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Severe Congenital Syphilis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Retrospective Case Series
Conclusion: CS can be associated with HIE, PPHN and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy in affected infants. Clinicians should have a high index of suspicion and include CS in their differential diagnoses. This study also highlights the importance of adequate treatment of identified cases and screening during the third trimester and at delivery.
Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal - March 23, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Maternal-Neonatal Reports Source Type: research

Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis: Think of Hepatitis A Infection and Do Not Underestimate Pain
A 14-year-old adolescent girl presented with severe abdominal pain, tenderness, and guarding in the right upper quadrant associated with nonbilious vomiting, scleral icterus, and fever. Laboratory tests were consistent with acute hepatitis A virus–related cholestatic hepatitis. A point-of-care ultrasound showed mild gallbladder wall thickening with increased color Doppler flow and pericholecystic fluid collection, in the absence of gallstones or biliary ducts dilatation, thus suggesting acute acalculous cholecystitis. Both the clinical symptoms and the point-of-care ultrasound findings completely resolved within 1 week a...
Source: Pediatric Emergency Care - June 1, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Ultrasound Case Review Source Type: research

Raising the quality of care during medical missions: a survey to assess the need for clinical and anatomic pathology services in international medical missions.
Conclusions.-Survey results show the need for improved pathology support during STMMs. The lack of precise diagnosis and disease monitoring has a negative effect on the quality of care provided during missions and the ability to enhance global health. PMID: 23627454 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - May 1, 2013 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Naujokas A Tags: Arch Pathol Lab Med Source Type: research

Living donor liver transplantation in children: Should the adult donor be operated on by an adult or pediatric surgeon? Experience of a single pediatric center
Conclusions: Living donor transplantation is safe for the donor and presents a low morbidity. The donor surgery may be performed by a team of trained pediatric surgeons.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Surgery - April 1, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Wagner de Castro Andrade, Manoel Carlos Prieto Velhote, Ali Ahman Ayoub, Marcos Marques Silva, Nelson Elias M. Gibelli, Ana Cristina A. Tannuri, Maria Merces Santos, Maria Lucia Pinho-Apezzato, Fabio de Barros, Daniel Rangel Moreira, Helena T. Miyatani, R Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

The role of palliative care in the current HIV treatment era in developed countries.
Authors: Merlins JS, Tucker RO, Saag MS, Selwyn PA Abstract The goal of palliative care is to minimize and prevent suffering and maximize physical function and quality of life in patients with serious illness. In the early years of the AIDS epidemic in developed countries, prognosis was poor and palliative care was often inseparable from HIV care. Despite the advent of effective antiretroviral therapy and its availability in developed countries, patients with HIV disease still present many palliative care challenges and opportunities. The cases of 3 HIV-infected patients who embody these challenges will be presente...
Source: Topics in antiviral medicine - November 12, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Top Antivir Med Source Type: research

Outcomes in pediatric hepatitis C transplant recipients: Analysis of the UNOS database
Abstract HCV may lead to the development of ESLD in late childhood and, consequently, contributes to the need for liver transplantation. The aim of this study was to examine post‐transplant outcomes in HCV‐positive pediatric patients with ESLD from any cause and to determine the impact of the PELD scoring system, introduced in February 2002, on post‐transplant patient and graft survival. A retrospective analysis of the UNOS database from 1994 to 2010 was performed to assess graft and patient survival in pediatric HCV‐seropositive liver transplant recipients. Graft survival and patient survival comparing subjects in...
Source: Pediatric Transplantation - December 1, 2014 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Meera Gupta, Ranjeeta Bahirwani, Matthew H. Levine, Saloni Malik, David Goldberg, K. Rajender Reddy, Abraham Shaked Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Results from a Geographically Focused, Community-Based HCV Screening, Linkage-to-Care and Patient Navigation Program
CONCLUSIONS Non-clinical screening programs with patient navigator services are an effective means to diagnose, link, retain and re-engage patients in HCV care. Eliminating referral requirements for subspecialty care might further enhance retention in care for patients chronically infected with HCV.
Source: Journal of General Internal Medicine - February 14, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

Sharp truth: health care workers remain at risk of bloodborne infection
Conclusions Our data show that during a 10-year period prior to the introduction of new regulations in 2013, health care workers were at risk of occupationally acquired bloodborne virus infection. To prevent sharps injuries, health care service employers should adopt safety-engineered devices, institute safe systems of work and promote adherence to standard infection control procedures.
Source: Occupational Medicine - March 29, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Rice, B. D., Tomkins, S. E., Ncube, F. M. Tags: Blood borne viruses and other immune disorders Original Paper Source Type: research

