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Laura Melville

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Articles 8
Citations 58
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Related Specialties
Emergency Medicine
Pediatrics
Cell Biology
Top 10 Co-Authors
Christopher Kelly
Siobhan Anton
Graham Rena
Thomas Nguyen
Geoff Jara-Almonte
Robert van Amerongen
Stefan Flores
Nicholas D Caputo
Phillip Hong
Michael Jones
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Ann Emerg Med
Case Rep Emerg Med
Acad Emerg Med
Cell Signal
Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med
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Recent Articles
1.
Parental Perceptions and Practices Regarding Pain Management and Medical Marijuana Use in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease
Cinquepalmi L, Ayeni A, Melville L, Kelly C
Clin Pediatr (Phila) . 2024 Dec; :99228241304464. PMID: 39727290
Parental strategies for home management of pain crisis in children with sickle cell anemia are not well studied. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs) are thought of as the mainstay of home...
2.
Conscious Proning: An Introduction of a Proning Protocol for Nonintubated, Awake, Hypoxic Emergency Department COVID-19 Patients
Jiang L, LeBaron J, Bodnar D, Caputo N, Chang B, Chiricolo G, et al.
Acad Emerg Med . 2020 May; 27(7):566-569. PMID: 32462708
The novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, has rapidly become a global pandemic. A major cause of morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19 has been the worsening hypoxia that, if untreated, can...
3.
The Irresponsible Use of Social Media Among Medical Students
Curato M, Husain A, Shah K, Kanter M, Egan D, Thompson H, et al.
AEM Educ Train . 2020 Apr; 4(2):168-170. PMID: 32313866
No abstract available.
4.
Progressive Disordered Movements in an Infant Leads to Rare Diagnosis
Pasquale S, Dam A, Kelly C, Schubert R, Melville L
Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med . 2018 Jun; 1(1):53-55. PMID: 29849427
Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma (DIG) is a supratentorial superficially-located cystic neuroepithelial tumor. It is an exceedingly rare tumor with an incidence of <0.1% of central nervous tumors; approximately 60 cases have...
5.
Evaluating Complications of Chronic Sinusitis
Hong P, Pereyra C, Guo U, Breslin A, Melville L
Case Rep Emerg Med . 2017 Feb; 2017:8743828. PMID: 28163938
Chronic sinusitis is a relatively common diagnosis throughout the US. In patients with an otherwise unremarkable medical history the treatment is typically supportive, requiring only clinical evaluation. We present the...
6.
Black tea polyphenols mimic insulin/insulin-like growth factor-1 signalling to the longevity factor FOXO1a
Cameron A, Anton S, Melville L, Houston N, Dayal S, McDougall G, et al.
Aging Cell . 2007 Nov; 7(1):69-77. PMID: 18005251
In vertebrates and invertebrates, relationships between diet and health are controlled by a conserved signalling pathway responsive to insulin-like ligands. In invertebrate models for example, forkhead transcription factor family O...
7.
Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) mimics insulin action on the transcription factor FOXO1a and elicits cellular responses in the presence and absence of insulin
Anton S, Melville L, Rena G
Cell Signal . 2006 Sep; 19(2):378-83. PMID: 16950602
The green tea flavonoid epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) is one of several compounds that have been reported to have insulin-like glucose-lowering properties in mammals. EGCG is understood to act at least...
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Use of ultrasonography to identify infants for whom urinary catheterization will be unsuccessful because of insufficient urine volume: validation of the urinary bladder index
Milling Jr T, van Amerongen R, Melville L, Santiago L, Gaeta T, Birkhahn R, et al.
Ann Emerg Med . 2005 Apr; 45(5):510-3. PMID: 15855948
Study Objective: Frequently, attempts to obtain catheter urine samples from infants are unsuccessful because of an empty bladder, with urinary catheterization failure rates reported up to 16%. We seek to...