Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3235.1510112
Accuracy of Chest Computed Tomography (CT) for Detection of COVID-19 in Suspicious Patients
Kholoud Hamdy El-Shourbagy, Mona Nasef, Lina Hablas and Lamees Ghith
Article Type: True Research | First Published: 2023/08/12
There were neither specific therapeutic drugs for treatment COVID-2019 nor effective permanent vaccines. Therefore, it is essential to detect early the disease and immediately isolate the infected person from the healthy population. In severe cases with high fever and cough, chest computed tomography (CT) can lead to rapid diagnosis, and to early control of potential transmission. This is usually needed in patients with suspected disease, for the hospitals or communities lacking nucleic acid tes...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3235.1510111
Two Needles and Ten Minutes to Get the Patient Back on Her Feet and Allow Her to Sit at Will
Devara Anil Kashi Vishnuvardhan, Sandeep Botcha, K. Venkata Suman, K. Venkateswarlu and P. Vijayalakshmi
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: 2023/08/11
A 46-year female with long-standing disabling low backache with pain radiating to the right lower limb, pain at tail bone not allowing her to sit, sleep and stand for the last 3 months with acute exacerbation since 3 days were diagnosed as degenerative lumbar disc disease with right L5/S1 radiculopathy and coccydynia not responding to medical management and treated with minimally invasive procedures - CT guided ganglion impar block. CT showed a right lumbar nerve root block at L5/S1 level, leadi...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3235.1510110
Multi-Parametric Whole Body MRI before and after Bone Marrow Transplantation in Patients with Multiple Myeloma
Samer Nasser Kamel Basilious, Hanaa Abd El-Kader Mohamed Hamed Khalaf, Walid Mohamed Abd El-Hamid Hetta and Shaimaa El-Metwally El-Diasty, MD
Article Type: Clinical Research | First Published: 2023/07/29
Myeloma is the most common primary malignancy affecting the skeletal system. Most of the patients are presented and diagnosed late at the disease process, so early detection is very beneficial for patient management and choice of treatment. Multiparametric MRI with the added value of diffusion weighted images together with PETCT had been beneficial for early patient diagnosis, choice of treatment and follow up management after treatment. ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3235.1510108
Renal Pedicle Injury: A Case Report
Wafaa Bzeih, MD, Sajida Fawaz Hammoudi, MD, Jana Sleiman, MD and Oussama Rihan, MD
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: 2023/05/28
Around 10% of abdominal trauma injuries are accounted for renal injuries [1]. And amongst renal injuries, renal pedicle injuries are extremely rare. Renal pedicle injury is defined by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) as grade V renal injury in which the kidney is either shattered, has avulsion of renal hilum or laceration of the main renal artery or veincausing devascularization, or is devascularized with active bleeding....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3235.1510107
Multiple Sclerosis Brain: Beyond Hyperintense Images
Bárbara Aymeé Hernández Hernández, MD, PhD
Article Type: Original Research Article | First Published: 2023/05/25
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is defined as a chronic, inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. It has a multifactorial origin and it is characterized by disabling inflammatory attacks in the central nervous system. It affects any functional system (visual, motor, sensory, coordination, language and sphincter control) and it is considered as more disabling not traumatic disease of young population in the world....
