240 research outputs found

    Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA): Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges: Literature Review

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    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

    Varicose Vein Therapy: Endovenous Laser Ablation

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    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

    Xenotransplantation: Is a Clinical Challenge, Literature Review

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    Tissue and organ failure that outcomes from congenital abnormalities, injury, illness, or aging to significant morbidity and mortality. Albeit the twentieth and early 21st centuries have gotten dramatic progressions in the utilization of synthetic and mechanical devices to replace tissues, the restoration of tissue and organ structure and function stays a clinical challenge. Numerous biologic functions can't be replicated with such devices, and the unavoidable immune reactions that are prompted when allografts of human organs, tissues, or cells are implanted can restrict the functionality and longevity of biologic approaches. Regenerative medicine has arisen as a potential alternative approach for tissue and organ restoration in which the engineered tissue is biologically functional. Traditional methodologies for regenerative medicine include biomaterial platforms, stem and progenitor cells, and biologic signalling molecules, alone or in mix, to advance new development of healthy tissue. A recent technique, "regenerative immunology," advances tissue recuperating and recovery through reprogramming of the host immune system. Be that as it may, organ transplantation is as yet the most incredibly complete choice in regenerative medicine, giving an autologous, allogeneic, or possibly xenogeneic replacement for complete physical and biologic restoration. Advances in immune and genome engineering (or editing) make an establishment for new treatments to speed up the restoration and substitution of tissues and organs, including those from xenogeneic sources. Regenerative immunology depends on the way that immune cells, for example, macrophages and T-cells, which are usually considered as in their protective role against pathogens or "nonself" cells and as mediators of inflammation, can be made to adopt on programs that can advance healing of tissues that have been damaged by the initial inflammatory antimicrobial response.[1,2] Such regenerative immune reactions can likewise promote healing after xenogeneic transplantation, provided that the anti-xenogeneic reaction to nonself tissue can be suppressed. Genome engineering has the ability to enrich xenogeneic tissues with down-modulating, anti-xenogeneic immune reactions that can facilitate with cross-species transplantation. Thusly, the origins, challanges, innovations, and future of regenerative medicine and transplantation are firmly interlaced inside the fields of immune and genome engineering. In this review, we sum up some recent developments in this field

    3D-Bioengineering of Reproductive Organoids Review

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    Engineered male and female biomimetic reproductive tissues are being created as self-supporting in vitro units or as incorporated multi-organ in vitro constructions to help germ cell and embryo function, and to show characteristic endocrine phenotypic patterns, for example, the 28-days human ovulatory cycle. In this Review, we sum up how engineered reproductive tissues work with research in reproductive science, and outline strategies for making engineered reproductive tissues that may sometimes permit the rebuilding of reproductive potential in patients.Individuals can confront reproductive or endocrine failure due to hereditary inclination, age, iatrogenic impacts of treatment or infection. More than a hundred years of progress that started with headways in reproductive tissue and reproductive organ transplantation, trailed by innovative improvements at the connection point of reproductive science, materials science, bioengineering and advanced manufacturing, has brought about engineered reproductive tissues that can restore and support normal organ function [1-20] (Table 1). Current engineered reproductive tissues and culture structures are empowering an expanding number of physiological in vitro modelling of homeostasis, development, disease, pregnancy and aging. Engineered reproductive tissues are utilized for the proficient screening of new pharmacologic agents (for both therapeutic efficacy and toxicity), or are transplanted to restore damaged or diseased reproductive tissue.In this Review, we spotlight current advancement in the development of engineering systems utilized in reproductive science and medicine, with a point of convergence on biomaterials and microfluidic approaches that permits the generation of functional builds at the tissue and organ levels for use in research and in clinical applications

    Updates of Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Immune Thrombocytopenia

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    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

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    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

    Photobiomodulation and Alzheimer's Disease:Review

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    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
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