Left atrial thrombus mimicking myxoma in a patient with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: Diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas

Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by the development of arteriovenous malformations.The arteriovenous shunts may result in high output heart failure, which predisposes to atrial dilatation and atrial fibrillation.Due to recurrent bleeding from aptamil allerpro epistaxis or the gastrointestin

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Potential of roots and shoots of Napier grass for arresting soil erosion and runoff of mollisols soils of Himalayas

In this study, a soil filled Hydraulic Tilting Flume (HTF) was used as a test plot under simulated rainfall conditions.This flume was filled with mollisols soils (sandy loam in texture) collected from tarai region of Himalayas.The effects of root and shoot characteristics of Napier grass in terms of leaf area index (LAI), shoot length (SL), number

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Tracking the source of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli in the aquatic environment in Shiga, Japan, through whole-genome sequencing

Antibiotic resistance is a severe global problem afflicting the field of public health in recent years.Antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and their antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) can spread into the environment via various sources like hospital wastewater, domestic wastewater, agricultural runoff, and animal feeding operations.However, it is d

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Electricity Consumption and Industrial Outputs in Economic Community of West African States Countries: Evidence from a Panel Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares and Granger Causality

This study examines the influence of electricity consumption on industrial outputs in ECOWAS countries from the year 2000 to 2023.The study uses Panel Dynamic Ordinary Least Square regression analysis to obtain long run estimates among the variables, it also uses a Granger-Causality test (to determine the causal relationship between electricity con

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