Publications by authors named "W Farah"
Introduction: The introduction of intraoperative fluorophores represented a significant advancement in neurosurgical practice. Nowadays they found different applications: in oncology to improve the visualization of tumoral tissue and optimize resection rates and in vascular neurosurgery to assess the exclusion of vascular malformations or the permeability of bypasses, with real-time intraoperative evaluations.
Research Question: A comprehensive knowledge of how fluorophores work is crucial to maximize their benefits and to incorporate them into daily neurosurgical practice.
: The recent discovery of BRAF mutation in papillary craniopharyngiomas opened new avenues for targeted therapies to control tumour growth, decreasing the need for invasive treatments and relative complications. The aim of this systematic review was to summarize the recent scientific data dealing with the use of targeted therapies in papillary craniopharyngiomas, as adjuvant and neoadjuvant treatments. : The PRISMA guidelines were followed with searches performed in Scopus, MEDLINE, and Embase, following a dedicated PICO approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSafety implications of mask use: a systematic review and evidence map.
BMJ Evid Based Med
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- A lot of people use masks for health reasons, especially during pandemics, and this study looked into how masks affect our bodies and minds.
- The researchers checked many old studies and found that wearing different types of masks doesn’t really change heart rate or breathing for most healthy adults.
- They also noticed some tiny changes in breathing when wearing masks, but overall, the masks were safe and didn’t have major effects.
Scholarship addressing neurodiversity has made enormous progress in challenging and providing alternative narratives to the dominant frameworks of medical model. Although this is a necessary and important development, scholars need to think and act beyond the immediate local context of theory generation (Global North-mainly the United Kingdom and the United States) and examine its impact on the racialized neurodivergent individuals of the Global Majority. This article will provide a decolonial framework that has been missing in the neurodiversity scholarship.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The influenza virus continues to be a public health concern every season. We aimed to evaluate influenza-associated outcomes and healthcare utilization by race and ethnicity.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the National Inpatient Sample across 2019 and 2020.