Background:Otitis media is an inflammation of part or all the mucoperiosteal lining middle ear cleft. It can be acute, subacute and chronic otitis infection. Septal deviation has got many unwanted changes such as: nasal obstruction, mucosal changes. Methodology:A descriptive clinical study, carried out on adult patients consulting ENT department at medical city. Those have a unilateral suppurat...

conclusions although toxoplasmosis nr is rare, it should be considered in the differential diagnoses of nr. case presentation a 13-year-old girl presented with painless subacute visual loss in her right eye for a week at khatam-al-anbia eye hospital in mashhad, iran. following comprehensive evaluation, a diagnosis of toxoplasmic nr was made. the nr favorably responded to classic anti-toxoplasmo...

INTRODUCTION Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) have become receptors of patients with a high risk of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of HAIs in LTCFs. METHOD During the period 2011-2014 2 annual prevalence studies were performed according to Healthcare-associated infections in long-term-care facilities (HALT) study definitions and methodology. ...

BACKGROUND Toxoplasmosis is a relatively common cause of infectious papillitis and neuroretinitis, which may affect both immunocompetent immunodeficient patients. CASE PRESENTATION A previously healthy woman in her mid-forties presented with subacute onset unilateral blurry vision retrobulbar pain exacerbated by eye movements. Ophthalmological assessment revealed decimal best-corrected visual a...

The recently modified fluorescence inhibition test for antibodies to toxoplasmosis is safe and relatively simple to perform. It appears to detect antibodies early in the course of acute systemic infection but is less sensitive than either the dye test or hemagglutination test in detecting chronic infection. Although hemagglutinating antibodies develop later than dye test antibodies in the cours...

OBJECTIVE Subacute necrotizing fasciitis is a poorly defined clinical entity. Its very existence has been the subject of much controversy. While rarely reported, subacute forms of necrotizing fasciitis have been documented in the literature by many authors. This paper highlights some recently reported cases in the literature that clearly shows that subacute forms of necrotizing fasciitis indeed...

purpose: the first step to manage motor impairment of upper limb in patients with subacute stroke is having an accurate assessment tool. the fugl-meyer assessment of upper extremity and 9-hole pegboard test are used to evaluate motor function and hand dexterity in stroke survivals. the present study aimed to investigate the test-retest reliability and minimal detectable change (mdc) in these tw...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2). It usually presents with mild common cold-like symptoms. However, it can lead to series of complications some them being fatal. One the rare and potentially neglected manifestations COVID-19 subacute thyroiditis (SAT). Viral causes SAT documented so far include several v...