... The Physician as PatientAClinical Handbook for Mental Health Professionals This page intentionally left blank The Physician as PatientAClinical Handbook for Mental Health Professionals ... exacerbate those stressors, and the nature ofthe practice setting itself that are problematic Moreover, the evaluating clinician can clarify again and again that one ofthe main purposes ofthe evaluation ... Physicians and International Medical Graduates 21 deny or rationalize the degree of their pain or dysfunction Their marriages will vary from classically traditional to dual career They may not be able...
... length ofthe fatty acid on the acyoxyacyl group to be mainly 15, confirming the result ofthe compositional analysis In the minor triacylated lipid A, the fragmentation patterns ofthe parent ion at ... mass spectrum revealed the presence ofa monophosphoryl lipid A (Fig 3A) The molecular mass heterogeneity can be explained by the degree of acylation and the chain length ofthe fatty acid The ... OPS-rich fraction (30%) Mainly two sugars, Rha and Man, were detected in the OPS-rich fraction on analysis ofthe sugar constituents (Table 1) The approximate molar ratio of Rha to Man was : Absolute...
... standard validation procedures with the exception ofthe forward and backward translations that were replaced by a language adaptation step Results Participant characteristics Description ofthe ... process The heterogeneity ofthe target population at each stage ofthe development and validation process ensured that the relevance ofthe PACT-Q extends to a variety of anticoagulant patients ... was a housewife, and one was not working due to present health status The mean age of patients was 52.3 years, the mean disease duration was 2.8 years All patients were receiving anticoagulant...
... this article as: Takigami et al., Functional bracing for delayed union ofa femur fracture associated with Paget's disease ofthe bone in an Asian patient: a case report Journal of Orthopaedic ... functional brace in the treatment of delayed union ofthe tibia [13-15] We speculate that this treatment was advantageous because the external fixator and functional bracing did not violate the fracture ... in pathogenesis and treatment J Oral Pathol Med 1994, 23:12-16 Hashimoto J, Ohno I, Nakatsuka K, Yoshimura N, Takata S, Zamma M, Yabe H, Abe S, Terada M, Yoh K, et al.: Prevalence and clinical...
... of large popliteal space HO In a report by Anderson and Lais [13] a large HO mass was excised from popliteal fossa ofa 20 years old man 17 weeks after traumatic brain injury Thepatient had a ... (THA) cases The studies about the preventive effects of radiation therapy are plagued with small sample sizes and inadequate research protocol design The optimal dose and fractionation of dosage ... recommended accurate evaluation ofthe Page of preoperative neurologic status On the other hand, they warned about the risk of fracture in delayed surgery due to localized osteoporosis Delay in surgical...
... Lymphoma 2002, 43(12):2405-7 Kiyohara T, Kumakiri M, Kobayashi H, Nakamura H, Ohkawara A: Cutaneous marginal zone B-cell lymphoma: a case accompanied by massive plasmacytoid cells J Am Acad Dermatol ... molecular weight marker (Lane MW) DM prepared the draft of case report GM conceived the idea ofthe case report and helped with the draft of it AS, SC and AD helped the draft ofthe case report MM and ... performed the molecular analyses NM performed the radiological studies and helped with draft of case report All authors read and approved the final manuscript References are adequate therapeutic strategies...
... coronary artery bypass grafting, showed that DD was characterized by a decrease in E wave velocity, prolongation ofthe E wave DT, and a decrease of E /A ratio [43] Potential implicated mechanisms ... echocardiography is the clinician's Rosetta stone JAAC 1997, 30:8-18 Yamamoto K, Masuyama T, Tanouchi J, Doi Y, Kondo H, Hori M, Kitabatake A, Kamada T.: Effects of heart rate on left ventricular ... captopril, and β-agonists (or decreasing the action of phospholamban), results in improvement of diastolic relaxation [28] Pathophysiology and diagnosis of DD Another aspect of DD is the relationship...
... A barium enema image ofthe colon shows a filling defect in the ascendant colon (arrows) Page of Figure An abdominal computed tomography scan shows a ‘sausage’-shape soft-tissue mass in the ascendant ... intussusception ofthe ileum after desinvagination from the ascendant colon (thick arrow) and necrotic change in the wall ofthe ascendant colon (thin arrow) Krasniqi et al Journal of Medical Case Reports ... 25 Gupta RK, Agrawal CS, Yadav R, Bajracharay A, Sah PL: Intussusception in adults: institutional review Int J Surg 2011, 9:91-95 26 Marinis A, Yiallourou A, Samanides L, Dafnios N, Anastasopoulos...
... bifurcation ofthe ILN seldom occurs before its laryngeal entry Anastomosis between the ILN and cervical sympathetic chain is another rare anatomic feature The prevalence of extra-laryngeal branching of ... ILN and the cervical sympathetic chain is another rare anatomic variation, known as sympathetic inferior laryngeal anastomotic branch (SILAB) [6,8] In this case report, three variations of ILN, ... have occurred in the same nerve This is Page ofa “variation ofthe variation” This double variation in the same nerve is extremely unusual Extra-laryngeal branching of RLN is a common variation...
