Issue 1/2022
Content (76 Articles)
There are similarities between rheumatic disease with lung involvement and COVID-19 pneumonia
Joseph Williamson, Louisa Black, Anna Black, Gouri Koduri, Clive Kelly
Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on chronic pain services in the Republic of Ireland
Cormac Francis Mullins, Dominic Harmon, Therese O’Connor
Internship commencement during COVID-19: the impact of an extended induction model
Alexandra Foley, Feargal Donaghy, Gerard A. Sheridan, Ciarán Stanley, Ann-Maria Byrne, Arnold D. K. Hill, Hannan Mullett
Altered mental status is an independent predictor of mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients
Marjorie J. Kenerly, Priyank Shah, Hiten Patel, Rilee Racine, Yash Jani, Caroline Owens, Varghese George, Daniel Linder, Jack Owens, David C. Hess
SARS-CoV-2 is not found in the sweat of COVID-19 positive patients
Bengi Arslan, Sami Bercin, Sibel Aydogan, Yuce Islamoglu, Bedia Dinc
Rate and predictive parameters of novel Coronavirus 2019 (Sars-CoV-2) infections in a German General Practice
Moritz Paar, Christoph Strumann, Heinz Giesen
Trauma workload during COVID19 lockdown: an analysis of incidence in 4 million people
Alessandro Aprato, Nathalie Bini, Silvia Ferro, Lucia Favella, Luigi Conforti, Alessandro Massè
The impact of COVID-19 on acute urinary stone presentations: a single-centre experience
Steven Anderson, Daniel McNicholas, Claudine Murphy, Ijaz Cheema, Liza McLornan, Niall Davis, Mark Quinlan
The psychological impact of COVID-19 on ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialists
Thomas J. Crotty, Mel Corbett, Stephen Gary, Matthew G. Davey, Joseph P. Hughes, Ivan J. Keogh, Nash P. Patil, Eva Doherty
Serum calprotectin as a novel biomarker for severity of COVID-19 disease
Tezcan Kaya, Selçuk Yaylacı, Ahmet Nalbant, İlhan Yıldırım, Havva Kocayiğit, Erdem Çokluk, Mehmet Ramazan Şekeroğlu, Mehmet Köroğlu, Ertuğrul Güçlü
Survey of laboratory medicine’s national response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland
Ann Leonard, Brian Murray, Anna Rose Prior, Rama Srinivasan, Anne Kane, Gerard Boran
Psychological factors affecting COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Şerif Bora Nazlı, Fatih Yığman, Muhammet Sevindik, Deniz Deniz Özturan
Postmortem pathological changes in extrapulmonary organs in SARS-CoV-2 rt-PCR–positive cases: a single-center experience
Aytul Bugra, Taner Das, Murat Nihat Arslan, Nihan Ziyade, Yalcın Buyuk
Impact on mental health of the COVID-19 outbreak among general practitioners during the sanitary lockdown period
Marie Lange, Sarah Joo, Pierre-André Couette, François Le Bas, Xavier Humbert
Knowledge of face masks and attitudes to re-sterilisation among healthcare workers
Ciara O’Byrne, Fred Kenny, Sarah Eustace, John P. Gibbons
Sentiment analysis of user feedback on the HSE’s Covid-19 contact tracing app
Kaavya Rekanar, Ian R. O’Keeffe, Sarah Buckley, Manzar Abbas, Sarah Beecham, Muslim Chochlov, Brian Fitzgerald, Liam Glynn, Kevin Johnson, John Laffey, Bairbre McNicholas, Bashar Nuseibeh, James O’Connell, Derek O’Keeffe, Mike O’Callaghan, Abdul Razzaq, Ita Richardson, Andrew Simpkin, Cristiano Storni, Damyanka Tsvyatkova, Jane Walsh, Thomas Welsh, Jim Buckley
Emergency urolithiasis management at a national level: exploring the need for a care pathway
Pat Rohan, Conor Casey, Gregory J. Nason, Jan Sorensen, Kenneth Mealy
Early warning scores and critical care transfer – patient heterogeneity, low sensitivity, high mortality
Claire C. Nestor, Maria Donnelly, Siobhán Connors, Patricia Morrison, John Boylan
Improving ward level efficiency using a modified treatment room layout according to Lean methodologies
Seamus Boyle, Oisín Tyrrell, Ailbhe Quigley, Catherine Wall
A pilot study of burnout and long covid in senior specialist doctors
Anne M. Doherty, Gabrielle C. Colleran, Laura Durcan, Alan D. Irvine, Elizabeth Barrett
miR-3178 as a prognostic indicator and tumor suppressor of gastric cancer
Jin-cheng Wu, Zhao-hui Liu, Xiaomei Ding, Rui-sheng Ke
Sirtuin2 correlates with lymph node metastasis, increased FIGO stage, worse overall survival, and reduced chemosensitivity to cisplatin and paclitaxel in endometrial cancer
Yajuan Tang, Yanfang He, Nannan Zhao, Yan Chen, Jun Xing, Ning Tang
High-mobility group box 2 reflects exacerbated disease characteristics and poor prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer patients
Ning Lou, Tingting Zhu, Dongrui Qin, Jia Tian, Jiaqi Liu
Harrington rods for periacetabular pathological lesion: is it an option?
