A longstanding giant plantar wart cleared with medicinal leech application in an immunosuppressive patient

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Aktas ◽  
A. A. Hamidi
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Leech ◽  
Plantar Wart

Seasonal Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals by Medicinal Leech Hirudo verbana

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
L. V. Chornaya ◽  
L. A. Kovalchuk ◽  
N. V. Mikshevich
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Medicinal Leech ◽  
Hirudo Verbana

Medicinal leech in the blood bank laboratory plumbing

Transfusion ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teadora J. Monoski ◽  
Erin E. Tuott ◽  
John R. Hess
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Leech ◽  
Blood Bank

Implementation of a Leeches + Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Order Panel to Optimize Medicinal Leech Use at a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center

2021 ◽  
pp. 089719002199368
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Palm ◽  
Jill C. Wesolowski ◽  
Janet Y. Wu ◽  
Pavithra Srinivas
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Prophylaxis ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Medicinal Leech ◽  
Aeromonas Species ◽  
Leech Therapy ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Timing Of Initiation ◽  
Medicinal Leeches

Medicinal leech therapy promotes vascular flow and can be used to salvage grafts. Medicinal leeches have a symbiotic relationship with Aeromonas species and can therefore present a risk of bacterial transmission to patients. Antimicrobial prophylaxis is warranted for the duration of leech therapy, however, an institutional evaluation of 40 patients receiving medicinal leech therapy demonstrated poor adherence with recommendations. An electronic medical record order panel for antimicrobial prophylaxis with medicinal leech therapy was implemented, leading to a subsequent improvement in adherence to prophylaxis use, including significant increases in the ordering of antibiotics and the appropriate timing of initiation in the subsequent 10 patients receiving medicinal leech therapy after panel implementation. Aeromonas infections were rare before and after panel implementation, and developed only in the patient subset with non-optimized prophylaxis.

Application of the comet assay and detection of DNA damage in haemocytes of medicinal leech affected by aluminium pollution: A case study

2009 ◽  
Vol 157 (5) ◽  
pp. 1565-1572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zlatko Mihaljević ◽  
Ivančica Ternjej ◽  
Igor Stanković ◽  
Mladen Kerovec ◽  
Nevenka Kopjar
Keyword(s):  
Dna Damage ◽  
Comet Assay ◽  
Medicinal Leech

scholarly journals Antibiotic sensitivity and RAPD-PCR studies on cultivable gut bacteria from Indian Medicinal Leech—Hirudinaria granulosa

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhaval Patel ◽  
Khushbu Koriya ◽  
Pinkal Patel ◽  
Jyoti Solanki ◽  
Suresh Mesara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Sensitivity ◽  
Medicinal Leech ◽  
Gut Bacteria ◽  
Rapd Pcr

Growth, survival and reproduction of the Turkish medicinal leech, Hirudo sulukii

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68
Author(s):  
Mustafa Ceylan ◽  
Ramazan Küçükkara ◽  
İsmail Erbatur ◽  
Emin Karataş ◽  
Meryem Tunç ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Leech ◽  
Survival And Reproduction

Activation of two forms of locomotion by a previously identified trigger interneuron for swimming in the medicinal leech

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. Brodfuehrer ◽  
Kathryn McCormick ◽  
Lauren Tapyrik ◽  
Alfonso M. Albano ◽  
Carolyn Graybeal
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Leech

Initial formation and secondary condensation of nerve pathways in the medicinal leech

1996 ◽  
Vol 373 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Jellies ◽  
Diane M. Kopp ◽  
Kristen M. Johansen ◽  
J�rgen Johansen
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Leech ◽  
Initial Formation
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