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Clinics and Practice, Volume 2, Issue 4

December 2012 - 10 articles

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Articles (10)

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4 Pages

The Effects of High-Frequency Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Combined with Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation in a Severe Stroke Patient

  • Soichiro Koyama,
  • Shigeo Tanabe,
  • Kazuya Takeda,
  • Hiroaki Warashina,
  • Hiroaki Sakurai,
  • Yoshikiyo Kanada,
  • Ryuji Okumura,
  • Jun Shinoda,
  • Junji Nagata and
  • Tetsuo Kanno

18 December 2012

The case report describes the effects of 5 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) combined with transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TES) in a patient with severe stroke. The patient was a 69-year-old male who was affected by a left...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3 Pages

28 November 2012

Fluoroquinolone medications have been shown to contribute to tendinopathies, cardiotoxicity, and neurotoxicity. Low back pain is a common musculoskeletal condition for which chiropractic treatment is most often sought. This case report details a pati...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3 Pages

16 November 2012

Complications arising because of untreated molar-incisor hypomineralization (MIH) have received little mention in the dental literature. However, this can be an area of concern, with severe consequences in rare cases. Hence, early recognition and pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4 Pages

Oral Hygiene Status of Individuals with Cardiovascular Diseases and Associated Risk Factors

  • Divya Shetty,
  • Mahima Dua,
  • Kiran Kumar,
  • Raghu Dhanpal,
  • Madhusudan Astekar and
  • Devi Charan Shetty

13 November 2012

Dentist and oral health screening may be the latest weapon in identifying persons at risk of cardiovascular disease. Oral infections, specifically periodontitis, may confer independent risks for different systemic conditions. The risk factors associa...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3 Pages

13 November 2012

A 42-year-old male presented with polyuria, polydipsia and weight loss. His initial physical exam showed a paucity of cushingoid features. Diagnostic work up was consistent with an ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) secretion. Imaging studies...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4 Pages

The Dilemma of Treating Vertebrobasilar Dolichoectasia

  • Yu-Wei Lin,
  • Chih-Hung Chen and
  • Ming-Liang Lai

17 October 2012

Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia (VBD) is a common phenomenon among people over 50 years old, and the related clinical expressions are varied. One of our VBD patients presented with brainstem infarction initially, received low molecular weight heparin...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6 Pages

17 October 2012

Nitrofurantoin has been in use since 1953 as an effective agent for the prevention of recurrent urinary tract infection. It is associated with a wide range of adverse drug reactions. Chronic active hepatitis has increasingly been observed and many ca...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access

Optic Nerve Enlargement in Infantile Form of Krabbe Disease

  • Dimas Castilha-Neto,
  • Letícia Fernandes Monteiro,
  • Mirella Maccarini Peruchi,
  • João Moreno Filho,
  • Aline Vieira Scarlatelli-Lima and
  • Jaime Lin

16 October 2012

Krabbe disease (KD) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder caused by dysfunctional galactosylceramidase activity. Infantile form is the most common subtype, occurring at about 6-month of age. We present a rare case of infantile KD with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5 Pages

Foot Care and Footwear Practices among Patients Attending a Specialist Diabetes Clinic in Jamaica

  • Krystal A.T. Gayle,
  • Marshall K. Tulloch-Reid,
  • Novie O. Younger,
  • Damian K. Francis,
  • Shelly R. McFarlane,
  • Rosemarie A. Wright-Pascoe,
  • Michael S. Boyne,
  • Rainford J. Wilks and
  • Trevor S. Ferguson

16 October 2012

This study aimed to estimate the proportion of patients at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) Diabetes Clinic who engage in recommended foot care and footwear practices. Seventy-two participants from the UHWI Diabetes Clinic completed...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2 Pages

Pseudotumoral Autoimmune Pancreatitis Mimicking a Pancreatic Cancer: A Very Difficult Disease to Diagnose

  • Sadreddine Ben Abid,
  • Rania Hefaiedh,
  • Sameh Zghab,
  • Nizar Miloudi,
  • Lassad Gharbi and
  • Mohamed Taher Khalfallah

12 October 2012

Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a rare disorder, although the exact prevalence is still unkown. It is a type of pancreatitis that is presumed to have an autoimmune aetiology, and is currently diagnosed based on a combination of 5 criteria. However,...

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