REVIEW: LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND: CENTRALISATION, AUTONOMY AND CONTROL BY COLIN CORPUS, MARK ROBERTS, RACHEL WALL

Review: Local Government in England: Centralisation, Autonomy and Control by Colin Corpus, Mark Roberts, Rachel Wall

Local Government in England: Centralisation, Autonomy and Control is a serious book and an important contribution to the scholarship around local government.It opens however, with a pleasingly Joint Support comic tableau as academics from England, Portugal and Poland bicker amiably at a conference and on Twitter about whose country is really the mo

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Simultaneous surgical repair of a cardiac myxoma causing left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and a ventricular septal defect in a small dog

Background: Cardiac myxomas are benign tumors that can occur in any heart chamber or valve.They are extremely rare in dogs.We present a novel case involving a cardiac myxoma in the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) and a ventricular septal defect (VSD) in a small dog.Case Description: A female miniature dachshund (age, 7 months; weight, 2.88 kg

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Anecdotal Response to Amphotericin in a Patient with Probable Susac Syndrome: Implications in the Pathogenesis

Susac syndrome is a rare, probably immune-mediated endotheliopathy presenting with encephalopathy, sensorineural hearing loss and retinal arterial occlusions.A 33-year-old female with Susac syndrome BACKPACK was worsening despite high-dose steroids so a brain biopsy was performed which suggested a possible fungal infection.Treatment with amphoteric

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