Open Access DOI:10.23937/2690-263X/1710007
Population Drinking and Gender Gap in Stroke Mortality in Russia
Razvodovsky YE
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: September 11, 2020
The aim of this study was to study the relationship between alcohol and the gender gradient in the death rate from stroke in Russia at the population level. In a comparative aspect, we analyzed the dynamics of the overall level of alcohol consumption and the gender difference in the rate of mortality from stroke in the period from 1980 to 2015. The relationship between alcohol consumption and the gender difference in mortality from stroke was assessed using the Autoregressive-Integrated Moving A...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4466/1710028
Elderly Involvement in the Era of COVID-19 Infection
Maha Hossam Eldin Ibrahim and Abeer Awad Abdellatif
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: September 14, 2020
Nowadays, the entire world is facing the outbreak pandemic of COVID-19 infection which is a lethal infection to some extent. The most commonly affected group of population is the elderly due to impaired immunity and multiple co-morbidities they suffer from. From this point of view; we will discuss some important issues about the elderly involvement during COVID-19 pandemic hoping to raise the awareness toward that frail sector of population. Indeed many researches for COVID infection whether reg...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510152
Pacemaker Lead Vegetation
Sudeb Mukherjee
Article Type: Image Article | First Published: September 10, 2020
Pacemaker implantation has a very fascinating history. Since the first implantation of human pacemaker technological advancement has helped tremendously in the evolution of different types of pacemaker. Dedicated work by different scientist at different times has enriched the knowledge of several aspects of implantation gradually. Over the time the technology has been modernized to adapt the need of pacing in different clinical situations. However one thing remained constatnt throughout this lon...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510142
Renal Artery Thrombosis Following Synthetic Cannabinoid Ingestion
Joyce L Ho, MD, Youhanna Gad, MD and Remus Popa, MD
Article Type: Image Article | First Published: February 29, 2020
Cannabis and synthetic cannabinoids have been associated with cardiovascular events including myocardial infarction, arrhythmias, and stroke. The psychoactive cannabinoid delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is a partial agonist for cannabinoid receptors found in the brain, vascular endothelium, liver, and adipose tissue. THC has been implicated in cases of cannabis arteritis and vasculopathy. We describe a case of acute renal artery infarction following synthetic cannabinoid ingestion, with succe...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4091/1710011
Chondroma in an Elderly Patient
Salvador Labrador, Jose Manuel Llamazares-Medrano and Jesús Guzmán-Revuelta
Article Type: Clinical Picture | First Published: May 27, 2020
A 68-year-old male patient presented to our Clinic with unilateral knee pain for a period of 5 months. He was following treatment with NSAID and Omeprazole with no good outcome. We performed an X-ray on the symptomatic knee (Figures 1 and Figure 2) and we observed in the Metaphysis of distal Femur a heavily calcified lesion, well demarcated and evenly distributed throughout. Recent Laboratory tests were unremarkable. We concluded that this lesion could correspond to a Chondroma of distal Femur.....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3672/1410054
Do Physiological Doses of Epinephrine May Act as Immunomodulator and Mediator between Immune and Colon Cancer Cells?
Hanna Bessler, PhD, Chiya Moshe Leibovitch, MD and Meir Djaldetti, MD
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: August 08, 2020
Epinephrine is one of the major hormones orchestrating numerous physiological responses of the organism exposed to acute or chronic stress. In those cases the plasma level of the hormone exceeds manifold the physiological values present in healthy resting individuals. Higher epinephrine concentrations affect the immune system and modulate macrophages immune responses. The purpose of the present work was to detect if physiological concentrations of epinephrine may alter the capacity of human peri...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510083
Spontaneous Lung Herniation after Coughing: A Case Series
Robbert Jan Herman Knoef, TM Wemeijer, P Steenvoorde and R de Groot
Article Type: Case Series | First Published: August 30, 2020
Lung tissue protruding out the thoracic cavity is a rare phenomenon called a lung hernia or pneumocele. Most often lung hernias are acquired as a result of trauma or past surgical interventions. In the absence of prior injuries, spontaneous herniation of the lung occurs in small number patients. Since the first documented occurrence in the 15th century there are very limited reported cases, making a spontaneous lung hernia an exceptionally rare diagnosis. Surgical intervention can be considered ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3243.1510085
Disc Desiccation in Low Impact Young Trauma Victims
Steven Futrell and Michael Burgio
Article Type: Case Study | First Published: September 04, 2020
To consider evidence that indicates disc desiccation occurs with regularity in young individuals, despite reports to the contrary. The clinical histories of 168 chiropractic patients under the age of 50 were reviewed in such a manner that individual patients cannot be identified. 20 individuals under the age of 50 were found to exhibit disc desiccation, an occurrence of approximately 12%. It was also indicated that disc desiccation appears to occur with slightly greater frequency in women....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510154
Prevalence of Scabies and Associated Factors among Primary School Children in Raya Alamata District, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2017/2018
Sindayo Tefera, Molla Teferi, Assefa Ayalew, Tilahun Belete and Haven Hadush
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: September 03, 2020
Scabies is a skin infection that is a result of direct skin to skin contact and is primarily mediated by close and extended contact with scabies infested person. Scabies occurs worldwide among people of all ages, races, genders and social classes and has been identified as a neglected tropical infectious disease. Globally, it affects more than 130 million people at any time. The aim of the study was to assess prevalence of scabies and associated factors among primary school children in Raya Alam...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3690/1510050
An Evaluation of Obesity and Hypertension among Primary School Teachers in an Urban Region of South-South Nigeria
Chidinma Judith Opara and Omosivie Maduka
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: August 29, 2020
Obesity is now recognized to be a problem of public health importance with consequences for health and well-being. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and association of obesity and hypertension among primary school teachers in Port Harcourt metropolis in Rivers State, Nigeria. In this descriptive, cross-sectional study, using a cluster sampling method, 400 primary school teachers were selected from public and private primary schools. Their socio- demographic data was collected...