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A Case Report: Isolated Pontine Lesion in Hypertensive of a Pregnant Patient with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinical condition characterised by headache, visual disturbances, seizures, and confusion…

Mesenteric Panniculitis in a Patient with Homozygous Factor V Leiden Gene Mutation: A Case and Literature to Review

Mesenteric panniculitis was first introduced by Jura in 1924,1 who termed it retractile mesenteritis. Since then, it has also been called sclerosing…

Breast Cancer Immunotherapy: From Biology to Current Clinical Applications

The complexity behind the treatment of breast cancer arises, in part, from the presence of biologically distinct subtypes…

Managing Pemphigoid Gestationis

Pemphigoid gestationis (PG) is a rare pruritic autoimmune blistering skin disease associated with pregnancy and is classified as a pregnancy-specific…

Novel Blood Test to Predict Liver Cancer

Novel Blood Test to Predict Liver Cancer

HEPATOCELLULAR carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver cancer and is most prevalent in those with chronic liver diseases such as cirrhosis

‘Memory’ Natural Killer Cells Involved in Hepatitis B Virus Immune Response

‘Memory’ Natural Killer Cells Involved in Hepatitis B Virus Immune Response

HEPATITIS B virus (HBV) vaccinations protect through immunological memory, i.e. the vaccine ‘trains’ the immune system…

Pulmonary Lipoma in an Atypical Location of the Pulmonary Fissure, Extirpated by Uniportal VATS – Case Report and Review of Literature

Lipomas are the most common benign tumour in adults and can manifest in all parts of the body. Although they are of high frequency, intrathoracic…

Are Undersized Airways the Cause of COPD in Nonsmokers?

Are Undersized Airways the Cause of COPD in Nonsmokers?

ONE IN FOUR patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have never smoked and the reasons behind this have long evaded researchers

Immunity to Respiratory Viruses by Targeting Killer T Cells

Immunity to Respiratory Viruses by Targeting Killer T Cells

COVID-19 has been shown to significantly affect the lungs. To understand how the immune cells of the lung respond to viral infection, researchers…

EMJ Nephrology 8 [Supplement 2] 2020

Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a disease process characterised by necrosis and inflammatory damage to the…