis (WG), relapsing polychondritis, classic polyarteritis nodosa and its variants, microscopic polyangiitis, and Churg-Strauss syndrome. However, the most common connection is with RA, which is also the focus of this review. …”
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Unusual Relapse of Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma at Site of Lumbar Puncture by Zartaj Ahmed, Ramesh K. Ramanathan, Sunil Ram, James Newell, Maqbool Halepota

“…Local relapse of this disease is common, but extracranial or subcutaneous metastasis is rare with only a few cases being reported in literature. …”
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Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma with Level IV Thrombus: Contemporary Management with Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Targeted Therapy by Abhishek Bhat, Bruno Nahar, Vivek Venkatramani, Indraneel Banerjee, Oleksandr N. Kryvenko, Dipen J. Parekh

“…Renal cell carcinoma, particularly the most common clear cell type, is one of the most aggressive of urological cancers with significant risk of metastatic spread. …”
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Tissue Modeling and Analyzing with Finite Element Method: A Review for Cranium Brain Imaging by Xianfang Yue, Li Wang, Ruonan Wang

“…By introducing several common methods for constructing a 3D model of cranial cavity, this paper carries out systematically the research on the influence law of cranial cavity deformation. …”
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Insights into the Roles of B Cells in Patients with Sepsis by Xijie Dong, Hao Tu, Shuang Qin, Xiangjun Bai, Fan Yang, Zhanfei Li

“…Sepsis is a life-threatening yet common disease, still posing high mortality worldwide. …”
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THE EU’S ALTERNATIVE ROUTES TO ESCAPE THE JOINT DECISION TRAP: AN ASSESSMENT IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE 2015 REFUGEE CRISIS by Elif Cemre Beşgür

“…Based on this theoretical premise, the article assesses whether exit mechanisms are adequate in resolving the deficiencies of the Common European Asylum System or not. The article argues that exit mechanisms only address the deficiencies to a limited extent. …”
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A New Kind of Shift Operators for Infinite Circular and Spherical Wells by Guo-Hua Sun, K. D. Launey, T. Dytrych, Shi-Hai Dong, J. P. Draayer

“…These shift operators depend on all spatial variables of quantum systems and connect some eigenstates of confined systems of different radii R sharing energy levels with a common eigenvalue. In circular well, the momentum operators P±=Px±iPy play the role of shift operators. …”
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Intestinal Radiation-Induced Stricture Favours Small Bowel Obstruction by Phytobezoar: Report of a Case by Alessandra Quercioli, Franco Dallegri, Luciano Ottonello, Fabrizio Montecucco, Giacomo Borgonovo

“…Phytobezoar is the most common type of bezoar. It is a concretion of undigestible fibers derived from ingested vegetables and fruits. …”
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Comparative Genomics Reveals Pathogenicity-Related Loci in Shewanella algae by Jui-Hsing Wang, Guo-Cheng He, Yao-Ting Huang, Po-Yu Liu

“…In this study, we aim to determine the occurrence of common virulence genes in S. algae using whole-genome sequence and comparative genomic analysis. …”
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Hepatic Portal Venous Gas: A Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Approach to Management by Saleh Alqahtani, Carla S Coffin, Kelly Burak, Fred Chen, John MacGregor, Paul Beck

“…BACKGROUND: Hepatic portal venous gas (HPVG) is a rare condition that occurs when intraluminal gas and/or gas produced by intestinal bacteria enters the portal venous circulation. The most common precipitating factors include ischemia, intra-abdominal abscesses and inflammatory bowel disease. …”
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Successful Use of Posaconazole to Treat Invasive Cutaneous Fungal Infection in a Liver Transplant Patient on Sirolimus by Randah Dahlan, Ameen Patel, Shariq Haider

“…Fungi are an important and common cause of cutaneous infections affecting solid organ transplant recipients. …”
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Unilateral Thalamic Venous Infarction in an Infant: A Rare Presentation of Bilateral Deep Cerebral Venous Thrombosis by Katherine Chung, Umar Tariq, Rabia M. Khan, Thomas P. Nickles, Joseph H. Lock

“…Of the two patterns, DCVT is less commonly observed, although it often results in greater morbidity and mortality due to involvement of the deep gray nuclei. …”
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