Airway management in Ludwig's angina: A narrative review by Ujwal Kumar Malladi

“…Background: Ludwig's angina is a life-threatening condition that causes edema and obstruction of airways leading to mortality if not treated adequately. …”
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Laser Vision Correction on Patients with Sick Optic Nerve: A Case Report by Ming Chen

“…This 48-year-old white female with chronic optic disc edema is reported for the discussion of the management for the laser vision correction. …”
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Primary Retroperitoneal Malignant Melanoma with Involvement of Iliac Artery and Vein by Aislyn Oulee, Ling Xu, Scott Worswick

“…In this case report, we present a 65-year-old female with unilateral lower extremity edema secondary to occlusion of iliac vessels by a primary retroperitoneal melanoma tumor. …”
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Nonalcoholic Chronic Pancreatitis with Pancreatic Calcification: Presenting Manifestation of Occult Celiac Disease by Hugh J Freeman, J Scott Whittaker

“…A 62-year-old Canadian Caucasian female with nonalcoholic chronic pancreatitis, diabetes, exocrine failure and pancreatic calcification presented with weight loss, diarrhea and peripheral edema. Subsequent investigations revealed celiac disease that was responsive to a gluten-free diet. …”
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Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in a young male with IgA nephropathy and chronic kidney disease: a case report from the Maldives by Rajib Kumar Dey, Gunjan Khadka, Shifa Ishaq, Aishath Zeena Abdul Jaleel, Aminath Shafeenaz Moosa, Saifullah Muslim, Ali Nazeem

“…Neuroimaging findings involve posterior white matter edema commonly affecting the parietal and occipital lobes. …”
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Misdiagnosis of Leprosy with Severe Reversal Reaction as Psoriatic Arthritis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Gunawan H, Hidayah RMN, Ruchiatan K, Pangastuti M, Usman HA, Amalia F

“…A physical examination revealed edema on the eyelids and all fingers of both hands and feet, accompanied by painful interphalangeal joints. …”
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Corneal Backscatters as an Objective Index for Assessing Fuchs’ Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy: A Pilot Study by Hsueh-Yen Chu, Ching-Hsi Hsiao, Phil Yeong-Fong Chen, David Hui-Kang Ma, Chee-Jen Chang, Hsin-Yuan Tan

“…In addition, FECD patients with corneal edema had significantly higher mean AD (P=0.018) than those without corneal edema. …”
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Unilateral Silent Neonatal Testicular Torsion: A Case Report by Ali Jawad, Hiba Hamdar, Najib Hamad, Andrea Eid, Noama Husseini, Ahmad Atieh, Abbas Al Bazzal, Mohammad Ali Mtairek

“…We report a 1 day-old neonate who presented by acute scrotum syndrome, with tenderness, hardness, edema, and erythema of the left scrotum. The neonate was afebrile with normal stool passage and without any constitutional symptoms. …”
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Acute Abdomen as a Clinical Presentation of COVID-19-Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children by Elmira Hajiesmaeil Memar, Fatemeh Tahghighi, Sedigheh Yousefzadegan, Parisa Sadeghirad, Ashraf Mousavi, Ramin Zare Mahmoudabadi, Hossein Saeidi, Mehri Ayati, Sahar Naderi, Sara Memarian, Seyedmusa Zeinalabedin, Bahar Ashjaei, Hojatollah Raji, Leila Tahernia, Hosein Alimadadi, Vahid Ziaee

“…Additionally, maculopapular rash and edema of the extremities were common presentations. …”
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Multi-sequence MRI-based nomogram for prediction of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 expression in breast cancer by Mengyi Shen, Li Zhang, Dingyi Zhang, Xin He, Nian Liu, Xiaohua Huang

“…With the combination of edema and enhancement types, the nomogram achieved the highest performance in the training set (AUC: 0.940) and validation set (AUC: 0.893). …”
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Argon Laser Peripheral Iridoplasty and Argon Laser Pupilloplasty: Alternative Management for Medically Unresponsive Acute Primary Angle Closure by Wenkai Zhou, Fangkun Zhao, Dong Shi, Majida Qadri, Lingfeng Jiang, Liwei Ma

