Intensive care units (ICU) around the world are Thyroid Support overburdened with COVID-19 patients with ventilator-dependent chronic respiratory failure (VDRF).Gastroenterology evaluations are being made to address the provision of chronic enteral feeding with the help of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placements in these patients.The p
Context: There has been a paradigm shift in the management of ureteral calculi in the last decade with the introduction of new less invasive methods, such as ureterorenoscopy and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL).Aims: Recent studies have reported excellent results with medical expulsive therapy (MET) for distal ureteral calculi, both in
We report the first case of imported Plasmodium ovale in Brazil, confirmed using both conventional microscopy and PCR-based protocols.The patient was a 36-year-old Brazilian male who had been working as a miner in Cabinda Province, Angola.Based on his travel Microswitch history, the parasite was dormant for at least two years.The relatively long pe