Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5734/1510064
Intratracheal Dental Prostheses as a Rare Cause of Chronic Stridor and Dyspnea
Osvaldo Araujo Ramirez
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: October 20, 2018
The human larynx is a complex organ, playing a major role in the protection of the lower airway; It's unusual for a foreign body to be inhaled rather than swallowed and when it happens constitutes a real life-threatening emergency. We present a case of a middle age female with a 13-month history of stridor and dyspnea, managed and treated as an asthma patient. After the airway was secured a direct microlaryngoscopy was performed removing the obstruction resulting to be a dental prostheses 50 mm ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/ijda-2017/1710005
Effects of Non-Focused Elf-Emf Treatment on Hrv: Preliminary Study
Alessandro Greco and Anna Destefani
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: October 19, 2018
Interest in the interaction between electromagnetic fields and biological systems is constantly growing. Among these, excellent results have been achieved in psychiatrics using transcranial magnetic stimulation. However, very little is known of the effects of electromagnetic fields at low frequencies and intensities (ELF-EMF) on the psychological state of subjects given non focused total body treatment. This was one of the reasons for the decision to observe the effects of ELF-EMF treatment on t...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5742/1510047
Supporting Evidence, Potential Adverse Effects, and known Drug Interactions of the Complementary Alternative Medicines which are Frequently used by Prostate Cancer Patients
Harmeet Deol, Alan Truong, Tibebe Woldemariam, Xiaodong Feng and Ruth Vinall
Article Type: Research article | First Published: October 18, 2018
A significant number of prostate cancer patients use complementary alternative medicines (CAMs) as an adjunct to their conventional treatment. Examples of CAMs that are frequently used by prostate cancer patients include green tea extract, lycopene, and pomegranate fruit extract. In many cases there is little if any clinical study-based evidence to support the efficacy of CAMs in this setting, and, importantly, some CAMs can cause serious adverse effects when taken a high doses and/or have signi...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4193.1510049
Antrochoanal Polyp: A Literature Update
Francisco Andre Escamilla Islas, Jose Luis Treviño Gonzalez and Jose Martin Martinez Camarillo
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: October 17, 2018
The antrochoanal polyp (ACP) is a unilateral, solitary, pear shaped mass with a cystic stalk, differing from the inflammatory polyps in the formation of a constricted sac, half in the maxillary antrum and the other half in the nose, extruding in a variable extent to the nasopharynx. The ACP has a clinic diagnosis, with image studies as the CT scan and the MRI for the differential diagnosis. By microscopy ACP lacks minor mucoserous glands and a well-developed eosinophilic inflammatory infiltrate,...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3308.1510036
Glycosphopeptical and Specific Immunotherapy Effect in Allergic Rhinitis
Becerril-Bautista Baltazar, Jimenez-Uscanga Ruben Dario, Vargas-Camano Maria Eugenia, Cesar Daniel Alonso-Bello, Lozano-Patino Fernando, Sanchez-Leon Maria del Carmen, Juarez-Santiago Lucero and Maria Isabel Castrejon-Vazquez
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: October 17, 2018
Allergic rhinitis (AR) is an inflammatory disease mediated by immunoglobulin E (IgE) following exposure of the nasal mucosa to an allergen. Glycophosphopeptical (GFP) is a molecule composed of polysaccharides of fungal origin and proteins of vegetal origin, adsorbed in an inorganic phosphate-sulfate-calcium matrix, stimulates the innate immunity, during infectious processes. The objective of the study was to analyze the clinical response of specific immunotherapy (SIT) and the use of GFP in pati...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3656/1410238
Prevention and Treatment of CMV Retinitis Related Blindness in Resource-Limited Settings, Myanmar
Ni Ni Tun, Thida Yamin Pyone, Yee Yee Aung and Frank Smithuis
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: October 21, 2018
In south-east Asia, cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis is a neglected disease [1], with no defined strategy for management. This is despite evidence that CMV retinitis is a common cause of HIV-associated blindness in this region and the second most common opportunistic infection to emerge during initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and that CMV viremia is a strong predictor of mortality. The emerging body of data from resource-limited settings closely mirrors what was learned several decades ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4037.1510033
Psychological, Behavioral, and Economic Perspectives on Corruption
Qingguo Ma and Min Yan
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: October 18, 2018
With the development and transformation of China's economy, "anti-corruption" has become the top priority of the Communist Party of China in recent years. Corruption is a kind of unethical behavior that the public power loss the public nature because of private using, it deviates from the value of public power and the goals of the value. Here, we review both experimental evidences documenting acts of small corruption and recent evolutionary cognitive models based on surveys of corruption. These ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410094
Current Surgical Practice of Trabeculectomy in the United Kingdom (UK National Trabeculectomy Survey 2016)
Akash Raj, Ateeque Yousif, John Awad and Babar Elahi
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: October 12, 2018
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide and the most widely used surgical procedure for glaucoma is trabeculectomy, which creates a guarded fistula between the anterior chamber and the sub-conjunctival space. Although the history of surgical management of glaucoma dates to 1856, when Von Graefe introduced iridectomy as a treatment for acute glaucoma; the history of trabeculectomy is relatively short....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/ijtd-2017/1710007
Serological Evidence of Dengue and Chikungunya Exposures in Malian Children by Multiplex Bead Assay
Delynn M Moss, Matthew T Whitney, Anna N Chard, Victoria Trinies, Seydou Doumbia, Christin H Goodman, Stevan Bullard, Ryan E Wiegand, Matthew C Freeman, Patrick J Lammie and Gwong-Jen Chang
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 11, 2018
We opportunistically included a chikungunya envelope 1 recombinant virus antigen (CHIKV E1), a dengue 2 virus-like protein (DENV-2 VLP), and a DENV-3 VLP in a multiplex bead assay (MBA) for serological assessment involving improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene for students attending 42 elementary schools in southern Mali in Western Africa. From students attending grades 1-6,805 dried blood spots (DBS) were collected. Immunoglobulin (Ig) G was eluted from the DBS and was probed for respo...