Control of Herpesvirus Infection in Organ Transplant Recipients by Nina E Tolkoff-Rubin, Robert H Rubin

“…New approaches to controlling these viruses in which pre-emptive therapy is linked to immunosuppressive therapy, and new diagnostic techniques for viral monitoring, hold promise for limiting clinical disease due to these viruses.…”
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Ischaemia with no obstructive coronary arteries: a review with focus on the Asian population by Rodney Yu-Hang Soh, Ting-Ting Low, Ching-Hui Sia, William Kok-Fai Kong, Tiong-Cheng Yeo, Poay-Huan Loh, Kian-Keong Poh

“…Ischaemia with no obstructive coronary arteries (INOCA) has been a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for decades. Several studies have demonstrated that INOCA is associated with an increased risk of death, adverse cardiovascular events, poor quality of life and high healthcare cost. …”
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The clinical method in the practice of family medicine by Roberto Álvarez Sintes

“…The procedure developed by the general practitioner in order to collect the data, mainly on the basis of the interview to the patient and the physical examination along with his diagnostic reasoning is presented. The role of clinical, epidemiological and social approach is highlighted. …”
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A Physician’s Nightmare: Fever of Unknown Origin by Sana Din, Farrukh Anwer, Mirza Beg

“…Fever of unknown origin (FUO) remains to be a challenge despite advancement in diagnostic technologies and procedures. FUO is considered when fever presents intermittently without an explanation. …”
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Intracystic Papillary Carcinoma in the Male Breast: A Rare Endpoint of a Wide Spectrum by Ketan Vagholkar, Khojasteh Dastoor, Indumati Gopinathan

“…The pathological, clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic options are discussed after reviewing the literature. …”
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Colovesical Fistula: An Uncommon Cause of Hematuria and Rectal Bleeding by Jeffrey K. Than, Greg S. Cohen

“…Computed tomography (CT) imaging, cystoscopy, and gastrograffin enema have been described as high-yield diagnostic tests. Interestingly, colonoscopy is only successful in diagnosing colovesical fistula in approximately 55% of cases. …”
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Teaching Mathematics to First-year Foreign Students of Technical University by O. M. Prudnikova

“…With the help of a diagnostic method for self-evaluation developed by Ch. …”
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ALTE and Feeding Intolerance as a Presentation of Double Aortic Arch by Rekha Krishnasarma, Liza Green Golan Mackintosh, Francine Bynum

“…Many children who are admitted to pediatric hospitals with the chief complaint of apparent life-threatening event (ALTE) are, in fact, well appearing by the time the inpatient medical team evaluates the patient. This presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. We describe a case of a six-month-old full-term female presenting with an ALTE and found to have a double aortic arch, a congenital anomaly that usually presents with a more progressive onset of symptoms such as chronic cough, positional stridor, and feeding difficulties. …”
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Pediatric cervical Intravascular Papillary Endothelial hyperplasia (IPEH): A case report of an unusual presentation by Hussein Smaily, MD, Atilano lacson, MD, FRCPC, Dean Jeffery, MD, FRCPC, André Isaac, MD, MSc, FRCSC

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The Meaning of 'Refutation' in Kant's Refutation of Idealism by Hyoung Sung Kim

“…By examining Kant's legal, logical, and critical uses of 'refutation', I argue for what I call a ‘diagnostic’ reading of the Refutation: Kant seeks to identify the grounds for why someone might be attracted to Cartesian skepticism and then appeals to his doctrines concerning space and time in the Transcendental Aesthetic to show how such grounds contains a difficult-to-see error. …”
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Concurrent Infection with Dengue and Malaria: An Unusual Presentation by Mohsin Bin Mushtaq, Mehmood I. Qadri, Aaliya Rashid

“…., 2012), overlapping symptoms, and a challenging obscurity of diagnosis, a multidimensional diagnostic approach is suggested.…”
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Lichen Sclerosus or Vulvar Angiokeratoma: A Diagnosis That Is Not Always So Easy by Vincenzo De Giorgi, Gabriella Perillo, Pietro Antonini, Giovanni Cecchi, Biancamaria Zuccaro, Elisabetta Magnaterra, Eleonora Castellacci, Daniela Massi

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Muzyka w żłobku – refleksja nad praktyką by Marta Radwańska, Olga Wysłowska

“…This paper presents the results of the diagnostic research on the role of music, one of the potential educational areas in the nursery curriculum, in the day-to-day practice of the Public Crèche Network in Łódź settings. …”
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Laparoscopic Excision of Large Intra-Abdominal Cysts in Children: Needle Hitch Technique by Brice Antao, Jeffrey Tan, Feargal Quinn

“…Laparoscopic surgery has both diagnostic and therapeutic advantages in the management of intra-abdominal cysts in children. …”
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Atypical Histiocyte-Rich Sweet’s Syndrome by Sharon Chi, Marcia Leung, Mark Carmichael, Michael Royer, Sunghun Cho

“…Sweet’s Syndrome is a rare neutrophilic dermatosis thought to be a result of immune dysregulation occurring in the setting of drug exposure, recent infection, pregnancy, and underlying malignancy or idiopathic with specific and widely accepted diagnostic criteria established in the literature. Other organ systems can be involved with varying degrees of severity. …”
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Persistent Peril: Confronting Recurrent Chest Abscess from Nontuberculous Mycobacteria by P Prem Ananth, R Anand, S Raghul Raj, N Nagarajan, M Thoupikka

“…Recurrent chest wall abscesses, particularly those caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) such as Mycobacterium fortuitum, are uncommon and pose significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Our case report details a 42-year-old male with recurrent chest wall abscess, where the underlying etiology was traced to a near-drowning incident at the age of 18. …”
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Unusual Case of a Torted Mesenteric Fibroid by Rawan Bajis, Gregg Eloundou

“…Extrauterine leiomyomas are very rare and present a clinical and diagnostic challenge due to their unusual growth patterns and behaviours. …”
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Peritoneal Lipomatosis: A Case Report of a 12-Year-Old Boy by L. Fotis, J. Koglmeier, N. Shah

“…His main symptoms were abdominal pain, alternating bowel habit, abdominal distension, and melaena. His diagnostic work up included an abdominal MRI, wireless capsule endoscopy and single-balloon enteroscopy. …”
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Single monoclonal spike characterized as double monoclonal gammopathy in a patient with multiple myeloma: A rare finding by Rajni Saijpaul, Vatsala Khurana, Rashmi Verma, Smita Kaushik

“…Double monoclonal gammopathies need to be identified to increase diagnostic accuracy and reliability, and to get a better understanding of the disease pathogenesis and progression.…”
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Implementation of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for microbiology in Timor-Leste: challenges, mitigation strategies, and end-user experiences by Tessa Oakley, Juliao Vaz, Fausto da Silva, Raikos Allan, Deonisia Almeida, Karen Champlin, Endang Soares da Silva, Ari Jayanti Tilman, Ian Marr, Heidi Smith-Vaughan, Jennifer Yan, Joshua R. Francis

“…Abstract Background Effective diagnostic capacity is crucial for clinical decision-making, with up to 70% of decisions in high-resource settings based on laboratory test results. …”
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