Open Access DOI:10.23937/2690-3172/1710014
Language Processing in Arabic Diglossia: Evidence for Memory-Based Automaticity
Rabab Hashem
Article Type: Original Research | First Published: April 14, 2022
Diglossia in Arabic refers to the existence of two distinct varieties: Spoken Arabic (SA), which is used orally in daily communication, and literary Arabic (LA), used in reading, writing, and for formal functions. Similarly, bilinguals often use different languages (L1, L2) for different purposes, so the question presents itself: Is Arabic diglossia a type of bilingualism? Because behavioral and fMRI studies provide contradictory answers, the current paper develops a cognitive account grounded i...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-4630/1410132
Incidence and Risk factors of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting after ENT Surgery
Petros K Yosief, Ghirmay G Beraki, Susanna Mayer, Michael B Mengistu and Eyasu H Tesfamariam
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: March 31, 2022
Ear Nose Throat (ENT) surgery has been the highest risk of postoperative nausea and vomiting. Despite the advancement of the modern anesthetic techniques in the management and understanding of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), the events of nausea and vomiting in ENT surgery still remains a major problem for participants in the postoperative care unit. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the incidence and identify the risk factors of PONV among surgical ENT participants in ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-4630/1410131
Anesthetic Immunomodulation and the Tumor Recurrence: A Narrative Literature Review
Gabriele F Silveira, Isadora AC Fraga, Larissa RM Castro, José Lucas UM Gomes, Marina A Delgado
Article Type: Narrative Review | First Published: March 30, 2022
Surgical interventions and the anesthesia chosen for the procedure induce immunosuppression in the perioperative period, triggering the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines, favoring tumor growth and recurrence. However, it must be clarified what actually influences immunomodulation: the surgical technique, the anesthetic used, the type of tumor or a combination of all of them. Both the surgery and anaesthetic technique can exert immunomodulatory effects, and, therefore, they may contribute to ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4512/1710076
Definition of Cut-Off Score between COVID-19 Acute Phase and Post-COVID-19 Syndrome: Indispensable Element to Consider in the Use of Instrumental and Clinical Tests
Nicolás Alberto Cely-Aldana, MD, Luisa María Benjumea-Gómez, MD, Ronald Antonio Solís-Amin, MD, Alix Sabec Freire-Duran, MD and Maria Paz Bolaño-Romero, MS
Article Type: Letter to Editor | First Published: April 11, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has probably been the worst public health calamity of the 21st century. At the first peak of infection during the early to mid- 2020s, much was unknown about the pathophysiology, COVID-19 phenotypes, pharmacologic and supportive management, rehabilitation, and outcomes. With precision and celerity, several safe and effective vaccine prototypes were developed to achieve the desired herd immunity and reduce intensive care unit admission and death. Scales have also been design...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4512/1710075
Non-COVID-19 Deaths in Times of Pandemic: Lessons Learned
Lodys Loreth López-Mosquera, Andrea Carolina Hurtado-Moreno, Faudy Jholey Puerta-Londoño, Valeria Vela-López, Lizeth Lorena Davila-Maya and Michael Gregorio Ortega-Sierra
Article Type: Editorial | First Published: March 31, 2022
The actual distribution of excess mortality throughout the world from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic remains a question mark. Deaths from COVID-19 and non-COVID causes, decompensation of previous illnesses, complications of acute illnesses, and loss of functional capacity due to progression of chronic and degenerative diseases have exacted an unparalleled toll on health care systems. Similarly, it has increased the global burden of disease and compromised the quality of human life in the m...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510255
Epidemiologic Characteristics of COVID-19 Exposure in Neonates Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Helen Kest, MD, MPH, CPH, Linda Skroce, MD, Subhashree Datta-Bhutada, MD, Jaimee Bogusz, DO, Estephanie Rivero, MD and David Goldberg, MD
Article Type: Retrospective Study | First Published: March 31, 2022
Descriptive study focused on SARS-COV-2 exposed neonates admitted to a tertiary center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Longitudinal cohort retrospective study of neonates admitted to a tertiary center NICU during March to August 2020. Key indices (risk factors) are described for exposed neonates in order to draw conclusions for preventive strategies. There were 459 deliveries during the study period. 177(12%) mothers tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 with 184 SARS-COV-2 exposed (exposed) neona...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-9004/1410221
A Unique Case of Complex Pelvic Arterial Collateralization Requiring Multidisciplinary Approach to Prolapsing Submucosal Leiomyoma
Amanda P Stanton, PA-C, Charles Ritchie, MD and Christopher DeStephano, MD
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: March 31, 2022
Leiomyoma are the most common benign tumor of the reproductive tract in premenopausal women. Uterine artery embolization has been accepted as a minimally invasive option for the treatment of leiomyoma. While pelvic arterial embolization has shown promising safety and effectiveness in controlling postpartum hemorrhage, no studies have reviewed its clinical application for the prophylactic decrease of hemorrhage risk following minimally invasive therapies for fibroids. We present a case and discus...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-9004/1410220
Vaginal Delivery in Pregnancy with Buschke-Löwenstein Tumor (Giant Condyloma Acuminatum)
Marta Narváez-Salazar, MD, Leyre Ruiz-Campo, MD, Javier Navarro-Sierra, MD, Peña Dieste- Pérez, MD, María Jesús Puente-Luján, MD, Marta Lamarca-Ballestero, MD, PhD and Laura Baquedano-Mainar, MD, PhD
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: March 31, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to present the case of a pregnant woman with diagnosis of Buschke-Löwenstein tumor at the beginning of labor, exposing the management and performing a review of the literature on the matter. A pregnant woman in the 37th week of gestation diagnosed with Buschke-Löwenstein tumor at the time of the delivery. Her medical history did not reveal any characteristics. Due to the predominantly perineal spread, with no warts in the vagina or birth canal, the labor progress w...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4474/1710102
Cerebral Metastasis Secondary to Distant Malignant Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma in an Immunosuppressed Patient
Christopher Alan Brooks, Jessica Wang, Ashraf Dower, Alar Enno, Andrew Bonura and Joanna Lee
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: March 25, 2022
Squamous cell carcinoma of cutaneous origin is an insidiously developing cancer, and seldom metastasises. Patient and lesion characteristics that predispose to more aggressive biological behaviours include immune incompetence, recurrence following excision and those demonstrating invasion of local lymphovascular and neural structures. An elderly man with a history of Crohn’s disease requiring long-term immunosuppression, and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the chest wall with locoregional...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4474/1710101
Triple-Region Spinal Stenosis - A Diagnostic and Operative Dilemma!
Ketan S Khurjekar, Himanshu Gurunath Kulkarni, Shailesh Hadgaonkar, Ajay Kothari, Parag K Sancheti and Ashok Shyam
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: March 25, 2022
The term ‘tandem spinal stenosis’ (TSS) is usually used to describe a double stenotic lesion in the cervical and lumbar spine, which are the most mobile segments of spine. There have also been a few reports describing the clinical course of tandem thoracic and lumbar spinal stenosis. Triple-region spinal stenosis (TRSS), or concurrent stenosis in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine is the least documented variety of tandem spinal stenosis in literature. Combination of three co-existing ...