WHEN Greg Hutton went to his dentist to have a tooth removed, he never imagined that it could nearly end his life – not once, ...

BACKGROUND: Despite the high morbidity and mortality of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), treatment ...

Here, the authors target the spleen to reduce acute heart injury ... contribute to heart damage after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Here, the authors show that S100A12 promotes NETs formation ...

The spleen was enlarged ... The appearance of the necrotic tissue is somewhat similar to that of an infarct of the cortex, except that it is apt to be yellow brown or yellow green, with the ...

His medical history was notable of splenectomy after a spleen rupture due to a car accident at the age of 25, a subarachnoidal haemorrhage (SAH) without evidence of cerebral aneurysm at the age of 35 ...

The difference seemed to depend on whether the patient's spleen was removed during surgery, as the spleen plays a critical role in immune function. "It's still hard to attribute causality to the ...

There are two blows to this area that can end a fight. Blows to the liver and to the spleen. The liver sits on the right, protected by the ribs. But hitting the body over or just below this area ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and disease burden worldwide. Macrophages are important components of the internal immune cells, which profoundly affects the internal ...

Gastroschisis is a congenital defect of the abdominal wall involving evisceration of abdominal contents. The incidence of gastroschisis is approximately 1.4 per 10,000 pregnancies and is rarely ...

Your spleen is in the upper left part of your belly. One of its main jobs is to recycle old red blood cells. PV makes the spleen work harder to remove all the extra blood cells. All that extra ...

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The First Hospital of HeBei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050031, Hebei Province, China Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Cardiac Injury Repair Mechanism ...