Background: Cardiac rupture is rare but has a high mortality rate. Cardiac rupture due to blunt trauma is generally caused by the heart being pinched into the bony thorax.
Case Presentation: A 90-year-old man in shock was transported to the hospital after his precordium was stepped on by a cow.
Introduction: Nutritional therapy is an important component of intensive care. We investigated the associations of nutritional therapy in the acute phase of severe COVID-19 with the long-term outcomes of post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) and post-COVID-19 conditions.
Methods: A questionnaire on the health status after COVID-19 was sent to patients 1 year after infection and PICS was evaluated.
Introduction: Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal abnormality associated with intellectual impairments. Unexpected deaths are common with this disease. There are certain difficulties in clarifying the cause of death because the manifestations may be quite diverse and involve many organ systems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In patients with traumatic posterior shoulder instability, little is known about the precise location and size of the reverse Hill-Sachs lesion.
Methods: Forty-nine shoulders of 47 patients with traumatic posterior instability were included in this study based on the following inclusion criteria: (1) a primary or recurrent traumatic posterior shoulder dislocation and (2) the initial event being caused by trauma. Patients were excluded if they had (1) no history of trauma, (2) prior shoulder surgery, (3) no computed tomographic (CT) examination, or (4) were seizure cases.