Ultrasound-guided Femoral - Sciatic Nerve Block for Lower Limb Long Bone Fractures.

Background: Fractures of the long bones in the lower limbs are injuries that cause severe to extremely severe pain, posing risks to the patient's circulation, respiration, and even life. Pain management for patients with lower limb long bone fractures in the emergency department is critically important.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of ultrasound-guided femoral and sciatic nerve blocks in patients with lower limb long bone fractures in the emergency department (ED).

Long-term survival from multidisciplinary treatment of primary malignant pericardial mesothelioma: A case report.

Introduction And Importance: Primary malignant pericardial mesothelioma is an extremely rare disease with a poor prognosis. Currently, there are no specific guidelines for diagnosis and treatment in Vietnam and international countries for this disease, so treatment experiences from previous clinical cases are very important in the management of this disease.

Case Presentation: The research team reports a clinical case diagnosed and treated with a combination of surgery and chemotherapy using the Pemetrexed + Carboplatin regimen at the Oncology Center.

Occupational accidents among rice farmers in Northern Vietnam.

This study investigated the rate of agricultural occupational accidents among rice farmers in rural Northern Vietnam and identified factors associated with these accidents. A cross-sectional study was conducted on rice farmers in rural Thai Binh province, Northern Vietnam. A multi-stage random sampling method was used to select 1,171 rice farmers from six communes.

Induced pluripotent stem cell therapies in heart failure treatment: a meta-analysis and systematic review.

Heart failure (HF) causes over 266,400 deaths annually. Despite treatment advancements, HF mortality remains high. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) offer promising new options.

Penetrating brain injury through the cavernous sinus by chopsticks in Vienamese: a case report.

Introduction And Importance: Penetrating brain injuries from chopsticks are exceedingly rare, often documented through case reports. Management strategies are tailored to individual cases, with a focus on mitigating postoperative complications.

Case Presentation: A 33-year-old male presented with a chopstick lodged in his right eye.

Health-related quality of life among inpatients suffering from Traumatic brain injury in an urban setting in Vietnam.

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity globally. This study aimed to measure the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of TBI patients in Vietnam and evaluate the associated factors.

Methods: A longitudinal study was conducted in Thai Binh, Vietnam, from February to September 2020.

Evaluation of activities and instrumental activities of daily living and correlated factors of traumatic brain injury patients in Vietnam.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is among the leading causes of death in Vietnam. Survivors of TBI suffer from functional and cognitive deficits. Understanding that Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) are crucial in measuring the treatment and health-related quality of life among patients with TBI.

Advances in the Immunology of the Host-Parasite Interactions in African Trypanosomosis, including Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Trypanosomes are single-celled extracellular parasites that infect mammals, including humans and livestock, causing global public health concerns and economic losses. These parasites cycle between insect vectors, such as tsetse flies and vertebrate hosts, undergoing morphological, cellular, and biochemical changes. They have remarkable immune evasion mechanisms to escape the host's innate and adaptive immune responses, such as surface coat antigenic variation and the induction of the loss of specificity and memory of antibody responses, enabling the prolongation of infection.

Malocclusion among children in Vietnam: Prevalence and associations with different habits.

Background: This study aimed to measure the prevalence of malocclusion and identify associated factors among elementary school students in Vietnam.

Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted from March to December 2022 at six primary schools located in the province of Thai Binh, Vietnam. A total of 873 students were recruited for research purposes.

Clinicopathologic Characteristics of Thyroid Microcarcinoma: Findings from a Hospital-Based Study in Vietnam.

Background: Thyroid microcarcinoma (TMC) incidence has significantly increased in recent decades. The rates of lymph node metastasis extrathyroidal extension have been significantly different in patients with TMC ≤5 mm versus those with size >5 mm. The current analysis aimed to examine the clinicopathologic features of TMC measuring <5 mm and to compare them with those of TMC ≥5 mm.

Knowledge, attitude and practice on fall risk factors and prevention among rural older community-dwellers in Vietnam.

Falls among the elderly are an important global health problem. This study assesses knowledge regarding risk factors of falls, as well as attitudes and practices towards fall prevention among older adults in the rural community. A cross-sectional study was performed in four rural communes in Thai Binh province, Vietnam.

Economic burden and financial vulnerability of injuries among the elderly in Vietnam.

Falls are a leading cause of death among elderly people. However, research on the cost of fall-related injuries is limited in Vietnam. We estimated treatment costs and associated factors among 405 elderly patients in Thai Binh hospitals.

Parental knowledge and practice on childhood caries prevention in northern Vietnam.

This study was conducted to describe the knowledge and practices on dental caries prevention among parents of preschool children in Vietnam and identify associated factors. A cross-sectional study was conducted in three preschools in Northern Vietnam in 2020. A total of 316 parents of preschool children were randomly recruited.

Factors correlated with neuropathic pain among industrial workers in Vietnam: a multi-site cross-sectional study.

