Social Media Influence on Body Image and Cosmetic Surgery Considerations: A Systematic Review.

Social media platforms like Instagram (Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, California, United States) and Snapchat(Snap Inc., California, United States) significantly influence motivations for aesthetic surgery by promoting idealized and digitally enhanced images.

The pathogenic microbial flora and its antibiotic susceptibility pattern in odontogenic infections.

Suppurative head and neck infections of odontogenic origin are the most frequent type of head and neck infections. According to the literature, 7-10% of all antibiotics are currently prescribed for their treatment. Since penicillin was invented, the overall antibiotic sensitivity and resistance pattern of the isolated pathogenic microflora has continuously changed.

[Respiratory features of Aspergillus infection in eight years of pulmonology practice].

Aim: To evaluate clinical manifestations of Aspergillus infections in our pulmonology practice.

Methods: Between 2002-2009, we assessed retrospectively and prospectively, Aspergillus related diseases in patients admitted in Clinical Hospital of Pneumology from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Positive diagnosis was based on identification of Aspergillus speciae (A spp) on Sabouraud medium, pathological, or immunological proves.

[Diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic significance of sternal fractures].

This paper is a retrospective study based on a group of 62 patients with sternal fractures (SF), selected from a group of 637 patients presented in our unit with thoracic trauma between 1997 and 2004. The aim of this study is to evaluate SF from the epidemiological, etiopathogenic, diagnostic and therapeutic point of view. The incidence of SF was 12.

[Comparison of the results of M. tuberculosis cultures on liquid media in MB/BacT system and solid Löwenstein Jensen media in selected patients].

Aim: The study was performed to evaluate the performances of the MB/BacT System in comparison to solid media Löwenstein Jensen for the recovery and the time for the detection of mycobacteria from specimens of selected patients from a dust and chemical polluted area, where the incidence of tuberculosis is higher than the mean county incidence- as control- and silicotuberculosis patients.

Material And Methods: We processed 193 selected specimens (156 as control and 37 from silicotuberculosis patients). All specimens have been processed for microscopic examination, culture on Löwenstein Jensen media and in Middlebrook7H9 liquid media in automatic system MB/BacT Sputum, bronchial aspirate and tongue swab had been previously decontaminated, but aseptically obtained specimens not, before inoculation onto the culture media.

[A simple enzyme test for proving the resistance to isoniazid of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains].

Resistance to isoniazid is the consequence of mutation in some genes or genomic sequences. One of them is katG gene, which encode catalase-peroxidase. The activity of this enzyme can be revealed by simultaneous test catalase-peroxidase.

[Etiology, diagnosis and therapeutic considerations in malignant pleural effusions].

Although its real incidence is not clearly established, malignant pleural effusions is one of the more common problems that internists, pneumologists and oncologists face in their daily practice. Because the patients are already terminally ill, it is important to obtain a diagnosis expeditiously and formulate a treatment plan that optimizes quality of life.

[Speleoplasty, a possible alternative in the surgical treatment of cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis].

Speleoplasty is a method of surgical treatment of cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis. The proposed surgical procedure differs from thoracoplasty and from pulmonary resection by a direct approach of the pulmonary cavernae. Speleoplasty is a simple, reliable technique, reducing significantly the surgical time as well as the operatory and post-operatory strike risks.