Effect of Kinesiology taping application on VII cranial nerve palsy in neurological patient by Izabella Monika Habko, Dariusz Mosler, Błażej Cieślik

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Colonic Diaphragm Disease in a Patient Receiving Long Term Diclofenac Therapy by Alan A Weiss, David A Owen

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Stercoral Perforation Requiring Subtotal Colectomy in a Patient on Methadone Maintenance Therapy by A. Sakharpe, Y. K. Lee, G. Park, V. Dy

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Limbitis Secondary to Autologous Serum Eye Drops in a Patient with Atopic Keratoconjunctivitis by Jeffrey David Welder, Pejman Bakhtiari, Ali R. Djalilian

“…Report a case of limbitis secondary to autologous serum eye drops in a patient with atopic keratoconjunctivitis. Design. …”
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Neck of Femur Fracture in a Patient with a Chronic Osteomyelitis of the Ipsilateral Foot by Anne-Carolin Döring, Anne J. H. Vochteloo, Kees van Doorn, Rianne M. H. A. Huis in ’t Veld, Anil Peters

“…Only a few cases of total hip arthroplasty in amputees have been published, but the indication for surgery was mainly traumatic or advanced osteoarthritis. Treating patients with this type of comorbidities is challenging; therapeutic dilemmas can be major. …”
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Novel MLH1 nonsense variant in a patient with suspected Lynch syndrome by Nobue Takaiso, Issei Imoto, Toshihiko Matsumoto, Akiyo Yoshimura

“…Here, we present the case of a 43-year-old male patient diagnosed with cecal and transverse colon adenocarcinomas. …”
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Streptococcus agalactiae Meningitis in Adult Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review by Fahmi Yousef Khan

“…We report a case of group B streptococcus meningitis in a 72-year-old female patient who was admitted in our hospital with a 21-day history of bilateral lower thigh pain and swelling associated with fever, headache, and vomiting. …”
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Durable Effect of Radioactive Iodine in a Patient with Metastatic Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma by Aubrey A. Carhill, Rena Vassilopoulou-Sellin

“…Traditionally, differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) carries a good prognosis when diagnosed early, but increasingly patients are presenting with late-stage disease and bone metastasis which carries a poor prognosis. …”
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Pancytopenia in a Patient with Rendu-Osler-Weber Syndrome and Uncommon Vascular Abnormalities by Nicolò Binello, Antonio Gasbarrini, Eleonora Gaetani

“…We describe the first case to our knowledge of pancytopenia in a 53-year-old patient, with a known history of HHT and recurrent nasal and gastrointestinal bleedings, who was found to have a major splenic artery aneurysm and other uncommon vascular abnormalities. …”
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Unexplained Findings of Kayser-Fleischer-Like Rings in a Patient with Cryptogenic Cirrhosis by Mahreema Jawairia, Miral Subhani, Ghulam Siddiqui, Apsara Prasad, Ghulamullah Shahzad, Kaleem Rizvon, Paul Mustacchia

“…We are presenting an unusual case of a patient with cryptogenic cirrhosis found to have Kayser-Fleischer-like rings without evidence of Wilson’s disease.…”
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Patient Activation in Type 2 Diabetes: Does It Differ between Men and Women? by Steven H. Hendriks, Laura C. Hartog, Klaas H. Groenier, Angela H. E. M. Maas, Kornelis J. J. van Hateren, Nanne Kleefstra, Henk J. G. Bilo

“…Aim was to investigate whether the degree of patient activation of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) is different between men and women. …”
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Surgical Repair of an Atraumatic Avulsion of Patellar Tendon at the Tibial Tuberosity in an Adult Patient by Lorenzo Maria Di Giacomo, M. Shahid Khan, Michele Bisaccia, R. Rende, G. Rinonapoli, A. Caraffa

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Simultaneous surgery for gastrostomy and laryngotracheal separation in a patient with Tay‒Sachs disease by Masaharu Moroto, Uda Daisuke, Tomoya Yodoi, Yoshihiro Nitta, Yohei Sugimoto, Tomohiro Chiyonobu, Hiroyuki Yamada, Kayo Ozaki, Taichi Nakatani, Norio Sakai

“…Abstract Genetic testing identified novel compound heterozygous missense variants in the HEXA gene (NM_00520.6: c.775A>C and NM_000520.6: c.508C>T) in a 16-month-old girl diagnosed with Tay‒Sachs disease. The patient gradually became unable to consume food orally. …”
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Patient Perspectives on Engagement in Recovery after Hip Fracture: A Qualitative Study by Joanie Sims-Gould, Sarah Stott-Eveneshen, Lena Fleig, Megan McAllister, Maureen C. Ashe

“…Encouraging engagement in rehabilitative exercises and addressing expectations prior to hospital discharge may improve patients’ adherence to rehabilitation programs, functional outcomes, and postoperative quality of life. …”
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Unexpected Abscess Localization of the Anterior Abdominal Wall in an ADPKD Patient Undergoing Hemodialysis by Nikos Sabanis, Eleni Paschou, Eleni Gavriilaki, Maria Mourounoglou, Sotirios Vasileiou

“…Kidney and liver cystic infections are the most common infectious complications in ADPKD patients. Furthermore, it is well known that ADPKD is commonly associated with colonic diverticular disease which recently has been reported to be linked to increased risk of infection on hemodialysis patients. …”
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Health service improvement using positive patient feedback: Systematic scoping review. by Rebecca Lloyd, James Munro, Kerry Evans, Amy Gaskin-Williams, Ada Hui, Mark Pearson, Mike Slade, Yasuhiro Kotera, Giskin Day, Joanne Loughlin-Ridley, Clare Enston, Stefan Rennick-Egglestone

“…<h4>Background</h4>Healthcare services regularly receive patient feedback, most of which is positive. Empirical studies suggest that health services can use positive feedback to create patient benefit. …”
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A Fatal Bloodstream Infection by Staphylococcus pettenkoferi in an Intensive Care Unit Patient by Caterina Mammina, Celestino Bonura, Maria Stella Verde, Teresa Fasciana, Daniela Maria Palma

“…We describe a fatal case of bacteremia by a newly recognized species of CoNS, Staphylococcus pettenkoferi, in an ICU patient.…”
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Augmentative Asenapine in a Recurrent Manic Catatonic Patient with Partial Response to Clozapine by Massimiliano Buoli, Cristina Dobrea, Alice Caldiroli, Laura Cremaschi, A. Carlo Altamura

“…The present case shows the clinical response to augmentative asenapine in a catatonic manic patient with a partial response to clozapine.…”
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Cleaner Production Quality Regulation Strategy of Pharmaceutical with Collusive Behavior and Patient Feedback by Junmei Rong, Lilong Zhu

“…However, the various types of counterfeit pharmaceuticals and fake vaccines exposed in the recent years have revealed many problems, such as lacking government regulation, loose quality management of companies, illegal profit of medical service agencies, and failure of patient complaints. This paper’s two innovations are as follows: first, it not only considers the collusion between pharmaceutical companies and medical service agencies, but also introduces patient feedback to study drug quality regulation strategies from a microperspective; second, this paper constructs a tripartite evolutionary game model involving cleaner production pharmaceutical companies, medical service agencies, and the governments to analyze the evolutionary stability using the Lyapunov first rule. …”
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Justified Suspicion: Symptomatic Syphilitic Alopecia in a Patient with Well-Controlled HIV by Robert Jame, Yousif Al-Saeigh, Leo L. Wang, Kevin Wang

“…An estimated 25% of primary and secondary syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum, occurs in patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (Chesson et al., 2005). …”
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