Angioplasty in the treatment of median arcuate ligament compression syndrome combined with splenic aneurysm: A case report

Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS) is characterized by clinical manifestations resulting from the direct compression of the celiac trunk by the median arcuate ligament.Symptoms typically include postprandial abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss.The patient, a 69-year-old female, presented with complaints of coughing, abdominal pai

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Surgery, social responsibility, and the COVID-19 pandemic

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation on March 11, 2020.A state of national emergency was announced for New Zealand on March 25, 2020 and continues currently.As of May 30, 2020, COVID-19 has been confirmed in 213 countries with over 6,000,000 cases and 350,000 deaths worldwide.It has ove

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Silencing of PARP2 Blocks Autophagic Degradation

Poly(ADP-Ribose) polymerases (PARPs) are enzymes that metabolize NAD+.PARP1 and PARP10 Hair color brush comb were previously implicated in the regulation of autophagy.Here we showed that cytosolic electron-dense particles appear in the cytoplasm of C2C12 myoblasts in which PARP2 is silenced by shRNA.The cytosolic electron-dense bodies resemble auto

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