Navigating complexity: The Supera's triumph in femoropopliteal lesions
CONCLUSIONS: The 36-month patency of the Supera stents in our real-world cohort was similar to other reported series. The GLASS stage did not interfere with the stent patency, proving it is a good choice even in the most adverse anatomy patients. Only the non-nominal stent conformation affected the primary patency rates in our patients.PMID:38588331 | DOI:10.1177/17085381241246321 (Source: Vascular)
Source: Vascular - April 8, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Luis Loureiro Andreia Pinelo Carlos Veterano Henrique Rocha Jo ão Castro Rui Machado Source Type: research
Diagnosis of Behcet's disease in a young male patient with acute bilateral pulmonary embolism; A case report and literature review
We present a 30-year-old patient who was admitted with pleuritic chest pain, non-massive hemoptysis since 4 days ago and medical history of intermittent genial aphthous lesions, and skin lesions. During our evaluation, he had an S1Q3T3 pattern in the electrocardiogram, a high level of D-dimer, a low level of FDP and fibrinogen along with pulmonary emboli in lobar and segmental branches of the right pulmonary artery and segmental branches of left lower lobe pulmonary artery were detected in his pulmonary CT Angiography. Then, he was positive for HLA-B51. Based on his clinical condition and history of recurrent genital and s...
Source: Respiratory Care - April 8, 2024 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Mohammad Hadi Tajik Jalayeri Mahdi Mazandarani Narges Lashkarbolouk Source Type: research
Trends in U.S. Medical Cannabis Registrations, Authorizing Clinicians, and Reasons for Use From 2020 to 2022
CONCLUSION: Enrollment in medical cannabis programs increased overall but generally decreased in jurisdictions with nonmedical adult-use laws. Use for conditions or symptoms without a strong evidence basis continues to increase. Given these trends, more research is needed to better understand the risks and benefits of medical cannabis.PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE: National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.PMID:38588545 | DOI:10.7326/M23-2811 (Source: Annals of Internal Medicine)
Source: Annals of Internal Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Kevin F Boehnke Rachel Sinclair Felicia Gordon Avinash Hosanagar Douglas R Roehler Tristin Smith Brooke Hoots Source Type: research
Measuring Patient-Reported Use and Outcomes From Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies: Development of the Complementary and Integrative Health Therapy Patient Experience Survey
CONCLUSIONS: Validly assessing patient-reported CIH therapy use and outcomes is complex, but possible.PMID:38585239 | PMC:PMC10998493 | DOI:10.1177/27536130241241259 (Source: Adv Data)
Source: Adv Data - April 8, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Stephanie L Taylor A Rani Elwy Barbara G Bokhour Scott S Coggeshall Amy Cohen Claudia Der-Martirosian Taona Haderlein Jolie Haun Benjamin Kligler Alex T Kloehn Karl A Lorenz Briana Lott Marlena H Shin Tammy Schult Joy Toyama Alison M Whitehead Xiaoyi Zhan Source Type: research
Medical Cannabis Use and Its Impact on Health Among Older Adults: Recent Research Findings and Future Directions
Curr Addict Rep. 2023 Dec;10(4):837-843. doi: 10.1007/s40429-023-00519-x. Epub 2023 Sep 26.ABSTRACTPURPOSE OF REVIEW: With the rapidly changing landscape of state level legalization of cannabis, older adults have become one of the fastest growing populations seeking medical cannabis (MC). However, research evidence on the risks and benefits of MC use in this population remains limited. This review aims to synthesize recent literature on the impacts of MC use in older adults and identify critical knowledge gaps to be addressed in future research.RECENT FINDINGS: Recent literature showed that older adults often face financia...
