Pheochromocytoma in a Postpartum Patient With Cardiogenic Shock From Epicardial Vasospasm Necessitating Mechanical Circulatory Support

A 25-year-old woman presented with pheochromocytoma crisis and cardiogenic shock.Her 2 Dining Room Chairs ejection fraction was severely reduced at 10%, and she needed venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) for hemodynamic support.Coronary angiography demonstrated diffuse coronary vasospasm as the underlying mechanism for her ca

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Contextualizing Landscape-Scale Forest Cover Loss in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 2000 and 2015

Shifting cultivation has been shown to be the HSI Ignitor primary cause of land use change in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).Traditionally, forested and fallow land are rotated in a slash and burn cycle that has created an agricultural mosaic, including secondary forest, known as the rural complex.This study investigates the land use contex

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Unveiling an odd fate after death: The isolated Eneolithic cranium discovered in the Marcel Loubens Cave (Bologna, Northern Italy).

An isolated human cranium, dated to the early Eneolithic period, was discovered in 2015 at the top of a vertical shaft in the natural Marcel Loubens gypsum Cave (Bologna area, northern Italy).No other anthropological or archaeological remains were found inside the cave.In other caves of the same area anthropic and funerary use are attested from pre

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