ANTICONVULSANT DRUGS AND CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES

Abstract Dysphagia is a common disorder associated with a large number of etiologies like aging, stroke, traumatic brain injury, head and neck cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, structural changes or congenital abnormalities. The type of the treatment and its results depend on the type, severity and the cause of dysphagia. The primary goal of dysphagia treatment is to improve the swallowing process and decrease the risk of aspiration. Along with the existing rehabilitation swallowing treatments, new adjunctive therapy options developed, one of them being the neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES). The authors present the principles of NMES, a small literature review about the results of this therapy and their experience in using transcutaneous NMES in dysphagia patients.

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One More Tissue Is Required to Understand the Cytogenetics of Intellectual Disability in Patients With Multiple Congenital Abnormalities

10.26226/morressier.5a6ef3eed462b80290b57ba4 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Anna Kashevarova

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disability ◽

Congenital Abnormalities ◽

Multiple Congenital Abnormalities

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A Rare Case of Athelia in a Crossbred Cow

THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ◽

10.21887/ijvsbt.v12i3.7117 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

Author(s):

R. Uma Rani

Keyword(s):

Dairy Cattle ◽

Congenital Anomalies ◽

Rare Case ◽

Congenital Abnormalities ◽

Economic Value ◽

Therapeutic Management ◽

Rare Occurrence ◽

Crossbred Cow

The udder is a very important organ and has economic value in dairy cattle. Though highly vulnerable to various disease conditions, e.g. mastitis, congenital anomalies in the udder are of rare occurrence (Dandale et al., 2013). Congenital abnormalities of the mammary system in cows comprise absence of teats, glands, supernumerary teats and imperforate teats. Absence of teat is extremely rare, but isolated cases in which the teats were only represented by slight eminences have been met with (O’ Connor, 1980). Athelia was reported in buffaloes by Sailendra and Sandhya (1998) and Vidyasagar (2009) and in a Japanese black heifer by Ghanem et al. (2011). In the present paper, a rare case of athelia in a Jersey crossbred cow and its therapeutic management by permanent cessation of lactation is reported.

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