Saudi Med J
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To evaluate the role of teleradiology during the COVID-19 pandemic from Saudi radiologists' perspectives to improve the radiology quality service. ⋯ Concerns raised on complicated cases that require physical presence of patients, cannot be performed by teleradiology. Additionally, it might provide insufficient communication with other professionals to discuss images.
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To investigate the clinical results of lower trapezius (LT) tendon transfer and interpositional repair that were performed simultaneously in patients with massive irreparable rotator cuff tears. ⋯ Adding interpositional repair to the LT tendon transfer in patients with posterior superior irreparable rotator cuff tear seems to have satisfactory short to mid-term clinical outcomes without an increase in complications.
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To explore the most common clinical presentations of active substance users in our institution's Emergency Department (ED). ⋯ Among Saudi users of illicit substances, the majority were young men with medical illness presentations. The rate of traumatic injuries / vehicular and road traffic accidents is at 15.3%, and cannabis and amphetamine were the most used substances. Screening for active substance use should be conducted using both patient histories and laboratory testing for all high-risk presentations and not solely based on clinical assessment.
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To further investigate how sevoflurane affects the oxidative stress injury (OSI) in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). ⋯ Sevoflurane maintenance can decrease OSI during LC in the Del genotype of the rs145204276 polymorphism. The Del genotype facilitates lncRNA-GAS5 up-regulation under Sevoflurane exposure and therefore decrease the extent of M1 macrophage polarization.