Background/Objective: The potential impact of vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy has attracted much interest in recent years. This study was an exploratory one aimed to assess vitamin D status among a small random sample of Egyptian pregnant women and their newborns, and to ev...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/12291
Claudia Scaringi, Vitaliana De Sanctis, Giuseppe Minniti, Raffaele Porrini, Alessia Carnevale, Maurizio Valeriani, Maria Christina Cox, Maria Antonietta Aloe Spiriti, Giovanna Gentile, Maurizio Simmaco, Luigi Ruco, Agostino Tafuri & Riccardo Maurizi Enrici·International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Case Reports·2014
Aims: We describe the case of a patient with glioblastoma (GBM) who developed severe and prolonged myelosuppression during concomitant daily temozolomide (TMZ) and radiotherapy (RT) treatment. Analysis of polymorphisms in genes correlated with TMZ-induced myelotoxicity was also p...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/13957
Introduction: This case report addresses the possible and controversial influence of a concomitant oral steroid intake on the efficacy of a dexamethasone intravitreal implant (Ozurdex) in treating macular edema (ME), mostly when related to inflammatory ocular diseases. Case Prese...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/14202
Aim: To withdraw the attention to the possible complication of tendons rupture in cases of intramedullary flexible nail fixating cases of pediatric both bone forearm fractures. Presentation of Case: A 16 years old boy with a history of right forearm both bones mid shaft fracture...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/13583
The manuscript describes the case of a 23 year-old woman, with acute myopericarditis associated with food poisoning without other cardiovascular disease. The patient had a history of hypothyroidism, treated with levothyroxine 75 μg/d, however she was clinically and biochemically...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/12942
Aims: Papillary glioneuronal Tumor (PGNT) is a rare, recently recognized glioneuronal tumor. To date only about 68 cases of PGNT have been reported. Although it has been regarded as a grade 1 neuronal – glial tumor by World Health Organization, aggressive cases have been reported...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/13550
Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) is a well-described congenital heart disease in infants and children but is less commonly reported in adults. Mechanical, surgical and spontaneous closure of PDAs in infants and fetuses are common, however spontaneous closure of PDA in adults is unc...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/12786
In adult with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), it has been known that steroids have been used as a first-line therapy. The therapy induced remission in more than 60% of patients. Here, we evaluated the results of dapsone for a steroid-resistant ITP patient. Further, dapsone has bee...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/13139
Aims: The clinical effects of a Triticum vulgare-containing mouth gel on oral mucositis were evaluated. Presentation of Cases: Five children suffering from oral mucositis due to chemo/radiotherapy were treated with a Triticum vulgare-containing mouth gel, spreaded three times in...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/11798
We here described a case of a 38-year-old woman who was referred to our hospital for general malaise, slight fever, and palpitations after a meal for the past several years. She became hungry at approximately 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. every day, and simultaneously felt the urge to eat so...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/12994
Background: Although endemic in West Africa, HIV-2 infection dissemination is limited to about 1.2 million people worldwide. However, the prevalence of HIV-2 infection is in Portugal disproportionately high, similarly to other countries with strong socioeconomic ties with West Af...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/13078
Aims: Presence of aphasia or cortical stroke on neuroimaging suggests an embolic etiology of the stroke. However sometimes it is difficult to discover the source of the emboli doing the decision of the optimal treatment a challenge. Presentation of Case: 75-year old female was ad...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/13663
Background: Centipede bite is a major public health problem among rural communities of Nigeria. This can be attributed to thick bushes around residential homes and humid weather peculiar to these regions, which favor the survival of this group of arthropods. However, presentation...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/13284
Although most of the ectopic pregnancies after assisted reproductive technology (ART) are tubal, 10.8% are extra tubal and more difficult to diagnose. A careful ultrasound examination should be made on patients who undergo IVF-ET and the possibility of abdominal pregnancy should...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/13173
Edwin Kamau, Hoseah M. Akala, Angela O. Achieng, Redemptah Yeda, Luicer A. Ingasia, Agnes C. Cheruiyot, Dennis W. Juma, Charles Okudo, Duke Omariba, Catherine Muriuki, Eunice A. Owiti, Patrick Omondi, Amos Otedo, Ben Andagalu & Bernhards Ogutu·International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Case Reports·2014
We describe a case of attenuated-responsiveness to Artemether-Lumefantrine (AL) in western Kenya. A 4-year old patient with 14% parasitemia was treated with Coartem® but on day 7 still had 5% parasitemia. Parasite genetic profile had similar genetic polymorphism as that selected...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/11141