Aster Medical Journal (AMJ)

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Today’s NTD could be tomorrow’s pandemic

Aster Medical Journal

NTDs: Avoid Further Neglect!

The brief • NEWS FROM THE FRONTIERS OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed’s mission to help eradicate tropical diseases • Long-running campaign has pledged millions of dollars to tackling crippling, preventable conditions such as Guinea worm and river blindness.

Monkeypox: A wake up call to end NTDs • NTDs, which primarily affect people living in poverty, impact more than 1.7 billion people worldwide and are still prevalent in various developing countries.

Clinical presentation and virological assessment of confirmed human monkeypox virus cases in Spain: A prospective observational cohort study • Eloy José Tarín-Vicente, Andrea Alemany, Manuel Agud-Dios, Maria Ubals, Clara Suñer, Andrés Antón, Maider Arando, Jorge Arroyo-Andrés, Lorena Calderón-Lozano, Cristina Casañ, José Miguel Cabrera, Pep Coll, Vicente Descalzo, María Dolores Folgueira, Jorge N García-Pérez, Elena Gil-Cruz, Borja González-Rodríguez, Christian Gutiérrez-Collar, Águeda Hernández-Rodríguez, Paula López-Roa, María de los Ángeles Meléndez, Julia Montero-Menárguez, Irene Muñoz-Gallego, Sara Isabel Palencia-Pérez, Roger Paredes, Alfredo Pérez-Rivilla, María Piñana, Nuria Prat, Aída Ramirez, Ángel Rivero, Carmen Alejandra Rubio-Muñiz, Martí Vall, Kevin Stephen Acosta-Velásquez, An Wang, Cristina Galván-Casas*, Michael Marks*, Pablo L Ortiz-Romero*, Oriol Mitjà*

Tecovirimat and the Treatment of Monkeypox — Past, Present, and Future Considerations • Now, 34 years later, we are faced with an uncannily similar situation. An unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox has emerged, which at present is disproportionately affecting men who have sex with men in numerous countries where the disease is not endemic, including the United States.

Exosomal Biomarkers for Neurologic Conditions: A New Frontier • We discuss pros and cons of existing blood biomarkers, as well as introduce a new methodology that may revolutionize the biomarker field.

Handing the Surgeon’s Scalpel to a Robot • After decades of merely assisting doctors, are sophisticated machines ready to take charge?

Interesting Presentations of Primary Syphilis • Primary syphilis is a form of early syphilis developing 9 to 90 days after exposure. It usually takes typical, easily-recognizable clinical forms, including non-tender and non-itchy chancres on the genitals, which may be accompanied by regional lymphadenopathy. Two cases are reported with different presentations, one mimicking innocuous balanitis and the other a probable herpetic genital eruption.

A Mountain and a Molehill: Report of Two Cases of Ectopic Pancreas • The presence of pancreatic tissue away from its normal location, in various places throughout the gastrointestinal tract, is known as ectopic pancreas, or pancreatic rest. It is usually an incidental finding and clinically silent.

Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) – a Rare Presentation with COVID-19 • Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare haematological disorder which can be hereditary or acquired. Hereditary TTP is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, caused by mutations in gene ADAMTS13, which result in the absence or severe deficiency of the plasma metalloprotease ADAMTS13.

UHL’s Anomaly: A Rare Form of Congestive Cardiac Failure in Early Childhood • UHL’s anomaly is a rare congenital anomaly of the heart in which there is a congenital absence of the right ventricular myocardium. Only a few cases have been reported in the literature. Two cases of children with Uhl’s anomaly who presented with...