Missing IUD Despite Threads at the Cervix by Andrew L. Atkinson, Jonathan D. Baum

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Predictive Factors of Response to Biological Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs: Towards Personalized Medicine by Claire I. Daïen, Jacques Morel

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Types, Magnitude and Factors Associated with Medication Administration Errors Among Nurses in Rubanda East Health Sub District. by Atuhaire, Oliva

“…Conclusion: The study found a high prevalence of MAEs among nurses, with common errors including overdoses, overdoses, wrong drug administration, incorrect timing, wrong routes, and poor documentation. Underdoses were commonly administered to a moderate extent, while wrong documentation and wrong drug administration to the correct patient occurred to a greater extent. …”
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A Peculiar Case of Disseminated Melioidosis with Atypical Features Likely Linked to Bong/Water Pipe Use by Kisen Jang, Anmol Sharma

“…Treatment with ceftazidime and cotrimoxazole led to prompt recovery. Notably, the patient’s tobacco use linked to contaminated water highlights a unique transmission route. …”
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Immunosuppressive metabolites in tumoral immune evasion: redundancies, clinical efforts, and pathways forward by David Munn, Maria Rain Jennings, John Blazeck

“…We hypothesize that prior lukewarm results may be attributed to redundancies in each metabolites’ synthesis or signaling pathway and highlight routes for how therapeutic development and patient stratification might proceed in the future.…”
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Emerging from a PleurX Draining Catheter: An Unexpected Diagnosis by Hasan Arafat, Hamza A Abdul-Hafez, Ali Sabateen

“…Case presentation: A 68-year-old female patient underwent PleurX tube insertion due to malignant pleural effusion. …”
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Endoscopic Placement of Feeding Tubes by Gabor P Kandel

“…It is generally best to place a gastrostomy tube early to prevent malnutrition and minimize complications of procedures on poorly nourished tissue. If a patient is expected to live for only weeks to months, nasoenteric feedings are the nutritional route of choice. …”
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Intratonsillar Immunotherapy: A Convenient and Effective Alternative to Subcutaneous Immunotherapy for Allergic Rhinitis by Tian Gu, Wei Zhang, Lu Tan, Rong Xiang, Peiqiang Liu, Jingyu Huang, Qin Deng, Yuqin Deng, Zezhang Tao, Shiming Chen, Yu Xu

“…Allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) is the only treatment that addresses the root cause of immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated allergies, but conventional methods face challenges with treatment duration, patient compliance, and adverse effects. In this study, we propose intratonsillar immunotherapy (ITIT) as a new effective and safer route for AIT. …”
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Targeting Drug Delivery to the Lungs by Inhalation by C. O'Callaghan

“…More recently, it has become apparent that the lining of the respiratory tract, from nasal mucosa to airways and alveoli, may be used for the absorption of a drug for its systemic effect. This route of administration may be particularly attractive if it avoids the metabolic destruction encountered when some drugs are administered by alternative routes (for instance, peptides and proteins are rapidly destroyed by peptidases when Oven by the oral route). …”
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Giant Benign Senile Pyometra in Bicornuate Uterus by José Luís Lobato Miguélez, María Victoria San Roman Sigler, Miguel López Valverde

“…She underwent drainage of the pyometra via the vaginal route, under general anesthesia, after mechanical dilation of the cervical canal. …”
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Severe Diabetic Gastroparesis: Diagnosis by Ruling out of Constitutional Syndrome in an Older Adult: a Case Report by Vianey Guadalupe Téllez Bolaños, Louis Fernando Robles Fernandes

“…Diabetic gastroparesis represents one of the complications associated with long-standing diabetes that leads to the development of various nutritional conditions that increase the morbidity and mortality of patients. It is characterized by delayed gastric emptying, and consequently, decreased nutritional absorption, as well as intolerance to the oral route due to manifestations suggestive of intestinal obstruction due to accumulation of food. …”
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Addiction and Pain Medicine by Douglas Gourlay

“…Overall, a thorough assessment of the risk/benefit profile of cannabinoids as they relate to a patient’s substance abuse history is suggested.…”
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Perianal Tuberculosis: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature by K. Ibn Majdoub Hassani, S. Ait Laalim, I. Toughrai, K. Mazaz

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Travel with Diabetes: A Comprehensive Review for Clinicians by Venkatraman Rajkumar

“…Primary care physicians have little knowledge to guide patients with diabetes planning travel. Summary: A structured pre-travel evaluation coupled with patient education diminishes health problems during travel. …”
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Massive Pulmonary Hemorrhage from Bronchial Varix by Michael Agustin, Scott Shay, Jose Gonzalez, Pei Liu, Nancy Lentz, Anna Shapiro, Nat Dumrongmongcolgul, Michael Torres, Vasin Jungtrakoolchai

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Inhaled Therapy in Respiratory Disease: The Complex Interplay of Pulmonary Kinetic Processes by Jens Markus Borghardt, Charlotte Kloft, Ashish Sharma

“…The inhalation route is frequently used to administer drugs for the management of respiratory diseases such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. …”
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COVID-19: Changing Trends and Its Impact on Future of Dentistry by Parin Bhanushali, Farhin Katge, Shantanu Deshpande, Vamsi Krishna Chimata, Shilpa Shetty, Debapriya Pradhan

“…Transmission occurs primarily through droplet spread or contact routes. Due to the characteristics of dental settings, the risk of cross infection between dental health care personnel (DHCP) and patients can be very high. …”
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Survival of Expiratory Aerosols in a Room: Study Using a Bi-compartment and Bi-component Indoor Air Model by Sreekanth Bathula, Srinivasan Anand, Thaseem Thajudeen, Yelia Shankaranarayana Mayya, Probal Chaudhury, Chaturvedi Shashank

“…Abstract Recent studies argue that inhalation of respiratory droplets in indoor environments is one of the significant routes of COVID-19 infection. In many cases, patients are isolated in hospitals and quarantine centers to minimize the spread. …”
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Removal of the Retained Ventricular Catheter Using the Endoscopic Monopolar Instrument by Julia Pereira Muniz Pontes, Pedro Henrique Costa Ferreira-Pinto, Elington Lannes Simoes, Thaina Zanon Cruz, Jefferson Trivino Sanchez, Flavio Nigri

“…The patient remained asymptomatic. Conclusion. The described technique was effective and avoided ventricular bleeding. …”
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Ocular Melanoma Metastasizing to Intra-Abdominal Lymph Nodes by David Aranovich, Karen Meir, Michal M. Lotem, Liat Appelbaum, Hadar Merhav

“…Image-guided biopsy revealed it to be a metastatic melanoma to lymph nodes. The patient underwent surgery with the intent to prolong disease-free survival. …”
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