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We report successful treatment of a case of disseminated blastomycosis originating in the right lung, with involvement of the right pleural space, multiple ribs and vertebral bodies, and the pericardium and mitral valve endocarditis. The 22-year-old patient presented with a 13-month history of right lower lobe pneumonia associated with fevers, night sweats, rib pain, and 27-kg weight loss. Pathology examination revealed Blastomyces from multiple biopsies of inflammatory masses in the right thorax. After a 4-week induction with liposomal amphotericin followed by oral itraconazole, the patient had complete resolution of the clinical and laboratory findings of blastomycosis.
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A 33-year-old man in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, with untreated HIV infection had a 74-day course of mpox with multiorgan system involvement and unique clinical findings. In this clinical experience combining 3 novel therapeutic regimens, this patient died from severe mpox in the context of untreated HIV and advanced immunodeficiency.
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Infecções por HIV , Mpox , Masculino , Humanos , Adulto , Infecções por HIV/complicações , Infecções por HIV/tratamento farmacológico , Falha de TratamentoRESUMO
To understand the burgeoning challenges of metastasis, a microchannel of 35 µm diameter, constricted to 7 µm for a distance of 200 µm in a total length of 3 mm, was designed and fabricated using a mask aligner made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to mimic in vivo capillaries. A thin glass cover-slide was mounted on top to monitor the motion of single or aggregated malignant HeLa cells (size 17-30 µm) microscopically through the constricted microchannel at a constant flow rate of 30 µl/h. Quantitative deconvolution of high-speed videographs of a single cell of 30 µm revealed cellular deformation while passing through constriction, having elongation index, average transit velocity and entry time of 2.67, 18 mm/s and 5.1 ms, respectively. Morphological analysis of live and apoptotic cells by dual staining with Acridine Orange/Ethidium Bromide demonstrated retention of a significant viable cell population after exit through the constriction and a viability index of 50% was quantified by dye exclusion assay. The cumulative data for microfluidic parameters, morphology and relevant metastatic MMP2 gene expression efficiency measured by real-time polymerase chain reaction revealed retention of virulence potency that could possibly cause metastasis, would be beneficial in developing futuristic MEMS device for cancer theranostics.
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Sobrevivência Celular/fisiologia , Metástase Neoplásica/patologia , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/patologia , Laranja de Acridina/administração & dosagem , Apoptose/fisiologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Etídio/administração & dosagem , Feminino , Células HeLa , Humanos , Técnicas Analíticas Microfluídicas/métodos , Microfluídica/métodosRESUMO
Diagnosis of Seoul virus-associated hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) cases among United States residents is rare. We describe confirmation of a Seoul virus infection in a 36-year-old scientist who worked with laboratory rats in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but most likely acquired the infection during a trip to Shenyang, China.