Primary varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection is a benign self-limited disease. In this study, we review our experience in focusing on the outcome and treatment of VZV infection in pediatric malignancy patients. During the study period, a total of 41 patients with pediatric malignancy had been hospitalized with the diagnosis of VZV infection. All the patients were treated with intravenous acyc...

Objective: Studies have shown that obesity, age, presence of chronic disease, respiratory disease and cancer are risk factors for COVID-19, increasing the hospitalization, complications, mortality rate. Thus, objective this study was to compare evaluate clinical epidemiological profile COVID-19 patients admitted nursery or Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Hospital Regional Jorge de Abreu (HRJA) in Sin...

Patients with esophageal cancer often have various comorbidities, and these sometimes limit treatment choices. We describe a patient with stage IA esophageal cancer accompanied by interstitial lung disease (ILD). Endoscopic resection and radiotherapy were not appropriate because of clinically diagnosed submucosal invasion and the patient was at high risk of ILD exacerbation. We therefore select...

Background Respiratory Distress (RD) is a life-threatening respiratory failure. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of N-terminal prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide (NT-pro-BNP) in distinguishing respiratory and heart diseases in neonates. Materials and Methods Hundred fifty neonates aged 2-3 days randomly collected from those who hospitalized in the related ward of the Ali ...

BACKGROUND Poisoned patients are often treated in and discharged from pre-hospital health care settings. Studies of poisonings should therefore not only include hospitalized patients. AIMS To describe the acutely poisoned patients treated by ambulance personnel and in an outpatient clinic; compare patients transferred to a higher treatment level with those discharged without transfer; and stu...

There is controversy regarding the frequency of sedation-related complications of colonoscopies and whether these procedures are safely performed by physicians-in-training. We retrospectively reviewed the safety of 1,004 consecutive outpatient colonoscopies. No perforations occurred. No patients were hospitalized for sedation-related complications. Seventeen percent of patients had significant ...

Human parvovirus B19 is a small DNA virus that is transmitted mainly through contact with respiratory secretion or aerosols, but it may be transmitted to the fetus transplacentally from infected mother leading to many complications mainly fetal hydrops, intrauterine fetal death or spontaneous abortion. In this study we aimed at assessment of the relation between maternal human parvovirus B19 in...

Hypermagnesemia is a relatively uncommon but potentially life-threatening electrolyte disturbance characterized by elevated magnesium concentrations in the blood. Magnesium crucial mineral involved various physiological functions, such as neuromuscular conduction, cardiac excitability, vasomotor tone, insulin metabolism, and muscular contraction. Hypomagnesemia prevalent that can lead to severa...

abstract: the new neonatal ventilation methods have been developed along with utilization of new technological tools.this device is synchronized with the patient’s respiratory efforts. the ideal synchronized breath needs to be synchronous with initiation, size, and termination of the breath without delay in detecting of initial resiratory effort by device .the synchrony of respiration contribut...

AIM to have the picture of infectious disease pattern and serum albumin level in elderly people with respiratory tract infection hospitalized at the Internal Medicine Ward, Dr. Moewardi Hospital Surakarta. METHODS descriptive-retrospective study. Sample was taken from the medical records of patients hospitalized at the Internal Medicine Ward DR. Moewardi Hospital from January to December 2004...