Paying For Value In Cancer Care
Everyone wants to pay for value (and certainly not just for volume) and the value imperative is nowhere greater than in cancer care. Cancer care cost the US health care system $125 billion in 2010, accounting for 5 percent of total health care spending. Before Sovaldi hit the front pages for offering a breakthrough treatment for Hepatitis C at a cost of $84,000, and Turing Pharmaceuticals pushed Sovaldi out of the headlines for increasing the price of an HIV drug 50 fold, most of the attention to drug pricing was focused on cancer. With average yearly treatment costs exceeding $100,000, cancer drugs in the US cost nearly t...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 29, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Alan Weil Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Long-term Services and Supports Medicare Once in a Weil Payment Policy Quality Bundled Payments Cancer ECRI performance payments Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Utilization of Preventive Health Care in Adults and Children With Eczema
Conclusions Eczema in adults and children is associated with greater utilization of preventive health care and health maintenance, but not cancer screening.
Source: American Journal of Preventive Medicine - November 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

The Politics of Drug Pricing
Conclusion While the industry is not shy, or afraid, of a conversation about drug affordability and access, it wants the focus to be on "spending across the health care system to find solutions that ensure access to high quality, patient-centered care and continue to encourage development of innovative, life-changing medicines."       Related StoriesBoth Houses of Congress Investigating Prescription Drug PricesHide No Harm Act of 2015: includes Criminal Penalties for Failure to Report Potential Danger or HarmMore Trouble for Valeant Pharmaceuticals 
Source: Policy and Medicine - November 18, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

Health and Human Services Drug Pricing Forum
Conclusion Overall, the administration seems to believe that the current system, where drugs are priced depending on who is paying for them, winds up "obscuring" the true cost of the drug. Therefore, we can expect to hear many more calls for increased transparency of information available about drug pricing and value. While the issue of drug pricing is quite the newsmaker, the industry continues to emphasize that drug spending makes up just ten percent of health spending overall and the continued growth is expected to rise in line with other health spending. By continuing to point out the same "bad actors" without lookin...
Source: Policy and Medicine - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

Possible models for future postgraduate specialty training in Genitourinary Medicine
To quote John Lennon: ‘Life is just what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans’.1 While sexual health services in England have been dealing with the consequences of the Health and Social Care Act2 and commissioning,3 decisions are being made that will affect how postgraduate training is delivered throughout the UK. These have been driven primarily by the Shape of Training (SoT) review4 and the Future Hospital Commission,5 underpinned by the medical registrar role being perceived as less rewarding so fewer doctors now wish to take it on.6 However, the time has come for Genitourinary Medicine ...
Source: Sexually Transmitted Infections - January 20, 2016 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Nandwani, R. Tags: Liver disease, Patients, Drugs: infectious diseases, Hepatitis and other GI infections, HIV/AIDS, Pneumonia (infectious disease), TB and other respiratory infections, Respiratory medicine, Hepatitis (sexual health), HIV / AIDS, HIV infections, Medical hum Source Type: research

Chronic viral hepatitis C in pediatric age group; assessment of viral activity and hepatic fibrosis by 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy and diffusion weighted imaging in asymptomatic patient
Conclusion Early diagnosis of asymptomatic chronic hepatitis C is essential to prevent or delay end stage chronic parenchymal liver disease. 1H MRS may be a potential noninvasive helpful diagnostic tool in the assessment of staging and fibrosis of asymptomatic chronic hepatitis C. The increase in metabolites were correlated with histopathological changes. DW-MRI can be considered as an effective predictor in the assessment of activity in chronic hepatitis C.
Source: The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine - July 10, 2016 Category: Nuclear Medicine Source Type: research

Intent to Build Hepatitis C Treatment Capacity Within Family Medicine Residencies: A Nationwide Survey of Program Directors: A CERA Study.
CONCLUSIONS: This is the first report to examine PDs intent to build capacity in HCV treatment in this interferon-free, direct antiviral era. Our findings highlight a historic opportunity to train family physicians and position them on the frontline as HCV treatment providers. PMID: 27655196 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Famly Medicine - August 31, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Camminati CW, Simha A, Kolb NR, Prasad R Tags: Fam Med Source Type: research