Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-1353/1510072
Dose All Fetal Intracranial Hemorrhage Has a Bad Prognosis?
Sahar H Abdulghani
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: June 06, 2018
Fetal intra-cranial hemorrhage (ICH) is a rare complication diagnosed during pregnancy with subsequent fetal neurological sequelae or death. Hemorrhage can occur anyplace in fetal cranium it can take within the subarachnoid, subdural, intraparenchymal place and Intra-ventricular hemorrhage (IVH), which considered the most identified hemorrhage prenatally....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3397/1410078
85-Year-Old Male with New Onset Melena
Benjamin D Shogan
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: June 06, 2018
An 85-year-old otherwise healthy male originally presented to his local primary care physician with fatigue. He had no other complaints and specifically denied abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, or bloody stools. Routine lab work showed a hemoglobin of 7.5. To investigate his new onset anemia a colonoscopy was performed which found 3 large fungating masses in the sigmoid colon, transverse colon, and cecum. ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3235.1510036
Mycotic Aneurysm: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge
Joao Cruz, Lameiras R, Figueiredo F, Costa J, Lourenço R and Ramalho M
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: June 06, 2018
Mycotic or infected aneurysms (MA) are rare, accounting for only 1-3% of all arterial aneurysms, and usually affect major arteries. Visceral MA are the least frequent and most commonly involve the superior mesenteric artery. MA are associated with a high morbidity and mortality, estimated in 19% within 6 months of diagnosis despite surgical or endovascular intervention....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3235.1510035
Do Pelvic Fractures in Elderly Occur without Trauma or Skeletal Disease?
David Collin and Jan H Gothlin
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: June 06, 2018
A study cohort of 418 patients examined by pelvic MRI for non-trauma reasons without osteoporosis or systemic disease was collected and independently reviewed by two musculoskeletal radiologists. There were 173 males with mean age of 67 years (range 50-92) and 245 females with mean age 66 (range 50-90). Overall mean age was 67 years (range 50-92). The patients were grouped according to age and gender. 170 patients were in the age interval 70-92. ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4037.1510027
Butterfly and Carnivorous Plant: In-between Imaging of Borderline Functioning
Federica Vellante, Marco Alessandrini and Massimo Di Giannantonio
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: June 06, 2018
What could be stressed as a "division" between mental health and madness is very subtle. Indeed, it could be considered as a continuous or a borderline field that could develop toward a direction or another in human different expression of own features. By the way understanding mind could be frightening....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4037.1510026
Escape: A Study in Conversion Disorder
Richard Antony Alexander Kanaan, Dorota Jamroz
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: June 04, 2018
Culture is thought to be a key determinant of conversion disorder presentation, with culturally-normed social expectations being one possible influence, yet this is rarely studied. We present a case of a young woman from a cultural background where social expectations were strong, now living in Australia, who developed conversion disorder in the context of struggling against these expectations, and expressed this as a desire to escape....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5858/1510045
Effects of Aging on Performance during the Marathon Des Sables: Focus on Athletes Aged 53-80 Years
Lydia Tsoutsoubi, Leonidas G Ioannou, Tania Amorim, Georgios I Tsianos, and Andreas D Flouris
Article Type: Short Note | First Published: June 04, 2018
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of aging and sex on athletic performance during the 7-day Marathon des Sables (MdS) in the Sahara Desert. Anonymous data for age, sex, and average running speed (km/h) for all the athletes who registered in the MdS during the period 2000-2015 were retrieved from the official website of the race and other endurance websites....