... a laparotomy. Laparotomy adds substantial surgical
trauma in patients who are already very sick. On the
contrary, the risk of potential peritoneal contamination
seems to be negligible. Laparotomy ... about the patient. YY
participated in the patient follow-up. A participated in the study design
and coordination. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Zanettini et al [6], a 69-year-old man taking pergolide
underwent mitral-valve and aortic-valve replacement for
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has been assumed that MMP2 promotes RA by participating
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(15.38%) were prescribed a hypnotic.
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phatase that negatively regulates several intracellular signaling
pathways, including the calcium pathway, through dephos-
phorylation of signaling intermediates, ... cells, epratuzumab serum levels (analyzed
by sponsor), and human anti-human (epratuzumab) antibody
titers (HAHA; analyzed by sponsor).
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10-year period: a comparison of early and late manifestations
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patient with chronic lymphocytic ... 20% of patients with a known m alignancy are
found to have pericardial involvement upon autopsy
[10]. However, tamponade as an initial manifestation
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by CLL.
The patient was seen in follow-up at one year and has
remained free from symptomatic disease without any
chem other apy. Echocardiography demonstrated that her
pericardial effusion had ... assump-
tion that the tamponade was most likely due to a viral
cause, although Coxsackie and adenoviral titers were
negative. It was the late appearance of circulating immu-
noblas...
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tidylinositol, liberating inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (InsP
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and diacylglycerol. Although cAMP and InsP
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vertebrate ... pathway may be implicated in transduction of
olfactory signals in lepidoptera. Such a hypothesis has
already been proposed for insects in a variety of species
using kinetics based...