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With their high prevalence and predisposition to recurrence, urinary tract infections are important contributors to antibiotic prescription worldwide. Studies involving alternative urinary tract infections treatments emerged as a priority in the last years, developing as a response to rapid global dissemination of multi-drug resistant uropathogens....
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As the third most frequently diagnosed cancer through the worldwide, colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth leading cause and account for around 8% of all cancer-related death. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a complex metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycemia and inflammation due to deficiency in insulin secretion or dysregulation of the ...
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Thrombophilia is a blood coagulation disorder, in which blood has an increased tendency to clot, with both arterial and venous localization, being responsible for multiple manifestations: secondary arterial hypertension, stroke, acute pancreatitis or intracardiac masses. We are presenting the case of a 21-year-old male patient, hypertensive, known ...
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Takotsubo syndrome occurs in 1-2% of patients admitted in the emergency department with suspicion of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), over 90% being postmenopause women. Psycho-emotional or physical stress is the main trigger that causes the release of catecholamines, with an important role in the pathophysiology of Takotsubo car...
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The term “rhabdomyolysis” defines a clinical and biological syndrome, potentially life-threatening, that occurs after the lysis of skeletal striated muscle fibers whose contents are released into the general circulation. The development of rhabdomyolysis can be associated with a wide variety of diseases, injuries, drugs, toxins and various viral in...
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Congenital aortic bicuspid valve can evolve rapidly and at an early age to a severe aortic disease with significant stenosis and regurgitation. Therefore, cardiovascular surgery with mechanical aortic prosthesis implant is the only therapeutic solution. Despite a successful surgical procedure, complications can be numerous, especially post-operativ...
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Background and aim. Modern society is experiencing an accelerated increase in the number of elderly people, to the detriment of children and young adults, in the context of declining birth rates, high adult mortality and increasing life expectancy due to advances in medicine. Cardiovascular diseases are becoming more common in the general populatio...
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Background and aim. Noncardiac chest pain (NCCP) is a medical condition described as acute, recurrent, or chronic chest pain, that is difficult to distinguish from ischemic heart pain, when the cardiac source has been excluded. Noncardiac chest pain represents a challenging clinical situation in gastroenterology practice, requiring sometimes a high...
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Type 2 diabetic nephropathy may be the consequence of some non-diabetic form of renal disease, unlike type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) of long duration (≥10 years) in which severe proteinuria is always related to a well -defined pattern of diabetic nephropathy. The clinical manifestations of diabetic nephropathy are similar in type 1 and type 2 diabet...
