Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5769/1510104
Ventricular Conduction Disorders in Pediatrics: Bundle Branch Blocks- Update
Garcia Cuesta A, Villanueva García A, Uberos Fernández J and Blanca Jover E
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: January 16, 2023
The interruption of the cardiac conduction system that occurs in the ventricles, anatomically after the electrical impulse leaves the atrioventricular node, generates bundle branch block. With a particular electrocardiographic morphology, specific measurable and revealing of its topography, it may be related to underlying cardiac pathology, although it also exists in hearts without pathology. Compared to adults, there are more frequent patterns of presentation in the paediatric age, such as righ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5769/1510103
Hip Dysplasia in Congenital Zika Syndrome: A 5 Year Follow- Up
Andréa F Magalhães iD , Carla ACT Caldas iD and Vinícius I de Lucca
Article Type: Original Research | First Published: January 08, 2023
Children with Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) usually have severe neurological impairment with extrapyramidal involvement mainly spastic quadriplegia, so we believe they would have the same spasticity-related abnormalities, such as high prevalence of hip subluxation, as children with other aetiologies of cerebral palsy (CP). The aim of this study was to investigate hip status and describe the radiographic measures, Reimer’s migration percentage (MP) and acetabular index (AI) in infants diagnose...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-3885/1710077
Efficacy of Platelet Rich Plasma in Athletes with Sesamoid Fractures: A Case Series
Zainab Shirazi, MD and Kristina Quirolgico, MD
Article Type: Case Series | First Published: January 06, 2023
Sesamoid fractures result in significant pain and poor biomechanics, which can ultimately hinder athletic performance and delay return to sport. Current literature describes the utility of platelet rich plasma (PRP) in treating various musculoskeletal injuries, but there is minimal data regarding its application in sesamoid pathology. Methods: We present three cases of sesamoid fracture in young adult athletes who were treated with PRP, administered via an ultrasound-guided dorsal injection appr...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3674/1510152
Constrictive Cardiomyopathy Secondary to Calcified Pericardium
Vinaya Sermadevi, MD and Connor S Shaw, DO
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: January 20, 2023
Calcification of the pericardium due to recurrent inflammation is a rare condition which can lead to severe restrictive cardiomyopathy. This case demonstrates severe circumferential pericardial calcification leading to cardiogenic shock and death. It is proposed that the patient’s history of repeat cardiac interventions, including cardiac ablation, and open valve repair procedures precipitated this....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3674/1510151
Association of the Meteorological Parameters and Epileptic Seizures
Levent Sahin and Ali Gur
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: January 11, 2023
Climate changes may be among the triggering factors in predicting epileptic seizures. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effects of changes in weather conditions and phases of the moon on epileptic seizures in epilepsy patients. This is a dual-center, cross- sectional, observational study. The patients’ age, sex, medications, and the hours of seizures were recorded. Meteorological data such as daily average temperature, atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, wind speed, and moon cyc...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5696/1410088
Prevalence and Causes of Deferrals among Repeat Blood Donors in Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Irene A Mteta, Clara Chamba, Neema Budodi and Ahlam Nasser
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: January 25, 2023
A well-functioning blood transfusion service is essential for effective health-care delivery. Despite the fact that blood transfusions can save lives, the role of blood transfusion services is to assure the supply of safe blood from healthy donors. Although having a sufficient supply of blood is critical in blood transfusion, the caveat is that the collection and transfusion protocol must not put both the receiver and the donor in danger....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3308.1510043
Soybean, Gly m 4, and Birch Pollen Allergy
Keiji Sugiura, MD, PhD and Mariko Sugiura, MD, PhD
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: January 13, 2023
Several types of soy foods are consumed worldwide. Soybean products have shown some potential benefits for health, but soy allergy can cause life-threatening allergic reactions. Pollens of birch trees can be associated with food allergy-related disease such as pollen/food allergy syndrome. Birch pollen/food oral allergy syndrome is mainly caused by the immunological cross-reaction between pathogenesis-related protein (PR)-10 family such as Gly m 4 and the Rosaceae family....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-4630/1410153
Gender Equality in High-Quality Anesthesiology Research – A Descriptive Bibliometric Study on Scientific Authorships
Malte L Zipper, Doris Klingelhöfer, David A Groneberg and Michael HK Bendels
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: December 29, 2022
As in other scientific disciplines, medicine has undergone a huge movement in sex distribution due to an increasing number of women entering the field. The effects of this shift on gender equality in anesthesiology research are discussed in this study. Authorships in medical publications provide information of the grade of the author within the medical discipline. As a result, they can be used as indicators for integration within medical research....