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Implementing Early Kangaroo Mother Care: A Quality Improvement Initiative.

Adv Neonatal Care

January 2025

Author Affiliations: University of Texas at El Paso, College of Nursing, El Paso, Texas, and Pediatrix Medical Group, Sunrise, Florida (Dr Hull); and Las Palmas Medical Center, El Paso Texas (Mrs Gongora).

Background: Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) has numerous maternal and neonatal benefits. KMC is often overlooked as a vital neonatal stabilization tool. Factors that influence the initiation of KMC by bedside staff include a lack of specific education on KMC, low confidence, and hesitancy due to the infant's clinical illness.

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Introduction: Intrinsic sphincter deficiency (ISD) is associated with a patient history of urethral injury or childbirth. Suburethral sling placement for ISD has been found to be beneficial in patients with this diagnosis. ISD in the pediatric population is rare and surgical management may prove difficult.

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Background: With the emergence of vaccines for COVID-19, mortality and severity of disease have decreased. However, patients with certain comorbidities, such as immunosuppression, CKD, and renal transplant, still have higher mortality rates as compared to the general population. Current data suggests that the risk of developing COVID-19 among transplant patients was reported to be about 5%, which is significantly higher than the risk rate of 0.

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We present a case of a 40-year-old female seen on the inpatient general surgery service in consultation for a suspected abdominal wall abscess or seroma. The history and examination were consistent with a diagnosis of hidradenitis suppurativa. The patient had a 25-year history of similar lesions present since her teenage years, not properly investigated and diagnosed, despite presenting with symptoms in multiple clinic and hospital settings since disease onset.

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Introduction: Fluoroquinolones, a class of antibiotics, are commonly employed in the treatment of a wide array of bacterial infections. Recognized for their effectiveness against a broad spectrum of pathogens, fluoroquinolones have played a pivotal role in managing conditions like urinary tract infections and respiratory diseases. Nevertheless, their usage is not without contention due to their association with a variety of adverse effects, including tendon rupture and the less frequently reported issue of peripheral neuropathy.

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Purpose: We report the case of an acute type B dissection with high-risk features treated with multilayer stent.

Case Report: A 50-year-old female patient presented to the emergency department with an acute type B aortic dissection. Conservative medical treatment did control blood pressure but did not alleviate her dissection symptoms.

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Introduction: Granulosa cell tumors (GCTs) are part of the sex cord-stromal tumors occurring with a rare incidence rate that only makes up about 2-5% of all ovarian malignancies.

Case Presentation: A 28-year-old woman, gravida 2, para 1, presented with a juvenile-type granulosa cell tumor at 31 weeks gestation, which appeared as a rapidly growing mass with rupture. She under-went an exploratory laparotomy with unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, and consequently had a successful vaginal delivery.

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Paraneoplastic Hypereosinophilia in Poorly Differentiated Adenocarcinoma of the Lung.

Cureus

January 2023

Department of Internal Medicine/Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Hospitals of Providence- Transmountain/Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, El Paso, USA.

It is well-documented that lung and bronchus cancers are the leading cause of cancer death in the United States in both male and female patients, with lung adenocarcinoma accounting for the highest prevalence of lung cancers. Significant eosinophilia in the setting of lung adenocarcinoma has been documented in a few reports, being described as a rare paraneoplastic syndrome. We report on an 81-year-old female with hypereosinophilia-associated lung adenocarcinoma.

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Coccidioidomycosis of the chest wall is a rare finding and diagnosis is often delayed. We report a case of chest wall abscess with underlying osteomyelitis and an expansile lytic lesion of the left fourth rib in a young and immunocompetent African American male. Initially, the diagnostic assumption gravitated towards bone malignancy, but the diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis was made when the culture results from the bone biopsy specimen confirmed as the causative agent.

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Importance: Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) protects against ischemia-reperfusion injury in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Controversy exists on the effects of GLP-1 on AMI patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.

Study Objective: We aimed to investigate the cardioprotective effects of GLP-1 in AMI patients after PCI and CABG.

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Description Clenbuterol is a long-acting β-agonist used in oral and inhaled form for asthma treatment outside the U.S. and in veterinary medicine within the U.

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The fluorescent imaging agent IS-001 was determined to be well tolerated in all subjects and has the potential to provide ureter visualization throughout minimally invasive hysterectomy procedures. This study was conducted to evaluate clinical safety and efficacy of a real-time ureter visualization technique for use during hysterectomy surgery. The study drug appears safe, is renally excreted, and allows enhanced ureter visualization when imaged with a clinically approved near-infrared sensitive endoscope.

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We present a case of a middle-aged female who was admitted to the hospital with a respiratory infection and subsequently developed an acute surgical abdomen secondary to a perforated viscous. She was found to have mucormycosis of the intestinal tract and eventually succumbed to the sequelae of the infection.

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Acute nonrheumatic streptococcal myocarditis resembling ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction in a young patient.

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent)

April 2015

Cardiology Care Consultants, El Paso, Texas (Aguirre, Jurado); the Department of Internal Medicine (Porres-Aguilar), Department of Radiology (Olivas-Chacon), and Division of Cardiovascular Diseases (Mukherjee), Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center/Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, El Paso, Texas; the Department of Internal Medicine, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas School of Medicine, Beneficencia Española de Tampico, Tampico, Mexico (Porres-Muñoz); and the Department of Cardiology, Las Palmas Medical Center, El Paso, Texas (Taveras).

Acute myocarditis can be induced by various concomitant disease processes including infections. Most of these cases are viral in origin; however, bacterial infections are also implicated to a lesser degree. Group A streptococcus is a frequent culprit in bacterial-induced myocarditis.

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