Recent Publications

Maxillofacial injuries result from a variety of daily activities. Traffic accidents, interpersonal violence, and falls represent some of the most common etiological factors behind maxillofacial fractures. During the COVID-19 outbreak, the social distancing measures imposed by healthcare authorities aimed at abolishing the spread of the viral infection. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of social distancing measures on the incidence of maxillofacial injuries.

All treatment modalities for head and neck cancer carry with them a risk of adverse events. Head and neck surgeons are faced with significant challenges to minimize associated morbidity and manage its sequelae. Recognizing situations in which a surgical complication is an adverse event inherent to the procedure can alleviate the psychologic impact a complication might have on the treatment team and minimize external and internal pressures. Focusing on the complications that can be effectively modified, future complications can be avoided. Also, some surgical morbidities may not be preventable, necessitating the option to reconsider whether the incidents should be labeled toxic reactions rather than a complication. This discussion highlights some of the areas in which additional research is needed to achieve the goal of minimizing the impact of surgical morbidity.

In England routine vaccinations are recorded in either the patients General Practice record or in series of sub-national vaccine registers that are not interoperable. During the COVID-19 pandemic it was established that COVID vaccines would need to be delivered in multiple settings where current vaccine registers do not exist. We describe how a national vaccine register was created to collect data on COVID-19 vaccines.

Robust evidence suggests that psoriasis is associated with an elevated risk of cardiovascular diseases, which embody the most common cause of morbidity and mortality among patients with psoriasis.  While  biologic agents undoubtedly led to a groundbreaking improvement in patient care and optimized patient outcomes, their effect on cardiovascular outcomes in psoriasis is a scope of controversy. A meta-analysis pooling 38 randomized controlled trials detected no significant influence of biologics on the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients with psoriasis.

There are no clear guidelines for diuretic administration in heart failure (HF), and reliable markers are needed to tailor treatment. Continuous monitoring of multiple advanced physiological parameters during diuresis may allow better differentiation of patients into subgroups according to their responses. In this study, 29 HF patients were monitored during outpatient intravenous diuresis, using a noninvasive wearable multi-parameter monitor.

This study aimed to compare obstetrical outcomes between women diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in the third trimester after testing negative for GDM in two-step screening in the second trimester and women diagnosed in the second trimester.

(Raneen Abu Shqara, Yara Nakhleh Francis, Shany Or, Lior Lowenstein, Maya Frank Wolf)

In 2017, the Bipartisan Policy Center called for inclusion of lifestyle medicine (LM) in undergraduate medical education. Recognizing the requirement that lifestyle medicine should be an integral and integrated part of the curriculum, we undertook an in-depth mapping process to determine the extent of LM teaching at our Faculty, staff perceptions and the impact on medical students.

Durable implantable left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have been shown to improve survival and quality of life for patients with stage D heart failure. Even though LVADs remain underused overall, the number of patients with heart failure supported with LVADs is steadily increasing. Therefore, general cardiologists will increasingly encounter these patients. In this review, we provide an overview of the field of durable LVADs.

Investigates the effect of preemptive infiltration on postoperative pain and the use of analgesics following vaginal hysterectomy (VH).

While the pressure points technique for proximal hemorrhage control is long known, it is not recommended in standard prehospital guidelines based on a study showing the inability to maintain occlusion for over two minutes. Main symptom: This report details a gunshot wound to the left axillary area with complete transection of the axillary artery, leading to profuse junctional hemorrhage and profound hemorrhagic shock.

Diabetes mellitus is considered a leading contributor to severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Aim: To characterize differences between hospitalized diabetic patients with vs without COVID-19, and parameters associated with COVID-19 severity for prediction.

Risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) under isotretinoin is a scope of a long-standing controversy. The burden of isotretinoin-related irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has not been investigated. Objective: To evaluate the risk of Crohn`s disease (CD), ulcerative colitis (UC), and IBS in patients with acne starting isotretinoin versus oral antibiotics treatment.

Peroxisomes are essential organelles involved in lipid metabolisms including plasmalogen biosynthesis and β-oxidation of very long-chain fatty acids. Peroxisomes proliferate by the growth and division of pre-existing peroxisomes. The peroxisomal membrane is elongated by Pex11β and then divided by the dynamin-like GTPase, DLP1 (also known as DRP1 encoded by DNM1L gene), which also functions as a fission factor for mitochondria. Nucleoside diphosphate kinase 3 (NME3) localized in both peroxisomes and mitochondria generates GTP for DLP1 activity. Deficiencies of either of these factors induce abnormal morphology of peroxisomes and/or mitochondria, and are associated with central nervous system dysfunction. To investigate whether the impaired division of peroxisomes affects lipid metabolisms, we assessed the phospholipid composition of cells lacking each of the different division factors. 

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most significant public health emergencies in decades and has affected all countries worldwide. Religious leaders have been recognized as playing a pivotal role in health promotion during times of crisis. This study explored the role that Muslim and Christian religious leaders played in Israel during the pandemic, and the impact that their activities had on the community.

(Short communication)