Exploring Pathways for Pain Relief in Treatment and Management of Lumbar Foraminal Stenosis: A Review of the Literature.

Background: Lumbar foraminal stenosis (LFS) involves the narrowing of neural foramina, leading to nerve compression, significant lower back pain and radiculopathy, particularly in the aging population. Management includes physical therapy, medications and potentially invasive surgeries such as foraminotomy. Advances in diagnostic and treatment strategies are essential due to LFS's complexity and prevalence, which underscores the importance of a multidisciplinary approach in optimizing patient outcomes.

Quantifying Lumbar Foraminal Volumetric Dimensions: Normative Data and Implications for Stenosis-Part 2 of a Comprehensive Series.

Introduction: Lumbar foraminal stenosis (LFS) occurs primarily due to degenerative changes in older adults, affecting the spinal foramina and leading to nerve compression. Characterized by pain, numbness, and muscle weakness, LFS arises from structural changes in discs, joints, and ligaments, further complicated by factors like inflammation and spondylolisthesis. Diagnosis combines patient history, physical examination, and imaging, while management ranges from conservative treatment to surgical intervention, underscoring the need for a tailored approach.

Intraoperative Ultrasound: An Old but Ever New Technology for a More Personalized Approach to Brain Tumor Surgery.

Background: Although the use of transcranial ultrasound dates to the mid-20th century, the main purpose of this research work is to standardize its use in the resection of brain tumors. This is due to its wide availability, low cost, lack of contraindications, and absence of harmful effects for the patient and medical staff, along with the possibility of real-time verification of the complete resection of tumor lesions and minimization of vascular injuries or damage to adjacent structures.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted from June to December 2022.

HER2-Positive Lacrimal Sac Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a 57-Year-Old Man.

Introduction: Lacrimal sac squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a rare tumor. Only 241 cases of lacrimal sac SCC have been reported in the literature. However, the detailed molecular profile of this tumor is unknown.

Safety and Efficacy of Different Anticoagulant Doses for Patients with COVID-19 in the ICU: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Critically ill COVID-19 patients have a high incidence of thromboembolic events, which significantly influence the risk of mortality. Anticoagulant therapy is generally recommended to these patients but the optimal dosing regimens require further investigations. The objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to assess the efficacy and safety of prophylactic, intermediate and therapeutic dose anticoagulation in COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU.

[Myostimulating effect of comprehensive application of general magnetotherapy, fractional CO2 laser, electro-myostimulation and special complex of exercise in patients with rectoceleal after open-peconstructure].

The article presents data on the treatment of 200 women of childbearing, peri - and menopausal age with rectocele of II-III degree, which were divided into 4 groups comparable in clinical and functional characteristics: 1-50 patients who, after surgical treatment of rectocele, underwent a complex consisting of a course of General magnetic therapy, 2 intra-vascular procedures of fractional microablative CO laser therapy, electromyostimulation with the pelvic floor muscles and a special complex of therapeutic physical education; comparison 1, which included 50 patients who underwent the above-mentioned complex of rehabilitation measures without General magnetotherapy; comparison of 2-50 patients after surgical treatment of rectocele, who in the late postoperative period (one month after the operation) underwent a set of rehabilitation measures, including a course of electromyostimulation with the biological connection of the pelvic floor muscles, consisting of 10 daily procedures and a special complex of physical therapy and a control group - 50 patients after surgical treatment of rectocele, who in the late postoperative period were treated with symptomatic therapy, including painkillers and antispasmodics, which served as a background for all other groups. As a result of the research, it was found that the developed rehabilitation complexes have a pronounced myostimulating effect, and can be recommended for wide use in rehabilitation programs for postoperative management of patients with rectocele.

CT-fusion-guided endovascular repair of iatrogenic common iliac artery aneurysm: A case report.

We present a case of a CT-fusion-guided endovascular repair of an iatrogenic common iliac artery aneurysm in a 60-year-old male with a history of robotic prostatectomy with wide lymphadenectomy. Taking into account iatrogenic nature, rapid evolvement, previous surgical intervention, and oncological history, our team, including vascular and endovascular surgeons, refused open surgery in favor of endovascular iliac repair. We coiled the ipsilateral hypogastric artery and then deployed 2 Fluency Plus stent grafts from the common iliac into the external iliac artery.

[Immediate and Long-term Results of the First in Russia of IntrocoronaryMetal Stent in the Coronary Artery].

The authors present immediate and long term results of the first in Russia implantation in coronary artery of Palmaz-Shatz metal stent. Indications for stenting were urgent after complicated dissection as a result of balloon dilation of discrete bifurcational stenosis of anterior interventricular artery (IVA). Immediate angiographic and clinical result was good.

[Infective Endocarditis: Problems of Diagnosis and Treatment].

Results of the clinical study involving 458 patients (from 12 to 75 years, mean age 49 +/- 9.3 years) with various forms of infective endocarditis (IE) have been summarized. Integrated echocardiography was the principal non-invasive method of presurgical diagnosis of the disease.

[Twenty Years Experience of the Surgical Treatment of Giant Ascending Aortic Aneurysms].

Giant ascending aortic aneurysm is one of the worst lesions of the cardiovascular system. Timely surgical treatment provides the only chance to prolong the lives of such patients. Life expectancy without surgery in these patients is minimal; they die from a ruptured aneurysm.