Source: Pain Physician - April 8, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Yan Wang Kendall R Robinson Hannah Fechtel Alexis Hartog Source Type: research
Patient and pharmacist perspectives on opioid misuse screening and brief interventions in community pharmacies
CONCLUSIONS: Through this implementation-focused qualitative study, we identified patient needs such as opioid safety education delivered in a private and convenient format and pharmacist needs including training, workflow integration, protocols, and a time-efficient intervention for effective pharmacy-based SBI. Alternate formats of SBI using digital health technologies may be needed for effective implementation. Our findings can be used to develop patient-centered pharmacy-based SBI that can be implemented within actual pharmacy practice.PMID:38589965 | DOI:10.1186/s13722-024-00460-y (Source: Addiction Science and Clinical Practice)
Source: Addiction Science and Clinical Practice - April 8, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Deepika Rao James H Ford Olayinka O Shiyanbola Source Type: research
Exploration of the molecular mechanism guiding Xinfeng capsule regulatory mechanism for rheumatoid arthritis inflammation
CONCLUSIONS: XFC could effectively improve the clinical inflammatory indexes of RA. The active ingredients of XFC improved the inflammatory state of RA by regulating the TLR-signaling pathway.PMID:38586085 | PMC:PMC10994809 | DOI:10.62347/TPOQ4910 (Source: American Journal of Translational Research)
Source: American Journal of Translational Research - April 8, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Ziheng Zhu Lei Wan Source Type: research
Measuring Patient-Reported Use and Outcomes From Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies: Development of the Complementary and Integrative Health Therapy Patient Experience Survey
CONCLUSIONS: Validly assessing patient-reported CIH therapy use and outcomes is complex, but possible.PMID:38585239 | PMC:PMC10998493 | DOI:10.1177/27536130241241259 (Source: Adv Data)
Source: Adv Data - April 8, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Stephanie L Taylor A Rani Elwy Barbara G Bokhour Scott S Coggeshall Amy Cohen Claudia Der-Martirosian Taona Haderlein Jolie Haun Benjamin Kligler Alex T Kloehn Karl A Lorenz Briana Lott Marlena H Shin Tammy Schult Joy Toyama Alison M Whitehead Xiaoyi Zhan Source Type: research
Diagnosis of Behcet's disease in a young male patient with acute bilateral pulmonary embolism; A case report and literature review
We present a 30-year-old patient who was admitted with pleuritic chest pain, non-massive hemoptysis since 4 days ago and medical history of intermittent genial aphthous lesions, and skin lesions. During our evaluation, he had an S1Q3T3 pattern in the electrocardiogram, a high level of D-dimer, a low level of FDP and fibrinogen along with pulmonary emboli in lobar and segmental branches of the right pulmonary artery and segmental branches of left lower lobe pulmonary artery were detected in his pulmonary CT Angiography. Then, he was positive for HLA-B51. Based on his clinical condition and history of recurrent genital and s...
Source: Respiratory Care - April 8, 2024 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Mohammad Hadi Tajik Jalayeri Mahdi Mazandarani Narges Lashkarbolouk Source Type: research
Chronic pain-mental health comorbidity and excess prevalence of health risk behaviours: a cross-sectional study
Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2024 Apr 8;25:e15. doi: 10.1017/S1463423624000070.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Chronic musculoskeletal pain and anxiety/depression are significant public health problems. We hypothesised that adults with both conditions constitute a group at especially high risk of future cardiovascular health outcomes.AIM: To determine whether having comorbid chronic musculoskeletal pain and anxiety/depression is associated with the excess prevalence of selected known cardiovascular health risk behaviours.METHOD: A cross-sectional survey of adults aged 35+ years randomly sampled from 26 GP practice registers in West Midla...
Source: Primary Care - April 8, 2024 Category: Primary Care Authors: Sophie Lumley Dahai Yu Ross Wilkie Kelvin P Jordan George Peat Source Type: research
Efficacy of Electroacupuncture Combined with Chinese Herbal Medicine on Pain Intensity for Chronic Sciatica Secondary to Lumbar Disc Herniation: Study Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial
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Source: Journal of Pain Research - April 8, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Journal of Pain Research Source Type: research
Mortality, Functional Status, and Quality of Life after 5 Years of Patients Admitted to Critical Care for Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage
ConclusionsIn patients admitted to the intensive care unit with a diagnosis of nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage, hospital mortality up to 90 days after admission is very high. Between 90 days and 5 years after admission, mortality is not high. A large percentage of survivors presented a significant deficit in quality of life and functional status, although with progressive improvement over time. Five years after the hemorrhagic strok e, a survival of 30% was observed, with a good functional status seen in 20% of patients who had been admitted to the hospital. (Source: Neurocritical Care)
Source: Neurocritical Care - April 8, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Priorities for HIV and chronic pain research: results from a survey of individuals with lived experience
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Source: AIDS Care - April 8, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jessica Robinson-PappSteven LawrenceAntonia WadleyWhitney ScottMary Catherine GeorgeJo JoshKelly K. O ’BrienCollen PriceLisa UebelackerE. Jennifer EdelmanMichael EvangeliBurel R. GoodinRichard HardingKennedy NkhomaRomy ParkerCaroline SabinDeepika Slawek Source Type: research
New opioid prescription claims and their clinical indications: results from health administrative data in Quebec, Canada, over 14 years
Conclusions
New opioid prescription claims (incidence, dose and days’ supply) decreased slightly over the last 14 years among QPDIP enrollees, especially after 2016/2017. Non-surgical and non-cancer pain became less common as their clinical indication. (Source: BMJ Open)
Source: BMJ Open - April 8, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Attisso, E., Guenette, L., Dionne, C. E., Kröger, E., Dialahy, I., Tessier, S., Jean, S. Tags: Open access, Public health Source Type: research
Virtual Reality in Acute and Chronic Pain Medicine: An Updated Review
AbstractPurpose of ReviewThis review critically analyzes the recent literature on virtual reality ’s (VR) use in acute and chronic pain management, offering insights into its efficacy, applications, and limitations.Recent FindingsRecent studies, including meta-analyses and randomized controlled trials, have demonstrated VR ’s effectiveness in reducing pain intensity in various acute pain scenarios, such as procedural/acute pain and in chronic pain conditions. The role of factors such as immersion and presence in enhancing VR’s efficacy has been emphasized. Further benefits have been identified in the use of VR for as...
Source: Current Pain and Headache Reports - April 8, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
