Mona Hassan, Joyce Badal, Syeda Faiza Arif, Mohamad Nawras, A. Nawaz, Muhammad Aziz, Anita Kottapalli, Wade Lee Smith, Umer Farooq, Manesh Kumar Gangwani, A. Kobeissy, Z. Ahmed
{"title":"Early vs Delayed Feeding after Endoscopic Esophageal Variceal Ligation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis","authors":"Mona Hassan, Joyce Badal, Syeda Faiza Arif, Mohamad Nawras, A. Nawaz, Muhammad Aziz, Anita Kottapalli, Wade Lee Smith, Umer Farooq, Manesh Kumar Gangwani, A. Kobeissy, Z. Ahmed","doi":"10.26502/aimr.0145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/aimr.0145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8282,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Internal Medicine Research","volume":"122 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75593498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sandhya Cautha, Shalini Penikilapate, Hanif Ahmad, Valentina Moirangthem, Sorab Gupta, Kevin R. Jain
Over the past decade, hookah smoking has become a popular way of smoking tobacco around the world. In this study, we explore the relationship between hookah smoking and erythrocytosis, a frequently encountered problem in Hematology clinics. Cawkwell et al. analyzed internet trends as a measure of population behaviour and revealed that New York is experiencing tremendous growth in hookah bars with an overwhelming majority located in New York City. As hookah smoking is not considered a traditional form of smoking, patients can often neglect this information when asked about their smoking history. We did a retrospective chart review of 13 patients with otherwise unexplained erythrocytosis and a history of hookah smoking. Our results showed the median age of the study group was 33 years (range, 22-60) and mean hemoglobin level was 19.16 g/dL. JAK2 mutation was negative and erythropoietin level was normal to high in all patients. No correlation was found between the intensity of hookah smoking and degree of erythrocytosis (Pearson correlation factor was -0.139). There is a popular belief that smoking tobacco through a hookah pipe is harmless however, studies showed that smoke from a hookah pipe can be equally dangerous to cigarette smoke and contains various toxicants that can cause a myriad of health problems. Our study showed that hookah smoking can cause significant erythrocytosis and should be considered as a possible etiology in the evaluation of unexplained erythrocytosis, especially in a young patient.
{"title":"Hookah Smokers, Beware!! Severe Erythrocytosis noted in Hookah Smokers: A Case Series of 13 Patients","authors":"Sandhya Cautha, Shalini Penikilapate, Hanif Ahmad, Valentina Moirangthem, Sorab Gupta, Kevin R. Jain","doi":"10.26502/aimr.0152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/aimr.0152","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decade, hookah smoking has become a popular way of smoking tobacco around the world. In this study, we explore the relationship between hookah smoking and erythrocytosis, a frequently encountered problem in Hematology clinics. Cawkwell et al. analyzed internet trends as a measure of population behaviour and revealed that New York is experiencing tremendous growth in hookah bars with an overwhelming majority located in New York City. As hookah smoking is not considered a traditional form of smoking, patients can often neglect this information when asked about their smoking history. We did a retrospective chart review of 13 patients with otherwise unexplained erythrocytosis and a history of hookah smoking. Our results showed the median age of the study group was 33 years (range, 22-60) and mean hemoglobin level was 19.16 g/dL. JAK2 mutation was negative and erythropoietin level was normal to high in all patients. No correlation was found between the intensity of hookah smoking and degree of erythrocytosis (Pearson correlation factor was -0.139). There is a popular belief that smoking tobacco through a hookah pipe is harmless however, studies showed that smoke from a hookah pipe can be equally dangerous to cigarette smoke and contains various toxicants that can cause a myriad of health problems. Our study showed that hookah smoking can cause significant erythrocytosis and should be considered as a possible etiology in the evaluation of unexplained erythrocytosis, especially in a young patient.","PeriodicalId":8282,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Internal Medicine Research","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135506841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study aims to evaluate the effect on the ability to generate Anti-Anti RBD antibodies (Anti-SAR-CoV 2-Spike-RBD) to the third dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in two at-risk populations in the Province of Tucumán. Humoral immune responses, assayed by anti-SARS-CoV-2-Spike-RBD IgG ELISA, were measured in 223 participants, including geriatric patients and healthcare workers, at 0, 14 and 28 days after receiving third dose of the AstraZeneca between October and December 2021 in Tucuman, Argentina. The antibodies title in geriatric patients with and without previous COVID-19 diseases and complete