Percutaneous step-up approach should be preferred when these prerequisites are not met and drainage is strongly indicated in early phase. Recently, the POINTER trial comparing immediate catheter drainage within 24 hours after randomization once infected necrosis was diagnosed with drainage that was ...
Betty is a caregiver to three sons, Max, Rowen, and Charlie. Her oldest was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in 2010 at 4 years old. The other boys were diagnosed with the same in the following year. Although Duchenne occasionally crashes the party, it has not kept her large ...
The new MOC is just as irrelevant as the old; it’s just a heck of a lot more difficult and expensive to complete. I feel that it would be overly optimistic to expect the government or the hospital executives to release us from this arduous burden. In fact, many of us suspect the go...
Compassionate use is a way for terminally ill and other patients who have run out of other options to access experimental drugs outside clinical trials. But drug companies often decline these requests. The case of Nathalie, a 15-year-old cancer patient w
Mucosal nonunion is a major complication of MRONJ, and MRONJ is clinically diagnosed mainly through mucosal non-healing and maxillofacial bone baring for more than 8 weeks.Citation41 When the mucosal damage in the oral cavity fails to heal, it could affect the blood supply to the surface of...
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancers and the leading cause of death from cancer in women worldwide [1,2]. Data from the Jakarta Cancer Registry show that breast cancer has the highest incidence among cancers [3]. Most breast cancer patients in Indonesia present in advanced stag...