Medical and Biomedical Researches

Strongyloides Hyperinfection Syndrome Complicating (Ectopic) Cushing Syndrome.

June 28th, 2008
Strongyloides Hyperinfection Syndrome Complicating (Ectopic) Cushing Syndrome. Strongyloidiasis can present with a wide variety of symptoms and can lead to a potentially fatal hyperinfection. Although any factors that suppress the host defense mechanisms can potentially trigger hyperinfection, prolonged steroid use has been quite well described. A ...

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Report of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry 2007 Adult Position Development Confer

June 28th, 2008
Report of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry 2007 Adult Position Development Conference and Official Positions. The International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) periodically holds Position Development Conferences (PDCs) for the purpose of establishing standards and guidelines for the assessment of skeletal health-the nomenclature, indications, acquisition, ...

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Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness: Erythema Migrans Is Not Always Lyme Disease.

June 28th, 2008
Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness: Erythema Migrans Is Not Always Lyme Disease. Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI) is a rash occurring after a tick bite. It is a form of erythema migrans, an annular rash with central clearing that is almost identical with the erythema migrans seen ...

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Special Report on the 2007 Pediatric Position Development Conference of the International Society fo

June 28th, 2008
Special Report on the 2007 Pediatric Position Development Conference of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry. The International Society for Clinical Densitometry periodically holds Position Development Conferences (PDCs) for the purpose of establishing standards and guidelines for the assessment of skeletal health, including nomenclature, indications, acquisition, ...

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Physician Discussion About Social Activities in Primary Care Encounters With Older Adults.

June 28th, 2008
Physician Discussion About Social Activities in Primary Care Encounters With Older Adults. OBJECTIVE:: Involvement in social activities is linked to positive health outcomes. This study focused on the prevalence of social activity discussions during the primary care medical encounter, and examined how patient, physician, and contextual ...

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Fluticasone-Associated Cutaneous Allergic Granulomatous Vasculitis: An Underrecognized but Important

June 28th, 2008
Fluticasone-Associated Cutaneous Allergic Granulomatous Vasculitis: An Underrecognized but Important Cause of Drug-Induced Cutaneous Churg-Strauss Syndrome. Allergic granulomatous vasculitis, or Churg-Strauss syndrome, is a small vessel, multisystem vasculitis that can affect multiple organs. It is usually idiopathic, but recent case reports have implicated leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRA) ...

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Brain Metastasis From Thymic Carcinoma in Association with SIADH and Pituitary Enlargement: A Case R

June 28th, 2008
Brain Metastasis From Thymic Carcinoma in Association with SIADH and Pituitary Enlargement: A Case Report. A 49-year-old white female presented to the emergency room complaining of severe headaches. A brain computed tomography (CT) showed a large right temporal mass that measured 2.9 x 5 cm. Sodium ...

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Compartment Syndrome in Patients with Buerger Disease and Anticardiolipin Antibodies.

June 28th, 2008
Compartment Syndrome in Patients with Buerger Disease and Anticardiolipin Antibodies. We report two cases of acute compartment syndrome in the anterior compartment of the lower limbs of patients with the diagnosis of Buerger disease associated with positive anticardiolipin antibodies. We comment on the rarity of the ...

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Isolated Paget Disease of the Patella Complicated with Ipsilateral Femoral Head Bone Marrow Edema: A

June 28th, 2008
Isolated Paget Disease of the Patella Complicated with Ipsilateral Femoral Head Bone Marrow Edema: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. The patella is rarely affected by Paget disease of bone. The authors report a 54-year-old lady with ipsilateral knee and hip pain, initially misdiagnosed ...

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Comparing the Frequency of Unrecognized Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms in Injured

June 28th, 2008
Comparing the Frequency of Unrecognized Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms in Injured Versus Noninjured Patients Presenting for Care in the Pediatric Emergency Department. INTRODUCTION:: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common pediatric mental health problems but often goes unrecognized. Children with ADHD ...

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Impact of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners on the Evaluation of Sexual Assault in a Pediatric Emergenc

June 28th, 2008
Impact of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners on the Evaluation of Sexual Assault in a Pediatric Emergency Department. BACKGROUND:: Nearly 44% of sexual assault victims in the United States are younger than 18 years. These victims often present to emergency departments for care after the assault. To ...

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Bicycle Injury Documentation Before and After Charting Intervention.

June 28th, 2008
Bicycle Injury Documentation Before and After Charting Intervention. BACKGROUND:: Previous studies have shown that routinely completed free-text emergency department medical records contain limited information necessary for injury surveillance. We instituted an injury documentation sheet into our emergency department records to evaluate the impact on completeness of ...

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Croup Management in Australia and New Zealand: A PREDICT Study of Physician Practice and Clinical Pr

June 28th, 2008
Croup Management in Australia and New Zealand: A PREDICT Study of Physician Practice and Clinical Practice Guidelines. OBJECTIVE:: Comparison of clinical practice guideline (CPG) recommendations and reported physician management of croup at PREDICT (Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative) sites as baseline for planned randomized ...

