ACUTE PARAPLEGIA AS A PRESENTATION OF ACUTE AORTIC OCCLUSION

Acute paraplegia as a presentation of acute aortic occlusion

Acute aortic occlusion is a rare life-threatening event.We Jewelry present a case of a heavy smoking, 54-year-old man who was admitted in the emergency room with sudden paraplegia, associated to severe lower back and lower limbs pain.A neurologic examination showed paralysis of the lower limbs and cold lower extremities.The pedal and femoral pulses

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Gut dysbiosis was inevitable, but tolerance was not: temporal responses of the murine microbiota that maintain its capacity for butyrate production correlate with sustained antinociception to chronic morphine

The therapeutic benefits of opioids are compromised by the development of analgesic tolerance, which necessitates higher dosing for pain management thereby increasing the liability for drug dependence and addiction.Rodent models indicate opposing roles of the gut microbiota CINNAMON GUM in tolerance: morphine-induced gut dysbiosis exacerbates toler

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