Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: May 24
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The research roundup provides an overview of the past week’s research from Mayo Clinic Laboratories consultants, including featured abstracts and a complete list of published studies and reviews.
Featured Abstract
Monoclonal and oligoclonal anti-Platelet Factor 4 antibodies mediate VITT.
COVID-19 vaccines have been associated with a rare life-threatening thrombotic and thrombocytopenic adverse reaction, vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) characterized by high levels of platelet-activating anti-platelet factor 4 (PF4) antibodies.
Published to PubMed This Week
- A novel substitution of proline (P32L) destabilises β2-microglobulin inducing hereditary systemic amyloidosis.
Amyloid - Effect of trapeziectomy on carpal stability.
Hand - Differential expansion and outcomes of ascending and descending degenerative thoracic aortic aneurysms.
The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery - Loss of dimethylated H3K27 (H3K27me2) expression is not a specific marker of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST): An immunohistochemical study of 137 cases, with emphasis on MPNST and melanocytic tumors.
Annals of diagnostic pathology - Rescuing cancer immunity by plasma exchange in metastatic melanoma (ReCIPE-M1): protocol for a single-institution, open-label safety trial of plasma exchange to clear sPD-L1 for immunotherapy.
BMJ open - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) helps differentiate renal cell carcinoma with sarcomatoid differentiation from renal cell carcinoma without sarcomatoid differentiation
Abdominal radiology - MR elastography in primary sclerosing cholangitis: a pictorial review.
Abdominal radiology - Adenylate kinase 5 (AK5) autoimmune encephalitis: Clinical presentations and outcomes in three new patients.
Journal of neuroimmunology - Neuronal intermediate filament paraneoplastic autoimmunity complicating avelumab therapy of Merkel cell carcinoma.
Journal of neuroimmunology - MR elastography as a biomarker for prediction of early and late recurrence in HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma patients before hepatectomy.
European journal of radiology
