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:10.23937/2378-3397/1410077

Symptomatic Perineal Hernias: A Rare but Challenging Problem after Laparoscopic Abdominoperineal Resection for Rectal Cancers. Combined Abdominoperineal Approach and Biological Mesh Repair

Bodvar Ymisson, Ahmed Hamad, Narendranath Govindarajah and Arif Khan

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: June 06, 2018

Perineal hernia is a rare condition that can occur postoperatively following abdominoperineal resection of the rectum or other major pelvic resections. The current literature has limited described surgical techniques for their repair given its low prevalence as a surgical complication....

 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:10.23937/2474-3674/1510033

Acute Dyspnoea with Co-Incidental Finding of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - A Case Report with Review of Current Literature

Teresa A Hand and Debkumar Chowdhury

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: June 06, 2018

Carbon monoxide poisoning can present in subtle ways with a variable range of symptoms from mild headaches to profound neurological impairment. The primary aim of this article is to highlight the importance of early detection of carbon monoxide poisoning through meticulous clinical assessment. The secondary aim of this article is to review the current treatment strategies. ...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3674/1510032

Effective Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) Ventilation in a Child with a Large Bronchopleural Fistula

Jean-Michel Liet, Alexis Chenouard, Sebastien Faraj, Armelle Garenne and Pierre Bourgoin

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: June 06, 2018

Managing mechanical ventilation in patients with bronchopleural fistula (BPF) can be hazardous, especially in case of large air leaks and underlying parenchymal lung disease. The fistulous tract offers low airflow resistance, and air escapes through the BPF to the detriment of the tidal volume, jeopardizing the minute ventilation and oxygenation. ...

 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....