Yahya Elhassan, John Guerin, James Harty
Discrepancies in post-ST-elevation myocardial infarction care in women compared with men: evaluating for implicit bias—a single-centre study
Stephanie Whittle, Helene Angerer, Manuja Premaratne, Viviane Khalil
The Erne Mobile Intensive Coronary Care Study
Michael Donnelly, Gilbert MacKenzie
RETRACTED ARTICLE: The efficacy and safety of cryoballoon catheter ablation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
Adil K. Baimbetov, Kuat B. Abzaliev, Aiman M. Jukenova, Kenzhebek A. Bizhanov, Binali A. Bairamov, Aliya Ye. Ualiyeva
The effect of black seed raisin on some cardiovascular risk factors, serum malondialdehyde, and total antioxidant capacity in hyperlipidemic patients: a randomized controlled trials
Farideh Shishehbor, Parvin Joola, Amal Saki Malehi, Mohammad Ali Jalalifar
An assessment of race and gender-based biases among readmission predicting tools (HOSPITAL, LACE, and RAHF) in heart failure population
Manjari Rani Regmi, Priyanka Parajuli, Nitin Tandan, Mukul Bhattarai, Ruby Maini, Odalys Estefania Lara Garcia, Maryam Bakare, Abhishek Kulkarni, Robert Robinson
Role of confirmed and potential predictors of an unfavorable outcome in heart failure in everyday clinical practice
Anna Chuda, Maciej Banach, Marek Maciejewski, Agata Bielecka-Dabrowa
Increased incidence of acute calculous cholecystitis observed during COVID-19 social restrictions
Mark C. Murphy, Philip J. Dempsey, Ciara D. Gillespie, Alexandra N. Murphy, Michelle M. J. McNicholas
Assessing outcomes in hip fracture patients under the age of 60
David Keohane, Laith Al Azawi, Colum Downey, John F. Quinlan
Outcomes of the arthroscopic Bankart procedure in Irish collision sport athletes
André McLeod, Ruth Delaney
Assessment of previous fracture and anti-osteoporotic medication prescription in hip fracture patients
Cathal J. McCarthy, Michael A. Kelly, Paddy J. Kenny
General practitioners’ views of advance care planning: a questionnaire-based study
Karendeep Somal, Tony Foley
On-admission plasma levels of BNP, MR-proADM, and cTnI in pediatric heart failure: contributions to diagnosis, prognosis, and outcome
Sherif S. Salem, Nagwan Y. Saleh, Shimaa E. Soliman, Hany M. Abo-Haded
The early experience of doctors training in pediatrics: patient safety culture and the role and influence of the registrar
Catherine Diskin, Dara Byrne, Charles Normand, Michael B. O’Neill
Rising resistance of urinary tract pathogens in children: a cause for concern
Mansoor Ahmed, Wan Norafifah Wan Long, Sidra Javed, Timothy Reynolds
Effects of early intake of amino acid on the neurodevelopmental outcomes in very low birth weight infants at correct age of 20 months and school age
Wei Zhao, Yane Yin, Fuxiang Qin, Xinyu Lin, Liming Zhang
The correlation between 6-min walk test and respiratory parameters in children with cystic fibrosis
