The advent of organoid cultures has significantly advanced the modeling of the human intestinal epithelium ex vivo. However, intestinal organoids are typically cultivated within a hydrogel as ...

Spleen stiffness measurement (SSM) demonstrated strong predictive accuracy for liver decompensation in patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease (cACLD), with an optimal cutoff of ...

Dry AMD causes diminished vision accompanied by loss of central retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) cells in individuals aged 55 and older. There are no approved vision-improving treatments for dry AMD ...

The Florida Department of Health has suspended the license of Thomas Shaknovsky, DO, who removed a patient's liver instead of his spleen, contributing to his death. An emergency suspension order ...

A Florida surgeon mistakenly removed a man’s liver instead of his spleen, causing him to die on the operating table, a lawyer for the man’s widow alleges. William Bryan, 70, of Muscle Shoals ...

He was admitted to Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital in Miramar Beach over suspected medical problems with his spleen. The Bryan family’s attorney, Joe Zarzaur in Pensacola ...

The epithelium is a type of tissue that covers many different surfaces on the inside and the outside of your body. Epithelial cells are packed tightly together and serve as a barrier between the ...

They visited a local hospital and eventually transferred to Riley and learned why Easton experienced such pain and tummy troubles — Easton had a wandering spleen, a rare condition where the ...

Your heart rate slows, your blood vessels constrict, and your spleen contracts, all reactions that help you save energy when you're low on oxygen. Most people can hold their breath underwater for ...

Your spleen sits under your rib cage in the upper left part of your abdomen toward your back. This organ helps filter your blood, trapping old and damaged red blood cells. It also contains white ...

She is board-certified in internal medicine. The spleen is a small organ inside your left rib cage, located just above the stomach. It contains numerous blood vessels that are responsible for ...