Introduction: Neuropathic pain is a debilitating condition resulting from various etiologies such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and infection, and is associated with decreased quality of life, poor health outcomes, and increased economic burden. However, epidemiological studies on neuropathic pain have been largely limited in Vietnam.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on adult Vietnamese industrial workers across three manufacturing plants.

Spinal cysticercosis: A case report.

Spinal cysticercosis is a rare and severe cysticercosis complication. The pathology is from the inflammatory reaction and granuloma formation around the eggs, which cause focal neurological deficits. Because of the rarity of this condition, diagnosis may be delayed and confused with other myelopathies such as neoplasms or myelitis.

Sleep disorders among patients suffering from road traffic injuries in an urban setting of Vietnam: an exploratory study.

Sleep quality is an important indicator of treatment outcome for patients with traffic accident injuries. In Vietnam, the impacts of injury on sleep status are usually amplified in urban areas due to disproportionate distribution of mental care services between the city and less developed settings. Our study investigated deterioration in sleep quality and identified associated demographic factors among traffic injury patients in an small urban setting of Vietnam.

Assessing bicycle-vehicle conflicts at urban intersections utilizing a VR integrated simulation approach.

Animosity between drivers and cyclists has existed on urban road networks for many years. Conflicts between these two groups of road users are exceptionally high in the shared right-of-way environments. Benchmarking methods of conflict assessments are mostly based on statistical analysis with limited data sources.

Universal compilation for quantum state tomography.

Universal compilation is a training process that compiles a trainable unitary into a target unitary. It has vast potential applications from depth-circuit compressing to device benchmarking and quantum error mitigation. Here we propose a universal compilation algorithm for quantum state tomography in low-depth quantum circuits.

Detection of bovine leukemia virus in beef cattle kept in the Central Coast Regions of Vietnam.

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is the etiologic agent of enzootic bovine leucosis. Our previous study showed the BLV existence in cattle kept in the Red River Delta Region of Vietnam. However, no positive samples were identified in beef cattle.

Enhancing Covid-19 virus spread modeling using an activity travel model.

Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) and its variants are still spreading rapidly with deadly consequences and profound impacts on the global health and world economy. Without a suitable vaccine, mobility restriction has been the most effective method so far to prevent its spreading and avoid overwhelming the heath system of the affected country. The compartmental model SIR (or Susceptible, Infected, and Recovered) is the most popular mathematical model used to predict the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to plan the control actions and mobility restrictions against its spreading.

Safety and immunogenicity of an egg-based inactivated Newcastle disease virus vaccine expressing SARS-CoV-2 spike: Interim results of a randomized, placebo-controlled, phase 1/2 trial in Vietnam.

Production of affordable coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in low- and middle-income countries is needed. NDV-HXP-S is an inactivated egg-based Newcastle disease virus (NDV) vaccine expressing the spike protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Wuhan-Hu-1. The spike protein was stabilized and incorporated into NDV virions by removing the polybasic furin cleavage site, introducing the transmembrane domain and cytoplasmic tail of the fusion protein of NDV, and introducing six prolines for stabilization in the prefusion state.

Endoscopic assisted microvascular decompression for vertebral artery - Associated hemifacial spasm - A case report.

Introduction: and importance: Vertebral-artery associated hemifacial spasm is rare. Microvascular decompression (MVD) of hemifacial spasm (HFS) associated with the vertebral artery (VA) shows high rates of incomplete cure and complications compared to non-VA-related HFS.

Case Presentation: A 39-year-old male who presented with a 2-year history of progressive left-sided typical HFS.

Aberrant artery embolization prior to pulmonary sequestration surgery: A case series report.

Objectives: Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital malformation, and part of its treatment requires the removal of the aberrant artery by surgical means.

Materials And Methods: Five patients treated at Military Hospital 103 - Department of Thoracic Disease were diagnosed with PS via CT scan, MS-CT, and DSA, and histopathological data were evaluated retrospectively between January and December 2019.

Results: In all patients, surgery is the preferred option, with two cases of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (one lobectomy and one wedge resection), and three cases of hybrid video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (adhesive inflammation was observed, the bronchus is challenging to reveal, to resect, and tend to bleed when resecting).

A method for suppressing respiratory noise in impedance cardiography and comprehensive assessment of noise reduction performance.

Cardiac Output (CO) is a significant hemodynamic index for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Impedance cardiography (ICG) is one of the non-invasive methods widely investigated for its simplicity, cost-effectiveness and ability to measure cardiac output continuously. However, measured ICG signals are contaminated by the respiratory artefact leading to difficulties in determining characteristic points in the signal waveform, thereby lowering the accuracy of measurement results.

Development and assessment of a community-based screening tool for mental health disorders among people who inject drugs.

Introduction: The prevalence of mental health disorders among people who use drugs is high and well documented. This hard-to-reach population faces a very low awareness and access to mental health care, especially in developing countries. The objectives of this study were to design and assess a quick screening tool (QST) that community-based organisations (CBO) could routinely apply to a Vietnamese population of people who inject drugs (PWID), in order to refer them appropriately to mental health specialists.