Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-567X/1510044
Infectious Characteristics of Ebola Virus
Manu Mitra
Article Type: Letter to Editor | First Published: November 07, 2018
One of the main feature of Ebola virus is that Ribonucleic acid (RNA) plays more significant part instead Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) similarly as its hereditary material. When RNA is mirrored, many more mistakes are made than when DNA is mimicked. This activates viruses like the Ebola viruses a predominantly high mutation rate when distinguished to DNA based viruses like smallpox or chickenpox. In the study of Ebola outbreak, experts found that the virus evolves much faster than it used to be i...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5734/1510069
Marginal Resection of Mandible for Treatment of Central Giant Cell Granuloma
Tatiane Fonseca Faro, Gabriela Madeira Araujo, Jose Rodrigues Laureano Filho, Ricardo Jose de Holanda Vasconcellos and Emanuel Dias de Oliveira e Silva
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: November 07, 2018
Central giant cell granuloma (CGCG) is an uncommon benign bone lesion that occurs in the mandible and maxilla and accounts for approximately 7% of all benign tumors of the jaws. The clinical behavior of CGCG is classified as aggressive or non-aggressive based on clinical and radiographic features. CGCG usually occur in patients less than 30 years of age. The radiological findings are diverse, ranging from small unilocular to large multilocular lesions. Treatment can be non-surgical (alpha interf...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3243.1510058
Hip Alpha Angle in Asymptomatic Population
Roberto Seijas, Pedro Alvarez, Oscar Ares, Andrea Sallent, David Barastegui and Ramon Cugat
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: November 05, 2018
Hip osteoarthritis is related to the deformity caused by femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). This lesion is related too with an increased performance of sports activities, such as soccer. Alpha angle is a possible measurement of the deformity caused by FAI, especially Cam-type lesion. The purpose of the present study is to describe the alpha angle measured in AP and axial projections in a group of soccer players, being able to compare it with the general population and populations of adult socce...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3397/1410088
Laparoscopic Damage Control in Type IV Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernia after Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy: Case Report
Evelyn Astrid Dorado, Jessica Correa, Keyla Castillo and Hernan Esteban Munevar
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: November 05, 2018
Post-esophagectomy hiatal hernia is an uncommon condition. Patients may present with small asymptomatic hiatal hernias, nonspecific chronic symptoms or even acute presentations with signs of intestinal obstruction and ischemia. In this case, a three-stage esophagectomy was performed in a female patient diagnosed with end-stage achalasia with subsequent development of hiatal hernia strangulation, for which damage control surgery was key for its management. The implication of damage control surger...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510059
Patient-Centered MDR-TB Care: What do MDR-TB Patients in Urban and Rural Peru Say?
Sangeeta Mookherji and Kei Alegria-flores
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: November 05, 2018
Controlling multidrug and extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB) poses a grave challenge to public health, globally. Studies repeatedly show that effective M/XDR-TB management goes beyond strategies recommended in global TB control plans, uniformly pointing to patient-centred care as critical to progress in controlling the epidemic. We aim to describe patient-centred care in M/XDR-TB management in Peru, which presented a context where M/XDR-TB remains a persistent problem, even with in...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5858/1510056
Vertebral Body Erosion in Geriatric Patient: Case Reports and Systematic Review of Literature
Elif Evrim EKIN, Hulya KURTUL YILDIZ and Muhittin Emre ALTUNRENDE
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: November 03, 2018
A 71-year-old man with low back pain for more than a year, cortical erosion and vertebral cyst formation of L4 vertebral body were diagnosed on lumbar MRI. There was no compression fracture or bone marrow edema. The fusiform unruptured aneurysmatic dilatation of abdominal aorta was seen adjacent to the vertebral cyst (Figure 1 and Figure 2). The vertebral cyst was thought to be associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). The aortic wall defect or paraaortic hematoma was not established. Aft...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3278.1510027
Nutritional Status of Children and Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease
Samara Agda dos Santos, Cecilia Lacroix de Oliveira, Paulo Ivo Cortez and Claudia dos Santos Cople Rodrigues
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: October 31, 2018
We identified 37 articles that describe low weight, short stature and overweight or obesity prevalence ranging between 3 and 100%, 8.2% and 24.0%, 1.6% and 22.4%, respectively. The associated factors to the growth deficit were the increase of resting energy expenditure, the presence of low bone density, the high prevalence of low zinc and D-vitamin plasma concentration, the low consume of calcium and D-vitamin, vessel occlusion crises, increased need of transfusions and hormonal amendments prese...