Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510120
Primary Health Care: A Strategic Weapon in the Fight against the Coronavirus
Juan Solera Albero and Pedro Juan Tarraga Lopez
Article Type: Commentary | First Published: April 16, 2020
Primary Care (PHC) is the gateway to the National Health Service in Spain and waiting lists and hospital collapses, such as those currently seen in the different affected countries, will greatly depend on its operation. The main elements that characterize the comprehensive care model based on PHC (and that make them different from the other care models) are three. In a situation of health and social crisis such as the one we are experiencing due to the coronavirus pandemic, the health systems of...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510119
Covid-19 Epidemic in Italy: Lesson Learning
Giangaspero M, DVM, MSc, PhD
Article Type: Editorial | First Published: March 30, 2020
2019 ended with the emergence of Covid-19 from China, a new zoonoses, possibly once again a virus from bats. Rapidly, the virus diffused in other countries. Italy was particularly affected, accounting for the highest number of cases and deaths in Europe. Stringent measures have been applied at national level to contain the health risk. In 2019, Europe was focused on various social, economic and political issues, as welcoming or not migrants, or contesting legal reforms as on retirement in France...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-567X/1510061
Modified Non-Invasive Computational Methods of HIV Drug Combinations for Treatment of Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19)
Tamer Ezzat Youssef and Youssef Tamer Moustafa
Article Type: Original Research | First Published: April 11, 2020
As of 18 March 2020, more than 191127 cases of confirmed COVID-19 have been documented globally with over 7807 deaths. The impact of COVID-19 on patients with HIV have common presentations like non-HIV patients include fever, dry cough, difficulty of breath. Parallel evidence indicates that the risk of disease increases with critically more than 66 years age, including chronic lung disease. It is very difficult to use drugs on the market. We apply drug design computer techniques to find the expe...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3672/1410044
Is There A Vaccine for Covid-19 and Are We Unaware of It?
Kazhal Mobaraki and Jamal Ahmadzadeh
Article Type: Letter to the Editor | First Published: April 20, 2020
Vaccine production and immunization of the susceptible population against novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is the most important public health strategy in controlling and preventing the spread of disease. Considering the absence of a vaccine for COVID-19, physicians have to treat symptomatically using potential antiviral drugs (e.g. Tadalafil, Atorvastatin, Telmisartan, Ribavirin, Dipyridamole, Chloroquine phosphate and so forth). In such circumstances, the main question may arise on how we can chan...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5866/1410035
SARS-Cov-2 Neurological Infection: Implications and Possible Mechanisms
Marco Antônio Machado Schlindwein, Letícia Caroline Breis, Isabelle Pastor Bandeira and Marcus Vinicius Magno Gonçalves, MD, PhD
Article Type: Commentary | First Published: April 16, 2020
COVID-19 is an emergent disease with reported neurotropism and neuroinvasion, although its pathophysiology is not yet understood. We present the newly discoveries and hypothesis for SARS-Cov-2 neurological infection. Recently, the first case of encephalopathy associated with SARS-COV2 infection described was published. The patient rapidly progressed from fever and cough to an altered mental status, headache and unresponsive to verbal commands, with no alterations in the liquor, suggesting that t...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510143
Risk for Coronavirus Diseases (COVID-19) among Cancer Patients from a Nursing Perspective
Nada Lukkahatai, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN, Aliki Argiropoulos, BSN, RN, OCN and Leorey N Saligan, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN
Article Type: Commentary | First Published: April 09, 2020
With this existing pandemic, it is critical to synthesize information that will be useful to frontline health care providers, particularly our nurses who are taking care of vulnerable populations. This commentary describes the common manifestations of COVID-19 infection, current management based on recent publications, hoping to equip nurses and other healthcare providers, especially those taking care of cancer patients, with some basic information about the signs and symptoms of COVID-19 infect...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510081
Orbital Penetrating Injury by Bamboo-Stick, Mimicking Air in Computed Tomography: A Case Study
Michael Pesis, Navot Givol, Anatoliy Ilgiyaev and Ronit Yagev
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: March 14, 2020
A case report of a penetrating foreign wooden body that was not identified as such on physical examination but was demonstrated on CT scan. A 25-year-old man arrived sedated to the emergency room (ER). On physical examination, a wooden foreign body was observed on the right side of the upper lip. On CT scan, an air mimicking cylinder foreign body was noticed. 3D reconstruction demonstrated a cylinder-shapedobject penetrating into the orbit, breaking the orbital floor, deflecting the globe crania...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4474/1710030
An Unusual Case of Paraspinal Schwannoma Causing Undiagnosed Low Back Pain
Ismail Kaya, MD
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: March 24, 2020
Paraspinal schwannomas are relatively common but hardly classified subject of spinal neurosurgery. We present a rare and unclassified case of paravertebral schwannoma that causes non-discogenic low back pain. A 45-year-old Caucasian female came to our clinic with low back pain. Her pain steadily worsened for two years. Her physical exam showed right straight leg raise positivity at 45-degree angle but provocation test negative. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a mass in the paravertebral muscle...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5726/1510079
The Relationship Between Disease Activity, Demographic and Characteristic Features in Individuals with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Elif GUR KABUL, Bilge BAŞAKCI ÇALIK, Ceren KORKMAZ, Ummuhan BAŞ ASLAN, Murat TASCI, and Veli COBANKARA
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: March 02, 2020
A total of 143 participants (120 females, 23 males, mean age = 50.32 ± 12.14 years) diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) according to the American College of Rheumatology 2010 criteria, were included in the study. Demographic features (gender, body mass index) and disease-related characteristics features (duration of disease, morning stiffness, presence of deformity, presence of nodules, dry eye, nail abnormalities, Raynaud's phenomenon, osteoporosis, dyspnea at rest, exertional dyspnea) of...