Scot Med J
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The effects of a multi-disciplinary team on sleep quality assessment in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease patients with sleep disorders.
Sleep disturbances are a severe problem among patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). By evaluating sleep quality in mild-to-moderate AD patients, this study aimed to assess the effects of multi-disciplinary team (MDT) in reducing the incidence of adverse reactions of AD patients. The reduction in the incidence of adverse reactions to predict multi-disciplinary team (MDT) treatment effects. ⋯ The MDT treatment method as an effective and meaningful therapy can help mitigate the suffering of patients with AD and FCGs.
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To devise a novel, simple chest x-ray (CXR) scoring system which would help in prognosticating the disease severity and ability to predict comorbidities and in-hospital mortality. ⋯ We propose that Pennine score is a simple tool which can be adapted by various countries, experiencing a large surge in number of patients, to decide which patient would need a tertiary Hospital referral/admission as opposed to patients that can be managed locally or at basic/primary care hospitals.
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To search for biochemical indicators that can identify symptomatic patients with COVID-19 whose nucleic acid could turn negative within 14 days, and assess the prognostic value of these biochemical indicators in patients with COVID-19. ⋯ LDH, CRP and ALB are useful prognostic marker for predicting nucleic acid turn negative within 14 days in symptomatic patients with COVID-19.
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Polypropylene (PP) meshes are safe synthetic products used for hernia repairs and associated with minimal complication. Chronic inflammation is thought to play a pathophysiological role in the development of cancer.Case presentation: We present a 67-year-old female case of squamous cell-cancer (SCC) that developed due to mesh after umbilical hernia operation. The mass in the anterior abdominal wall was totally resected. Pathology was reported as T2N0, moderately differentiated acantholytic type SCC. No recurrence or complication was detected in the fourth-month follow-up. ⋯ Cancer development after mesh is very rare and our case is the third case in the literature. Cancer development should be kept in mind in patients presenting with ulcerated masses if do not regress with infection treatment after mesh application.