Blom McCullough

The purpose of this case report is to raise awareness of the early diagnosis and treatment of compartment syndrome in children. Late diagnosis can lead to irreversible outcomes, including myonecrosis, neurologic injury, functional problems, and even amputation. In this age group, clinical judgment may be enough to proceed with fasciotomy. © 2020…[Read more]

In 2008, Vian reported an increasing interest in understanding how corruption affects healthcare outcomes and asked what could be done to combat corruption in the health sector. Eleven years later, corruption is seen as a heterogeneous mix of activity, extensive and expensive in terms of loss of productivity, increasing inequity and costs, but…[Read more]

The optical properties of the samples were studied experimentally by UV-Vis spectroscopy and theoretically by finite difference time domain simulations. The measured and simulated spectra allow a comprehensive analysis of the details of electromagnetic coupling in periodic plasmonic arrays. In particular, we identify relevant criteria required for…[Read more]

The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES) is the only medicolegal death investigation system of the US federal government. Its origins can be traced to three dried tissue specimens placed on a shelf by a Civil War Surgeon General in 1862. The collections and the library of the Army Surgeon General spawned the Armed Forces Institute of…[Read more]

This study aimed at investigating the anticancer activity of an exopolysaccharide (EPS) isolated from Lactobacillus helveticus MB2-1. The crude EPS from L. helveticus MB2-1 (LHEPS) was fractionated into three fractions, namely LHEPS-1, LHEPS-2 and LHEPS-3. LHEPS-1 exhibited the most effective anti-proliferative activity, which was associated with…[Read more]

Epigenomic and statistical fine-mapping most strongly supported 50 putative risk genes. Of these, 39 were expressed robustly in mouse cochlea and 16 were enriched specifically in sensory hair cells. These results reveal new risk loci and risk genes for hearing difficulty and suggest an important role for altered gene regulation in the cochlear…[Read more]

To determine the impact of infarct site combinations on prognosis of small subcortical infarction (SSI) by classifying the infarcted perforator area in relation to the anatomical structures that surround and/or involve the corticospinal tract.

Consecutive patients with SSI ≤24h from onset to initial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) a…[Read more]

In addition, she has brachycephaly, never described in female DDX3X patients, and macroglossia, that has never been associated with the syndrome.

This case expands the knowledge of DDX3X pathogenic variants and the associated DDX3X syndrome phenotypic spectrum.

This case expands the knowledge of DDX3X pathogenic variants and the…[Read more]

We compared the curettage/bone grafting and the curettage/bone graft substitutes surgical techniques in their relation to functional outcomes, oncologic outcome (recurrence, malignant transformation), the rate of postsurgical complications, durations of surgery and of postsurgical immobilization for hand-localized cases of solitary and multiple…[Read more]

The cause-specific SDR increased significantly in intestinal infections, viral diseases, pneumonia, and influenza, and declined in tuberculosis and meningitis. Overall mortality was positively correlated with GDP and unemployment, and adversely with hospital expenditure. Conclusions The mortality of infectious disease was adversely affected by…[Read more]

We validate this model by simulating a series of events where sequences are uniquely identifiable by analysing phasic information, as several recent EEG/MEG studies have shown. As such, we show how one can encode and retrieve complete episodic memories where the quality of such memories is modulated by the following alpha gate keepers to content…[Read more]

001). Video power index was not correlated with each score. this website The videos in group 1 (13.9%) had the highest scores whereas videos in group 3 (41.8%) had the lowest scores. There was no significant difference between the video sources according to the VPI.

Although some YouTube videos contain useful information for CL wearers,…[Read more]

Patients experience various levels of discomfort during orthodontic treatment, i.e., after placement of separators, orthodontic implant placement, and archwire placement and during debonding. Various pain control methods have been developed to relive pain during debonding, i.e., finger pressure (FP), elastomeric wafer (EW), and stress relief…[Read more]

Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) is the standard treatment for brain metastases of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and melanoma, mostly in combination with immunotherapy. The objective was to retrospectively evaluate the influence of the time-lapse between immunotherapy and stereotactic radiotherapy on toxicity.

From 2016 to 2019, 59…[Read more]

71 vs. 0.79) or air bronchograms (median Fleiss’ κ = 0.72)). Intraobserver consistency was relatively low for intermediate LUS scores (e.g. PD0166285 LUS Score 1 median Fleiss’ κ = 0.52). We therefore conclude that more distinct LUS findings (e.g., air bronchograms, subpleural consolidations) may be more suitable for disease monitoring, especiall…[Read more]

During the physical exam, she was found to have a large fungating mass in the right groin. Upon further questioning, she reported that the mass began as a small swelling in the groin three months ago and was evaluated by the primary care physician and received antibiotics for two weeks. During this time, she did not have any worsening pulmonary…[Read more]

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in conjunction with multivariate and univariate modelling were used to analyze the metabolic profile of the blood serum samples acquired from the studied patients.

Three metabolites were identified as potential biomarkers betaine, N-acetyl-glycoprotein, and carnitine.

Since presented…[Read more]

Responsive surfactant systems based on dynamic covalent bond exhibit an unsatisfactory foamability and foam stability, despite their documented functionality in emulsions. As such we anticipate that the foaming performance should be improved by introducing Pickering effect, which is possible when the responsiveness of the dynamic covenant bonds…[Read more]

Stress shielding of the proximal humerus following total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) can promote unfavorable bone remodeling, especially for osteoporotic patients. The objective of this finite element (FE) study was to determine if a hollow, rather than solid, titanium stem can mitigate this effect for healthy, osteopenic, and osteoporotic bone.…[Read more]

veloped prediction model allows the assessment of body composition in SMA I children with simple and widely available measures and with reasonable accuracy.

The developed prediction model allows the assessment of body composition in SMA I children with simple and widely available measures and with reasonable accuracy.

Allogeneic…[Read more]