Articles: disease.
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J Coll Physicians Surg Pak · Jan 2021
Health Systems Approach to Ensure Quality and Safety Amid COVID-19 Pandemic in Pakistan.
Ensuring quality and safe care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic offers a challenge to already strained health systems in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), such as Pakistan with less shock-absorbing capacities. There is a dearth of evidence on mechanisms to provide optimum quality care to COVID-19 patients in the resource-constrained healthcare environment. ⋯ Research evidence is needed to be better prepared for an effective and coordinated health systems response to offer quality and safe care to patients. Key Words: Health systems approach, COVID-19 pandemic, Quality of healthcare, Safe care.
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We present a case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVİD-19) re-infection where the time interval between two COVİD-positive episodes is the longest in the literature. A 40-year male patient was admitted to the Emergency Department with complaints of sore throat, cough and diarrhea; and was re-diagnosed as COVİD-19 positive after a virus-free period. He did not have a chronic disease in his anamnesis and used no medication. ⋯ In this case, the time to second COVİD-19 infection was 94 days from the first positive PCR test and 86 days from the complete resolution of symptoms. This is one of the longest COVID-19-free period between two episodes of infection in the literature. Key Words: COVID-19, Recurrence, Re-infection, Recovery.
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J Coll Physicians Surg Pak · Jan 2021
Case ReportsVideo-assisted Thoracoscopic Right Inferior Lobe Resection for Bronchial Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma in a 10-year Child.
Bronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma is a rare disease in the field of thoracic surgery, and it is even more rarer in children. A 10-year Chinese child whose chief complaint was intermittent fever and cough for one year was referred to our hospital. Based on the imaging, pathology and immunohistochemistry findings, the patient was diagnosed with right inferior lobar bronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma; and was treated with video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) right inferior lobe resection and had a good prognosis. Key Words: Mucoepidermoid carcinoma, Child, Lobe resection, VATS.
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In addition to the classic motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), patients also present with non-motor symptoms, such as autonomic dysfunction, which is present in almost 90% of patients with PD, affecting the quality of life and mortality. Regarding sex differences in prevalence and presentation, there is increasing concern about how sex affects autonomic dysfunction. However, there are no previous data on autonomic cardiac function in females after 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) striatal injection. ⋯ We suggest that females with 6-OHDA present with cardioprotection, independent of ovarian hormones, which could be related to female vagal predominance.