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The greater regional cerebral volume was associated with better cognitive performance after mTBI.
Decreased brainstem volume may indicate its vulnerability to traumatic injury, and cerebral volume in specific regions was positively associated with patients' cognitive function after injury.
Decreased brainstem volume may indicate its vulnerability to traumatic injury, and cerebral volume in specific regions was positively associated with patients' cognitive function after injury.A 36-year-old male with history of industrial accident causing traumatic left hip disarticulation, pubic symphysis and right sacroiliac joint fractures presented with a three-year history of left-sided lower back pain radiating down the amputated limb. Computed tomography lumbar spine showed osteophytes surrounding the sacroiliac joint bilaterally with reduced left L4-L5 foraminal space. A fluoroscopically-guided left sacroiliac steroid injection led to mild improvement in low back pain. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the lumbar spine without contrast showed transitional type L5 vertebral body with left-sided flowing osteophytes abutting the extraforaminal L4 and L5 nerves. Ultimately, multi-level left fluoroscopically-guided transforaminal epidural steroid injection at L4-L5 and L5-S1 significantly improved symptoms. Though phantom radiculopathy is a rare entity, clinical suspicion of degenerative spine disease or other pathology contributing to nerve impingement in patients with amputations should remain; this unique case discusses bony osteophyte complex as the cause for phantom radiculopathy instead of previously described disc herniation. MRI remains a key tool in delineating causes of low back pain among patients with lower extremity amputations.
The variety and use of technologies used in vestibular rehabilitation is very limited. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a web-based system on vestibular rehabilitation in patients with vestibular hypofunction.
20 patients with unilateral vestibular hypofunction were randomly assigned to two groups. Conventional vestibular rehabilitation was applied to the control group, whereas the study group received treatment with the web-based system supporting the vestibulo-ocular reflex with oculomotor and optokinetic stimulus (SVORE-Simulation of Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex Exercises). Vestibular and balance tests, oculomotor level, Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale (TKS) and Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) were used to evaluate the efficacy treatment's.
Vestibular symptoms and findings, balance tests, oculomotor functions, Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale and Dizziness Handicap Inventory improved significantly in both of the groups after the interventions (p<0.05). In the intergroup analysis, improvement was found in eyes closed Romberg, semi-tandem and left one-foot position balance tests in favor of the study group (p<0.05).
The new vestibular technology, SVORE was found to be effective in vestibular rehabilitation.
The new vestibular technology, SVORE was found to be effective in vestibular rehabilitation.
Clear reporting on rehabilitation treatments is critical for interpreting and replicating study results and for translating treatment research into clinical practice. This article reports the recommendations of a working group on improved reporting on rehabilitation treatments. These recommendations are intended to be combined with the efforts of other working groups, through a consensus process, to arrive at a reporting guideline for randomized controlled trials in physical medicine and rehabilitation (Randomized Controlled Trials Rehabilitation Checklist). The work group conducted a scoping review of 156 diverse guidelines for randomized controlled trial reporting, to identify themes that might be usefully applied to the field of rehabilitation. Themes were developed by identifying content that might improve or enhance existing items from the Template for Intervention Description and Replication. Guidelines addressing broad research domains tended to define reporting items generally, from the investigator Trials Rehabilitation Checklist). The work group conducted a scoping review of 156 diverse guidelines for randomized controlled trial reporting, to identify themes that might be usefully applied to the field of rehabilitation. Themes were developed by identifying content that might improve or enhance existing items from the Template for Intervention Description and Replication. Guidelines addressing broad research domains tended to define reporting items generally, from the investigator's perspective of relevance, whereas those addressing more circumscribed domains provided more specific and operationalized items. Rehabilitation is a diverse field, but a clear description of the treatment's separable components, along with distinct treatment theories for each, can improve reporting of relevant information. Over time, expert consensus groups should develop more specific guideline extensions for circumscribed research domains, around coalescing bodies of treatment theory.
Despite free access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) from 1996 onward, and treatment for all people living with HIV (PLWHIV) from 2013, mortality in Brazil has not homogeneously decreased. We investigated to what extent delayed ART, hepatitis coinfections and sociodemographic factors predict all-cause mortality in Brazilian PLWHIV.
We included PLWHIV at least 18 years, with complete CD4 cell count data, followed up between 2007 and 2015 in Brazil.
After multiple imputation, an extended Cox model helped estimate the effects of fixed and time-varying covariates on mortality.