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Emergency Department Detection of Adolescents With a History of Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Problems.

June 28th, 2008
Emergency Department Detection of Adolescents With a History of Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Problems. OBJECTIVE:: To compare the characteristics of adolescents with and without a history of problematic alcohol use, who are treated in the emergency department (ED) for an alcohol-related problem. METHODS:: Three hundred seventeen ...

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A Comparison of Cartilage Palisades and Fascia in Type 1 Tympanoplasty in Children: Anatomic and Fun

June 28th, 2008
A Comparison of Cartilage Palisades and Fascia in Type 1 Tympanoplasty in Children: Anatomic and Functional Results. OBJECTIVE:: To assess the anatomic and functional results of primary Type1 cartilage tympanoplasty performed with the palisade technique and to compare them with the results of primary Type 1 ...

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One-Year Results of the Banded Neural Response Imaging Study.

June 28th, 2008
One-Year Results of the Banded Neural Response Imaging Study. OBJECTIVE:: To investigate the relationship between single-channel and banded neural response imaging (NRI) responses and to evaluate whether banded NRI measurements are better correlated to fitting parameters than single-channel NRI measurements. PATIENTS:: Nineteen profoundly deaf subjects implanted ...

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Biocompatibility of Different Biopolymers After Being Implanted Into the Rat Cochlea.

June 28th, 2008
Biocompatibility of Different Biopolymers After Being Implanted Into the Rat Cochlea. OBJECTIVE:: To assess the biocompatibility of different biopolymers with cochlea implant. MATERIALS AND METHODS:: Six bioabsorbable polymers and biostable silicone were used for testing histologic reactions in the cochlea of the rat. The samples were ...

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International Common Otology Database: Taste Disturbance After Stapes Surgery.

June 28th, 2008
International Common Otology Database: Taste Disturbance After Stapes Surgery. OBJECTIVE:: To use a study on dysgeusia to assess the usefulness of an otology database. STUDY DESIGN:: Data were extracted from the international Common Otology Database. INTERVENTION:: Primary stapes operations. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE AND RESULTS:: From a ...

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Chronic Treatment With Electroconvulsive Shock May Modulate the Immune Function of Macrophages.

June 28th, 2008
Chronic Treatment With Electroconvulsive Shock May Modulate the Immune Function of Macrophages. OBJECTIVE:: To determine the effect of single and chronic electroconvulsive shock (ECS) administration on the immunoregulatory functions of macrophages. METHODS:: Male Wistar rats received single or chronic treatment with ECS (150 mA, 50 Hz, ...

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Tardive Seizure and Antibiotics: Case Reports and Review of the Literature.

June 28th, 2008
Tardive Seizure and Antibiotics: Case Reports and Review of the Literature. ABSTRACT: Tardive seizure is a serious adverse reaction of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). However, it was rarely reported in ECT sessions for psychiatric patients who needed concurrent antibiotic treatments. We present 2 cases of patients with ...

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Bradycardia and Hypotension in a Patient With Severe Aortic Stenosis Receiving Electroconvulsive The

June 28th, 2008
Bradycardia and Hypotension in a Patient With Severe Aortic Stenosis Receiving Electroconvulsive Therapy Dose Titration for Treatment of Depression. ABSTRACT: Aortic stenosis (AS) is a risk factor for increased morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing procedures requiring general anesthesia. The absolute risk to patients with AS ...

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Initial report from the Hunter Outcome Survey.

June 28th, 2008
Initial report from the Hunter Outcome Survey. PURPOSE:: Hunter syndrome (Mucopolysaccharidosis II) is a rare, X-linked disorder of glycosaminoglycan metabolism. It is caused by a deficiency in the lysosomal enzyme iduronate-2-sulfatase, and in affected patients glycosaminoglycan accumulates in lysosomes of various tissues and organs and contributes ...

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Infant hearing loss and connexin testing in a diverse population.

June 28th, 2008
Infant hearing loss and connexin testing in a diverse population. PURPOSE:: Previous studies of connexin-related hearing loss have typically reported on mixed age groups or adults. To further address epidemiology and natural history of connexin-related hearing loss, we conducted a longitudinal study in an ethnically diverse ...

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Adults with genetic syndromes and cardiovascular abnormalities: clinical history and management.

June 28th, 2008
Adults with genetic syndromes and cardiovascular abnormalities: clinical history and management. Cardiovascular abnormalities, especially structural congenital heart defects, commonly occur in malformation syndromes and genetic disorders. Individuals with syndromes comprise a significant proportion of those affected with selected congenital heart defects such as complete atrioventricular canal, ...

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The genetic variation of the tenomodulin gene (TNMD) is associated with serum levels of systemic imm

June 28th, 2008
The genetic variation of the tenomodulin gene (TNMD) is associated with serum levels of systemic immune mediators-the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study. PURPOSE:: We have reported that the genetic variation of the tenomodulin gene (TNMD) is associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2DM), central obesity, ...

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