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People need freshwater biodiversity
WIREs Water, Volume 10, Issue 3, May/June 2023., 2023 Freshwater biodiversity (i.e., plants, animals, fungi, microbes, and other living things) provides a suite of critical ecosystem services to people. Collapses in freshwater biodiversity impact people, across all regions of the globe, rural–urban gradients, and the full socioeconomic spectrum, but perhaps most particularly indigenous and marginalized ...
Abigail J. Lynch +21 more
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 Objective. Even for very successful peripheral revascularization therapy, treatment is not complete until the ulcerative, gangrenous, and infected wound is closed. This study was performed and compared the outcomes of vacuum‐assisted closure (VAC) and maggot debridement therapy (MDT) following peripheral revascularization to accelerate the wound ...
Ugur Cangel +3 more
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Leech therapy of nipple‐areolar complex (NAC) congestion in reduction mammoplasty: A case report
Clinical Case Reports, Volume 9, Issue 10, October 2021., 2021 Leech therapy is a safe, easy‐to‐use, cost‐effective traditional treatment to save reattached body parts and flaps in reconstructive plastic surgery especially in cases with blood circulatory problems. Abstract Leech therapy is a safe, easy‐to‐use, cost‐effective traditional treatment to save reattached body parts and flaps in reconstructive plastic ...
Narges Vasei, Katayoun Jahangiri
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A novel bone marrow‐sparing treatment for primary erythrocytosis in a cat: Onion powder
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 1977-1980, July/August 2021., 2021 Abstract Primary erythrocytosis (PE) is a rare myeloproliferative neoplasm in cats resulting in the overproduction of erythrocytes. Current treatment modalities include repeated phlebotomy and chemotherapeutic drugs. These treatments may not be well tolerated by the cat and can present safety and financial challenges to owners. Because of the rarity of
Demitria M. Vasilatis +2 more
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Outcome and treatments of dogs with aortic thrombosis: 100 cases (1997‐2014)
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Volume 34, Issue 5, Page 1759-1767, September 2020., 2020 Abstract Background Aortic thrombosis (ATh) is an uncommon condition in dogs, with limited understanding of risks factors, outcomes, and treatments. Objectives/Hypothesis To describe potential risk factors, outcome, and treatments in dogs with ATh. Animals Client‐owned dogs with a diagnosis of ATh based on ultrasonographic or gross necropsy examination.
Mackenzie Ruehl +9 more
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Unani treatment and leech therapy saved the diabetic foot of a patient from amputation
International Wound Journal, Volume 13, Issue 2, Page 263-264, April 2016., 2016 Abstract Every 30 seconds, a lower limb amputation is carried out due to diabetes throughout the world. The mortality rate due to diabetic foot gangrene is just next to that of cancer. As tissue death cannot be reversed, surgical removal of the affected tissue (debridement) or amputation of the limb is the only treatment option left when gangrene has ...
SM Arif Zaidi
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016 Aim. We aimed to determine the effect of external apple vinegar application on the symptoms and social appearance anxiety of varicosity patients who were suggested conservative treatment. Method. The study was planned as an experimental, randomized, and controlled study.
Derya Atik +3 more
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Chinese Medicinal Leech: Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacological Activities
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016 Hirudo (Shuizhi in Chinese) is an important Chinese medicine, which possesses many therapeutic properties for the treatment of the cerebral hemorrhage and other thrombosis‐related diseases. The phytochemical investigation gave more than 51 compounds including pteridines, phosphatidylcholines, glycosphingolipids, and sterols, as well as some bioactive ...
Han Dong +7 more
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Recommendations for the Use of Leeches in Reconstructive Plastic Surgery
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014., 2014 A written informed consent should be obtained from the patient before hirudotherapy is initiated. The patients should be treated each day of leech therapy with anti‐Aeromonas antibiotics. Leeches should be applied on the darker spots of the reattached body parts or flaps.
Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu, Ronald Sherman
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Ichthyotherapy as Alternative Treatment for Patients with Psoriasis: A Pilot Study
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 483-488, 2006., 2006 Ichthyotherapy (therapy with the so‐called ‘Doctorfish of Kangal’, Garra rufa) has been shown to be effective in patients with psoriasis in the Kangal hot springs in Turkey. This study evaluates the efficacy and safety of ichthyotherapy in combination with short‐term ultraviolet A sunbed radiation in the treatment of psoriasis under controlled ...
Martin Grassberger, W. Hoch
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