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Dedicated to biology, health sciences, and medical research, this category highlights advancements in understanding life processes and improving healthcare

136 Publications

JOSHA`s Critical Review of: “Systematic reanalysis of clinical exome data yields additional diagnoses: implications for providers”: IS THERE A NEED FOR “RECALL” IN CLINICAL MEDICINE?
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.6.457

JOSHA`s Critical Review of: “Systematic reanalysis of clinical exome data yields additional diagnoses: implications for providers”: IS THERE A NEED FOR “RECALL” IN CLINICAL MEDICINE?

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Felicitas Holzer, Roland Mertelsmann, Ignacio Mastroleo, Gerhard Steinmann

University of Buenos Aires

In this study, the importance of new information generated after the initial diagnostic genome analysis was performed is strikingly demonstrated by the fact that new information was of relevance in…

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A Phenomenology of Pain – Eine Phänomenologie des Schmerzes
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.4.415

A Phenomenology of Pain – Eine Phänomenologie des Schmerzes

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Claudia Bozzaro

Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin. Freiburg

This article draws a phenomenology of pain focusing on four aspects of human existence: body-experience, time-experience, intersubjectivity and self-experience. The pain-experience will be presented from the perspective of the person…

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PREVENTIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF PREGABALIN IN CHRONIC NEUROPATHIC PAIN SYNDROME AFTER MASTECTOMY DUE TO CANCER
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.4.413

PREVENTIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF PREGABALIN IN CHRONIC NEUROPATHIC PAIN SYNDROME AFTER MASTECTOMY DUE TO CANCER

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Aura Milena Poveda Díaz, Héctor Julio Meléndez Flórez, Omar Fernando Gomezese, Luz Elena Cáceres Jeréz, Carlos Ortiz Anaya

Among the population undergoing a mastectomy due to breast cancer, the incidence of chronic neuropathic pain syndrome (CNPS) is between 20 and 50%. This pathology increases the morbidity, delaying not…

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The difficult airway: A safe extubation strategy.
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.3.412

The difficult airway: A safe extubation strategy.

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Laura Viguera Fernandez, Pedro Charco Mora, Lucia Gallego Ligorit, Cristina Garces San Jose, Eva Tres Ritterbach

During the last years, different algorithms have been developed for the treatment of a difficult airway, which besides the development of new technologies such as video laryngoscopy, have improved the…

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PREVALENCE ALTERATION OF DOPPLER UTERINE ARTERIES BETWEEN WEEK 20 – 24 OF GESTATION IN LOW RISK POPULATION
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.2.394

PREVALENCE ALTERATION OF DOPPLER UTERINE ARTERIES BETWEEN WEEK 20 – 24 OF GESTATION IN LOW RISK POPULATION

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Linda Patricia Meléndez Pérez, Monica Andrea Beltran Avendaño

Universidad Industrial de Santander

Abstract: In Colombia, patients classified as obstetric low risk have maternal or fetal adverse outcomes like pathologies associated with the alteration in placentation and Doppler of uterine arteries (DUA) is…

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CARDIAC ARREST IN A POSTOPERATIVE CARE UNIT. LITERATURE REVIEW OF PULMONARY PERIOPERATIVE CRITICAL SITUATIONS
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.2.386

CARDIAC ARREST IN A POSTOPERATIVE CARE UNIT. LITERATURE REVIEW OF PULMONARY PERIOPERATIVE CRITICAL SITUATIONS

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Carlos Andres Cortes Samaca, Carla Andrea Puche Cogollo, Andrés Mauricio Calderon Gamba, Diana Marcela Serrano Navia

Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Industrial de Santander

Cardiac arrest secondary to postoperative pulmonary complications is the second most frequent cause of mortality, and they are often underestimated. A review of the literature was made. We describe the…

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TRANSCEND a new Translational Medicine hub at the east edge of European Union.
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.1.376

TRANSCEND a new Translational Medicine hub at the east edge of European Union.

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Eugen Carasevici

TRANSCEND (Center of Fundamental Research and Experimental Development in Translational Medicine), Regional Institute of Oncology in Iasi

The functional concept of TRANSCEND is equally in favor of independent continuation and subsistence of each unit through dedicated projects and financial capital as well as comprehensive projects that fit…