Treatment of Pelvic Organ Prolapse in a Patient with a Thermal Burn Wound Caused by Hot Stone Therapy, a Traditional Thai Treatment by Sasivimol Srisukho, Orawee Chinthakanan

“…Pelvic examination revealed stage IV genitourinary prolapse according to the POP-Q classification. An ill-defined ulcer measuring 6.5 × 4.5 cm was present in the anterior wall of the uterus, and a 2.0 cm diameter ulcer was present in the right posterior wall of the uterus. …”
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Extracting the dependence of directed flow differences on conserved charges by Lin Zi-Wei, Nayak Kishora, Shi Shusu

“…Furthermore, a one-dimensional fit is incorrect because its slope parameter depends on the arbitrary scaling factor of a hadron set and is thus ill-defined. We use test data of △v1 to explicitly demonstrate these points.…”
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Developmental Pathways Pervade Stem Cell Responses to Evolving Extracellular Matrices of 3D Bioprinted Microenvironments by Quyen A. Tran, Visar Ajeti, Brian T. Freeman, Paul J. Campagnola, Brenda M. Ogle

“…Moreover, 2D cultures undergo minimal ECM remodeling and are ill-equipped to stimulate pathways associated with development.…”
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Gas-Forming Pyogenic Liver Abscess with Septic Shock by Muhammad S. Khan, Muhammad K. Ishaq, Kellie R. Jones

“…Therefore it is important to consider C. perfringens infection in any severely ill patient with fever and evidence of hemolysis. …”
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Mechanisms for the Invasion and Dissemination of Salmonella by Qiao Li

“…Salmonella enterica is a gastroenteric Gram-negative bacterium that can infect both humans and animals and causes millions of illnesses per year around the world. Salmonella infections usually occur after the consumption of contaminated food or water. …”
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Chicken Mite (Other Common Names: Poultry Red Mite, Roost Mite) Dermanyssus gallinae (De Geer) (Arachnida: Acari: Dermanyssidae) by Ethen T. Carter, Jennifer L. Gillett-Kaufman

“…Louis encephalitis virus, as well as other illnesses, such as fowl pox virus, Newcastle virus, and fowl cholera. …”
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Antimicrobial Stewardship in Daily Practice: Managing an Important Resource by Nicole Le Saux, Canadian Paediatric Society, Infectious Diseases and Immunization Committee

“…Vital components of antimicrobial stewardship include appropriate testing to diagnose whether infections are viral or bacterial, and using clinical follow-up rather than antibiotics in cases in which the child is not very ill and uncertainty exists. Other specific, important actions include questioning whether positive urine cultures are contaminated when there is no evidence of pyuria or inflammatory changes, and obtaining a chest radiograph to support a diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia. …”
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Living with Stigma: Depressed Elderly Persons’ Experiences of Physical Health Problems by Anne Lise Holm, Anne Lyberg, Elisabeth Severinsson

“…Effective training programmes and procedures need to be developed with more focus on how to handle depressive ill health and physical problems in older people.…”
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Intestinal Permeability Assays: a Review by A. A. Iakupova, S. R. Abdulkhakov, R. K. Zalyalov, A. G. Safin, R. A. Abdulkhakov

“…The assay and result standardisation will facilitate practice in functional and organic intestinal diseases, as well as allergies, diabetes mellitus, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and some other illnesses.…”
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Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Manifests with Acute Severe Hypernatremia during Hospitalization by Kullaya Takkavatakarn, Hansamon Poparn, Pisut Katavetin

“…The results of the laboratory workup indicated DI, which dramatically responded to desmopressin. MRI showed an ill-defined faint hyper signal intensity in T1, T2/FLAIR lesions involving the bilateral hypothalamus. …”
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Topical Nitroglycerine for Neonatal Arterial Associated Peripheral Ischemia following Cannulation: A Case Report and Comprehensive Literature Review by Rafat Mosalli, Mohamed Elbaz, Bosco Paes

