HEROIN-INDUCED LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY: CHASING THE IMAGING FINDINGS

Heroin-induced leukoencephalopathy: Chasing the imaging findings

We present a case hindigyanvishv.com of a 29-year-old male who was brought into the hospital due to unresponsiveness and found to have heroin inhalational leukoencephalopathy (HLE).HLE is one component of a broad spectrum of opioid encephalopathies that is associated with heroin inhalation and other opioids.There is considerable overlap of HLE with

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Loss of Mfn1 but not Mfn2 enhances adipogenesis.

ObjectiveA biallelic missense mutation in mitofusin 2 (MFN2) causes multiple symmetric lipomatosis and partial lipodystrophy, implicating disruption of mitochondrial fusion or interaction with other organelles in adipocyte differentiation, growth and/or survival.In this study, we aimed to document the impact of loss of mitofusin 1 (Mfn1) or 2 (Mfn2

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Developing best practice principles for the provision of programs and services to people transitioning from custody to the community: study protocol for a modified Delphi consensus exercise

Introduction There is a lack of standard nomenclature and a limited understanding of programmes and services delivered to people in prisons as they transition into the community to support their integration and reduce reoffending related risk factors.The aim of this paper is to outline the protocol for a modified Delphi study designed to develop ex

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