... presence of distinct malignancy and the local factors such as the degree of associated edema, and relative ischemia ofthe involved bowel A wedge resection of affected bowel segment was performed ... obtained from thepatient for publication of this case report and any accompanying images A copy ofthe written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal Authors’ contributions ... submucosa as a solitary or sessile lesion with an inflammatory basis They can occur throughout the intestinal tract but most frequently in the gastric antrum and small bowel [3] IFPs usually measure...
... presence of distinct malignancy and the local factors such as the degree of associated edema, and relative ischemia ofthe involved bowel A wedge resection of affected bowel segment was performed ... obtained from thepatient for publication of this case report and any accompanying images A copy ofthe written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal Authors’ contributions ... submucosa as a solitary or sessile lesion with an inflammatory basis They can occur throughout the intestinal tract but most frequently in the gastric antrum and small bowel [3] IFPs usually measure...
... (bronchioloalveolar carcinoma) Bronchial atresia and CCAM usually involve the same lobe and, although it has been stated that congenital cysts ofthe lung are due to abnormal bronchial development, the exact ... the data and drafting the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Author Details Imaging Section, Department of Radiologic and Histocytopathologic Sciences, University of ... article as: DiScioscio et al., Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation ofthe lung associated with bronchial atresia involving a different lobe in an adult patient: a case report Journal of...
... the event No general abnormalities in theclinical neurological examination were noted but thepatient had evidence of increased tactile cutaneous allodynia in the anterior abdominal wall that ... interests Authors’ contributions JJ undertook the infrared thermography and was the major contributor to the manuscript CS treated thepatient with pregabalin and read and approved the final manuscript ... left hand on May 2006 The use of thermography for similar apparent neuropathic pain has been identified for orofacial pain [7] and for Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of...
... From Patient Data to Medical Knowledge The Principles and Practice of Health Informatics To Ailsa and Ewan In real life a mathematical proposition is never what we want We make use of mathematical ... hospital with acute abdominal pain Imagine that they worked out the prevalence ofthe various diseases associated with abdominal pain, the prevalence ofthe relevant symptoms and the probability of ... experience At the heart ofthe controversy about statistical systems is a question about what use we can make ofpatient data, other than as an element in thepatient s story How can we capture what...
... increases in cytosolic [Ca2+] in response to CsA and its analogs Both the intracellular Ca2+ chelator BAPTA and the extracellular Ca2+ chelator EGTA caused significant attenuation ofthe effects of ... activates NADPH oxidase and generates release of O2.– [36] Other studies have found increased arachidonic acid omega-hydroxylation activity by CsA The omegahydroxylation of arachidonic acid is an activity ... lm) were added Five minutes after addition ofthe CsA and its analogs, CaCl2 (final concentration mm) was added to each well Immediately after addition of CaCl2, the plate was measured in an EL808...
... 10:183-202 Atkinson MJ, Sinha A, Hass SL, et al.: Validation ofa general measure of treatment satisfaction, the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM), using a national panel study ... times a day and 42% (n = 23) washed their face 1–2 times a day Item generation and design ofthe draft questionnaire Based on the results ofthe qualitative content analysis summarized above, ... Clinical Trials Quality of Life Research 1996, 5(5):481-490 Martin AR, Lookingbill DP, Botek A, et al.: Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients With Facial Acne–Assessment ofa New Acne-Specific...
... factors’; the latter are not classified in the ICF because ofthe large social and cultural variance associated with them The units ofthe ICF classification are called categories; they are organized ... out the linking procedure and participated in the analysis ofthe data and writing ofthe paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript 20 21 22 Competing interests The authors declare ... cross-cultural availability and accessibility ofthe instruments to the authors The selected instruments are the sole translated and linguistically validated in more than two European languages Paediatric...
... of these cases, FAS was also associated with agrammatism Agrammatism is a frequent symptom of Broca's aphasia characterized by a deficit in sentence production In spontaneous speech, agrammatic ... instances of FAS and agrammatism previously reported in a bipolar patient Case presentation FG is a 74-year-old right-handed man He has a grade eleven education and worked as an auxiliary nurse He had ... disorder, he was on stable doses of lithium, valproate, quetiapine and perphenazine Although they appeared approximately years earlier, the functional origin ofthe FAS and agrammatism was explored...
... years or oral candidiasis and the remainder 75 (11%) had of variety of conditions Plasma viral load was tested within a median 32 (IQR 28, 45) days ofthe CD4 count and clinical examination The ... where training and clinical support ofclinical staff can vary and the time pressures are great There have been no studies published examining the importance of testing plasma viral load for assessing ... between clinical stages and laboratory markers Aids 1999, 13(3):381-389 Malamba SS, Morgan D, Clayton T, Mayanja B, Okongo M, Whitworth J: The prognostic value ofthe World Health Organisation staging...