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Presence of excessive postural tachycardia or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome did not differentiate patients on perceived symptom severity, emotional distress, disability, or health behaviors but did appear to determine treatment recommendations.Visual art images narrate the evolution of humankind including different and specific wound managing strategies. Through the observation of some notable art works we explore the empiric historical progress in wound healing and the main reasons they may have been represented. We briefly examine the cultural, symbolic, magical or religious beliefs that have conditioned the approach to a fundamental vital need of humanity to heal a wound.
Patients with acquired, idiopathic olfactory dysfunction (OD) commonly undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evaluation to rule out intracranial pathologies. This practice is highly debated given the expense of MRI relative to the probability of detecting a treatable lesion. This, combined with the increasing use of MRI in research to investigate the mechanisms underlying OD, provided the impetus for this comprehensive review.

The purpose of this systematic review was to both assess the utility of MRI in diagnosis of idiopathic OD and to describe MRI findings among mixed OD etiologies to better understand its role as a research tool in this patient population.

A literature search of PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, Web of Science, and Scopus for studies with original MRI data for patients with OD was completed. Studies exclusively investigating patients with neurocognitive deficits or those studying traumatic or congenital etiologies of OD were excluded.

From 1758 candidate articles, 33 studies were incluiopathic OD.
MRI uncommonly detects intracranial pathology in patients with idiopathic OD. Among patients with mixed OD etiologies, reduced olfactory bulb and gray matter volume are the most common abnormal findings on MRI. Further research is required to better understand the role of MRI and its cost-effectiveness in patients with acquired, idiopathic OD.Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is a rare transmissible disease. According to molecular classification, six clinical phenotypes of sCJD have been described MM1, MM2, MV1, MV2, VV1 and VV2. MV2 subtype comprises 9% of sCJD cases. Atypical clinical course has been reported to be the main caveat for the diagnosis of the MV2 subtype. We hereby present a rare case of MV2 subtype of sCJD, highlighting the evolution of clinical, EEG and imaging attributes over a two-year period, thus underlining the atypical course of the disease.Baloxavir marboxil, the prodrug of baloxavir acid, is an anti-influenza antiviral. Here, a pharmacokinetics-time to alleviation of symptoms (PK-TTAS) model was developed and used to (I) characterize the PK-TTAS relationship, (II) quantify the impact of covariates, and (III) predict TTAS in different ethnic groups. Data from 1781 otherwise-healthy (OwH) or high-risk (HR) patients included in phase II (JapicCTI-153090) and III studies (NCT02954354 and NCT02949011) were used; patients received either placebo or oral baloxavir marboxil. The natural distribution of TTAS in placebo-treated patients was modeled, then TTAS data from the baloxavir marboxil arms were added to model the impact of baloxavir acid concentration on TTAS. PK parameters estimated by a population PK model and informed by phase I data (NCT03959332 and KCT0003535) were included to simulate TTAS in Chinese and South Korean patients. Composite symptom score at baseline (TSS0), ethnicity, sex, and patient type (OwH or HR) significantly impacted the natural TTAS distribution. TTAS reduced with increasing baloxavir acid concentrations. Compared with placebo, high and low baloxavir acid exposures (AUC0-inf 5.13-16.65 and 0.72-5.13 μg.hr/mL, respectively) significantly reduced TTAS; no covariates affected the drug effect on TTAS. Simulated TTAS was similar between OwH or HR Chinese, South Korean, and other Asian patients, with median reductions from placebo between 18.3-18.8 hours and 21.2-22.0 hours in OwH and HR patients, respectively, assuming TSS0 > 10. Ethnicity (Asian vs. non-Asian) did not significantly impact the drug effect on TTAS; predicted TTAS was similar across different Asian populations. This suggests Chinese and South Korean patients may benefit from similar efficacy as other Asian patients.Diabetic foot osteomyelitis (DFO) is a clinical problem with high risk of amputation. The treatment of DFO is still an unsolved challenge. Surgical therapy, antibiotic therapy or conservative treatment are still debated for the timing and the consequences. Long antibiotic therapies expose the selection of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Nowadays the use of new bone substitutes aims to support the load of the bone segments and to ensure the eradication of the infectious process after surgical treatment. A case report of digital osteomyelitis due to a multidrug resistant bacteria was treated with a conservative treatment and use of bioglass (Bonalive) that has the ability to inhibit bacterial growth. A long follow-up shows the resolution of infectious process, no ulcer recurrence and persistent recovery of its ability to walk. Our results agree with literature data and suggest that bioglass may be considered a useful option to manage DFO and achieve healing with a very conservative approach.
Allergic rhinitis (AR) is regarded as a prevalent and non-infectious inflammation in nasal mucosa, and astragalus polysaccharide (APS) could mitigate inflammation.

Herein, this study probed the specific mechanism of APS in inflammatory responses in AR.

