Publications by authors named "Tara L Gallant"

Article Synopsis
  • Low energy availability (LEA) happens when athletes burn more calories than they consume, leading to decreased performance and higher injury risks, particularly affecting those in endurance and weight-class sports.
  • The study aimed to find out how common LEA and relative energy deficiency in sport (REDs) are among athletes and analyze their impact on performance and injuries.
  • Out of 59 studies reviewed, about 44.7% of athletes were found to have LEA, with specific decreases in performance and some mixed conclusions on the direct link to injury risks.
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 In an era when trabeculectomy surgeries in the United States are on the decline, ophthalmology residents may have limited opportunities to practice surgical techniques critical to success. However, key steps of trabeculectomy surgery can be introduced in a wet laboratory using a simple surgical model based on food items.  A fresh lime and chicken parts with skin, purchased from a grocery store, were utilized to practice trabeculectomy surgery.

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Introduction: Ensuring that people at risk of overdosing on opioids have easy access to naloxone is an essential part of the fight against the opioid crisis. This study evaluates the impact of the 2016 California law (CA AB1535) permitting pharmacies to dispense this life-saving medication without a physician's prescription.

Methods: California counties were categorized on the basis of population density (rural, suburban, urban), rate of opioid-related deaths by population density (high, medium, low), and rate of opioid prescriptions by population density (high, medium, low).

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Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is a range of diseases characterized by thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, and organ injury. Complement-mediated TMA is a rare, life-threatening subtype of TMA that occurs due to the uncontrolled activation of the alternative complement pathway in the absence of normal regulation, often resulting from deficiencies of various regulatory proteins. Anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease, previously known as Goodpasture syndrome, is a life-threatening form of vasculitis in which immunoglobulin G autoantibodies bind to the alpha-3 chain of type IV collagen in alveolar and glomerular basement membranes.

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Fascial herniations of the leg occur when an intracompartmental leg muscle protrudes through weaknesses in the overlying fascial sheath. These fascial defects may be congenital or acquired from trauma involving penetrating injuries to the fascia. Increases in intracompartmental pressure, often resulting from muscular hypertrophy, can lead to muscular herniation through the weakened fascia.

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