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Volume 10, Issue 2

• Brain Eating Amoeba: Alarming Rise of Naegleriasis in Pakistan

  p. 816-817

  Hamza Sohail, Abeer Iftikhar, Syeda Maria Hassan and Zainab Rafat

  Naegleriasis also known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a fulminant brain infection is caused by a single-celled, ameboflagellate known as Naegleria fowleri. Naegleria fowl...

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• New Insight in Weaning Failure: Saliva Aspiration

  p. 818-822

  Edmilton Pereira de Almeida, Marta Cristina Duarte, Jorge Montessi, Larissa Cestaro Freesz, Carlos Augusto Gomes and Lincoln Eduardo VV Ferreira

  Background: The weaning failure has prevalence between 15 to forty percent depending of various factors. Level of consciousness, heart failure, advanced age, chronic obstr...

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• Pellagra: A Possible Dermatological Complication of HIV Infection: A Case Report

  p. 823-825

  Edeh Samuel, Obum Anyim, Nnaji Thomas and Okafor Umezurike

  HIV infection is global disease with more prevalence in low/middle income countries including Nigeria. It is associated with many complications and manifestations which may be infective or...

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• Relationship between Healthy Work Environment, Job Satisfaction and Anticipated Turnover among Nurses in Intensive Care unit (ICUs)

  p. 826-831

  Tahmine Salehi, Mahmood Barzegar, Mir saeed Yekaninejad and Hadi Ranjbar

  Background and Aim: Shortage of nursing workforce and tendency to quit job are among major problems of health systems all across the world. They also have a negative impac...

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• Accurate 3D Attenuation Map for SPECT Images Reconstruction

  p. 832-837

  Hamida Romdhane, Mohamed Ali Cherni and Dorra Ben Sellem

  Background: Scintigraphic images are affected by the phenomenon of attenuation of gamma photons. To improve the quality of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images, it is ...

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• Perimenopausal Women Distressing from Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: A Philippine Quality of Life Assessment-Based Correlational Study

  p. 838-845

  Feliciano Evelyn E, Santos Adelina M, Agunod Cyrelle D, Boshra Amira Y, Sawsan MA Suliman and Malabanan Mylene C

  Objectives: To assess the quality of life among perimenopausal women distressing from abnormal uterine bleeding with identifying factors contributing to quality of life. ...

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• SARS - CoV-2, Pandemic COVID 19: A Brief Review

  p. 846-856

  Mir Nadeem, Tabinda Ayub Shah, Mir Waseem, Javed Iqbal Wani, Zia-ul-Sabah and Sheikh Javeed

  As a novel coronavirus now known as SARS-COV-2 first reported in Wuhan china in late December 2019, the severe corona respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) is responsible for an acute human resp...

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• Intramyometrial Vasopressin for Reducing Blood Loss at Myomectomy

  p. 857-864

  Isah AD, Agida ET and Isah AY

  Background: Intra-myometrial injection of vasopressin during myomectomy is another method that could minimize of blood loss during myomectomy. However, there is paucity of...

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