Zahra Roshanzamir, Rohola Shirzadi, Mohammadreza Modaresi
Symptoms to script: delays in tuberculosis treatment in the west of Ireland
Conor Grant, Jack McHugh, Ciara Ryan, Margaret Scarry, Anthony O’Regan, Helen Tuite, Catherine Fleming
Reference intervals for commonly requested biochemical and haematological parameters in a healthy Irish adult Caucasian population
Md Nahidul Islam, Tomás P. Griffin, Robert Whiriskey, Siobhan Hamon, Brendan Cleary, Liam Blake, Damian G. Griffin, Matthew D. Griffin, Janusz Krawczyk, Paula M. O’Shea
Homelessness amongst psychiatric Inpatients: a cross-sectional study in the mid-west of Ireland
Noreen Moloney, Patrick O’Donnell, Musaab Elzain, Ahmad Bashir, Colum P. Dunne, Brendan D. Kelly, Gautam Gulati
Association of Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS)-61 items with clinical psychiatric diagnosis in adulthood
Cliodhna Hanley, Faisal Saleem, Ignazio Graffeo, Geraldine McCarthy, Blánaid Gavin, Fiona McNicholas, Dimitrios Adamis
Minding metabolism: targeted interventions to improve cardio-metabolic monitoring across early and chronic psychosis
John R. Kelly, Priyola Gounden, Aoibheann McLoughlin, Zahra Legris, Therese O’Carroll, Roisin McCafferty, Liliana Marques, Maeve Haran, Richard Farrelly, Karen Loughrey, Gráinne Flynn, Aiden Corvin, Catherine Dolan
A decade of service development: audit of service users’ experience of a rural Psychiatry of Later Life (POLL) service
Memoona Usman, Leona Lally, Sinead Costello, Aoife Kiely, Sabina Fahy
Subjective symptoms and their association with psychiatric symptoms 3 months after ICU discharge: sub-analysis of a single-center prospective observational study
Kyohei Miyamoto, Mami Shibata, Nozomu Shima, Tsuyoshi Nakashima, Atsuhiro Ogawa, Seiji Anai, Mari Asada, Seiya Kato
Transoral robotic surgery in Ireland: the beginning
Emma Keane, Isobel O’Riordan, Thomas Crotty, Justin M. Hintze, Edlir Shytaj, Fergal O’Duffy, Tadgh P. O’Dwyer, Tom Moran
Maxillofacial fractures in females: a 5-year retrospective review
Akinsola Ogunbowale, Liam Costello, Deirdre McCormack, Kumara Ekanayake, Gerard J. Kearns
Open, prospective, multicenter study on postoperative intranasal phototherapy in nasal polyposis
Ágnes Kiricsi, Mónika Kiricsi, Zsolt Szabó, Éva Dósa-Rácz Viharosné, Ferenc Ignácz, Lajos Kemény, Edit Kadocsa, László Rovó, Zsolt Bella
A review of primary care referrals for patients with dizziness and vertigo: prevalence and demographics
Claudine Murphy, Ciaran Reinhardt, David Linehan, Roulla Katiri, Ann O’Connor
The audiovestibular manifestations as early symptoms of multiple sclerosis: a scoping review of the literature
Helen MacMahon, Amr El Refaie
Timing of treatment of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: are the goals set in international guidelines achievable?
