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Functional improvement after inpatient rehabilitation in community hospitals following acute hospital care
Early inpatient rehabilitation therapy has been known to have beneficial impact on physical function and mobility, psychological status and cognitive function of patients following...
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Subclavian-oesophageal Fistula as a Complication of Foreign Body Ingestion: A Case Report
Ingested foreign bodies are a common condition in the practice of Otolaryngology. In particular, there is no doubt a greater tendency in the local...
Commentary
The Role of Occupational Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis Management
Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic disease characterised by remissions and exacerbations that vary in severity and timing among people. Its chronic and degenerative course...
Review Article
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Singapore
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or lupus (“wolf” in Latin) in short, is an autoimmune disorder of unknown aetiology(ies) and characterised by diverse clinical manifestations...
Others
Bilateral Caudate Infarct—A Case Report
The head of caudate nucleus forms a prominent bulge in the lateral wall of the anterior horn of the lateral ventricle. Its blood supply...
Review Article
Current Therapeutic Strategies in Glomerulonephritis
Twenty years ago, the therapy of glomerulonephritis (GN) was relatively simple as it was believed that treatment with prednisolone should be confined to patients...
Original Article
Perioperative and Rehabilitative Outcomes after Amputation for Ischaemic Leg Gangrene
In the last century, Sir William Ferguson said: “amputation—one of the meanest and yet one of the greatest operations in surgery: mean, where resorted...
Review Article
Quality of Life in Long-Term Survivors of Intensive Care
Intensive care has undergone rapid technological advancement in recent years enabling complex treatment of patients of advanced age and/or with advanced chronic diseases underlying...
Review Article
Limitation of Life Support in the Critically Ill: The Hong Kong Perspective
Technological advances over the last 30 years have had an enormous impact on the way in which medicine is delivered today. This is particularly...
Original Article
Patients who Talk and Deteriorate: A New Look at an Old Problem
Patients who talk after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and then subsequently deteriorate into a coma are defined as those with an initial Glasgow Coma...
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High-sensitivity C-reactive Protein is Predictive of Medium-term Cardiac Outcome in High-risk Asian Patients Presenting With Chest Pain Syndrome Without Myocardial Infarction
Patients with chest pain often pose a diagnostic conundrum to the attending physician especially when symptoms are not typical of angina and the electrocardiogram...
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Characteristics and Acute Rehabilitation of Guillain-Barré Syndrome in Singapore
The Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute, frequently severe evolution of a demyelinating inflammatory polyradiculopathy with an autoimmune pathogenesis. In developed countries, GBS is...
Review Article
Neural Progenitor and Stem Cells in the Adult Central Nervous System
Seminal studies in the 1960s, using -thymidine autoradiography, reported that neurogenesis occurs in discrete areas of the adult mammalian brain, in rodents. Studies in...
Original Article
SARS in Singapore – Predictors of Disease Severity
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a recently defined illness caused by a novel coronavirus. The outbreak in Singapore originated from Hong Kong via...
Review Article
Hamstring Injuries: Risk Assessment and Injury Prevention
The aim of this article is to outline the factors involved with, and a potential strategy for preventing, one of the most common injuries...
Review Article
Emerging Therapies in Stroke Rehabilitation
Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in Singapore since 1998.1 While mortality due to stroke has steadily declined over the years with...
Review Article
Myofascial Pain – An Overview
The skeletal muscle is the single largest organ in our human body. It accounts for nearly 50% of our body weight. Any of these...
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Employment Status Six Months after Discharge from Inpatient Rehabilitation for a Mild-to-moderate Physical Disability
A new physical disability presents unique challenges to the individual, family and community. One of these challenges is employment and productive reintegration of the...
Original Article
Results From a Prospective Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Database: Clinical Characteristics and Functional Outcomes using the Functional Independence Measure
Rehabilitation improves functional outcomes.1 Dedicated rehabilitation facilities employing a multidisciplinary model of care further improve outcome and quality of life compared to rehabilitation in...
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Factors Predictive of Outcome in Childhood Stroke in an Asian Population
Strokes in childhood are generally considered to be rare with an incidence of about 2.7 per 100 000 children per year.1 The aetiologies of...
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Surgical Metastasectomy in AJCC Stage IV M1c Melanoma Patients with Gastrointestinal and Liver Metastases
The prognosis of patients with stage IV melanoma or recurrent melanoma is poor with an estimated median survival period of 6 months. The recent...
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The Need for a System of Prognostication in Skeletal Metastasis to Decide Best End-of-life Care – A Call to Arms
Decisions regarding potential surgery for metastatic disease are influenced by estimates of patient survival. For example, patients with long life expectancy may be appropriately...
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rTSβ as a Novel 5-fluorouracil Resistance Marker of Colorectal Cancer: A Preliminary Study
Although colorectal cancer is common in Western countries, in the past, it has been uncommon in Asian countries. However, its prevalence has gradually been...
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Presentation and Outcome Amongst Older Singaporeans Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS): Does Age Alone Drive Excess Mortality?
Singapore is a country of high income with a low level human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic, the yearly incidence of disease currently standing at...
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A Novel, Minimally-Invasive Technique of Cartilage Repair in the Human Knee Using Arthroscopic Microfracture and Injections of Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Hyaluronic Acid—A Prospective Comparative Study on Safety and Short-Term Efficacy
Articular cartilage lesions can give rise to potentially crippling symptoms such as pain, swelling and decreased mobility. In addition, such lesions when left untreated...
Original Article
Socio-demographic and Clinical Profile of Admissions to Community Hospitals in Singapore from 1996 to 2005: A Descriptive Study
Intermediate care, a range of services facilitating step-down care from the hospital to home, has become an integral part of the healthcare system. Community...
Original Article
A Subacute Model of Geriatric Care for Frail Older Persons: The Tan Tock Seng Hospital Experience
The number of persons aged over 65 will increase from 8.4% in 2005 to 18.7% in 2030, which translates to absolute numbers of 296,900...
Original Article
Male Breast Cancer in Singapore: 15 Years of Experience at a Single Tertiary Institution
Male breast cancer is a rare disease entity, traditionally said to represent <1% of all diagnosed breast cancers. Recent statistics, however, suggest that its...
Original Article
Assessment of the American Joint Committee on Cancer 7th Edition Staging for Localised Prostate Cancer in Asia Treated with External Beam Radiotherapy
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer in men, with a worldwide incidence of approximately 900,000 in 2008. Internationally, there is...
Original Article
Validation of the Paediatric Hearing Impairment Caregiver Experience (PHICE) Questionnaire
The stress experienced by parents of children with hearing impairment (HI) has been studied over the past 2 decades. Increased parenting stress is often...
Review Article
Obesity in COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing global pandemic infection by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is established that increasing...