2,077 research outputs found
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA): Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges: Literature Review
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a prevalent condition with known impacts on cardiovascular and neurocognitive health, affecting nearly 1 billion individuals globally. While the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) is the most commonly used metric to gauge OSA severity, its effectiveness in evaluating treatment response remains uncertain. This review explores the history and predictive capabilities of the AHI in various clinical scenarios and considers alternative metrics such as hypoxic burden, arousal intensity, odds ratio product, and cardiopulmonary coupling. Future research directions include utilizing genetics, blood biomarkers, machine learning, and wearable technologies to identify distinct OSA endophenotypes. The aim is to enhance diagnostic accuracy, prognostic insights, and patient care strategies in managing OSA-related consequences
Photobiomodulation and Alzheimer's Disease:Review
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the basic neurodegenerative diseases and the most extreme common state of dementia. Described through the loss of learning, memory, critical thinking, language, and different abilities to address, AD applies an adverse consequence on every patients' and families' style of life. Despite the fact that there were enormous advances in data , the basic pathogenesis and progression of AD, there's no solution for AD. The disappointment of several molecular focused pharmacologic clinical preliminaries closes in a rising research shift towards non-invasive medicines. We, first and foremost, assessed the pathological changes of AD and the requesting circumstances for AD research. We then, at that point, added those non-invasive medicines and referenced the components which can affect the results of those therapies. Furthermore, we assessed the results of those therapies and the suitable components underlying those outcomes. At long last, we summed up the requesting circumstances of the Photobiomodulation cure in future AD studies and clinical applications. We presumed that it would be essential to perceive the exact fundamental components and find the optimal cure parameters to upgrade the translational value of the Photobiomodulation treatment
Varicose Vein Therapy: Endovenous Laser Ablation
Endovenous laser ablation (EVA) is utilized in the therapy and the management of varicose veins from chronic venous disease. The fundamental sign for this treatment is disease that is refractory to conservative treatment with compression stockings. This activity audits the treatment of varicose veins with endovenous laser treatment and features the role of the interprofessional group being taken care of by patients that go through this method
Updates of Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Immune Thrombocytopenia
Primary immune thrombocytopenia is an autoimmune disorder associated with a decreased prephiral blood platelet count. The phenotype is variable with a few instances struggling no bleeding while others have extreme bleeding which may be deadly. Variability in clinical behaviour and remedy responses reflects its complicated pathophysiology. Traditionally the management has relied heavily on immune suppression. latest studies have shown that the older empirical immune suppressants fail to adjust the natural history of the complaint and are associated with a bad exceptional life for patients. More recent remedies, the thrombopoietin receptor agonists, have converted ITP care. they've excessive efficacy, are nicely tolerated and ameliorate cases ’ high-quality of lifestyles. An extra expertise of the underpinning pathophysiology of this criticism has helped development more recent targeted curatives. These consist of inhibitors of the neonatal Fc receptor inhibitors, Bruton tyrosine kinase and supplement pathway. Then we bandy the mechanisms underlying ITP and the new method to ITP care
Challenges of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver (NAFLD) Management: Literature Review
Non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD) is a common global disease, and its burden is predicted to increase because of the developing epidemic of obesity and diabetes. The key undertaking among NAFLD patients is to identify people with advanced fibrosis (F3,F4), who are at excessive threat of growing complications and will gain from specialized management and treatment with new pharmacotherapies whilst they may be approved. Liver biopsy seems unrealistic and unsuitable in practice, given the large number of excessive-risk patients and its well-known limitations. Non-invasive sequential algorithms using fibrosis-4 index as first-line test , accompanied with the aid of vibration-managed transient elastography or patented blood test, are the fine method for case finding of high-risk subjects. In truth, they may be now encouraged by way of numerous worldwide guidelines, and ought to be used and disseminated to increase awareness among physicians liver clinics wherein most NAFLD patients are seen
Management of Multiple Sclerosis: Clinical Review
