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Turk Thorac J 2021 Mar 1;22(2):175-178. Epub 2021 Mar 1.

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India.

Esophageal cancer is the most common cause of extrapulmonary malignant central airway obstruction (MCAO). MCAO is usually managed by a multidisciplinary approach involving tumor debulking, stent placement, and palliative radiotherapy. MCAO is a challenge in itself; here, it becomes even more challenging as it was accompanied by grade 3 oral submucous fibrosis, nasal synechiae, and multiple enlarged cervical nodes causing excessive compression of the trachea along with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure. Read More

Ann Vasc Dis 2021 Mar;14(1):60-63

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Surgical indication and treatment for patients with Kommerell diverticulum and aberrant subclavian artery are still not well established. A patient with esophageal and tracheal compression resulting from these anatomical abnormalities was successfully treated with a hybrid approach of total arch replacement, frozen elephant trunk technique, aberrant left subclavian artery transection, and left subclavian artery reconstruction through median sternotomy. Compressive symptoms were relieved without resecting the enlarged diverticulum. Read More

Turk Neurosurg 2020 Sep 1. Epub 2020 Sep 1.

Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine.

Aim: Torticollis can originate from a wide variety of different disorders.

Objective: We aimed to investigate the underlying conditions in children with torticollis.

Material And Methods: Between May 2016 and December 2019, 24 patients (10 girls and 14 boys; mean age, 8 years) presenting with twisted neck, neck pain, weakness of extremities, imbalance, and gait disorder were evaluated retrospectively. Read More

World J Clin Cases 2021 Mar;9(7):1639-1645

Spine Center, Department of Orthopedics, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230001, Anhui Province, China.

Background: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a systematic and rheumatic disease, which causes multiple symptoms. However, dysphagia due to the formation of a giant anterior cervical osteophyte is rare in patients with AS.

Case Summary: We present the case of a 65-year-old male patient who was diagnosed with AS and visited the hospital with a complaint of progressive dysphagia. Read More

PLoS One 2021 16;16(3):e0246648. Epub 2021 Mar 16.

Department of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Bahir dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.

Introduction: Orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) is a dosage form that overcomes the problem of swallowing which is prevalent in about 35% of the general population. Co-trimoxazole (CTX) is given for patients with HIV for the prophylaxis of opportunistic infection (OI), commonly for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. It was reported that CTX was associated with a 25-46% reduction in mortality among individuals infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Read More