86. Mortality Patterns Among Industrial Workers Exposed to Chloroprene and Other Substances

AbstractLateral epicondylitis (LE) of the elbow is often treated with conservative methods. Several techniques including injections with different substances are widely performed. No standardization exists. This prospective study describes the results of the short-term follow-up of 56 patients with mean age 48 years (range: 30–68 years) treated with the Instant Tennis Elbow Cure Medical device, which fenestrates the injured tendon in a standardized way through a holder of 12 small needles. Depth and position of the needles are determined beforehand by ultrasonography. Unprepared autologous blood was injected through the holder in the tendon. Visual analog pain scale (VAS) decreased significantly in rest by 61% and during activity by 47% after 6 weeks. VAS decreased significantly in rest by 79% and during activity by 66% after 3 months. VAS did not remain significantly different after 6 months. Satisfaction rates were 71% after 6 weeks and 82% after 6 months. This suggests that the therapeutical effect sustains and in some cases increases over time. Patient Related Tennis Elbow Evaluation score ameliorated after 3 months by 71%. Comparative studies are needed to confirm this effect versus other techniques as physiotherapy, shockwave therapy, and injections with other substances.

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Addiction and Liver Disease

Medicine Today ◽

10.3329/medtoday.v25i2.17926 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 75-83

Author(s):

Md Akmat Ali ◽

Farida Yeasmin ◽

MN Nag

Keyword(s):

Liver Disease ◽

Liver Diseases ◽

Drug Users ◽

Harmful Effect ◽

Main Role ◽

Drug Induced ◽

Mortality And Morbidity ◽

Other Substances ◽

Excessive Alcohol ◽

Medicine Today

Drug induced liver disease is a global problem. The aims of the study are to know the recreational drugs causing harmful effect on liver, epidemiology of addiction; pathophysiology and their consequences. The major findings published to date concerning different agents causing addiction and liver disease, their implications with regard to understanding disease mechanisms and their amplitude or spectrum are described. Addiction not only invites lot of sufferings to the family and the country, but also responsible for different types of liver disease including fatty liver, hepatitis and liver failure; responsible for mortality and morbidity. Among the addiction causing substances alcohol playing the main role for liver disease worldwide. Indirect effects of addiction on liver are hepatitis B, hepatitis C and their complication, mainly due to contamination of sharing needle. Majority of people in Bangladesh are life long abstainer. Excessive alcohol beverages and other substances like heroin, amphetamine are not harmless, rather they can cause serious liver diseases. There are some differences in prevalence of addiction and liver diseases among countries. Intravenous drug users are affected both directly and indirectly due to contaminated needle sharing . DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/medtoday.v25i2.17926 Medicine Today 2013 Vol.25(2): 75-83

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Epidemiological Study on Occupational Cancer : A Special Situation of Cancer Deaths among Cancers of All Sites in Industrial Workers

Sangyo Igaku ◽

10.1539/joh1959.5.3_230_2 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 230-231

Author(s):

S. Harashima ◽

K. Tsuchiya

Keyword(s):

Epidemiological Study ◽

Industrial Workers ◽

Occupational Cancer ◽

Special Situation

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Biomedical Materials to Repair Retinal Detachments

MRS Proceedings ◽

10.1557/proc-55-55 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 55 ◽

Author(s):

Miguel F. Refojo

Keyword(s):

Retinal Detachment ◽

Silicone Rubber ◽

Methyl Acrylate ◽

Silicone Oil ◽

Vitreous Body ◽

Light Sensitivity ◽

Scleral Buckling ◽

Intraocular Injection ◽

Other Substances

ABSTRACTImplants are essential for the repair of retinal detachments. The implant buckles the wall of the eye and apposes the detached retina with the choroid, thus restoring light sensitivity to the retina. The scleral buckling also relieves traction on the retina from a shrinking vitreous body. The implant materials most commonly used are solid silicone rubber and silicone sponges, but both types have some disadvantages. A poly(hydroxyethyl acrylate-co-methyl acrylate) hydrogel implant with improved properties of softness and antibiotic absorption is also available for retinal detachment surgery. Proliferative vitreoretinopathy involves various conditions of retinal detachment complicated by vitreous fibrosis, which, after vitrectomy, may be treated with intraocular injection of fluids that support the retina against the choroid. For conditions requiring a long-term implant, silicone oil although controversial is the material of choice. Many other substances have been investigated but none better has yet been found.

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The effect of some chemical materials against virulence factors of Candida ssp isolated from UTI patients

International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences ◽

10.26452/ijrps.v9ispl1.1318 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (SPL1) ◽

Author(s):

Fatima Abdul Hussein Mejbel

Keyword(s):

Urinary Tract Infection ◽

Urinary Tract ◽

Tract Infection ◽

Virulence Factors ◽

Biofilm Formation ◽

Germ Tube ◽

Laboratory Culture ◽

Candida Spp ◽

Other Substances ◽

Chemical Materials

During the period from September 2016 to December 2017,135 urine samples were collected from urinary tract infection patients attending to AL-Zahraa Hospital in AL-Najaf Governorate. The present study was conducted to isolate and identify Candida spp. isolated from urinary tract infection patients by different methods including direct examination, laboratory culture, biochemical test and by modern techniques (Api Candida kit) and determine the virulence factors phenotypic to Candida spp which involved (biofilm formation,phospholipase and germ tube). The percentage of females to males was as following, female (84) 62.2 % (21) infected and male (51) 37.8% (1) infected with all age categories. The results in this study are explain that is some Candida spp. such as C. albicans, have high susceptible to eugenole follow by phenol and umbellulone. The efficiency of some chemical substances such as (eugenole,umbellulone, and phenol) was evaluated to inhibit the growth of Candida ssp as well as some virulence factors such as biofilm formation,germ tube and phospholipase,which were studied in this research. Statistically analysis results have been significance difference between the results of the substance concentrations and the concentrations of the different other substances.

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