Real blood vessels from a person who donated their body for artistic/scientific display purposes

How did they do this?They injected a plastinating agent into the blood, hardening the vessels, and then dissolved the body in a special acid solution, leaving behind only the blood vessel structures. Plastination is a technique of body tissue preservation with a great variety in its processes and development which is originally introduced to the […]

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The kiss of death: a severe allergic reaction to a shellfish induced by a good-night kiss.

REPORT OF A CASE A 20-year-old woman presented to an emergency department of a Mayo Clinic-affiliated hospital with sudden onset of lip angioedema, throat swelling, diffuse flushing, urticaria, abdominal cramps, nausea, wheezing, severe dyspnea, and hypotension (noninvasive blood pressure level of 80/50 mm Hg) that developed immediately after kissing her boyfriend. Intramuscular diphenhydramine and methylprednisolone, […]

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