The study population (n = 411 028) were mainly male (61%), white (55%), 40 years or less (61%), heterosexually HIV infected (71%), living in the Southeast region (48%) and had basic education (79%). Hepatitis C virus and hepatitis B virus coinfection prevalences were 2.5 and 1.4%, respectively. During a 4-year median follow-up, 61 630 deaths occurred and the mortality rate was 3.45 (95% confidence interval 3.42-3.47) per 100 person-y those with basic education are important to reduce avoidable deaths among Brazilian PLWHIV.
To elucidate relationships in antiretroviral resistance between HIV-1-infected mother-infant pairs by defining the resistance profiles in the mothers and infants and quantifying drug resistance prevalence in the pairs post-Option B+ implementation.
Collection of dried blood spots from mother-infant pairs during routine HIV-1 screens in Lusaka, Zambia from 2015 to 2018.
DNA was extracted from the dried blood spots, the HIV-1 pol region was amplified, and the purified proviral DNA was sequenced using Sanger sequencing. Drug resistance mutations (DRM) were identified in sequenced DNA using the Stanford HIVdb (https//hivdb.stanford.edu/).
DRM were detected in 45% (44/97) of samples, and these samples were found to harbor resistance to at least two antiretrovirals. The prevalence of nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor resistance was significantly higher than that of other antiretroviral classes. DRM were detected disproportionately in infants (67%; 33/49) compared with mothers (23%; 11/48), but tse inhibitor-based and integrase inhibitor-based regimens for treatment of HIV-1-infected infants and mothers.
A new coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) emerged in China during late 2019 and resulted in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic which peaked in France in March-April 2020. MMRi62 , precariousness and promiscuity could increase the risk of COVID-19 in HIV-infected patients and in preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) users. No epidemiological data are available in these two populations. We report COVID-19 attack rate in HIV-infected patients and in PrEP users in the Rhône department, France, and compared it with the general population.
Retrospective analysis of a laboratory database.
COVID-19 testing strategy in France was centered on symptomatic infections, hospitalized patients and symptomatic healthcare workers while most asymptomatic cases were not confirmed. #link# SARS-CoV-2 positivity rate on PCR assays and COVID-19 attack rate were determined in HIV-infected patients and in PrEP users. COVID-19 attack rate in the general population was estimated from health authorities' database and demographic data. A corrected attack rate taking into account the laboratory representativeness was calculated.
From March to April 2020, 24 860 samples from 19 113 patients (HIV-infected 77, PrEP users 27, others 19 009) were assessed for SARS-CoV-2 PCR assay. The positivity rate appeared similar in HIV-infected patients (15.6%), in PrEP users (14.8%) and in other patients (19.1%). The crude/corrected COVID-19 attack rate appeared similar in HIV-infected patients (0.31/0.38%) and in PrEP users (0.38/0.42%), and of the same order as the estimated attack rate in the general population (0.24%).
The risk of symptomatic COVID-19 in France appeared similar in HIV-infected patients and in PrEP users compared with the general population.
The risk of symptomatic COVID-19 in France appeared similar in HIV-infected patients and in PrEP users compared with the general population. As coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) restrictions upend the community bonds that have enabled African communities to thrive in the face of numerous challenges, it is vital that the gains made in community-based healthcare are preserved by adapting our approaches. Instead of reversing the many gains made through locally driven development partnerships with international funding agencies for other viral diseases like HIV, we must use this opportunity to adapt the many lessons learned to address the burden of Covid-19. link2 Programs like the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare are currently leveraging widely available technologies in Africa to prevent patients from experiencing significant interruptions in care as the healthcare system adjusts to the challenges presented by Covid-19. These approaches are designed to preserve social contact while incorporating physical distancing. The gains and successes made through approaches like group-based medical care must not only continue but can help expand upon the extraordinary success of programs like President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Patients with HIV infection have an increased risk of developing plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL). In this study, we reviewed the clinicopathologic features of PBL in HIV+ patients in the era of HAART from a single health center.
Retrospective study.
The morphologic, immunophenotypic, and clinical features were reviewed in these HIV+ patients with PBL and univariate analysis was employed to determine the survival prognosis.
During the interval of 1 January 2008 to 30 December 2018, we identified 95 HIV+ patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphomas. Among these patients, there were 21 (22%) patients with PBL (19 men and two women; median age 45 years). Seven patients had PBL at their initial HIV diagnosis and 14 developed PBL after a median interval of 7.7 months of HIV diagnosis. link3 Lymph nodes (n = 10), oral cavity/sinonasal mass (n = 6), and rectal masses (n = 5) were the common involved sites, and five of 15 (33%) had bone marrow involvement. Lymphoma cells were immunoreactive for MUM-1/IRF4 (100%), CD138 (90%), CD45 (63%), CD79a (47%), and CD30 (25%).
