Migration-related trauma and PTSD among Latinx parents in the southeast during COVID-19.

Objective: Latinx immigrants are at risk for migration-related trauma that can lead to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Among parents in immigrant families with undocumented family member(s) (i.e.

Beyond Infantile Hemangiomas: A Glimpse into Overlapping Rare Syndromes Emphasizing the Vigilant Screening for PHACE and LUMBAR Syndromes.

Infantile hemangiomas are the most common birthmark in newborns. They are clinically diagnosed and usually self-limited. However, there are several exceptions with aggressive types of hemangiomas that can be associated with extracutaneous anomalies, such as PHACE syndrome (posterior fossa anomalies, upper body hemangiomas, arterial anomalies, cardiac anomalies, and eye anomalies) and LUMBAR syndrome (lower body hemangiomas, ulcerations/urogenital anomalies, myelopathies, bony deformities, anorectal malformations/arterial anomalies, and renal anomalies).

Facing a dual threat: Pandemic stress and immigration policy vulnerability on mental health among Latinx immigrant parents.

Background: Exclusionary immigration policies rooted in structural racism threaten the wellbeing of Latinx families, increasing stress, anxiety, depression, and distress among immigrant parents. The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating and disproportionate impacts on communities of color with unique impacts on Latinx immigrant parents in mixed-status families.

Aims: From a syndemic theory lens, we explored the convergence of structural racism and the COVID-19 pandemic to explore if the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic may compound harmful immigration-related policies.

Assessing practice pattern differences in the treatment of acute low back pain in the United States Military Health System.

Background: Acute low back pain is one of the most common reasons for individuals to seek medical care in the United States. The US Military Health System provides medical care to approximately 9.4 million beneficiaries annually.

Characterizing retinal structure injury in African-Americans with multiple sclerosis.

To examine retinal structure injury in African-Americans (AA) with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) compared to Caucasians (CA) with MS, we used spectral domain optical-coherence tomography (OCT) in this cross sectional study. The peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) and macular volume of 234 MS patients (149 CA; 85 AA) and 74 healthy controls (60 CA; 17 AA) were measured. Intra-retinal segmentation was performed to obtain retinal nerve fiber (RNFL), ganglion cell (GCL), inner plexiform (IPL), inner nuclear (INL), outer plexiform (OPL), outer nuclear (ONL), retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), and photoreceptor (PR) layer volumes.

The Relationship Between Brain MR Spectroscopy and Disability in Multiple Sclerosis: 20-Year Data from the U.S. Glatiramer Acetate Extension Study.

Background And Purpose: Conventional MRI techniques do not necessarily provide information about multiple sclerosis (MS) disease pathology or progression. Nonconventional MRI techniques, including proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ( H-MRS), are increasingly used to improve the qualitative and quantitative specificity of MR images. This study explores potential correlations between MRI measures of disease and disability progression as measured by the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), Functional Systems (FS), and ambulation index scores in a unique cohort of MS patients treated with glatiramer acetate that has been closely monitored for over 20 years.

Longitudinal study of the substantia nigra in Parkinson disease: A high-field (1) H-MR spectroscopy imaging study.

Introduction: The value of biomarkers in early diagnosis and development of therapeutics in Parkinson's disease (PD) is well established.

Methods: We used proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in a prospective, longitudinal study of 23 patients with early PD, naïve to dopaminergic therapy, and six age-matched healthy controls to examine the temporal changes in metabolic profile of substantia nigra over a period of 3 months.

Results: N-acetyl aspartate to creatine ratio at month 3 was compared with baseline values in the PD and control groups, as well as the side-to-side difference of the ratio at baseline.

Spinal cord atrophy in multiple sclerosis and relationship with disability across clinical phenotypes.

Background: Several studies have shown a relationship between spinal cord atrophy and clinical disability in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Objectives: We examined the correlation between cervical cord cross-sectional area at the C2 vertebral level (CSA-C2) and the expanded disability status scale (EDSS) in patients with relapsing-remitting and progressive forms of MS. The latter included both secondary and primary progressive MS patients.

Gestational trophoblastic disease in ectopic pregnancy: A case series.

Objective: To describe 6 cases of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) in ectopic pregnancy admitted to Hospital Universitario de Caracas (HUC).

Study Design: Medical records of 6 patients admitted to the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, HUC, from 1996 to 2004 were reviewed. They underwent surgery with a diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy, and histologic analysis revealed GTD.