this study briefly reviews the heart abnormalities in diverse intracranial pathologies, including strokes, spontaneous and traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage and intracranial hemorrhage, and presents the results of a one-year prospective study of heart abnormalities in patients with moderate to severe head injuries and subarachnoid hemorrhage. different abnormalities such as: qt -interval, t -wa...

balint’s syndrome is a rare neurological disorder associated with bilateral parieto-occipital damage which was described by rezsö bálint in 1909.the syndrome is manifested clinically by the presence of a hemispatial negligence. the lesion is usually inside parietooccipital region bilaterally in most cases but may also be compromised angular convolutions, the dorsolateral area of the occipital l...

We previously reported that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a pronociceptive neurotransmitter, induces synaptic facilitation of excitatory postsynaptic current (EPSC) in lamina II neurons of neonatal rats up to P14 in a N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-dependent manner. Here we used the patch-clamp technique to study synaptic and NMDA-evoked responses in transverse spinal slices i...

The effect that compressed air massage (CAM) has on skeletal muscle has been ascertained by the morphological and morphometric evaluation of healthy vervet monkey and rabbit skeletal muscle. How CAM may influence the process of healing following a contusion injury is not known. To determine how CAM or other physiotherapeutic modalities may influence healing, it is necessary to create a minor in...

A 52-year-old motorbike driver was struck by a trailer. His left shoulder was swollen and no pulse was evident at his left wrist. In the emergency room, a scapulothoracic dissociation with subclavian artery dissection and a complex fracture of the humerus were evident (Fig. 1). Carotido-subclavian bypass restored blood flow with preservation of the arm in follow-up (Fig. 2). Fig. 1. 3D-computer...

Reported herein are the cases of three infants who were born with serious intrathoracic injuries, apparently sustained at the time of the mother's involvement in a motor vehicle accident. The accidents occurred at 26th, 29th and 36th weeks of pregnancy and resulted in minimal injuries to the mothers themselves. The infants were born four weeks, three hours and two days later, respectively. Thei...

Objective and consistent assessment of locomotion recovery remains challenging in rodent spinal cord injury (SCI). We, therefore, studied the validity relevance CatWalk XT® gait analysis as a tool for assessing functional outcome clinically relevant cervical SCI model rats. In total, 20 Wistar rats were randomly assigned to either C6 clip compression/contusion or sham laminectomy. Locomotion wa...

'Rules-of-thumb', some of which were originally intended for arc furnaces, play a significant role in the design process for slag containing furnaces. Lack of fundamental understanding of the physics driving the performance of these furnaces sometimes results in either overly conservative, or poorly performing designs. This paper will explore some key technical issues related to the correct des...

Introduction: Accidents represent a significant proportional of non-communicable disease in the current century, and chest injury is common. However, management outcome these injuries poor low resource setting like Tanzania. The aim this study was to determine prevalence factors associated with mortality among patients at tertiary level health facility Method: A prospective Cross-Sectional trau...

Persistent pain development after a skeletal contusion rarely poses the diagnosis of osteomyelitis. We report the case of a fibular head contusion as an initial manifestation of a focal abscess development in a healthy young patient. The traditional treatment of surgical drainage revealed the presence of an atypical Mycobacterium haemophilum isolates in the abscess. This lead to further investi...