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Doctors have long considered the thymus expendable. But could removing it be fatal?
The thymus, a butterfly-shaped organ that sits between our collarbones, has never seemed like a particularly useful appendage—at least in adults. During early childhood, it provides a place for T cells (the T stands for thymus) to mature into immune cells that attack invaders. But during adolescence the organ begins to shrink and mostly stops producing these cells. By adulthood, it’s assumed to be so useless that cardiac surgeons will occasionally remove it just to get easier access to the heart.
But researchers have recently started to question that assumption, and a study published today in
The New England Jo...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 2, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Is your kid actin out? A series of six patients with inherited ARPC1B deficiency and review of the literature
CONCLUSION: ARPC1B deficiency has a variable and heterogeneous clinical spectrum, expanded by these cases to include keloid scars and Epstein-Barr virus chronic hepatitis. A novel deletion in exon 8 is shared by three unrelated families and might be the result of a founder effect.PMID:36708766 | DOI:10.1016/j.jaip.2022.12.045
Source: Clinical Lung Cancer - January 28, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Estefan ía Vásquez-Echeverri Marco Antonio Yamazaki-Nakashimada Edna Venegas Montoya Selma Cecilia Scheffler Mendoza Lina Maria Castano-Jaramillo Edgar Alejandro Medina-Torres Maria Edith Gonz ález-Serrano Melissa Espinosa-Navarro Juan Carlos Bustamant Source Type: research
Penicillin Allergy Testing: An Outpatient Nurse-Driven Program for Patients With Cancer
This article describes the development and implementation of an oncology outpatient nurse-driven PAT program.METHODS: A nurse-driven program, initiated with allergy screening at the first encounter, was designed to identify patients with oncologic diagnoses eligible for PAT. Once verified eligible, patients undergo a three-step testing process (scratch test, intradermal injection, and IV challenge dose) administered by the infusion nurse.FINDINGS: From November 2018 to December 2019, 82 outpatients with reported penicillin allergies were screened; 90% were eligible for PAT, and 97% of patients tested were negative for peni...
Source: Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing - March 19, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Sejal Morjaria Faye Inumerables Dhruvkumar Patel Nina Cohen Susan Seo Susan Posthumus Steven C Martin Anna Kaltsas Shawna Lee Nicole Boucher Erica Fischer-Cartlidge Source Type: research
