Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-4630/1410073
Menstrual Cycle Phase May Effect the Thermoregulation during Anesthesia
Veysel Erden, Cihan Guler, Hasan Bulut, Naile Ozsoy Toprak and Nedret Uslu
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: October 12, 2018
This study was registered to Australian New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry with serial number ACTRN12614000286640. After institutional review, board approval and informed consent 50 female patients; ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists) class 1, ages between 18-45 years old were enrolled in this study. The surgeries performed were septorhinoplasty and tympanoplasty. 25 patients with menstrual cycle days from 1 to 10 (follicular group), 25 patients with menstrual cycle days from 18 to 24 (...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-2951/1410124
Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma of the Heart
Amit C Shah, Srijan Shrestha and Mark Rosenthal
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: September 29, 2018
This is a rare case of a 53-year-old woman with history of oophorectomy and hysterectomy 3 years prior to presentation admitted for gait abnormality and found to have a basal ganglia stroke. Transthoracic echocardiogram for stroke work up revealed a cardiac mass in the right atrium emanating from Inferior Vena Cava (IVC). Computed Tomography imaging of abdomen and pelvis ruled out malignancy. The mass was surgically removed due to high risk of embolization. Intraoperative, transesophageal echoca...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-2951/1410123
Pacemaker Twiddler Syndrome - A Rare but Serious Cause of Pacemaker Malfunction
Gurkirat Singha, Hemant Khemani, Zahidullah Khan and Narender Omprakash Bansal
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: September 27, 2018
Twiddler's syndrome is a rare complication after pacemaker implantation. It is caused by conscious or unconscious manipulation at the implantation site by the patient with the result of device malfunction. It results in lead dislodgment, diaphragmatic stimulation, and loss of capture. In a pacemaker dependent patient, it can be a lethal complication. It usually occurs in the first year following pacemaker implantation. The treatment involves readmission, repositioning of the dislodged leads and ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5769/1510040
Histopathological Fate in the Inguinal Hernia Sac in the Children
Mustafa Yasar Ozdamar
Article Type: Original Research | First Published: October 19, 2018
Obliteration of the processus vaginalis during the fetal growth begins with a transient decrease in sympathetic tonus and then ends with smooth muscle cells (SMCs) undergoing apoptosis. Otherwise, an inguinal hernia (IH) occurs due to the defective obliteration. Although the mechanism in the formation of an inguinal hernia has been elucidated by many investigations, it has not been investigated whether proliferation in the IH sac cells which would lead to the benign or malignant process. In this...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410091
Pulmonary Functions in Volleyball and Basketball Players of Kolkata, India
Sohini Basu, Rishna Dalui, Anindita Singha Roy and Amit Bandyopadhyay
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: October 13, 2018
Assessment of lung function is an indispensable tool for determination of the health status in case of the athletes. Present study focused on evaluating the lung function parameters for the state-level male basketball players and male volleyball players of West Bengal, India apart from comparing the data with their age-matched healthy, sedentary male counterparts. Fitness of an individual may be adjudged by employing a battery of physiological test manoeuvres, and lung function test is one such ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410090
Well-Controlled Narcolepsy Patient Sleepy Again
Dmitriy Kogan and Kavita Ratarasarn
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: October 12, 2018
Narcolepsy is associated with high prevalence of comorbid sleep disorders. Overlap in symptoms of different disorders may confound management. Sleep Medicine practitioners need to be vigilant for presence or new development of comorbid conditions to provide effective and comprehensive care. We present a patient with Narcolepsy Type 2 who developed worsening hypersomnolence due to new onset Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Treatment of OSA resulted in improvement of hypersomnolence without requirin...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410089
Lipid Profile Status in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and its Association with Disease Severity
Sneh Arora, Rashi Jain, Anant Mohan, Pawan Tiwari and Randeep Guleria
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: October 12, 2018
Dyslipidemia is considered as the major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and may contribute to the higher mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the prevalence and consequences of dyslipidemia in COPD is still unclear. We studied comprehensive lipid profile panel including serum total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low density lipoproteins (LDL), very low-density lipoproteins (VLDL) and high-density lipoproteins (HDL) in COPD patients to study the r...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410088
Occupational Rhinitis and Asthma in the Textile Sector of the Central Region of Tunisia
Maoua M, Gaddour A, Rouis H, Kacem I, Guedri S, Aissa S, Ghammem M, Boughattas W, Brahem A, Kalboussi H, El Maalel O, Chatti S and Mrizak N
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: October 12, 2018
The association between occupational asthma (OA) and occupational allergic rhinitis (OAR) is often described in the literature supporting the concept of "United airways disease" based on a parallel significant reaction of the nose and lungs after challenges with occupational agents and involving several occupational, host-related and environmental factors and thus exacerbating the medical and socio-economic impact of the OR. In Tunisia, only limited studies were carried out to explore associatio...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/IJDA-2017/1710004
Late - Life Depression in North Greece: Prevalence and under Detection
Konstantinos Argyropoulos, Aikaterini Saropoulou and Eleni Jelastopulu
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 12, 2018
Depression is the most frequent cause of emotional suffering on late life. The purpose of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of depression and to assess possible under-diagnosis of depressive symptoms in the elderly. A cross-sectional study was conducted among the members of the open day care centers for older people in the municipality of Pella, North Greece. A questionnaire was developed to collect basic demographic data, including three questions from the "European Health Interv...