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Theorizing causality: A qualitative study of xylazine‐related wound diversity and perceived etiology among people who inject drugs

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Incidence and severity of opioid‐associated skin and soft‐tissue infections, often requiring intensive and costly medical care, have increased substantially since the emergence of xylazine in the US drug supply. Although progress has been made in clinical and harm reduction recommendations for treating xylazine‐related ...
Danielle German, Kelci Villarroel, Meredith Denney, Adrian Guta, Julie Evans, Jason Bienert, Alex Fidler, Kim Ashburn, Zach Kosinski, Becky L. Genberg   +9 more
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Tissue‐retained needles in people who inject drugs: A systematic review of case reports and series on clinical presentations, complications and management

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Tissue‐retained needles from intravenous drug use can cause rare but severe complications, ranging from local to systemic infections to needle embolization. Due to the limited evidence and the lack of epidemiological studies on the issue, we systematically reviewed the literature focusing on case reports and case series on ...
Heidi Laukkala, Anna Nevalainen, Irina Rinta‐Kiikka, Samuel Heikkilä, Sisu Kiuru, Markku Sumanen, Otso Arponen, Olli Nevalainen   +7 more
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Successful management of a cerebral abscess secondary to chronic cholesteatoma caused by Prevotella melaninogenica and Peptococcus anaerobius – A case report and literature review

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2016
Cerebral abscess following cholesteatomatous otomastoiditis is a life-threatening complication and poses diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. We report a case of life-threatening cerebritis and cerebral abscess due to a collection of pus from an ...
Carlo Gulì, Luigi Basile, Francesca Graziano, Paola Di Carlo, Domenico Gerardo Iacopino, Antonio Cascio, Rosario Maugeri   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of gram-negative infections in cervico-facial sepsis [PDF]

, 2019
Magister Chirurgiae Dentium (MChD)In cervico-facial sepsis a substantial proportion of organisms are normally gram-negative staining of which the majority are anaerobes (Boyanova 2006 and Sanchez 2010).
Barnard, Neil
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Sacrococcygeal Pilonidal Sinus Disease: A Decade‐In‐Review of Patient‐Reported Outcome Measures

ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus disease (SPD) is a chronic inflammatory condition that can significantly impact quality of life. While recurrence and surgical site infection (SSI) rates are well documented, less is known about how different surgical techniques affect patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs).
Munyaradzi G. Nyandoro, Mary M. K. Teoh, Ellen G. Maclean, Andrew Thompson, David Fletcher   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brain abscess as a manifestation of spinal dermal sinus

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2008
Parisa Emami-Naeini, Ali Mahdavi, Hamed Ahmadi, Nima Baradaran, Farideh NejatDepartment of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Medical Sciences/University of Tehran, Tehran, IranAbstract: Dermal sinuses have been associated with a
Parisa Emami-Naeini, Ali Mahdavi, Hamed Ahmadi, Nima Baradaran, Farideh Nejat   +4 more
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Brain abscess: A rare complication of catheter: Associated infection in patients on hemodialysis [PDF]

Hospital Pharmacology, 2018
Introduction: Vascular approach is one of the main risk factors that causes infections in patients that are treated by hemodialyses. Brain abscess is one of the rarer metastatic complications of dialytic catheter sepsis.
Knežević Violeta A.V., Petrović Lada V., Đurđević-Mirković Tatjana, Ćelić Dejan M.   +3 more
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A Clinical Report of Two Cases of Cryptogenic Brain Abscess and a Relevant Literature Review

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019
Brain abscess, a severe intracranial infectious disease, refers to the parenchyma abscess caused by local infection or remote spread. Recently, advancements in modern medicine, especially the wide application of antimicrobial drugs, have contributed to ...
Wei Zhou, Xuefei Shao, Xiaochun Jiang
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Overseas Cosmetic Tourism on the Australian Public Hospital System

ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cosmetic tourism has become increasingly popular, with patients seeking lower cost cosmetic surgery overseas. However, complications often necessitate management in local public hospitals upon their return, placing a burden on healthcare systems.
Altinka Res, Brandon He, Y. Gehan Karunaratne, Michael Cheung, Frank Hsieh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Infection control in the brain and the eye

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract The Central Nervous System (CNS), comprising the brain and the eye, is considered to have a ‘privileged’ mechanism for dealing with immunological challenge (immune privilege, IP). CNS IP has been revealed through experiments using foreign protein antigens and cell and tissue alloantigens (grafts), but evidence for a role for IP in modulating ...
John V. Forrester, Paul G. McMenamin, Samantha J. Dando   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source