Abdurehman Choudhry, Daniel Murray, Paula Corr, Deirdre Nolan, Deirdre Coffey, Stephen MacNally, Alan O’Hare, Sarah Power, Matthew Crockett, John Thornton, Daniel Rawluk, Paul Brennan, Mohsen Javadpour
A multidisciplinary fetal neurosurgical service—5 years of fetal outcomes from a national referral centre
Clare O’Connor, Peter McParland, Darach Crimmins, John Caird, Barbara Cathcart, Heather Hughes, Gabrielle Colleran, Rhona Mahony, Shane Higgins, Stephen Carroll, Jennifer Walsh, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe
Evaluation of a novel emergency front of neck access device in a benchtop model of obesity
Sunil K. Chauhan, Myles Monaghan, Conan L. McCaul
Introduction of Rezum system technology to Ireland for treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia: a pilot study on early outcomes and procedure cost analysis
Usman M. Haroon, Jody SA Khan, Daniel McNicholas, James C. Forde, Niall F. Davis, Richard E. Power
Association between urine albumin to creatinine ratio and bone mineral density: a cross-sectional study
Kemal Sherefa Oumer, Yawen Liu, Tesfaye Getachew Charkos, Shuman Yang
The impact of a 6-week community-based physical activity and health education intervention—a pilot study among Irish farmers
Ruth Kavanagh, Diane Cooper, John Bolton, Laura Keaver
Development and sustainment of professional relationships within longitudinal integrated clerkships in general practice (LICs): a narrative review
Jane O’Doherty, Sarah Hyde, Raymond O’Connor, Megan E. L. Brown, Peter Hayes, Vikram Niranjan, Aidan Culhane, Pat O’Dwyer, Patrick O’Donnell, Liam Glynn, Andrew O’Regan
Oral health literacy among third-level university students in cork city; Ireland
Mekha Ann Mathew, Zubair Kabir
Medical students’ attitudes towards the teaching of cervical and ovarian cancer screening protocols in Ireland: a qualitative study
Paul McHugh, Donal Brennan, Mary F. Higgins
Introduction of an ENT emergency—safe boot camp into postgraduate surgical training in the Republic of Ireland
Oludare Alabi, Rhodri Hill, Michael Walsh, Camilla Carroll
Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy—impact of a mentorship program on oncological outcomes during the learning curve
James P. C. Ryan, Olwyn Lynch, Mark P. Broe, Niall Swan, Diarmaid Moran, Barry McGuire, David Mulvin
The role of taurine derivatives in the putative therapy of COVID-19-induced inflammation
Ogechi Iwegbulem, Jianghuai Wang, Rolf W. Pfirrmann, Henry Paul Redmond
COVID-19 pandemic: vaccine and new monoclonal antibodies, point of view
Antonio Vitiello, Raffaele La Porta, Laura Pianesi, Francesco Ferrara
Letter to the Editor: Very high cortisol concentration in adrenal venous sampling in primary aldosteronism—physiological or pathological
Tejas Kalaria, Harit Buch, Rousseau Gama
Assessment of operating room team members’ ability to identify other team members in the operating room, a quality improvement exercise
Evelyn Scott, Stephen W. Lindow, Caoimhe C. Duffy
Practice and training in radiology in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a reflection from an Irish academic tertiary referral centre
Colin McQuade, Kathryn Hunter, Darragh Halpenny, William C. Torreggiani
Tennis elbow: what is the score on Internet-based information?
Mohamed Elzaki, Martin Kelly, Cliodhna Ni Foghlú, Brian Lenehan, Dermot O’Farrell
Correction to: Timing of treatment of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: are the goals set in international guidelines achievable?
Abdurehman Choudhry, Daniel Murray, Paula Corr, Deirdre Nolan, Deirdre Coffey, Stephen MacNally, Alan O’Hare, Sarah Power, Matthew Crockett, John Thornton, Daniel Rawluk, Paul Brennan, Mohsen Javadpour
Correction to: Trauma workload during COVID19 lockdown: an analysis of incidence in 4 million people
Alessandro Aprato, Nathalie Bini, Silvia Ferro, Lucia Favella, Luigi Conforti, Alessandro Massè
Correction to: Early warning scores and critical care transfer – patient heterogeneity, low sensitivity, high mortality
Claire C. Nestor, Maria Donnelly, Siobhán Connors, Patricia Morrison, John Boylan
Correction to: Assessing outcomes in hip fracture patients under the age of 60
David Keohane, Laith Al Azawi, Colum Downey, John F. Quinlan
Correction to: A decade of service development: audit of service users’ experience of a rural Psychiatry of Later Life (POLL) service
Memoona Usman, Leona Lally, Sinead Costello, Aoife Kiely, Sabina Fahy