Cardiac dysrhythmia resulting from antibiotic abuse

Alternating Hemiplegia and Cardiac Dysrhythmia

Investigators at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, and multiple centers in the UK, Europe, US, Melbourne, Australia, and Canada, analyzed ECG recordings of 52 patients with alternating hemiplegia from 9 countries; all had whole-exome, whole-genome, or direct Sanger sequencing of ATP1A3; 47 had a confirmed missense mutation in ATP1A3.

Cardiac dysrhythmia complicating total parotidectomy.

Sudden severe dysrhythmias during anaesthesia can be life- threatening for the patient. We describe a case in which ventricular dysrhythmias and severe bradycardia occurred during dissection and mobilization of the deep lobe of the parotid gland during total parotidectomy under general anaesthesia. We believe that these dysrhythmias were caused by a trigemino- vagal reflex similar to the oculoc...

Difficulties in recording mortality resulting from drug abuse.

It is considered, according to statements from different sources, that data on the number of deaths in the population of a certain country or region are accurate and correct, but determining causes of death is, for different reasons, often incorrect. There is, therefore,a justified doubt that there are more inaccurately registered drug abuse-related deaths in state registries. Hence, this paper...

Bilateral Hydronephrosis and Cystitis Resulting from Chronic Ketamine Abuse

Pattern of injury in child fatalities resulting from child abuse.

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, in 2005, an estimated 1460 children died of maltreatment. The purpose of this study is to further examine the pattern of bony injuries in child maltreatment fatalities, with an emphasis on the prevalence of antemortem fractures and the presence of associated perimortem fractures. The sample was 162 male and female children. The majori...