Increase in Pseudoarthrosis due to Smoking.

Hearing impairment due to cigarette smoking and simultaneous exposure to occupational noise

  Abstract   Background : Noise is the most common hazard in the workplace and noise induced   hearing loss considered to be the most common occupational disease as well.   Cigarette smoking, in some studies, has been known to induce hearing loss. The purpose   of this study was to evaluate the effect of contemporary exposure to occupational   noise and cigarette smoking on hearing.   Methods :...

Pseudoarthrosis in ankylosing spondylitis.

Figure 1 Pelvic radiograph shows fusion of both sacro-iliac joints. Whiskering is present at both ischial tuberosities and rami (arrowheads). Irregularity and sclerosis of the lesser trochanters are arrowed. Hipjoints are concentrically narrowed. chronic low back pain and stiffness, of gradual onset, for 10 years. He was living in China previously, receiving herbal applications and pain killers...

Chest pain due to severe sternal pseudoarthrosis post-coronary artery bypass surgery.

A 72-year-old man was admitted to the hospital for atypical chest pain lasting for 3 weeks, after having undergone coronary artery bypass graftsurgery 2 years before for unstable angina pectoris pursuant to 3 vessel disease (Figure 1). A dual-chamber pacemaker was implanted at that time due to postoperative second-degree atrioventricular block. The patient became symptomatic 1 week before this ...

Nicotine poisoning increase due to e-cigarettes.

Neuropathy Pain May Increase Due to PCBs

Some of the persons involved in an outbreak of ''yusho'' (polychlorinated biphenyl poisoning due to contaminated cooking oil) in Japan during the summer of 1968 complained of numbness or neuralgic limbs. Therefore, peripheral sensory nerve conduction velocity was measured in 21 such patients, and motor nerve conduction velocity in 19 of these. The motor nerve conduction velocity in the ulnar ne...