Medicine
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Case Reports
Sciatic neuropathy and rhabdomyolysis after carbon monoxide intoxication: A case report.
Peripheral neuropathy is a rare complication of carbon monoxide intoxication. Peripheral neuropathy following carbon monoxide intoxication is known to completely recover within a few months. ⋯ Patients presenting with peripheral neuropathy secondary to carbon monoxide intoxication may show variable recovery periods; however, a favorable prognosis can be expected regardless of the concomitant occurrence of rhabdomyolysis and/or compartment syndrome.
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Positional asphyxia is a rare cause of sudden death and a difficult diagnosis, based mostly on the circumstances of the incident, along with particular external and internal findings, frequent in asphyxia (signs of sudden death). ⋯ Therefore, the current criteria for positional asphyxia are based on the obstruction of normal gas exchange caused by the body position, the impossibility to move to another position, and the exclusion of other causes of death. The forensic medical examination must also be started at the scene of the incident.
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Simultaneous presentation of peripheral infiltrates, which can be easily misidentified as satellite lesions, is rarely observed in patients with acute infectious keratitis. ⋯ Clinicians should thus remain aware of the risk for co-occurring non-infectious, immune-related keratitis, as treatment for infectious keratitis may induce significant aggravation of non-infectious keratitis.
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Observational Study
Determining the burden of the family caregivers of people with neuromuscular diseases who use a wheelchair.
The present study provides a basic outline of the care and support that family caregivers offer to people affected by neuromuscular diseases. To determine the presence of burden in caregivers of people with neuromuscular diseases who use a wheelchair and to establish whether the presence of burden is influenced by contextual factors, between them, the use of wheelchair. The applied design was cross-sectional and descriptive. ⋯ Performing care work affected carers' physical health (80.5%), their mood (68.3%), and reduced their leisure time (90.2%). The type of wheelchair and the frequency of its use were not related to the burden. The results suggest that caregivers perceive burden, but its intensity is not related to the seriousness of the disease of the care receiver.
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Case Reports
A case report of recessive myotonia congenita and early onset cognitive impairment: Is it a causal or casual link?
Myotonia congenita (MC) is a non-dystrophic myotonia inherited either in dominant (Thomsen) or recessive (Becker) form. MC is due to an abnormal functioning of skeletal muscle voltage-gated chloride channel (CLCN1), but the genotype/phenotype correlation remains unclear. ⋯ Further studies should establish if and to which extent the CLCN1 mutation is responsible for this c MC phenotype, taking into account a gene-gene and /or a gene-environment.