Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4059/1710020
Depression in Elderly Life: Psychological and Psychosocial Approaches
Shilpi Tripathi
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: April 04, 2020
Life depression at a later age due to its devastating effects is an important area of public health research. The elderly life depression linked with morbidity, deteriorating physical health, likelihood of suicide attempts and social cognitive functioning. All of which, in turn, are linked to increased life loss. Depression tends to be less common in older adults than in earlier lifespan. All aspects of the older adult’s lifetime condition are risk, protective factors, health, etiology, and ou...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-2951/1410171
Use of Bromocriptine for the Treatment of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Danielle Louis E Villanueva, MD, Lauren Kay Evangelista, MD, Ma Cristina Espanillo-Villanueva, MD and John C Anonuevo, MD
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: April 10, 2020
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rare, pregnancy associated cause of left ventricular heart failure in previously healthy women. It remains an important cause of cardiac-related maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Half of the patients will recover left ventricular function after 6 months. However, in the remainder of patients who do not recover cardiac function, they will require advanced heart failure therapies. Bromocriptine, a dopamine agonist which inhibits prolactin release, has demon...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5866/1410034
Intraventricular Pilocytic Astrocytoma in an Adult Patient
Joshua Hendrix and Zhenggang Xiong
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: April 10, 2020
Pilocytic astrocytomas are tumors of the central nervous system mostly during the first two decades of life. Although they are mostly common in the midline structures of children, pilocytic astrocytoma within the ventricular system of an adult is rare. To our knowledge, only one single histologically and molecularly confirmed case was documented in the literature up to this time. We report a case of a 38-yearold woman with obstructive hydrocephalus secondary to a brain tumor within the third ven...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-4630/1410103
Cor Triatriatum Dexter and Patent Foramen Ovale Discovered Following Cardioembolic Stroke
Jacquelin Peck, MD, Nicholas Suraci, MD, Frederick Hasty, MD and Jayanard D'Mello, MD
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: April 06, 2020
Cor Triatriatum (CT) is a seldom-reported cardiac anomaly defined by the presence of an abnormal septation within the right or left atrium. Cor triatriatum usually remain asymptomatic until late adulthood, but depending on the severity of septation and location within the atrium the manifestations can vary in presentation. We present a case of cardioembolic cerebrovascular accident in a patient with cor triatriatum dexter and a patent foramen ovale. To our knowledge, no existing case report desc...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510142
Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine with Osteoarthritis Patients
Sefika Dilek GUVEN and Ayla UNSAL
Article Type: Original Research | First Published: April 06, 2020
The treatment of Osteoarthritis (OA) includes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic methods. In getting no response to traditional medical treatment it causes the use of effective and confident treatment of OA and as a result patients tend to use Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). This study which is a descriptive type has been done on patients with OA in case of defining the use of CAM. This study has been done on patients who applied to physical therapy polyclinics. The sample of the ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510141
Ethics in the Curriculum of Undergraduate Nursing Programs in Turkey
Bengu Cetinkaya, RN, PhD
Article Type: Original Research | First Published: March 30, 2020
All healthcare professionals experience ethical problems, and nursing students experience these problems just as commonly as other health professionals. Some of these issues involve medication and treatments, quality care, harmful behaviour, force-feeding, and patient confidentiality. In a study by Erdil and Korkmaz, ethical problems observed by nursing students in the clinic were examined. The most frequently observed problems of the ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-3966/1710029
Aortic Regurgitation Complicating Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
M EL Mourid, A Drighil, FZ Talhi, I Nouamou and K Bouayed
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: April 15, 2020
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), defined by the onset of arthritis evolving for more than 6 months, before the age of 16-years-old, with no evident etiology. It is the most common type of arthritis in children under the age of 16. The polyarticular form is characterized by more destructive joint and less systemic impairment. Cardiac involvement is not a usual presentation and varies from pericardial to myocardial involvement to heart failure. It is more seen in systemic form of AJI. Valvular...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-3966/1710028
Two Dimensional Speckle Tracking Echocardiography Assessment of Left Ventricular Remodeling in Patients after Myocardial Infarction
Moustafa Kamal Eldin Ibrahim Khalil Saad, Khalid A El-khashab and Tamer M Ragab
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: April 11, 2020
Adverse left ventricular remodelling (LVR), defined as progressive ventricular dilatation, distortion of chamber shape, myocardial hypertrophy and deteriorating function, begins in some patients who suffered from acute myocardial infarction (AMI), sometimes even after successful percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). If uninterrupted, it could lead to congestive heart failure (CHF) and a poor clinical outcome. This study aims at evaluating the value of speckle tracking echocardiography in pre...