J Neurosurg Pediatr
November 2024
Objective: Sinogenic intracranial infections in children, such as subdural empyema or intracranial abscess, are a rare disease process with significant associated morbidity. Recent literature has suggested that there may have been an increase in frequency of these infections following the COVID-19 pandemic, but the literature has been conflicting, perhaps related to the heterogenous management of COVID-19 lockdowns in various states and differences in data capture between methods. The collection of statewide Australian data overcomes these limitations by capturing a comprehensive sample though the public healthcare system of patients who were subject to a homogeneous statewide approach to public health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic (population 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOpsoclonus myoclonus ataxia syndrome (OMAS) is a rare disorder that causes significant neurodevelopmental sequelae in children. Approximately half of pediatric OMAS cases are paraneoplastic, typically associated with localized neuroblastic tumors. Since early persistence or relapse of OMAS symptoms is common even after tumor resection, OMAS relapses may not routinely prompt reevaluation for recurrent tumors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInstitutions that perform hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) are required by law to report standardized, structured data on transplantation outcomes. A key post-transplantation outcome is engraftment, the time between HCT infusion and reemergence of circulating neutrophils and platelets. At our center, we found that manual chart abstraction for engraftment data was highly error-prone.
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October 2020
Objective: The objective of this systematic review was to explore the incidence of lower limb musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries sustained by rugby union, rugby league, soccer, Australian Rules and Gaelic football players under 18 years. The review sought to identify the mechanisms and types of injury sustained and to compare between sports.
Design: This systematic review focused on the incidence of lower limb injury in adolescent team sports that involved running and kicking a ball.
Medical students often become involved as post-disaster emergency responders despite incomplete training, and in doing so may suppress their immediate experiences as victims and survivors. This experience, however, may lead them to increase their motivation to help others. We examined how cognitive and emotional reactions to disaster correlated with posttraumatic growth (PTG) in medical students in Fukushima, Japan after the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrior studies, using systemic hypertension and elastase infusion, have induced cerebral aneurysm (CA) formation in mice. However, the CAs induced were rapidly formed, relatively large, and often ruptured. These features are not completely representative of human CAs.
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