Pica (Eating Non-Nutrient Foods)
Pica (/ˈpaɪkə/ PIE-kuh) is a psychological disorder characterized by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive. The substance may be biological such as hair (trichophagia) or feces (coprophagia), natural such as ice (pagophagia) or dirt (geophagia), and otherwise chemical or manmade (as listed below).
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Wiki Number: PW169
Diagnosis: Pica (Eating Non-Nutrient Foods)
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Age Onset: pregnant women, small children, people with developmental disabilities
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Symptoms: Eating non-nutritives such as heair, feces, ice, dirt, lead paint, starch or man-made items.
Progression: autistics or children with lower intelligence, dietary mineral deficiencies may be involved
Causes: fewer red cells or zinc than normal in the blood;obsessive-compulsive disorder or schizophrenia have also been proposed
Medications: if needed, treat for iron or other dietary deficiencies;
Therapies: Training and reinforcement on what are appropriate foods if user has normal intelligence.
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Support Group: neda.org; 800-9311-2237
(National Eating Disorders Associations)
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- Isatuximab plus pomalidomide and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma in real-world: The retrospective IMAGE studyby Olivier Decaux on May 7, 2024
CONCLUSION: IMAGE demonstrated Isa-Pd had meaningful effectiveness in median PFS and depth of response and no new safety signals in a real-world context, consistent with clinical trial results.
- Endovascular Management of a Ruptured Aneurysm on a Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery with Extradural C2-Origin: Case Report and Literature Reviewby Rasmus Holmboe Dahl on May 7, 2024
Extracranial vascular pathology uncommonly causes intracranial subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Among possible lesions are aneurysms at the craniocervical junction arising from a posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) with an extradural origin. We describe a case of a 55-yearold female presenting with a sudden and severe headache. A computed tomography scan revealed a SAH within the fourth ventricle and cervical spinal canal, and a ruptured saccular aneurysm on a PICA with extradural...
- "Interstitial fibrosis is associated with left atrial remodeling and adverse clinical outcomes in selected low-risk patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy"by Lara Tondi on May 5, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: In HCM diffuse interstitial fibrosis detected by increased r-ECV is associated with LA remodeling and emerged as a potential independent predictor of adverse clinical outcomes, on top of the well-known prognostic impact of LGE.
- Physico-chemical characterization and possible uses of sludge processed from an urban sewage treatment plantby Cornel Sava on May 3, 2024
Nowadays, the challenge is to transform dehydrated sewage sludge resulting from wastewater treatment plants from waste into resource. Following this objective, the sludge was further dried and submitted to X-ray diffraction (XRD) and FTIR analysis. The sludge was first dried in ventilated and unventilated spaces at 50 ^(∘)C and 100 ^(∘)C, for 60 and 100 minutes (min) in each case. The final mass and evaporation degree of the sludge depends on the initial mass, ventilation type, drying time, and...