Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3987.1510017
Kambo and its Multitude of Biological Effects: Adverse Events or Pharmacological Effects?
Jan M Keppel Hesselink
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: December 29, 2018
Kambo is the name of a secretion of a tropical frog, the Phyllomedusa bicolor or giant leaf frog from the Amazonian forest, which has been used for centuries by local tribes to enhance their hunter skills. Its first tribal use was described in 1925, and included the first effects after administration of the secretion: nausea and vomiting. Since the end of last century Kambo is introduced in Europe and the USA as a 'healing' intervention to cleanse the bodily systems, it is regarded as a 'detox' ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510125
Young Woman with a Foreign Body into the Bladder
Kostas Chondros, Ioannis Konsolakis and Konstantinos Graikos
Article Type: Image Article | First Published: December 29, 2018
Bladder's foreign bodies represent an uncommon finding in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms. In most of the cases, patients report themselves the induction of a foreign object into their bladder and it is usually related to altered sexual behavior. These foreign bodies may vary from small everyday objects to larger ones such as catheters or wires. We present a case of a young woman with a history of neurogenic bladder who accidentally misplaced a single-use catheter into her bladder dur...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5718/1510112
Breast Injury During Sport Participation
Laura J Smith, Tamara Eichelberger, Elizabeth Miller and Edward J Kane
Article Type: December 26, 2018 | First Published: December 26, 2018
A recent study found that almost half (47.9%), of female college athletes participating in basketball, soccer, volleyball and softball (n = 194) suffered a breast injury during their college career with less than 10% reporting their injury to health personnel with only 2.1% receiving treatment. Breast injury in female athletes is under-reported and is lacking a much-needed level of awareness in sport. If there is a void in awareness of breast injuries and in reporting breast injuries, preventive...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5734/1510075
The Dental Surgeon Profile of Centers of Dental Specialties for the Evidence of Burnout Syndrome
Stephanie Albuquerque de Souza Brandao, Gabriel Silveira Pinto Brandao, Luciane Albuquerque Sa de Souza and Camila Santos de Mattos brito
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: December 26, 2018
The persistence and intensity of stressors, in addition to the characteristics and functions of each person, associated with efforts and failures to deal with stress and its consequences, can lead the worker to develop chronic labor exhaustion, reaching the most severe form of stress at work, the burnout. The dental surgeon is a victim of stress sources in the public sector. Identify the dentists who work in the Centers of Dental Specialties (CDSs) in the municipalities of Joao Pessoa and Cabede...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-570X/1410058
Late Intrathecal Cell Therapy Increases Brain Glucose Metabolism and Improves the Long-Term Established Sequelae of Cerebral Hemorrhage
Sara Fernandez-Guinea, Mercedes Zurita, Estefania Garcia, Jorge Mucientes, Cristina Lopez, Cecilia Fernandez-Mateos and Jesus Vaquero
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: December 24, 2018
The possibility of an increase in brain glucose metabolism after intrathecal administrations of autologous mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) has been recently reported, suggesting a role in the treatment of neurological disorders. We describe here the utility of this type of cell therapy in chronic neurological sequelae due to cerebral hemorrhage. A 49-year-old female suffered from 2009 severe neurological sequelae after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage open to ventricle in the left frontopar...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-2951/1410133
IVUS Findings of Drug Eluting Balloon Failure in the Treatment of In-Stent Restenosis
Sung Yun Lee, Sang-Wook Kim, Jin Bae Lee, Eun-Seok Shin, Joon Hyung Doh, Young Joon Hong, Jae-Jin Kwak and Hyung Yoon Kim
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: December 24, 2018
The objective of this study is to investigate pre-intervention IVUS characteristics of in-stent restenosis (ISR) lesion correlated with PEB failure. We performed pre-intervention IVUS for 58 patients with ISR and treated with PEB angioplasty. The PEB failure was defined as death, myocardial infarction and symptom driven revascularization. IVUS images were analyzed at 6 locations: Proximal and distal vessel segment within 3 mm from stent edge, proximal and distal stent edge, lesion site at minima...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5742/1510051
A Brief Look at the Examination of Kidney Biopsies under Transmission Electron Microscope
Tolga Mercantepe
Article Type: Short Commentary | First Published: December 24, 2018
Ultrastructural examination using the transmission electron microscope (TEM) has been used for diagnostic purposes in the evaluation of renal pathologies for more than 40 years. Previous studies have reported that electron microscopic ultrastructural examination makes a contribution of at least 25% in the diagnosis of renal pathologies, particularly including glomerulopathies such as nephrotic syndrome and minimal change disease. Several new glomerulopathies such as human immunodeficiency virus ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-9004/1410139
Post-partum Polymorphic Eruption of Pregnancy
Brandao P, Portela-Carvalho AS, Melo A and Leite I
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: December 22, 2018
Polymorphic Eruption of Pregnancy, also known as Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy, is a common benign dermatosis of pregnancy related to stretching of the abdominal wall, frequent misdiagnosed with an allergic reaction. It usually appears during late third trimester and resolves within few days or weeks or after deliver. The authors present a case of Polymorphic Eruption of Pregnancy with its typical features appearing for the first time 5 days after delivery. The patient had...