Publications by authors named "Neha Sood"

To communicate with U.S.-bound refugees during travel to the United States during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, five federal and international organizations collaborated in a strategic work group to synergize COVID-19 prevention health messaging and COVID-19 considerations before, during, and after travel, as well as promote shared resources.

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Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) oto-rhinorrhoea is rare and may develop secondary to inner ear malformation. Any child discharging watery fluid through nose or ear spontaneously in a head dependent position should be a high index of suspicion of CSF leak. If watery rhinorrhoea is present then apart from biochemical analysis of fluid discharge to confirm it to be CSF, computed tomography of paranasal sinuses and temporal bone should be carried out to differentiate between CSF oto-rhinorrhoea and CSF rhinorrhoea.

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  • * Symptoms can include headache, nasal discharge, and post-nasal drip, with potential serious complications if sphenoidal sinusitis occurs.
  • * Diagnosis of sphenoid sinus lesions typically involves CT and MRI, and the article discusses both anatomical variants and common pathologies associated with the sphenoid sinus. *
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coordinates investigations of multistate foodborne outbreaks. To better inform future communication efforts with the public during these outbreaks, we conducted a qualitative content analysis of comments on multistate foodborne outbreak Facebook posts distributed on the CDC's Facebook page September to December 2018. The CDC created 27 Facebook posts for nine multistate foodborne outbreaks (one to eight posts per outbreak), and 2,612 comments were analyzed.

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In this commentary, we briefly describe our methodology in conducting a remote qualitative investigation with essential workers from southwest Kansas, and then describe some key considerations, challenges, and lessons learned in recruiting and conducting interviews remotely. From August 4, 2020 through August 26, 2020, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staff conducted five phone interviews with culturally and linguistically diverse employees in southwest Kansas to understand COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, and practices and communication preferences. Our experience details the potential challenges of the federal government in recruiting individuals from these communities and highlights the possibilities for more effectively engaging health department and community partners to support investigation efforts.

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Many efforts across the farm-to-fork continuum aim to reduce foodborne disease and outbreaks. Real-time risk communication is an important component of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) efforts, especially during outbreaks. To inform risk communication with the public during multistate foodborne outbreaks, we conducted a series of focus groups of adults in the Washington, D.

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  • - The study investigates the effectiveness of a standardized perioperative bundle aimed at reducing surgical site infections (SSIs) during cesarean births (CBs) at Flushing Hospital Medical Center from 2017 to 2019.
  • - After analyzing data from 2,875 cesarean deliveries, researchers found a significant decrease in SSIs: from 2.3% prebundle to 0.7% postbundle, suggesting the intervention's effectiveness in enhancing patient safety.
  • - The results indicate that the perioperative bundle should be considered a key component in cesarean surgical care to further improve outcomes and reduce infection rates.
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  • - Unilateral sinonasal masses make up about 6% of paranasal sinus issues, with a specific case reported involving a nasoethmoidal schwannoma and significant skull base damage.
  • - The treatment involved endoscopic removal of the tumor and repair of the skull base defect.
  • - The report stresses the diagnostic and management challenges of such cases and suggests that schwannomas should be considered in the differential diagnosis when a patient presents with a unilateral nasal mass.
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Steroid cell tumor not otherwise specified (NOS) is a rare subtype of sex cord stromal tumor of the ovary and contributes less than 0.1% of all ovarian neoplasms. The majority of tumors occur in pre-menopausal women (mean age: 43 years), in which 56-77% of patients present with virilization due to excess testosterone.

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Neurocysticercosis is an important parasitic disease of the central nervous system and constitutes a public health challenge for most of the developing world. Radiological findings may be quite variable. A 50 year old man presented with recent onset generalized tonic-clonic seizures.

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Dysferlinopathy is an uncommon, progressive muscular dystrophy that has a wide phenotypic variability and primarily supportive management (Nguyen et al., 2007; Narayanaswami et al., 2014).

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Prompt serum copper and zinc in addition to vitamin B12 levels should be measured in patients suffering from refractory anemia with neurological symptoms. A timely copper supplementation can help revert the hematological and possibly the neurological manifestations.

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Perineal leiomyosarcoma is an extremely rare and aggressive cancer with a high metastatic potential and no defined standard treatment. There are only a few (six) reported cases in the literature. We report the case of a 67-year-old woman with a perineal leiomyosarcoma arising at the same site of a previously resected superficial angiomyxoma.

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