had complained of abdominal pain for about a month, before his family brought him to the Binh Duong General Hospital.ĭoctors found many metal objects inside his stomach and decided to transfer him to 175 Military Hospital. The man is considered a rarer case of pica as he had consumed a large number of metal objects, including nails, spoons, nail clippers, blades, iron sticks and hooks, and others. Metal objects are removed from the patient’s stomach in this photo provided by 175 Military Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. showed signs of depression and pica, an eating disorder that involves consuming items that are not typically thought of as food and that do not contain significant nutritional value. Lateral medullary syndrome (also known as Wallenberg syndrome, posterior inferior cerebellar artery Posterior inferior cerebellar artery Cerebrovascular System: Anatomy (PICA Pica Pica is an eating disorder characterized by a desire or recurrent compulsion to eat substances that are nonnutritive and not food. Biennale, Venice, Italy The Walls That Divide Us apexart, New York Amalia Pica: Endymion’s Journey MARC FOXX Los Angeles Weltraum – Die Kunst ein Traum Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria.Your browser does not support the audio element.ĭoctors in Ho Chi Minh City have removed dozens of metal objects such as nails, blades, nail clippers, and spoons from the stomach of a man who suffers from an eating disorder.Ĭolonel Nguyen Quoc Dung, a senior doctor at Ho Chi Minh City-based 175 Military Hospital, which is managed by the Ministry of National Defense, confirmed on Sunday that the infirmary had conducted a surgery on T.H.T., a 27-year-old resident in southern Binh Duong Province. When this happens, there is a greater risk that the baby will be born with low weight, that the birth will be premature or that the childs cognitive changes will appear. Gallen, Switzerland 2011 ILLUMInations, 54. The pica syndrome in pregnancy should be identified as soon as possible so that complications can be avoided for the baby, as it usually indicates that the pregnant woman is not consuming the proper amount of nutrients.

Her work has been on show in countless international solo and group shows (selection): 2012 Amalia Pica Chisenhale Gallery, London Silence Menil Collection, Houston Future Generation Art Prize 2012 PinchukArtCentre Kiev The Ungovernables New Museum, New York, Amalia Pica/ Karsten Födinger Kunsthalle St. Amalia Pica’s works are often playful and champion aesthetic experience as an act that succeeded in formulating alternative and complex statements compared to linguistic forms of interaction.Īmalia Pica (born in 1978 in Argentina) lives and works in London. Thus, her works seem to be models or signs of communicative acts and their social, political and historical interlinkages.Staging art as an instrument for inter-personal interaction repeatedly points to the bsic underlying pattern of the artistic process itself. springer In the closed ward, he suddenly displayed pica behavior but, in the further course, developed a typical schizophrenic syndrome. Her sculptural, filmic and performative pieces as well as her installations explore communication not as a discursive phenomenon but attempt to develop an aesthetic language of her own. A syndrome of unthriftiness, stiffness, anorexia, recumbency and pica in cattle of the Yemen Arab Republic was investigated for the first time. Amalia Pica’s art hinges on her interest in a wide range of different communications forms and realizes them in far-sighted site-specific works. We are happy to be hosting the very first institutional solo show in Germany by Argentine artist Amalia Pica in Germany from September 13 to October 28, 2012.

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