Foreign body aspiration presenting as a chronic lung disease: a unique finding in an elderly patient.

Foreign body aspiration is a serious clinical manifestation in the elderly and has a significant potential to cause life-endangering harm. In this unique report, we highlight the case of a seventy-year-old conscious male, who reported with complaints of chronic cough initially diagnosed as chronic bronchitis; however, on radiological examination, the infectious nidus was identified as a 5 cm long metallic nail in the right lower lung.

Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Toward Off-Label Medicine Use in Female Reproductive Health Issues.

Background: Off-label medication usage (OLMU) is prevalent in the treatment of various diseases, including female reproductive health issues (FRHIs). However, there is a paucity of literature on the perspective of health professionals on this subject. The purpose of the current study was to assess gynecologists/obstetricians' knowledge, attitude and practice toward OLMU in the treatment of FRHIs.

Aggressive Perioperative Management for Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura in a Patient Undergoing Open Heart Surgery: A Correct Strategy in an Emergent Patient?

Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune pathology that causes thrombocytopenia. This can become extremely troublesome when dealing with the rare clinical scenario of having to operate a highly invasive procedure on patients with thrombocytopenia. We report a case of a 66-year-old male with multiple comorbidities, including ITP, who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with an aortic valve replacement (AVR).

Corona virus versus existence of human on the earth: A computational and biophysical approach.

SARS-CoV-2 has a positive sense RNA genome of 29.9 kb in size, showing high sequence similarity to the BAT-CoV, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV. SARS-CoV-2 is composed of 14 open reading frames (ORFs), which encodes for a total of 27 proteins divided into structural and non-structural proteins (NSPs).