vaccine schedule increased significantly 14 days after receiving the third dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine (p<0.001). When compared Antibody Concentration in geriatric patients with and without a history of COVID-19 14 days post-vaccination, the increase in antibodies was higher in those who did not have a previous history of COVID-19 (p<0.05). The antibodies title in healthcare personnel with and without previous COVID-19 diseases and complete vaccination increased significantly 14 days post-vaccination with the third dose of AstraZeneca (p<0.01). There was a negative correlation between age and antibodies titer 14 days after the third dose of COVID vaccine in persons with no history of disease (rs= -0.36, p=0.0001). While persons with a history of COVID-19 did not have a significant correlation (rs= -0.03;p=0.8). The results obtained provide information on antibodies dynamics after the third dose with AstraZeneca in a context of vaccine heterogeneity, indicating the importance of baseline studies of antibodies and hybrid immunity when considering vaccination policies.
{"title":"Effect of the Third Dose of Astrazeneca Vaccine on the Ability to Generate Anti-Rbd Antibodies within Two at-Risk Populations, Geriatrics and Health Personnel in The Province of Tucumán","authors":"Medina Ruiz Luis, Ferre Contreras Miguel, Molina Eliana","doi":"10.21203/rs.3.rs-1529527/v1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1529527/v1","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to evaluate the effect on the ability to generate Anti-Anti RBD antibodies (Anti-SAR-CoV 2-Spike-RBD) to the third dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in two at-risk populations in the Province of Tucumán. Humoral immune responses, assayed by anti-SARS-CoV-2-Spike-RBD IgG ELISA, were measured in 223 participants, including geriatric patients and healthcare workers, at 0, 14 and 28 days after receiving third dose of the AstraZeneca between October and December 2021 in Tucuman, Argentina. The antibodies title in geriatric patients with and without previous COVID-19 diseases and complete vaccine schedule increased significantly 14 days after receiving the third dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine (p<0.001). When compared Antibody Concentration in geriatric patients with and without a history of COVID-19 14 days post-vaccination, the increase in antibodies was higher in those who did not have a previous history of COVID-19 (p<0.05). The antibodies title in healthcare personnel with and without previous COVID-19 diseases and complete vaccination increased significantly 14 days post-vaccination with the third dose of AstraZeneca (p<0.01). There was a negative correlation between age and antibodies titer 14 days after the third dose of COVID vaccine in persons with no history of disease (rs= -0.36, p=0.0001). While persons with a history of COVID-19 did not have a significant correlation (rs= -0.03;p=0.8). The results obtained provide information on antibodies dynamics after the third dose with AstraZeneca in a context of vaccine heterogeneity, indicating the importance of baseline studies of antibodies and hybrid immunity when considering vaccination policies.","PeriodicalId":8282,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Internal Medicine Research","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85045928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Benjaponpitak, T. Sawaengtham, Tewan Thaneerat, K. Wanaratna
{"title":"Effect of Andrographis paniculata Treatment for Nonimmune Patients with Early-Stage COVID-19 on the Prevention of Pneumonia: A Retrospective Cohort Study","authors":"A. Benjaponpitak, T. Sawaengtham, Tewan Thaneerat, K. Wanaratna","doi":"10.26502/aimr.0146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/aimr.0146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8282,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Internal Medicine Research","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74128006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dr. Monir Hossain, Prof. Dr. Ali Hossain, Dr. Abdus Shakur Khan, Dr. Kazi Saifuddin Bennoor, Dr. Laizu Ara Soheli
{"title":"Demographic and Clinical Profile Analysis of Covid-19 Suspected Patients: A Tertiary Care Hospital Study in Bangladesh","authors":"Dr. Monir Hossain, Prof. Dr. Ali Hossain, Dr. Abdus Shakur Khan, Dr. Kazi Saifuddin Bennoor, Dr. Laizu Ara Soheli","doi":"10.26502/aimr.0142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/aimr.0142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8282,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Internal Medicine Research","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75405893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pedro Renato Chocair,, Precil Diego Miranda de Menezes Neves, Victor Augusto Hamamoto Sato, Sara Mohrbacher, Érico Souza Oliveira
Waist girth, an indirect measure of central fat, is significantly associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between waist circumference measures with insulinemia, hepatic steatosis and criteria used for diagnosing metabolic syndrome (MS).
