Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus in Geriatric Medicine: A Challenge

Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) in elderly patients is reviewed. Since the clinical signs that characterize NPH & in continence, difficulty walking, and dementia & occur frequently in the elderly in association with a wide variety of disorders, attention is paid to the differential diagnosis of NPH on the basis of both clinical findings and laboratory tests. Success rates for treatment o…

Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: Diagnosis and New Approaches to Treatment

Impairment of gait occurs commonly in the elderly and has a profound impact on individual functional capacity and quality of life. Dementia and urinary incontinence are other common problems encountered in the elderly. In many circumstances, these problems are mutually exclusive, with treatments chosen to address each disease entity separately. When they appear over time in the same patient, ho…

Characteristics of SARS- CoV-2 and COVID-19

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS- CoV-2) is a highly transmissible and pathogenic coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 and has caused a pandemic of acute respiratory disease, named ‘coronavirus disease 2019’ (COVID-19), which threatens human health and public safety. In this Review, we describe the basic virology of SARS- CoV-2, including genomic characteristics and re…

Coronavirus Disease 2019–COVID-19

In recent decades, several new diseases have emerged in different geographical areas, with pathogens including Ebola virus, Zika virus, Nipah virus, and coronaviruses (CoVs). Recently, a new type of viral infection emerged in Wuhan City, China, and initial genomic sequencing data of this virus do not match with previously sequenced CoVs, suggesting a novel CoV strain (2019-nCoV), which has now …

Medical Nutrition Therapy for Patients with None Dialysis-Dependent Chronic K…

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CKD) currently affects approximately 15% of the US population or 30 million US adults,1 but incidence is projected to increase over the next 2 decades due to the ongoing obesity epidemic and the aging of the US population.2 Almost half of all US adults aged 65 years and older are predicted to develop CKD during their lifetime.2 The economic impact of CKD is substantial

Improved Myocardial Perfusion in Stable Angina Pectoris by Oral Lumbrokinase:…

This paper represents the first description of the use of oral lumbrokinase in the treatment of chronic coronary artery disease with objective assessment using MPI. Oral lumbrokinase improves regional myocardial perfusion in patients with stable angina.

Quality of Labor Epidural Analgesia and Maternal Outcome With Levobupivacaine…

Backgrpund : Quality of labor analgesia plays a vital role in the maternal outcome. Very few literature are available analyzing the quality of epidural labor analgesia. Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of 0.1% levobupivacaine and 0.1% ropivacaine with fentanyl as an adjuvant for epidural labor analgesia in terms of onset, duration, quality of analgesia, and degree …

Unusual Complication following a Myomectomy: Colic Migration of a Forgotten A…

Surgical sponges are the most common retained foreign bodies following surgery. The morbidity of this condition is illustrated herein with the case of a 36-year-old female patient with a history ofmyomectomy 5months before her admission into our unit for enterocutaneous fistula. Although imaging and etiological investigations were made, diagnosis was carried out only by laparotomy. Theforeign b…

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Opportunities and …

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Triage of Scarce Critical Care Resources in COVID-19 An Implementation Guide…

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