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Pediatricians should offer routine HIV testing to adolescent and young adult patients, American Academy of Pediatrics recommends in academy’s new policy statement published November print issue of Pediatrics.
It says
In light of the increasing numbers of people with HIV/AIDS and missed opportunities for HIV testing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…recommends universal and routine HIV screening rather than targeted testing.
Treatment with gantenerumab, an anti–amyloid-β monoclonal antibody, results in a dose-dependent reduction in brain amyloid in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease, a small trial shows.
However the study found no effects on cognitive measures and doubts whether any reduction in brain amyloid level will translate into clinical efficacy.
Findings were reported online October 10 in the Archives of Neurology. [Read more...]
Prematurely born babies have a very high risk for epilepsy, not only at age 5 or 6, but as young adults in their 20s and 30s. the fact has been pointed by a recent cohort study from Sweden led by Casey Crump, MD.
The study found that people who were born very preterm [23 to 31 weeks of gestation] had a 5-fold increased risk for epilepsy at the ages of 25 to 37 years when compared those who were born full-term.
The study has been published in the October issue of Neurology. [Read more...]
There are are two sources of fluid in our body
Water is lost from the body by following routes
Varicose veins are veins that have become enlarged and tortuous.
The term commonly refers to the veins on the leg.
Varicose Veins In Left Leg
Varicose Veins in the above photograph were seen in a 56 years old male who visited the OPD for some other ailment.
Recurrent bleeding episodes in a joint can lead to chronic changes in the joint occur. These changes affect all of the tissues within and surrounding the joint: synovium and cartilage, capsule and ligaments, bone and muscles.
Chronic synovitis is usually seen in the first and second decades of life and the management of chronic hemophilic arthropathy depends on the stage at which it is seen.
Following stages are seen in hemarthroses in hemophilia. [Read more...]
Following is the clinical photograph of the patient showing marked redness in the leg .
Marked Redness Of Left Leg Because of Cellulitis
The redness is an important sign of inflammation The patient had cellulitis and did not have any comorbidity.
The patient was treated with antibiotics and elevation of the limb.
A recent article published in Chest has reported that use of Non steroidal antiinflammatory drugs may cause an alteration inn presentation and course of pneumonia.
The article is published in journal Chest in February issue and the authors in order are Guillaume Voiriot, Sandra Dury, Antoine Parrot, Charles Mayaud and Muriel Fartoukh
Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs are used very commonly for pain and fever. The authors wanted to investigate the potential influence of Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) on the presentation and short-term outcomes of nonimmunocompromised inpatients with community-acquired pneumonia admitted to the intensive care unit.
The study included 90 patients with community acquired pneumonia admitted to the ICU or step-down unit of a university hospital during a 4-year period. All cases were evaluated prospectively except when they were on long term non steroidal antiinflammatory drugs or steroids .
36% were found to have been administered NSAIDs before they were referred to hospital. This group of patients were younger and had fewer comorbidities as compared to the group who were not given any NSAIDs. [Read more...]
A study published in journal Molecular Psychiatry has reported that, mitochondrial dysfunction is more common in children with autism and autism spectrum disorder.
In this study, evidence from published research was collated after performing comprehensive search. Eighteen publications representing a total of 112 children with autism spectrum disorder and mitochondrial dysfunction were identified. There were two main objectives defined for the study
Also included was the comparison of published literature of autism spectrum disorder children without mitochondrial dysfunction and, and non-autism spectrum disorder children with mitochondrial dysfunction . [Read more...]
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