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune system demyelinating and neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system, and the main source of non-traumatic neurological disability in young adults. Successful management requires a complex way to deal with control acute attacks, manage progressive declining, and remediate bothersome or handicapping side effects related with this disease. Striking advances in treatment of all types of MS, and particularly for relapsing disease, have well changed the long-term outlook for some patients. There likewise has been a calculated change in figuring out the immune pathology of MS, away from a simply T-cell interceded model to acknowledgment that B cells play a vital part in pathogenesis. The rise of higher-efficacy drugs requiring less frequent administration have made these favoured choices with regards to tolerability and adherence. Numerous specialists currently suggest utilization of these as first-line treatment for some patients with early disease, before long-lasting handicap is evident
Updates of Wearing Devices (WDs) In Healthcare, And Disease Monitoring
With the rising pervasiveness of growing populace, aging and chronic illnesses consistently rising medical services costs, the health care system is going through a crucial change from the conventional hospital focused system to an individual-focused system. Since the twentieth century, wearable sensors are becoming widespread in medical care and biomedical monitoring systems, engaging consistent estimation of biomarkers for checking of the diseased condition and wellbeing, clinical diagnostics and assessment in biological fluids like saliva, blood, and sweat. Recently, the improvements have been centered around electrochemical and optical biosensors, alongside advances with the non-invasive monitoring of biomarkers, bacteria and hormones, etc. Wearable devices have created with a mix of multiplexed biosensing, microfluidic testing and transport frameworks incorporated with flexible materials and body connections for additional created wear ability and effortlessness. These wearables hold guarantee and are fit for a higher understanding of the relationships between analyte focuses inside the blood or non-invasive biofluids and feedback to the patient, which is fundamentally significant in ideal finding, therapy, and control of diseases. In any case, cohort validation studies and execution assessment of wearable biosensors are expected to support their clinical acceptance. In the current review, we discussed the significance, highlights, types of wearables, difficulties and utilizations of wearable devices for biological fluids for the prevention of diseased conditions and real time monitoring of human wellbeing. In this, we sum up the different wearable devices that are developed for health care monitoring and their future potential has been discussed in detail
Updates of Congenital Cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection: Literature Review
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection is the most well-known congenital viral disease and is the main non-genetic reason for sensorineural hearing loss (SNLH) and a significant reason for neurodevelopmental inabilities. The gamble of intrauterine transmission is most elevated when vertical infection happens during pregnancy, with a higher pace of vertical transmission in mothers with more established gestational age at infection, while the gamble of unfriendly fetal impacts fundamentally increments on the adverse effects that fetal infection happens during the first half of pregnancy. Although, its prevalence and morbidity among the neonatal populace, there isn't yet a standardised diagnostic test and therapeutic methodology for cCMV infection. This review expects to investigate the most recent improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of cCMV infection. literature shows that preventive interventions other than behavioural measures during pregnancy are as yet lacking, albeit numerous clinical preliminaries are right now progressing to plan vaccination for women before pregnancy. As of now, we suggest utilizing a PCR measure in blood, urine, and saliva in neonates with suspected cCMV infection. As of now, there is no proof of the advantage of antiviral treatment in asymptomatic infants. On account of symptomatic cCMV, we really suggest treatment with oral valganciclovir for a length of a year. The adequacy and tolerability of this treatment choice have demonstrated successful for hearing and neurodevelopmental long-term results. Valganciclovir is saved for congenitally infected neonates with the symptomatic infection at birth, like microcephaly, intracranial calcifications, unusual cerebrospinal fluid index, chorioretinitis, or sensorineural hearing loss. Treatment with antiviral medications isn't regularly recommended for neonates with the mildly symptomatic infection at birth, for neonates under 32 weeks of gestational age, or for infants over 30 days old due to deficient proof from studies. In any case, since these populaces represent by far most of neonates and infants with cCMV disease and they are in risk of developing late-onset sequelae, a biomarker ready to foresee long-term sequelae ought to likewise be found to justify beginning treatment and decreasing the burden of CMV-related complications
Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: Literature Review
Osteoporosis is a chronic condition, similar to heart disease, diabetes, or hypertension. A huge gap exists in the primary prevention of fractures, and studies show that an expected 80% to 90% of adults don't get proper osteoporosis managment even in the secondary prevention setting. Case finding strategies have been created and effective pharmacological mediations are accessible. This review tends to how ideal to utilize the pharmacological choices that anyone could hope to find for postmenopausal osteoporosis to give long lasting fracture protection in patients at high and extremely high risk of fracture. The advantage of osteoporosis treatments far outweighs the uncommon risks
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