Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410084

Visual HRCT Score to Determine Severity and Prognosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Ricardo Peris Sanchez, Estrella Fernandez-Fabrellas, Gustavo Juan Samper, Maria Luisa Domingo Montanana and Lidia Navarro Vilar

Article Type: Original Article | First Published: August 16, 2018

High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is an essential technique for the diagnosis and follow-up of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), but it is not routinely used to evaluate severity. A semi-quantitative HRCT score was developed to determine its relation with physiologic variables, to assess severity and fibrosis progression, and to establish prognostic factors....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410090

Therapeutic Efficacy of Subthreshold Laser Photocoagulation using a Conventional Pattern Scan Laser for Macular Edema in a Retrospective Study

Tomoyasu Shiraya, Satoshi Kato and Fumiyuki Araki

Article Type: Original Research | First Published: August 11, 2018

Subthreshold laser photocoagulation has emerged and is changing minimally invasive treatment for macular edema (ME) affected by retinal vascular diseases. However, this laser method requires specific photocoagulator, and it cannot be introduced at each facility. We investigated the efficacy of subthreshold laser photocoagulation using a conventional pattern scan laser (PS-STLT) in treating ME in clinical practice....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410089

Unusual Laser Blepharoplasty Complications: Sight and Life-Threatening!

Nazrin Nordin and Lott Pooi Wah

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: August 11, 2018

A 53-years-old woman presented with bilateral severe periorbital swelling and reduce left eye visual acuity. She had undergone laser blepharoplasty 1 week prior to presentation. Ophthalmic examination revealed both eye periorbital swelling with pouring pus discharge from lower lid with underlying erythematous and ulcerative skin, limitation of extraocular muscles and chemosis....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-9004/1410130

Primary Breast and Lung Cancer - Case Report

Rodrigo Dias Nunes, Adriana Magalhaes de Oliveira Freitas and Djulie Anne de Lemos Zanatta

Article Type: Clinical Case | First Published: August 10, 2018

A case review of a Caucasian 35-year-old female patient with no family history, diagnosed with primary breast cancer, and later finding lesions on the right lung. After image exams on the lungs and research, what was expected to be a result of a metastasis, was in fact a primary adenocarcinoma....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5858/1510052

The Impact of Demographic Changes on the Presentation and Outcome of Stroke: Experiences of the Oldest Old in the Murrumbidgee Region

Alice Powell, Martin Jude, Stephen Kerr, Jenna Mewburn, Katherine Mohr and Paul Finucane

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: August 10, 2018

The proportion of older people in the Australian population is increasing, heralding a change in how illness presents as well as the profile of people presenting with illness. This changing disease profile is most strikingly observed in conditions which disproportionately affect the old and particularly the oldest old. It is exemplified by stroke which is a leading cause of death and disability in Australia with 70% of stroke patients aged 65 and older....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3397/1410084

BMI in Penetrating Abdominal Injury: Correlation with Morbidity

Rajiv K Chander, Hoan K Bui, John Phair, Matthew Carnevale, Samuel Kigongo and Robert V Madlinger

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: August 10, 2018

In 1960, Shaftan, et al. recognized that mandatory laparotomy for penetrating abdominal injury (PAI) resulted in negative findings in approximately one-third of patients, with significant associated morbidity and mortality. This was underlined by a 37 percent negative laparotomy rate after mandatory laparotomy for truncal stab wounds. Superior critical care facilities, advances in interventional radiology and the increased availability of abdominal ultrasonography, focused abdominal sonography i...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510097

WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Strategy and Alcohol Hand Rub Use is Effective in Reducing Hais and Antimicrobes in Developing Countries

Isata Victoria Mandoh, Sulaiman Lansana Mandoh and Jia Bainga Kangbai

Article Type: Systematic Review | First Published: August 10, 2018

A major problem in public health in developing countries is hospital-acquired infections for which hand hygiene of healthcare workers features as a critical preventive mechanism. In this study we seek through systematic review of extant literatures to identify the most effective hand hygiene approach practiced by healthcare workers in developing countries that leads to hospital-associated infection and antimicrobial reduction....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3656/1410229

An Unspoken Threat Hiding behind the Gall Bladder in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy - The Middle Hepatic Vein

Kaundinya Kiran Bharatam

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: August 10, 2018

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is guided by working knowledge of bilio-vascular anomalies to prevent common bile duct injuries and bleeding during surgery. Less importance is given to the dissection of the gall bladder from the gall bladder bed where the middle hepatic vein or its large branch can be encountered. The lack of awareness of this presence can result in uncontrolled bleeding and result in significant morbidity or mortality in a seemingly uneventful procedure....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3656/1410228

A Review on Separation Techniques of Graphene Oxide (GO)/Base on Hybrid Polymer Membranes for Eradication of Dyes and Oil Compounds: Recent Progress in Graphene Oxide (GO)/Base on Polymer Membranes-Related Nanotechnologies

Elahe Dadvar and Alireza Heidari

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: August 10, 2018

Nowadays, obtaining drink water for saving health of humans is very important. There have been various investigations about the cost effective and environmental friendly methods of water treatment. The purpose of the current study is reviewing the application of hybrid polymeric membranes Graphene Oxide (GO) as new techniques for separation of pollutants (Figures 1 and Figure 2)....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510102

Chronic Splenic Q Fever?

Gianfilippo Nifosi and Mariateresa Zuccarello

Article Type: Image Article | First Published: August 09, 2018

A 53-year-old man, with history of paranoid schizophrenia, depression, alcohol abuse, type 2 diabetes mellitus, comes to our observation for the discovery of focal splenic lesions. He presented fatigue and weight loss. Her past clinical history was negative for infection, abdominal pain, fever or sweat. Physical examination was characterized by cachexia in the absence of lymphadenomegaly and hepatosplenomegaly. Laboratory tests was negative, except for the C. burnetii antibodies (phase I IgG 1/1...