Hyperbaric medicine today: an historically noble discipline challenged by loss of critical access and overutilization – invited commentary

SummaryNuclear cardiological procedures have paved the way for non-invasive diagnostics of various partial functions of the heart. Many of these functions cannot be visualised for diagnosis by any other method (e. g. innervation). These techniques supplement morphological diagnosis with regard to treatment planning and monitoring. Furthermore, they possess considerable prognostic relevance, an increasingly important issue in clinical medicine today, not least in view of the cost-benefit ratio.Our current understanding shows that effective, targeted nuclear cardiology diagnosis – in particular for high-risk patients – can contribute toward cost savings while improving the quality of diagnostic and therapeutic measures.In the future, nuclear cardiology will have to withstand mounting competition from other imaging techniques (magnetic resonance imaging, electron beam tomography, multislice computed tomography). The continuing development of these methods increasingly enables measurement of functional aspects of the heart. Nuclear radiology methods will probably develop in the direction of molecular imaging.

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Trial of Square and Round Edge Intraocular Lens on Preventing Posterior Capsule Opacification

Medicine Today ◽

10.3329/medtoday.v22i2.12442 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 92-93

Author(s):

Prakash Kumar Chowdhury

Keyword(s):

Intraocular Lens ◽

Posterior Capsule Opacification ◽

Posterior Capsule ◽

Medicine Today

Medicine Today 2010 Volume 22 Number 02 Page 92-93 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/medtoday.v22i2.12442

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Addiction and Liver Disease

Medicine Today ◽

10.3329/medtoday.v25i2.17926 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 75-83

Author(s):

Md Akmat Ali ◽

Farida Yeasmin ◽

MN Nag

Keyword(s):

Liver Disease ◽

Liver Diseases ◽

Drug Users ◽

Harmful Effect ◽

Main Role ◽

Drug Induced ◽

Mortality And Morbidity ◽

Other Substances ◽

Excessive Alcohol ◽

Medicine Today

Drug induced liver disease is a global problem. The aims of the study are to know the recreational drugs causing harmful effect on liver, epidemiology of addiction; pathophysiology and their consequences. The major findings published to date concerning different agents causing addiction and liver disease, their implications with regard to understanding disease mechanisms and their amplitude or spectrum are described. Addiction not only invites lot of sufferings to the family and the country, but also responsible for different types of liver disease including fatty liver, hepatitis and liver failure; responsible for mortality and morbidity. Among the addiction causing substances alcohol playing the main role for liver disease worldwide. Indirect effects of addiction on liver are hepatitis B, hepatitis C and their complication, mainly due to contamination of sharing needle. Majority of people in Bangladesh are life long abstainer. Excessive alcohol beverages and other substances like heroin, amphetamine are not harmless, rather they can cause serious liver diseases. There are some differences in prevalence of addiction and liver diseases among countries. Intravenous drug users are affected both directly and indirectly due to contaminated needle sharing . DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/medtoday.v25i2.17926 Medicine Today 2013 Vol.25(2): 75-83

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Literary review of Yava (Barley)

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrated Medical Sciences (JAIMS) ◽

10.21760/jaims.v3i3.12892 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Shirke UJ ◽

Jyotsna Yadav ◽

Shirke JM ◽

Udmale MM

Keyword(s):

Disease Prevention ◽

Public Awareness ◽

Critical Importance ◽

Physical Body ◽

Happy Life ◽

Balanced Diet ◽

Diet Plan ◽

Religious Ceremony ◽

Medicinal Preparations ◽

Medicine Today

According to Upanishadas, food is Brahman, the Divine reality. The physical body itself is born of and lives by food. Right diet is the essence of disease prevention and the foundation of a healthy and happy life. A properly selected diet and diet plan plays a critical importance in the management of any disease. Only a well-balanced diet can cure numerous diseases, sometimes even good medicines are unable to cure certain diseases without balanced diet, that’s why food is said to be most important medicine. Today there is increasing public awareness of the importance of diet for the maintenance and promotion of health. An Ayurvedic text entails the uses of Yava in religious ceremony, dietary and medicinal preparations. Yava is used for Lekhana Karma. The present paper deals with literary review of Yava.

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Operation of a hyperbaric oxygen therapy center in Korea: Report of our experience from a setting in its nascent stages

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine ◽

10.22462/04.06.2019.6 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 135-143

Author(s):

Yoon Seop Kim ◽

Yoonsuk Lee ◽

Sun Ju Kim ◽

Sung Oh Hwang ◽

Yong Sung Cha ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Critically Ill ◽

Hyperbaric Oxygen ◽

Critically Ill Patients ◽

Demographic Data ◽

Developed Countries ◽

The United States ◽

Medical Society ◽

Hyperbaric Medicine ◽

Therapy Center ◽

Hbo2 Therapy

Purpose: Hyperbaric medicine is nascent in Korea when compared to other developed countries, such as the United States and Japan. Our facility has been managed by physicians with certifications from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in diving and clinical diseases since October 2016. This study was conducted to share similar issues that are encountered during the establishment of a program in a new area through our experiences in the operation of a hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) therapy center. Methods: In this retrospective observational study we collected data on HBO2 patients treated at our center between October 2016 and June 2018 after HBO2 was conducted by HBO2-certified physicians. We then compared demographic data of patients with data from January 2011 to September 2015 – before HBO2 operations were conducted by HBO2-certified physicians. Result: A total of 692 patients received 5,130 treatments. Twelve indicated diseases were treated using HBO2 therapy. Fifty-six critically ill patients with intubation received HBO2. Although two patients experienced seizure due to oxygen toxicity during the study period, certified physicians and inside attendant took immediate corrective action. Conclusion: After the establishment of the HBO2 center operated by physicians with certification, more patients, including critically ill patients, received HBO2 safely for various diseases. In order to improve the practice of hyperbaric medicine in Korea, the Korean Academy of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (KAUHM), an advanced and well-organized academic society, should communicate often with HBO2 centers, with the aim to set Korean education programs at UHMS course levels and increase reimbursement for HBO2 therapy.

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PCR-detectable Candida DNA exists a short period in the blood of systemic candidiasis murine model

Open Life Sciences ◽

10.1515/biol-2020-0075 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 677-682

Author(s):

Zheng-Xin He ◽

Hui-Hai Zhao ◽

Fu-Kun Wang

Keyword(s):

Heat Shock ◽

Murine Model ◽

Fungal Pathogens ◽

Clinical Medicine ◽

Diagnostic Techniques ◽

Systemic Candidiasis ◽

Blood Samples ◽

Short Period ◽

Polymerase Chain ◽

Medicine Today

AbstractInvasive candidiasis is a major challenge to clinical medicine today. However, traditional fungal diagnostic techniques and empirical treatments have shown great limitations. Although efforts are necessarily needed in methodology standardization and multicenter validation, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a very promising assay in detecting fungal pathogens. Using a “heat-shock” DNA preparation method, a rapid and simple PCR protocol for quantification of the Candida albicans (C. albicans) ribosomal DNA was established. The PCR assay could detect Candida DNA as low as 10 CFU/mL in samples prepared by the heat-shock protocol, without any cross-reaction with DNA prepared from other Candida spp. and bacterial pathogens. For simulated blood samples, the PCR test sensitivity of whole blood samples was better than that of plasma and blood cells. In the systemic candidiasis murine model, detectable DNA was only observed within 24 h after C. albicans SC5314 injection, which is much shorter than that observed in the kidney.

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