Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-4630/2/2/1027

Prevention of Postoperative Acute Lung Injury (ALI) - The Anaesthetist Role

Surjya Prasad Upadhyay, Ulka Samant, Sudhakar Seth Tellicherry, Himanshu Chauhan and Piyush N Mallick

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: March 28, 2015

Postoperative pulmonary complications such as Pneumonia, Acute Lung Injury (ALI), Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) substantially increases the risk of morbidity, mortality, length of hospitalisation and financial burden. Risk factors can be broadly categorized into patient related, procedure related, anaesthesia related and post procedural care related....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-9004/1410028

Aortobifemoral Reconstruction during Pregnancy

Muller VA, Kasper AS and Hinterseher I

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: March 28, 2015

We report a case of aortobifemoral bypass because of severe peripheral artery disease in a 40-year-old woman at 13 weeks of pregnancy. The patient presented herself to the emergency room with necrosis on her toes and a reduction of her maximal walking distance. She was obese and a heavy smoker although she has been pregnant at that time....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3656/1410025

Features of Colon Cancer with Liver Metastasis: A Case Report and Literature Review

Ruijun Bao and Lijiang Ma

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: April 01, 2015

According to American Cancer Society, there estimated to have one million new colorectal cancer cases worldwide each year, and half of them die from clinical complications and metastasis. The dominant metastasis site for patient with colon cancer is liver. In this report, a 77-year-old male presented with occult blood in stool, weight loss and abnormal liver function tests....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3631/1510004

Smoking Addiction and Challenges in Treatment in Psychoses

Sutapa Basu

Article Type: Perspective | First Published: April 06, 2015

Schizophrenia is a major mental illness which affects young adults. It comes with a huge burden of illness and medication compliance is an essential part of recovery. However, despite compliance, there are instances of break through symptoms and some of this has been tied to smoking. Smoking is rampant all over the world and among patients with Schizophrenia, it is inordinately high....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-9004/1410027

A Case Study of Stillbirth in a Pregnancy Complicated by Asthma

Vicki L Clifton and Maureen D Busuttil

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: March 25, 2015

Asthma during pregnancy can be complicated by intrauterine growth restriction, preterm delivery and stillbirth. This paper reports the obstetric and respiratory history of a 23 year old woman whose pregnancy was complicated by asthma and a severe asthma exacerbation that was associated with a stillbirth at 34 weeks gestation....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5718/1510002

Late-Night Matches for Professional Soccer Players: Should we be Concerned about Sleep and Recovery?

Hugh H.K. Fullagar

Article Type: Perspective | First Published: March 30, 2015

Elite soccer players compete within the uppermost echelon of the most popular and participated sport in the world. Both male and female stars of the game, from Cristiano Ronaldo to Marta Vieira, entertain hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Indeed, the financial growth of the game in recent decades has enabled global television audiences to witness the game they love....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-567X/1510006

International Journal of Virology and AIDS is Committed to Publishing High Quality Papers in Current Virology and AIDS Research

Christopher J. Menzie and Shu-Feng Zhou

Article Type: Editorial | First Published: March 30, 2015

Understanding how viruses work and interact with the host is of the upmost importance. For example, the Ebola virus disease (formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever) first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks, one in Nzara, Sudan, and the other in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410019

Unusual Case of Necrotizing Pneumonia

Rajapriya Manickam, Kabir Oladipo Olaniran and Raghu Loganathan

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: April 06, 2015

Coccidioidomycosis is caused by inhalation of Coccidoides spores which is endemic in south western parts of USA and an uncommon cause of pneumonia in non-endemic areas. We report a young Hispanic man who lives in New York presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis and severe pulmonary Coccidioidomycosis....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3664/1410008

Micro and Nanofabrication: Is a Practical Three-Dimensional Cell Culture Platform for Drug Discovery Achievable?

Ze-Zhi Wu and William S. Kisaalita

Article Type: Editorial | First Published: April 06, 2015

It is a great challenge to simultaneously engineer the three MEFs in a single effort to create physiologically relevant cell culture microenvironments. A survey of the literature has shown that in such a scenario some MEFs may not be as important as others....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3672/1410007

Persistent Complement Activation is Associated with Insulin Resistance and Chronic Inflammation in Overweight Patients with Type 2 Diabetes with Dyslipidemia

Takayuki Fujita, Yusuke Murata, Seiichiro Hemmi, Mamiko Kajiwara, Minako Yabuki, Yoshinobu Fuke, Atsushi Satomura and Masayoshi Soma

Article Type: Original Article | First Published: March 31, 2015

Insulin resistance is a major player in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. C3 converts to C3a and acylation stimulating protein (ASP) by complement activation. ASP activates adipose tissue macrophages and accelerates continuous inflammation. Tissuebound C3a is known to induce insulin resistance. We examined the relationship between insulin resistance and complement activation by the in vivo alteration of ASP....