“…We report the first successful use of nitroglycerine ointment in a critically ill preterm infant with ischemic hand changes after brachial artery cannulation.…”
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The use of a smartphone app for self-monitoring by patients with bipolar disorder being treated in a primary care setting by Omar H. Elsayed, John Cecil, Richard Priesmeyer, Gregg Siegel, Phyllis Siegel, Rif S. El-Mallakh

“…Background: Self-monitoring and self-management are growing phenomena in the care of chronic illnesses, like bipolar disorder. A significant fraction of patients with bipolar disorder are cared for by primary care providers. …”
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The Relationship of Triphasic Waves with Intracranial Pressure as a Possible Prognostic Marker in Traumatic Brain Injury by Nakul Katyal, Aarti Sarwal, Pravin George, Biswajit Banik, Christopher R. Newey

“…Continuous electroencephalography (CEEG) monitoring is used for detection of convulsive and nonconvulsive seizures and assessing the degree of encephalopathy in critically ill patients. A commonly seen encephalopathic pattern on CEEG is generalized periodic discharges with triphasic wave (TW) morphology. …”
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Using nonlinear model predictive control to find optimal therapeutic strategies to modulate inflammation by Judy Day, Jonathan Rubin, Gilles Clermont

“…Modulation of the inflammatory response has become a key focal point in the treatment of critically ill patients. Much of the computational work in this emerging field has been carried out with the goal of unraveling the primary drivers, interconnections, and dynamics of systemic inflammation. …”
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Airway Compromise due to Retropharyngeal Emphysema–A Rare Complication of an Extravasated Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheter by Ana Licina

“…Awareness of the tip position and accompanying clinical and radiological enquiry, must be performed prior to use of PICC lines in critically ill patients.…”
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Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis and Hydrocephalus in a Vegan Secondary to Acquired Hyperhomocystinaemia by W. D. D. Priyankara, A.V. I. Chandimal, F. G. Sivagnanam, E. M. Manoj

“…Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis associated with acute hydrocephalus and periventricular leukoencephalopathy is a challenging combination, in a critically ill with deteriorating neurology. We report a case of a young man with acute onset neuropsychiatric manifestations, admitted to the intensive care unit. …”
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Emerging role of gut microbiota extracellular vesicle in neurodegenerative disorders and insights on their therapeutic management by Adil Hassan, Yin Huang, Mahjabina, Otmilda Hapsari Sudiro, Xiangxiu Wang, Jingqin He, Yan Wei, Xiaoling Liao, Guixue Wang

“…This study also examines the current state and potential therapeutic effects of GMEVs on neurodegenerative illnesses.…”
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Sparse Regularization-Based Reconstruction for Bioluminescence Tomography Using a Multilevel Adaptive Finite Element Method by Xiaowei He, Yanbin Hou, Duofang Chen, Yuchuan Jiang, Man Shen, Junting Liu, Qitan Zhang, Jie Tian

“…Nevertheless, uniformly fine meshes would cause large dataset and overfine meshes might aggravate the ill-posedness of BLT. Additionally, accurately quantitative information of density and power has not been simultaneously obtained so far. …”
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Trichosporon asahii Urinary Tract Infection in a Patient with Severe COVID-19 by Verschoyle Cronyn, John Howard, Leslie Chiang, Lisa Le, Zandraetta Tims-Cook, Alida M Gertz

“…In addition to being immunocompromised, critically ill COVID-19 patients often have prolonged exposure to antibiotics, corticosteroids, and Foley catheters, which further increases their susceptibility to infection with T. asahii. …”
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Le dépôt bimétallique du vie s. av. J.-C. de Tavers (Loiret, région Centre) : présentation liminaire by Pierre-Yves Milcent, Christian Cribellier, Arthur Tramon

“…It shows a wide range of metal products in a formerly ill-documented area in this field. The association of these objects allows us to date some products, initially badly dated, from the late 6th c. …”
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