Neurological Presentations of COVID-19: Characteristic Features in a Case Series of Hospitalized Patients from Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Background: COVID-19 patients can present with neurological manifestations in the form of headache, dizziness, hyposmia, myalgia, peripheral neuropathy, acute cerebrovascular disease, and encephalopathy. Neurological involvement could be due to virus-induced brain hypoxia, brain infection, or immune reaction. We aim to describe the neurological presentation of COVID-19 patients and study their neuroimaging findings and disease outcome.

Impact of Ethnicity and Underlying Comorbidity on COVID-19 Inhospital Mortality: An Observational Study in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Background: The UAE reported its first cluster of COVID 2019 in a group of returned travellers from Wuhan in January 2020. Various comorbidities are associated with worse disease prognosis. Understanding the impact of ethnicity on the disease outcome is an important public health issue but data from our region is lacking.

A prospective study of two methods of analgesia in shoulder arthroscopic procedures as day case surgery.

Background & Purpose: The recent advances in anaesthesia and analgesia have significantly improved the early recovery and effective post-operative pain control in day care surgery e.g. shoulder arthroscopic procedures.

Functional outcome after computer-assisted total knee arthroplasty using measured resection versus gap balancing techniques: a randomised controlled study.

Purpose: To compare the 2-year outcome of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using the measured resection versus the gap balancing techniques.

Methods: 21 men and 31 women aged 41 to 89 (mean, 73) years who underwent primary TKA by a single surgeon for osteoarthritis and had an American Society of Anesthesiologists I or II physical status were prospectively studied. Patients were randomised to undergo computer-assisted TKA using the measured resection technique (n=26) or the gap balancing technique (n=26).

Symptomatic coracoclavicular joint: incidence, clinical significance and available management options.

Purpose: Coracoclavicular joint (CCJ) is a rare anomalous joint occasionally found between the coracoid process of scapula and the conoid tubercle of clavicle. The articulation has been extensively studied by means of anatomical, osteological and radiological investigations. Most cases are discovered incidentally, with the symptomatic variety remaining an exceptional rarity.

Successful ACL reconstruction with a variant of the pes anserinus.

An anatomical variant of the pes anserinus encountered during anterior cruciate ligament reconstructive surgery which has not been previously described is discussed. During routine harvesting, the sartorius fascia was incised and the semitendinosus and gracilis tendons were identified. At the distal portion, it was noted that each tendon gave off an additional tendinous slip.

Post-partum septic arthritis of the knee: a case report.

Introduction: Septic arthritis is rare in the post-partum period. This is the first case of a post-partum staphylococcal septic arthritis of the knee reported.

Case Presentation: This report describes a lady who developed symptoms of septic arthritis of the knee within one month of giving birth.

Post-traumatic myositis ossificans of the sternocleidomastoid following fracture of the clavicle: a case report.

Background: Fractures of the clavicle are common injuries. The complications have been well documented in the literature.

Case Presentation: Despite it close proximity to the sternocleidomastoid muscle and myositis ossificans recognised as a known complication of any fracture, the two have never previously been described in association secondary to a fracture of the clavicle.

A ganglion cyst at the elbow causing superficial radial nerve compression: a case report.

Introduction: We report a rare case of a ganglion cyst at the elbow causing neurological symptoms by stretching the superficial radial nerve alone. Ganglia associated with radial nerve palsy at the elbow have been reported previously involving the deep branch of the posterior interosseous nerve and the superficial radial nerve, but not the superficial radial nerve alone.

Case Presentation: A 45-year-old woman presented with a 4-month history of a painful lump in the anterior aspect of her left elbow associated with altered sensation in the dorsoradial aspect of her left hand.

Bilateral undisplaced insufficiency neck of femur fractures associated with short-term steroid use: a case report.

Introduction: We present an interesting and unusual case of a 61-year-old woman with bilateral, undisplaced, stress neck of femur fractures associated with short-term steroid use. Insufficiency fractures of the neck of femur without preceding trauma have been described in the literature, although bilateral involvement is infrequent. These fractures have been associated with strenuous exercise, seizures, renal osteodystrophy, fluoride treatment, long-term corticosteroid use, amenorrhoea, abnormal anatomy and osteomalacia due to nutritional and/or hormonal factors.

Acute isolated acetabular fracture following a game of squash: a case report.

Although hip injuries do not account a large amount of the Sports Physician's workload they can result in significant morbidity. We present a case where an acetabular fracture was sustained in a relatively young female while playing squash without any history of fall or injury but was treated successfully non-operatively. Such patients who present with acute hip pain must not be dismissed as simply having a soft tissue injury.

Successful removal of a telephone cable, a foreign body through the urethra into the bladder: a case report.

The variety of foreign bodies inserted into or externally attached to the genitourinary tract defies imagination and includes all types of objects. The frequency of such cases renders these an important addition to the diseases of the genitourinary organs. The most common motive associated with the insertion of foreign bodies into the genitourinary tract is sexual or erotic in nature.

A prospective randomized double-blind trial of the use of intrathecal fentanyl in patients undergoing lumbar spinal surgery.

Study Design: A randomized, double-blind controlled study.

Objective: To assess the efficacy and safety of intrathecal fentanyl in the relief of postoperative pain in patients undergoing lumbar spinal surgery.

Summary Of Background Data: Fentanyl has been used as a spinal analgesic in surgery and obstetrics with several studies promoting its efficacy and safety.