{"title":"Relationship between Waist Girth, Insulinemia and Metabolic Parameters in Brazilian Adults","authors":"Pedro Renato Chocair,, Precil Diego Miranda de Menezes Neves, Victor Augusto Hamamoto Sato, Sara Mohrbacher, Érico Souza Oliveira","doi":"10.26502/aimr.0149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/aimr.0149","url":null,"abstract":"Waist girth, an indirect measure of central fat, is significantly associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between waist circumference measures with insulinemia, hepatic steatosis and criteria used for diagnosing metabolic syndrome (MS).","PeriodicalId":8282,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Internal Medicine Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135910055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yijiang Ma, Xiaoqian Ding, A. Sui, Xiaohui Yang, Shichao Cui, Yiwei Cao, Cunzhi Lin
{"title":"Cellular Uptake and Localization of Hematoporphyrin Derivatives in Lung Adenocarcinoma A549, Squamous Carcinoma H520 and Small Cell Carcinoma H446 Cell Lines","authors":"Yijiang Ma, Xiaoqian Ding, A. Sui, Xiaohui Yang, Shichao Cui, Yiwei Cao, Cunzhi Lin","doi":"10.26502/aimr.0141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/aimr.0141","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8282,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Internal Medicine Research","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82823364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SARS-CoV-2 infections co-occurred with other diverse pre-existing clinical conditions in mortality cases. We use encounter level health data to evaluate the impact of non-Covid-19 diagnostic events on allcause mortality observed among Covid-19 positive cases billing Medicare. We further investigate prior diagnostic codes which occur in pre-pandemic study years among cases presenting to Medicare clinically with Covid-19 and cases with Covid-19 who experience all-cause mortality to inform patient population management.
{"title":"Covid-19, Diagnostic History and Mortality from Medicare 1999-2021, In an All-Cause Mortality Approach","authors":"Nick Williams","doi":"10.26502/aimr.0151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/aimr.0151","url":null,"abstract":"SARS-CoV-2 infections co-occurred with other diverse pre-existing clinical conditions in mortality cases. We use encounter level health data to evaluate the impact of non-Covid-19 diagnostic events on allcause mortality observed among Covid-19 positive cases billing Medicare. We further investigate prior diagnostic codes which occur in pre-pandemic study years among cases presenting to Medicare clinically with Covid-19 and cases with Covid-19 who experience all-cause mortality to inform patient population management.","PeriodicalId":8282,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Internal Medicine Research","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135506496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giulia Manzini, Michael Kremer, Ian Hines, Marko Kornmann
{"title":"Students Perception of Medical Education after End of Covid-19 Pandemic and Comparison with Results Obtained During Pandemic","authors":"Giulia Manzini, Michael Kremer, Ian Hines, Marko Kornmann","doi":"10.26502/aimr.0150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/aimr.0150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8282,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Internal Medicine Research","volume":"309 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134882821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Anthropometric Model for Body Composition Estimation in the Assessment of Metabolic Risk Factors of Obese Women","authors":"Nicolaus Dahlmann, D. Klingmüller","doi":"10.26502/aimr.0147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/aimr.0147","url":null,"abstract":"is associated with disorders de�ned as","PeriodicalId":8282,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Internal Medicine Research","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74905886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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