Firstly, AR guinea pig models were established through the stimulation and sensitization of ovalbumin (OVA) and received APS treatment. Changes in nasal symptoms were assessed through counting the sneezing and rubbing times of guinea pigs. The change patterns of OVA-specific immunoglobulin-E (OVA-sIgE), OVA-specific immunoglobulin-G1 (OVA-sIgG1), tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, and interleukin (IL)-6 in guinea pig serum were identified. Meanwhile, the levels of IL-17, transforming growth factor (TGF)-β, IL-10, and forkhead box protein P3 (Foxp3) in the guinea pig tissues or serum were examined, and CD25
Foxp3
Treg or CD4
IL17
Th17 cell proportion was detected. Afterwards, nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kB) expression in guinea pig nasal mucosa tissues were examined. Rescue experiments were designed to probe the role of NF-kB overexpression in inflammatory responses and Treg/Th17 imbalance in AR guinea pigs.

APS treatment reduced sneezing and rubbing times of AR guinea pigs and suppressed OVA-sIgE, OVA-sIgG1, TNF-α, and IL-6 levels in guinea pig serum, and meanwhile, increased CD25
Foxp3
Treg cell proportion while reduced CD4
IL17
Th17 cell proportion in AR guinea pig serum or tissues, in a dose-dependent manner. NF-kB was highly-expressed in AR guinea pigs and down-regulated after APS treatment. NF-kB overexpression facilitated inflammatory responses and Treg/Th17 imbalance in AR.

APS reduced Treg/Th17 imbalance via suppressing NF-kB expression, thereby ameliorating inflammatory responses in AR.
APS reduced Treg/Th17 imbalance via suppressing NF-kB expression, thereby ameliorating inflammatory responses in AR.
Investigate how aging and some lifestyle factors correlate with changes in macular photoreceptor and retinal pigment epithelium-Bruch membrane complex layers thickness in a sample of healthy population by using OCT segmentation technique.

A cross-sectional study conducted at the ophthalmology department in the Medical City in Baghdad. All participants underwent an interview of medical history and lifestyle habits. Maculae of all participants were scanned using spectral domain optical coherence tomography, followed by manual segmentation of retinal layers.

The study included 152 healthy participants (152 eyes), their mean age was 57.3 ± 6.7 years, gender distribution was 82(53.9%) males and 70(46.1%) females. There was a decrement in retinal pigment epithelium-Bruch membrane layer thickness at central subfield (500 µm radius from fovea minimum) by - 0.178 µm/year (p = 0.019), inner macula (500-1500 µm radius from fovea minimum) by - 0.263 µm/year (p = 0.002), outer macula (1500-3000 µm radius from fovea minimum) by - 0.225 µm/year (p = 0.015) with no statistically significant effect on photoreceptor thickness. Physical activity and smoking had statistically no significant effect on these layers thickness, however smokers had higher photoreceptor thickness at fovea minimum and central subfield. Paclitaxel concentration Body mass index increase by one kg/m
correlated with a decrement in photoreceptor layer thickness by - 0.108 µm (p = 0.007).

Aging process affected the retinal pigment epithelium-Bruch membrane complex and photoreceptor layer thickness in a healthy population, and this process can be slowed down by avoiding some lifestyles which aggravate these changes like obesity.
Aging process affected the retinal pigment epithelium-Bruch membrane complex and photoreceptor layer thickness in a healthy population, and this process can be slowed down by avoiding some lifestyles which aggravate these changes like obesity.The significance of Social Medicine in France in 1848 as a movement led by doctor Jules Guérin is not adequately documented. Why would an orthopedist write the call to doctors in Paris proposing a union around Social Medicine? What is the meaning of the formulation on Social Medicine made by Jules Guérin in 1848? An analysis of Jules Guérin's trajectory supported by primary and bibliographic sources was made to answer these questions. The material analyzed allows us to conclude that there was no movement around Social Medicine, unlike hygiene, and closer to the revolutionary proposals of 1848. Jules Guérin was a liberal doctor who aimed to have a place in the new revolutionary government for the medical corporation. His scientific and professional work was fundamentally related to orthopedics, and the paper on Social Medicine was a circumstantial essay with liberal content.Glioblastoma has a dismal prognosis and is a critical and urgent health issue that requires aggressive research and determined clinical efforts. Due to its diffuse and infiltrative growth in the brain parenchyma, complete neurosurgical resection is rarely possible. Here, pulsed microwave-induced thermoacoustic (MTA) therapy is proposed as a potential alternative modality to precisely and effectively eradicate in vivo orthotopic glioblastoma. A nanoparticle composed of polar amino acids and adenosine-based agonists is constructed with high microwave absorbance and selective penetration of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) at the tumor site. This nanoparticle can activate the adenosine receptor on the BBB to allow self-passage and tumor accumulation. The nanoparticle converts absorbed microwaves into ultrasonic shockwaves via the thermoacoustic cavitation effect. The ultrasonic shockwave can mechanically destroy tumor cells within a short range with minimal damage to adjacent normal brain tissue due to the rapid decay of the ultrasonic shockwave intensity. The deep tissue penetration characteristics of the microwave and the rapid decay of the ultrasonic shockwave make MTA therapy a promising glioblastoma cure including intact skin and skull.
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