May 2024 in “IntechOpen eBooks” In this study, the authors explored the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for typical sports injuries and cosmetic surgical wounds, finding that a hormetic dose-response relationship could explain the observed successes, contrary to prevailing expert opinion that deemed this treatment ineffective for normal wounds.
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January 2022 in “Mayo Clinic Proceedings” This review highlights that long-term health consequences of COVID-19, affecting multiple body systems, persist after acute infection, necessitating a comprehensive management approach that includes interdisciplinary care and lifestyle interventions to mitigate long-term damage.
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September 2021 in “Southern African Journal of Hiv Medicine” The guideline provides healthcare professionals in South Africa with instructions for comprehensive, multidisciplinary gender-affirming care, including HIV prevention and treatment for transgender and gender diverse individuals.
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September 2025 in “Cosmetics” This narrative review synthesized current research on hormonal therapies in cosmetic dermatology, finding they offer promising, evidence-based applications for conditions like aging skin, acne, and melasma, but noting that safety and personalized treatment approaches are essential for responsible clinical use.
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May 2022 in “IntechOpen eBooks” This chapter reviews the diverse and interrelated consequences of obesity on physical, metabolic, reproductive, psychosocial, and economic health without reporting any new clinical results.
This abstract compiles a list of medical syndromes and conditions related to tongue abnormalities and other systemic features but reports no new research findings.
April 2025 in “JAAD reviews.” This review provides an overview of skin manifestations associated with substance use disorder but reports no new clinical findings; the authors emphasize the importance of dermatological evaluation and multidisciplinary care in managing these cases.
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January 2021 in “Clinical Therapeutics” This review discusses sex and gender differences in COVID-19 presentation, treatment, and outcomes, and reports no new clinical findings.
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January 2023 in “Surgical Neurology International” This case report describes the successful use of percutaneous and endovascular embolization with PHIL embolic agent to treat a rare scalp arteriovenous fistula following a hair transplant.
June 2025 in “British Journal of Dermatology” This case report details a probable severe adverse event associated with ritlecitinib for alopecia areata, highlighting risks of pulmonary emboli, infection, atrial fibrillation, and acute kidney injury despite an absence of known risk factors.
This case report describes retinal occlusion and medial canthal swelling in a 64-year-old female following the injection of acellular porcine urinary bladder matrix for hair restoration, a previously unreported side effect.
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January 2020 in “Biomaterials Science” Created microspheres show potential for safe and effective use in prostate artery embolization.
January 2023 in “Repositorio Institucional Universidad El Bosque” In this case report, a rare traumatic arteriovenous fistula following hair transplant was successfully treated using percutaneous and endovascular embolization with PHIL, a liquid embolic agent.
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March 2022 in “Dermatologic Therapy” This article provides information on data availability but reports no new research findings.
April 2019 in “Journal of the Endocrine Society” This case report highlighted rapid virilization in a woman with adrenocortical carcinoma, stressing the importance of androgen evaluation to suspect underlying ovarian or adrenal tumors.
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January 2020 in “Engineered science” This study suggests that finasteride-loaded polyvinyl alcohol/chitosan microspheres could be a promising embolic agent for benign prostatic hyperplasia, showing effective occlusion and sustained drug release in preclinical models.
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February 2001 in “Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice” This case report highlights a rare but serious complication of hair transplantation, where a patient developed life-threatening Staphylococcus aureus sepsis and septic pulmonary emboli.
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November 1974 in “Archives of Dermatology” This report discusses historical cases of visual side effects from scalp corticosteroid injections for alopecia areata and attributes their rarity now to improved injection techniques and smaller particulate sizes in suspensions.
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January 2022 in “Monaldi archives for chest disease” This study reported that Lung-Ultrasound effectively monitors lung recovery in COVID-19 ARDS survivors, and identified a link between high EPAP-CPAP pressure and cardiopulmonary impairment.
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December 2010 in “Journal of the American Geriatrics Society” This case report observed that delirium can be the sole symptom of a stroke, as seen in an elderly patient with a thalamic hemorrhage, highlighting the need to consider stroke in the differential diagnosis when delirium is present without focal neurological signs.
January 2026 in “Rinsho Shinkeigaku” In this case study, a 40-year-old male on finasteride and minoxidil for hair loss developed a stroke due to carotid artery blockage, with potential drug interactions impacting coagulation and blood pressure posited as contributing factors.
November 2021 in “Research Square (Research Square)” This case report describes the first recorded instance of posterior cerebral artery dissection in a patient with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus, which uniquely progressed from cerebral infarction to subarachnoid hemorrhage.
January 2023 in “Fiziksel tıp ve rehabilitasyon bilimleri dergisi” This study concluded that when investigating stroke causes, considering systemic lupus erythematosus for secondary prevention may help reduce the risk of recurrent strokes.
In this case study, ischemic stroke occurred in a 20-year-old male taking finasteride for hair loss, with multiple genetic predispositions for thrombosis; while causality is uncertain, clinicians should exercise caution when prescribing finasteride to patients with thrombotic risk factors.
March 2014 in “Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology” The document lists various dermatology topics, treatments, and diagnostic methods.
January 2024 in “Research Square (Research Square)” This study identified key genes related to ischemic stroke through the ferroptosis pathway and highlighted the potential role of specific traditional Chinese medicines in regulating associated biological processes.
October 2024 in “Frontiers in Neurology” This study at Shandong Provincial Hospital evaluated interventional embolization for scalp arteriovenous fistulas, finding a cure rate of 85.71% among 21 patients, with swelling as a common postoperative complication, suggesting this method is both effective and safe.
January 2025 in “Turkish Journal of Cerebrovascular Diseases” This case report details two consanguineous patients with cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy, both having the same HTRA1 gene mutation, but exhibiting different clinical presentations, including one with epileptic seizures and lobar hemorrhages—previously undocumented in this condition.
This case study indicates that older patients with NMOSD may show favorable clinical improvements with aggressive treatment, even when the intervention is initiated later in the disease course.
November 2023 in “Gastroenterology” This case study identified non-criteria antiphospholipid syndrome as a potential underlying cause of Budd-Chiari syndrome in a patient, emphasizing the need for its consideration, especially in cases with multiple thromboemboli and thrombocytopenia.