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Severe venous thromboembolism in a young man with Klinefelter’s syndrome and heterozygosis for both G20210A prothrombin and factor V Leiden mutations.
Klinefelter's syndrome is the most common cause of primary testicular failure, resulting in impairment of both spermatogenesis and testosterone production. It is a chromosomal disorder characterized by small, firm testes, azoospermia, gynecomastia, varying degrees of eunuchoidism and testosterone deficiency with elevated gonadotropin plasma levels. In Klinefelter's syndrome there is an increase of certain systemic diseases including venous thromboembolism. An increased thromboembolic risk in hypogonadic men has been explained with hypofibrinolysis due to androgen deficiency. Only two cases have been reported about the association between Klinefelter's syndrome and well-known congenital or acquired thrombophilias. We report the case of a 39-year-old patient with Klinefelter's syndrome who underwent severe deep venous thrombosis with pulmonary embolism, in the absence of any circumstantial triggering event. Further examinations also showed a double heterozygosis for G20210A prothrombin and factor V Leiden mutations. This case suggests that the increased thromboembolic risk, reported in Klinefelter's syndrome, can be worsened by the co-existence of one or more well-known thrombophilic conditions, as shown by the relatively young age of the patient. More studies are needed to clearly understand the pathogenesis of venous thromboembolism in males affected by Klinefelter's syndrome
"Trattamento con Fattore VIIA Ricombinante (rFVIIA) ad alte dosi in emofilici con inibitore: Studio randomizzato crossover."
The prevalence of hepatitis C virus types inpatients of the same geographic area, according to the source of infection andliver disease
Effect of warfarin treatment on thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) activation and TAFI-mediated inhibition of fibrinolysis
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Plasma plasminogen activator inhibitor-I is associated with plasma leptin irrespective of body mass index, body fat mass, and plasma insulin and metabolic parameters in premenopausal women.
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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