Influence of pre-hospital to post-hospital delay factors on MI complications: a prospective cohort study.

Objectives: To identify factors contributing to delays in in the initiation of treatment among ST elevation myocardial infarction patients.

Methods: The prospective cohort study was conducted at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Karachi, from December 2020 to June 2021, and comprised ST elevation myocardial infarction patients of either gender aged at least 18 years. Time delay categories were 1st and 2nd delays that were patient-related, and 3rd delay that was system-related), with thresholds of ≤90 minutes and ≤120 minutes.

Indicators and Implementation Guidance to Advance Value-Based HIV Care Through People-Centered Metrics.

We argue that validating person-centered outcome metrics and integrating them into HIV programs may improve patient’s quality of life and health outcomes by informing the provider-client relationship, promoting integrated service delivery at the program level, and influencing policy and budget allocations at the population level.

Characteristics of Patients With Diabetes Having Normal Coronary Arteries.

We evaluated the association between risk variables in diabetic patients with normal and diseased coronary arteries in a retrospective cohort study conducted at Rashid Hospital, Dubai. A total of 4446 patients underwent coronary angiography due to various indications; 43% had type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Among the diabetic patients, 94% had diseased coronary arteries and the remaining 6% had absolutely normal arteries.

Intracranial haemorrhage 4 days after receiving thrombolytic therapy in a young woman with myocardial infarction.

Intracranial haemorrhage is a known complication after fibrinolytic therapy and occurs usually in the first 24 h. We report a 35-year-old woman who presented with severe central chest pain and she was diagnosed as anterior ST elevation myocardial infarction. She was given fibrinolytic therapy with Tenecteplase.

Spatial representations of odorants in olfactory bulbs of rats and mice: similarities and differences in chemotopic organization.

In previous studies, we mapped glomerular layer 2-deoxyglucose uptake evoked by hundreds of both systematically related and chemically distinct odorants in rat olfactory bulbs. To determine which principles of chemotopic organization revealed in these studies may be more fundamental and which may be more species typical, we now have characterized patterns of responses to 30 of these odorants in mice. We found that only a few odorants evoked their multiple foci of peak activity in exactly the same locations in the two species.