Post COVID-19 Lymphocytic Hypophysitis: A Rare Presentation.

Lymphocytic hypophysitis (LH) is a rare autoimmune disorder involving the destruction of the anterior pituitary due to lymphocytic infiltration. The disease shows a female predominance, commonly affecting women during late pregnancy into the postpartum period. The etiology of LH has not been well established and is presumed to be autoimmune based on the histopathological findings of lymphocytic infiltration and postpartum cases.

Utility of electroencephalogram in the pediatric emergency department.

Introduction: Electroencephalograms (EEG) can be helpful in evaluating patients presenting to the emergency department (ED).

Methods: We reviewed the charts of patients who had an EEG done in the ED at Dayton Children's Hospital in Dayton, Ohio from 2010 to 2018. We divided the indication for EEG into 6 categories, 1) suspected new onset seizures, 2) recurrent seizures, 3) altered mental status, 4) death, 5) non-convulsive status epilepticus, and 6) psychogenic seizures.

Community Healthy Workers Fill in the Gaps for Participants Who Became Lost to Follow-up in a Healthy Start Program.

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to solicit information from Community Health Workers (CHWs) in order to further understand reasons for Healthy Start participants becoming lost to follow-up after delivery. Four CHWs from a local Healthy Start Program completed questionnaires for participants in their caseloads who had become lost to follow-up from the program (n = 146) between Sep 2018 and Jan 2020. The questionnaire included open ended items about ease of contact before and after delivery, changes in contact information, compliance with prenatal care visits, other life challenges (such as housing, legal, transportation, and family support), family size, living arrangements, working/student status, and substance use.