Systemic Air Embolism Associated with Pleural Pigtail Chest Tube Insertion by Emad Alkhankan, Ahmad Nusair, Rida Mazagri, Mohammed Al-Ourani

“…In this case report, we present a 50-year-old male with bilateral pneumonia who developed a pneumothorax while on mechanical ventilation with continuous positive airway pressure mode. …”
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Christianity in Transformation: The rise of African Christianity among the AmaXhosa of the Eastern Cape by J. Mokhoathi

“…Reflecting on the character and life of Ntsikana, who was both a Xhosa Christian prophet and a diviner, this article debates the acceptance of African Christianity by indigenous converts as a way of transforming or contextualising Christianity to communicate with the African religious heritage. …”
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Cardiomyopathy Associated with Celiac Disease in Childhood by Aleksandra Boskovic, Ivana Kitic, Dragan Prokic, Ivica Stankovic

“…Celiac disease is predominantly a disease of the small intestine characterized by chronic malabsorption in genetically susceptible individuals who ingest grains containing gluten, such as wheat, barley, and rye. …”
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'Nae too bad': job satisfaction and staff morale in Scottish residential child care by Andrew Kendrick, Ian Milligan, Ghizala Avan

“…Residential care in the modern world is intended to be mainly a temporary placement for some of the most demanding young people who need to be looked after and accommodated. The sector also continues to struggle with the aftermath of a number of high profile public inquiries of the abuse of children and young people in residential care (Kent, 1997; Marshall, Jamieson & Finlayson, 1999; Utting, 1997; Waterhouse, 2000). …”

Laparoscopic Repair of a Large Duodenal Perforation Secondary to an Indwelling Nasogastric Tube in a Tracheotomized Adult by Sanoop Koshy Zachariah

“…This paper reports a case of a large duodenal perforation due to a nasogastric tube in a 26-year-old male who had undergone a tracheostomy, following a cut-throat injury. …”
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Breast Cancer in Men: a Rare Case by Lidia Torres Aja, José Alberto Puerto Lorenzo

“…The case of a 74-year-old male patient with black skin color, with a history of diabetes and high blood pressure, who attended a provincial mastology consultation for a few months of mild pain and pruritic lesions on his neck, is presented the right breast. …”
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Polyaxial polydactyly. A case report by Raquel Rojas Bruzón, Yulexis Hechavarría Jimenes, Evis Jhonson Montero, Aracelys Lores Cruz

“…The objective of this research is to show the surgical results of two pediatric patients with a higher degree of complexity, black Africans, who presented polydactyly and were operated on by Cuban doctors in Gaborone city, Botswana. …”
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Exploring the Effects of Black Twitter (X) on South African Millennials’ Mental Health by Seriane Morapeli, Tshegofatso Ratale

“…In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with black South African millennials who actively interact on Black Twitter (X). The data was analysed using thematic analysis. …”
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Cardiac Metastasis in a Patient with Head and Neck Cancer: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Joseph K. Kim, Kunal Sindhu, Richard L. Bakst

“…In this report, we discuss the case of a patient with a primary diagnosis of oral tongue cancer who developed a cardiac metastasis that was detected antemortem.…”
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Trente ans d'exil en Suisse. José Herrera Petere (Genève, 1947-1977) by Rose Duroux

“…The poems he published are bilingual, usually translated by the poets who were friends with him. He was recognized in Switzerland, but what he expected was a call from Spain, which never came. …”
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Concurrent Pulmonary and Cerebellar Cryptococcus Gattii Cryptococcoma in an Apparently Immunocompetent Patient in Florida by Benjamin Billings, Neeka Akhavan, Amy Vittor, Ying Nagoshi

“…We describe a case of disseminated Cryptococcus gattii infection in a seemingly immunocompetent young man, who is found to have anti-GM-CSF antibodies.…”
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Beyond Life Years Lost, Using Different Outcomes for Population Modelling in Tobacco Harm Reduction by Prasad Krishna, Hill Andrew, Fiebelkorn Stacy, Edward Lauren

“…Where the reduction in health risk for smokers who switch to the product instead of continuing to smoke, but also the product’s potential effects and rate of uptake among non-smokers must be taken into account.…”
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Luderen, akademikeren og manifestet: by Kira Skovbo Moser

“…The aim is to investigate how these genre experiments affect what can be said, how this can be said, and ultimately who gets to speak. …”
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‘Thou Whole Burnt-Offering!’ The Mystical Ecstasy in Christina Rossetti’s Poems by Bertrand Lentsch

“…In order to while away the time, she will write poems which stage her one Passion for God, with whom she has fallen head over heels in love, more than with life itself, since she repulses men, whom she finds inadequate, in a Victorian society which yet allotted them pride of place, unwitting though it was of women, who were deemed redundant. These serial elegies chiselled by a bashful lover hence draw the graph of her desire to be possessed by a missing one, whose fullness she extols whilst dreading his potency. …”
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A Wandering Abdominal Mass in a Neonate: An Enteric Duplication Cyst Mimicking an Ovarian Cyst by Shigeo Iijima

“…Our experience indicates that early intervention is necessary for patients who have a wandering abdominal mass to avoid complications and urgent surgery, whether it is an ovarian cyst or an enteric duplication cyst.…”
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Tobacco and smoking in Cuba: from the agricultural economy to the health economy by Efraín Sánchez González, Fé Fernández Hernández

“…The cigarettes and tobacco consumption creates an externality that is more relevant in the detriment of the life quality and life expectancy experienced by the individual smoker,  in relation to those who do not consume cigarettes or tobacco. The psychosocial cost not financially quantified far exceeds any expectation of economic benefit. …”
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Multiclinic Observations on the Simplified Diet in PKU by Laurie Bernstein, Casey Burns, Melissa Sailer-Hammons, Angela Kurtz, Frances Rohr

“…This is cumbersome and difficult for patients and caregivers, especially patients with high phenylalanine blood concentrations who often have neurocognitive deficits. The Simplified Diet is an alternative approach that allows for increased flexibility, promotes healthy food choices, and is easier to manage than a traditional diet for PKU. …”
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The Effects of Vertical Transmission on the Spread of HIV/AIDS in the Presence of Treatment by Moatlhodi Kgosimore, Edward M. Lungu

“…In this study, we develop a model that incorporates treatment ofboth juveniles who were infected with HIV/AIDS through verticaltransmission and HIV/AIDS-infected adults. …”
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Failure of Added Dietary Gluten to Induce Small Intestinal Histopathological Changes in Patients with Watery Diarrhea and Lymphocytic Colitis by Hugh James Freeman

“…Two patients with lymphocytic colitis and normal small intestinal biopsies who were administered 40 g of added dietary gluten for four consecutive weeks are presented. …”
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Les lieux d’origine du devoir de mémoire by Sébastien Ledoux

“…The new practices fostered a historiographic renewal for a new generation of historians who contributed to the understanding, through language is used, of this question, raised at the same moment of our “regime of historicity.”…”
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