“…We retrospectively reviewed the records of 23 patients (27 eyes) with APAC, who were applied ALPI and ALPP when traditional treatment failed. …”
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Assessment of Disease Activity in Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease: Comparison between Endoscopy and Magnetic Resonance Enterography Using MRIA and Modified MRIA Score by Arnaldo Scardapane, Annalisa Ambrosi, Emanuela Salinaro, Maria Elisabetta Mancini, Mariabeatrice Principi, Alfredo Di Leo, Filomenamila Lorusso, Amato Antonio Stabile Ianora, Giuseppe Angelelli

“…Namely, MRIA was calculated as follows: (1.5 × wall thickening + 0.02 × RCE + 5 × intramural edema + 10 × ulcers), while mMRIA was calculated with the modified formula (1.5 × wall thickening + 5 × intramural edema + 10 × ulcers). …”
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Zinc Monotherapy as an Alternative Treatment Option for Decompensated Liver Disease due to Wilson Disease? by Hansa Haftu, Mohammed Mustefa, Teklu Gebrehiwot

“…A 15-year-old male patient from Ethiopia presented with generalized body swelling (edema and ascites) with yellowish discoloration of his eyes and easy fatigability. …”
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FXYD3 Is Frequently Expressed in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma but Does Not Predict Survival by Nathalie B. Rasko, Christopher B. Nahm, John Turchini, Rachel Teh, Helge Rasmussen, Sooin Byeon, Sumit Sahni, Jaswinder S. Samra, Anthony J. Gill, Anubhav Mittal

“…This study evaluated FXYD3 expression in chemo‐naive patients with surgically‐resected PDAC at a single centre (1993–2014). …”
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No closure of the linea alba cervicalis reduces complications in endoscopic thyroidectomy by Tiantian Jiang, Yuanhao Su, Yongke Wu, Cheng Li, Tingkai Sun, Yunhao Li, Yuanyuan Ji, Zhidong Wang

“…The improvement group showed a lower incidence of neck edema (3/71,4.2% vs. 10/71,14.1%) and a lower score on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) 5 days after the operation (3 ± 1.2 vs. 4 ± 1.3) between the two groups (P < 0.05), and there is no significant difference in the overall incidence of postoperative complications between the two groups (P>0.05). …”
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Malignant Hypertension: Ocular Manifestations by Silvia Muñoz, Nieves Martín, Jorge Arruga

“…After the appropriate management of hypertension, optic disk and retinal edema resolved, leaving minor changes as mild optic disk pallor and hard exudates.…”
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Sporadic Hemiplegic Migraine with Seizures and Transient MRI Abnormalities by Harsha Bhatia, Fawzi Babtain

“…Sporadic hemiplegic migraine is a rare variant of migraine, We report a case of sporadic hemiplegic migraine and seizures with MRI features suggestive of cortical hyper intensity and edema on T2 and FLAIR images with no restriction pattern on diffusion and these changes completely resolving over time, suggesting that these changes are due prolonged neuronal depolarization and not of ischemic origin.…”
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Report on the Types and Distribution of Antennal Sensilla in Lygaeidae (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea) and Their Putative Functions by Agnieszka Nowińska

“…Their comparison to other, previously studied, heteropteran insects and their putative mechano-, chemo-, and thermo-hygroreceptive functions are discussed. …”
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Damage modelling in concrete subject to sulfate attack by N. Cefis, C. Comi

“…In this work, we make use of a two-ions formulation of the reactive-diffusion problem and we propose a bi-phase chemo-elastic damage model aimed to simulate the mechanical response of concrete and apt to be used in structural analyses.…”
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Clostridial (Blackleg) Diseases of Cattle by Eddie J. Richey

“… Diseases including blackleg, malignant edema, sord, black disease, red water, and three kinds of enterotoxemia are all caused by a genus of bacteria called Clostridium. …”
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