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OBJECTIVE
The addition of fentanyl to hyperbaric local anesthetics has been shown to reduce the incidence of post dural puncture headache in the obstetric patient. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of subarachnoid morphine on the incidence of headache.
METHODS
Eighty-two healthy
A 47-year-old man reported becoming confused, disoriented, and anxious while driving his car. He recalled sweating and having blurred vision, palpitations, and a diffuse headache shortly before pulling to the side of the road and losing consciousness. Emergency service personnel arrived about 15
BACKGROUND
Stupor, coma, and other alterations of consciousness are among the most serious life-threatening emergencies faced by the emergency department physician. When a patient arrives with altered mentation from Central or South America, the usual causes that occur in the United States must be
BACKGROUND
The injection of various solutions aimed at producing a sclerosing effect has been used to treat soft tissues injuries (eg, inguinal hernia) for more than 100 years. In the 1930s, this treatment approach was applied to injured joints in an attempt to stimulate connective tissue repair.
Summary: Severe hyponatremia and osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) are opposite ends of a spectrum of emergency disorders related to sodium concentrations. Management of severe hyponatremia is challenging because of the difficulty in
A 56-year-old female patient presented with history of nasal blockage, nasal bleeding, headache, since one month. On admission the patient developed severe headache, decreased vision of eyes and blindness. Clinical diagnosis of rhino-orbital involvement was confirmed by computerized tomography of
BACKGROUND
In this study, the clinical features, underlying diseases and clinical outcomes of patients with cryptococcosis were investigated. In addition, a molecular analysis of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex isolated from these patients was performed.
METHODS
A prospective study of 62
BACKGROUND
We are describing an unusual case of severe hyperglycemia and hypernatremia, resistant to treatment.
METHODS
A thirty year old female with adenocarcinoma of rectum was admitted with increasing lethargy, headache and drowsiness. She deteriorated rapidly and had cardiac arrest, following
Ranolazine is a well-known antianginal drug, that was first licensed for use in the United States in 2006. It was objectively shown to improve exercise capacity and to lengthen the time to symptom onset in patients with coronary artery disease. The most commonly reported side effects of ranolazine
Glyceryl trinitrate, an exogenous nitric oxide (NO) donor, and histamine, which causes NO formation in vascular endothelium, have been shown to trigger migraine attacks. However, it remains uncertain whether NO is involved in the subsequent phase of migraine attacks. To answer this question we
Sildenafil, a selective inhibitor of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)-specific phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5), is a well-tolerated and highly effective treatment for erectile dysfunction. The mechanism of action of sildenafil depends on activation of the nitric oxide (NO)-cGMP pathway during
A 35-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 2 days history of malaise and headache. She was breastfeeding her 5-month old infant and had recently started an altered diet based on reducing carbohydrate amount. Moreover, she had also started exercising 2 weeks prior to her
Phaeohyphomycosis is a term used to define infections caused by darkly pigmented fungi with septate hyphae which contain melanin in their cell walls. Although fungi rarely cause central nervous system (CNS) infections, the incidence of CNS infections caused by melanin-containing fungi has been
We present a case of fungal sinusitis caused by Basidiobolus ranarum in a 22-year-old male patient with chronic rhinosinusitis in Aseer region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The patient was admitted with nasal obstruction accompanied by itching, sneezing, rhinorrhea, epistaxis and recurrent headache.