all surgical positions carry some degree of position-related risks. the most common serious positional injuries are peripheral nerve injuries. we present a case of 23 years old man with obturator nerve injury with clinically evident sequelae following a scapulopexy of the right shoulder in prone position. basis on our knowledge, no similar cases have been described in the literature. the purpos...

SARS-Cov2 infection is a highly transmissible disease associated with serious pulmonary disease. Renal involvement frequent and poor prognosis; however, mechanisms of kidney injury are not well established. We present patient severe acute injury. Kidney biopsy findings revealed pattern tubular necrosis isometric vacuolization the proximal tubule. The interstitium glomeruli were normal. Electron...

Agricultural injuries are a valuable social sustainability indicator. However, current methods use sector-scale production data, so unable to assess the impact of changes in individual farming practices. Here, we developed method that adopts life cycle approach quantify number serious during agricultural processes and potential The disaggregates into operations estimates contribution each opera...

INTRODUCTION Cohort studies have contributed important scientific knowledge regarding the determinants of chronic diseases. Despite the need for etiologic investigations, this design has been infrequently used in injury prevention research. OBJECTIVES To describe the baseline findings of the New Zealand Blood Donors' Health Study, a large prospective study designed to investigate relationship...

Introduction. We present a case of a sports injury. The initial presentation and clinical examination belied serious intra-abdominal injuries. Case Presentation. A 16-year-old male patient came to emergency department after a sports-related blunt abdominal injury. Though on clinical examination the injury did not seem to be serious, FAST revealed an obscured splenorenal window. The CT scan reve...

introduction: spinal cord injury (sci) is one of the most serious clinical diseases, which not only affects the patient's physical and mental status, but its effects will be spread to family and community. after severe spinal cord injury, astrocytes of the central nervous system (cns) become reactive astrocytes, and play the main role of glial scar formation. the scar is a major obstacle t...

The high tackle around the neck is illegal but still commonplace in South African rugby. An analysis of 40 rugby players who sustained spinal cord injury during the period 1985-1989 revealed that 8 were injured by a high tackle. The case histories and radiographs of these 8 players were analysed. The majority sustained flexion-rotation injuries after being tackled from the side. Another mechani...