The purposes of this prospective, repeated-measures descriptive pilot study were to describe patterns of acute oral pain and mucositis in patients receiving a bone marrow transplant or high-dose chemotherapy for leukemia, and to test procedures and instruments before initiating a larger intervention study. A nonprobability, purposive selection process was used to enroll 18 patients admitted to ...

In the present study, the effects of the acute and chronic oral administrations (po) of curcumin in the absence and presence of morphine and naloxone was investigated on the sensation of acute corneal pain in rats. Acute corneal pain was induced by the local application of hypertonic saline (5 M NaCl) on the corneal surface, and the number of eye wipes was then counted for 30 s. Subcutaneous (s...

introduction: various neuroregenerative procedures have been recently employed along with neurorehabilitation programs to promote neurological function after spinal cord injury (sci), and recently most of them have focused on the acute stage of spinal cord injury. in this report, we present a case of acute sci treated with neuroprotective treatments in conjunction with conventional rehabilitati...

INTRODUCTION Study aim is to report the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) features of acute and chronic spontaneous spondylodiscitis. CASE REPORT 57 year old female, complaining of a fever and longstanding cervical pain worsened during physical therapy. METHODS MR images were acquired using superconductive magnet 1.5 T, with the following sequences: sagittal PD and T2 TSE, sagittal T1 SE, ax...

We present a case of a 48-year-old male who presented with worsening pleuritic chest pain for 2 h. He also complained of fever, malaise, headache and severe neck pain. Electrocardiogram (ECG) showed ST segment elevation in leads I, II, aVL and V5 with PR elevation and ST depression in aVR. On admission, troponin-I was 14.8 ng/mL. Based on ECG changes, elevated troponin and family history of ear...

Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is a condition typically associated with long bone fractures or severe trauma; however, non-traumatic etiologies also occur. We describe a case of an otherwise healthy female pediatric patient presenting with unilateral forearm pain without an inciting injury. Intracompartmental pressures of the forearm were measured and she was diagnosed with idiopathic compart...

Methotrexate is known as a folate antimetabolite. The side effects of methotrexate are not usually seen in low dosages. Here we present patient with inflammatory colitis due to use for psoriasis.A 29 year-old male who was diagnosed psoriasis 1 year ago and started 2 weeks; applied emergency acute abdomen symptoms. According the tests examinations toxicity. observed abdominal pain without surgic...

BACKGROUND This study reviewed pain severity and assessment as recalled by patients with longbone fractures. The focus was on the intervals between admission, pain assessment and analgesic provision, as delay of analgesia for acute pain can result in complex chronic pain syndromes. AIM The aims were to explore patients' recollection of pain severity and assessment in an emergency department (...

We believe that hypercalcaemia after tamoxifen may signify tumour response and be a reason for continuing with tamoxifen and treating the hypercalcaemia. This is supported by a report of tamoxifen "flare" in metastatic breast cancer and the observation that acute exacerbation of bone pain in patients with breast cancer after tamoxifen may be associated with tumour response.'5 The mechanism of t...