Background: Persistent symptoms after acute pulmonary embolism (PE) are frequent, while access to advanced chronic thromboembolic disease work-up is limited. Three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) provides a direct ...

Introduction: The gut microbiome plays a key role in the regulation of human appetite and energy balance through effects on satiety hormones and metabolic pathways. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an emerging ...

Introduction. Replantation of the first digit is one of the most complex and functionally significant procedures in hand microsurgery, due to its essential role in thumb opposition, grasp, and overall upper limb performance. ...

Introduction. Medical procedures involving punctures require practical training for outmost effectiveness and low risks. Therefore, a project with the purpose of training medical students was developed constructing 4 ...

Introduction. Arteriovenous malformations (AVM) are part of the group of cerebral vascular malformations that represent congenital defects of the circulatory system formed by a cluster of blood vessels through which ...

Background. Prolonged antibiotic therapy remains common, despite shorter guideline durations. Overexposure to antibiotics has reported negative impacts in patients, such as an increase in resistant, invasive fungal ...

Introduction. Cutaneous malignant melanoma exhibits marked heterogeneity in clinical behaviour and histopathologic appearance. Although tumour thickness, Clark level, and invasive growth patterns remain key prognostic ...

Introduction. Delegates of the same species – Homo Sapiens, males and females present strong contrasts which concern cognition, passions, goals and lifestyle. These differences are beyond the two completely unsimilar ...

Introduction. PAX5 is a transcription factor essential for B-cell lineage differentiation, but recent studies suggest its involvement in other types of neoplasms, including breast carcinoma. Understanding PAX5 expression ...

Introduction: Abdominal aortic kinking syndrome is a rare congenital malformation characterized by angulation of the abdominal aorta (AA), which, depending on the degree of inflection, can alter the origin and trajectory ...