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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- Brugada Syndrome: New Insights From Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Electroanatomical Imagingby Carlo Pappone on October 25, 2021
CONCLUSIONS: BrS is a dynamic RV electromechanical disease, where functional abnormalities correlate with the maximal extent of the substrate size. These findings open new lights on the physiopathology of the disease.
- Endovascular treatment of posterior inferior cerebellar artery trunk aneurysmby Kun Hou on October 22, 2021
CONCLUSION: For PICA trunk aneurysms, the treatment choice should be assessed on a case-by-case basis. The rate of permanent morbidity of the EVT is low. EVT is an effective method for treating PICA trunk aneurysms.
- Branching Fraction Measurements of the Rare B_{s}^{0}→ϕμ^{+}μ^{-} and B_{s}^{0}→f_{2}^{'}(1525)μ^{+}μ^{-} Decaysby R Aaij on October 22, 2021
The branching fraction of the rare B_{s}^{0}→ϕμ^{+}μ^{-} decay is measured using data collected by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1, 2, and 6 fb^{-1}, respectively. The branching fraction is reported in intervals of q^{2}, the square of the dimuon invariant mass. In the q^{2} region between 1.1 and 6.0 GeV^{2}/c^{4}, the measurement is found to lie 3.6 standard deviations below a standard model prediction based on a...
- The intersection between the sternocleidomastoid and splenius capitis as the anatomical landmark to facilitate occipital artery harvest: A retrospective clinical studyby Kitiporn Sriamornrattanakul on October 21, 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The OA triangle, which is the anatomical landmark of the proximal end of the transitional segment of OA, facilitated the OA harvest using the distal-to-proximal harvest technique with safety and good patency. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of OA harvest in the clinical cases.