Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4474/1710063
Oblique Lumbar Interbody Fusion from the Right-Side Approach in the Treatment of a Patient with Left-Sided Inferior Vena Cava
Xigong Li, Weiyi Diao, Shuo Wang, Dongdong Yu, Junsong Wu and Yuzhu Zhang
Article Type: Case Report and Literature Review | First Published: March 31, 2021
Oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) can achieve better reconstruction of the lumbar spine via the anatomic corridor between the psoas muscle and the great vessels. Despite OLIF is considered as an effective and relatively safer procedure, congenital anomalies of the main vessels surrounding the oblique corridor may pose higher risk of vascular damage, which should bear in mind in deciding to use the OLIF procedure. We presented a case of an anomalous left-sided inferior vena cava (IVC) who un...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510202
Ivermectin and COVID-19 in Care Home: Case Report
Pierre Loué and Christine Fardeau
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: April 17, 2021
COVID-19 appeared at the end of December 2019 in China in the city of Wuhan before spreading around the world in just a few months. At the end of May 2020, among 77 000 people living in care home in Paris area, 16 940 (22 %) were estimated positive to Covid19 and 5 600 (33 % among positive ones) had a Covid19 related death. When lockdown started on March 15, 2020, old age and comorbidity features including heart failure, diabetes, respiratory failure, obesity, were known to be a high-risk of sev...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510201
Possible Role of Biomedical Polymers in COVID-19 Journey: A Short Review
Akram Jassim Jawad
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: April 09, 2021
In recent months, many scientists and engineers have tried to minimize and control coronavirus spreading by different techniques. These techniques usually focused on cutting the circlet of Covid-19 infection by both direct and non-direct ways. As a polymer composites widely used in everyday products, a short review of Polymer Nano-Composites (PNCs) for antiviral activity against Covid-19 has been achieved. Firstly, virus’s structure, especially Covid-19 has been discussed. Then, different PNCs...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510197
A Model for Coronavirus Pandemic
Pirooz Mohazzabi, Gabrielle Richardson and Gwendolyn Richardson
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: March 20, 2021
A simple model is developed for spread of a pandemic disease. The model is based on simple, uninhibited population growth except that the rate of infection is assumed to be proportional to the existing infected population. The model is in agreement with the CDC data on COVID-19 for the United States in 2020. Ever since humans have walked on the face of Earth, they have been afflicted by various diseases, some of which have wiped out large fractions of their population. Infectious diseases such a...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510196
A Stochastic Model with Jumps for the COVID-19 Epidemic in the Greater Abidjan Region during Public Health Measures
Mohamed Coulibaly and Modeste N’zi
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: March 20, 2021
Our goal in this paper is to adapt to the context of the Greater Abidjan Region (Côte d'Ivoire) an existing model reflecting the evolution of the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan (China). This model is a deterministic compartmental model which is translated by a system of ordinary differential equations. We are reinvesting this model to obtain the parameters of the epidemic in the great Abidjan. We study some mathematical aspects of this deterministic model. Using data from the evolution of the COVID...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5858/1510110
Southwest Florida and COVID- 19: A Large Community Experience
Anita M Arnold, Silvia Caswell, Karla Quevedo, Chongsun Oh, Matthew J Mick
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: April 17, 2021
Initial reports of COVID-19 infection suggested certain populations were at high risk if infected, yet it was unclear how best to identify, triage and treat those patients. COVID-19 is a novel virus initially reported from Wuhan, Hubei province in December 2019 that has spread globally. As the virus spread, clinicians were trying to assess the populations at risk, how to treat and follow best practice guidelines as they were evolving. We sought to examine our community hospital experience, ident...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5750/1510099
Tranilast for Preventing Scar Formation: A Renewed Therapeutic Option
Yasuhiro Horiuchi
Article Type: Short Note | First Published: April 17, 2021
The current strategies adopted for treating and preventing scar development still present many difficulties such as in cases of severe burns. Tranilast, a familiar agent for the treatment of allergies, regulates several biological processes including wound healing. Regardless of the site of scarring, tranilast is expected to minimize scar formation systemically for burns, post-surgical scars, and skin diseases such as severe acne. Tranilast is highly safe and can treat scar formation without pla...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3286.1510065
Acute Kidney Injury in the Context of Inflammatory Bowel Disease - A Clinical Case
Joana Cristóvão Marques, Rui Barata, Joana Lemos Garcia, David Navarro, Mário Góis, Helena Sousa, Patrícia Cotovio, Francisco Ribeiro and Fernando Nolasco
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: April 05, 2021
Extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease are common and extendable to all organs. Kidney and lower genitourinary system occurs in 4-23% of cases. This may be dependent on inflammatory bowel disease activity, secondary to metabolic disorders, drugs or others. We present a case of a 68-year-old man with ulcerative colitis for 22 years admitted in our department for acute nephritic syndrome. Urinary microscopy suggested glomerular injury. A kidney biopsy was performed and was co...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4045.1510059
Validation of Cardio-Emulation Pump Perfused, Porcine Liver Model: Blood Flow Response to Temperature
Gerond Lake-Bakaar, MD, PhD, Charles Aardema and John Robertson VMD, PhD
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: March 31, 2021
The liver is unique in possessing a dual blood supply. It receives approximately 80 percent of flow from the portal vein and the rest from the hepatic artery. Thus, the hepatic microvasculature receives blood from two types of afferent vessels: Portal venules and hepatic arterioles. The portal venules directly connect with the sinusoids to supply the liver parenchyma with blood rich in nutrients, but at low oxygen tension. The hepatic arterial system is not just supplementary to the portal vein....