Disaster Planning for Caregivers by Carolyn Wilken

“…But if you’re responsible for providing care for someone who’s disabled, chances are you face additional concerns. …”
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Pediatric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by a novel TNNI3 variant by Natsuko Inagaki, Tomoya Okano, Masatake Kobayashi, Masatsune Fujii, Yoshinao Yazaki, Yasuyoshi Takei, Hisanori Kosuge, Shinji Suzuki, Takeharu Hayashi, Masahiko Kuroda, Kazuhiro Satomi

“…Abstract TNNI3 is a gene that causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). A 14-year-old girl who was diagnosed with nonobstructive HCM presented with cardiopulmonary arrest due to ventricular fibrillation. …”
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Being Smart About Gluten and Gluten-Free Issues, Part 1: What Are the Health Concerns Surrounding Gluten? by Abigail Dicks, Amy Harder, Amy Simonne

“…Are you an inquisitive consumer who asks what the big deal is about gluten free? …”
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Giant low-grade myofibroblastic sarcoma of the male breast: case report and literature review by Shiwei Xiao, Hongtao Chen, Juan Xu, Na Fang, Zirui Ke, Mancheng Yu

“…We report herein a case of an 81-year-old male who presented with a giant irregular breast mass and was diagnosed with low-grade myofibroblastic sarcoma. …”
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An Unusual Case of Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient with Coeliac Disease by M. Gwiggner, P. Patel

“…This paper describes the journey of a patient with coeliac disease who presented with overt obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. …”
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Perioperative anesthetic management in total abdominal hysterectomy due to uterine fibroid in a patient with severe aortic stenosis. A case report by Yuliel Varona Rodríguez, José Carlos Acosta Abad, Adonis Cintra Dornes, Liliam María Castillo Manresa

“…The case of a 35-years-old female patient with a history of presenting a murmur since childhood and who had to undergo surgery for uterine fibroid is presented. …”
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Multiple Small Coronary Artery Fistulas Emptying into the Left Ventricle: A Rare but Challenging Problem by Omar Kahaly, Konstantinos Dean Boudoulas

“…CAFs are rare based on coronary arteriography and when found they most often empty into the right ventricle and atrium and less often into the high pressure, low compliance left ventricle (LV). A patient who presented with atypical chest pain and was found to have multiple small CAFs originating from the ramus intermedius coronary artery and emptying into the LV is presented. …”
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Management of Allen II digital tip injury with cross flap in a specialized hand surgery center in Mexico by Leonel Iturbide-Mauricio, Rodrigo A. Menéndez-Arzac, Mauricio De la Concha-Tiznado, Alejandra Rivas-Treviño, Diana G. Luis-Martínez, Jonathan M. López-Reyes, Elizabeth Bravo-Román

“…We present the case of a patient who suffered a fingertip crush injury. Reconstruction of the digital tip of the fourth finger was performed with the digital cross flap of the third finger, taking and application of full thickness thenar skin graft, and was followed up for 2 months. …”
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Tendencies of development of youth extremism in the conditions of progress of information and computer technologies by E. O. Kubyakin

“…One of the negative phenomena in Russia is today an extremism who in modern conditions is integrated into an Internet environment. …”
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Emanuel Salomon z Friedbergu – Mírohorský a jeho Paměti z mého žití by Tomáš Jiránek

“…He was one of few Czechs who gained very important position in Austrian army in 19 century. …”
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Late Onset Takayasu Arteritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis by K. E. Verweij, A. M. E. van Well, J. W. vd Sluijs, A. Dees

“…We encountered the rare case of a 48-year-old Caucasian woman who developed Takayasu arteritis (TA) while suffering from seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA). …”
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« Faire la ferraille » en banlieue parisienne : glaner, bricoler et transgresser by Bénédicte Florin, Pascal Garret

“…Scrap collectors are men or women who collect abandoned metals in the streets, which are sorted, tinkered, resold to wholesalers and, finaly, reintegrated into the metallurgy industry. …”
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Beauty and ugliness in Olmec monumental sculpture by Claude-François Baudez

“…The latter represented the severed heads of opponents who probably were losers in ritual battles. Therefore they could not claim the divine patronage of the jaguar, and had to appear just as « plain », ugly people.…”
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Gastric antral vascular ectasia. Clinical presentation and therapeutic management by Nélcido Luis Sánchez García, Ulises Periles Gordillo, Frank Pérez Triana, Yoandy Hernández Casas, Alfredo Hierro González

“…It is presented a case of a woman with recurrent digestive hemorrhages in the form of melena and anemia, who was performed a high digestive endoscopy with resulting a diagnosis of vascular ectasia of the gastric antro. …”
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Severe Short Stature in an Adolescent Male with Prader-Willi Syndrome and Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: A Therapeutic Conundrum by Meredith Wasserman, Erin M. Mulvihill, Angela Ganan-Soto, Serife Uysal, Jose Bernardo Quintos

“…In this article we report a patient with simple-virilizing CAH and PWS who was overtreated with glucocorticoids for CAH and not supplemented with growth hormone for PWS, resulting in a significantly short adult height.…”
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CMR Features in Cardiac Sarcoidosis by Sparsh Prasher, Phong T. Lee, Marc Dweck, John R. Payne

“…Here, we present a case of cardiac sarcoidosis in a 46-year-old gentleman who presented with nonspecific signs and symptoms. …”
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Eosinophilic Pleural Effusion: A Rare Complication of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy by Maral Mokhtari, Perikala Vijayananda Kumar, Mohammad-Ali Ghayumi

“…The patient is a 32-year-old man who presented with left sided pleural effusion after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. …”
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Endovascular Treatment of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Causing Life-Threatening Hemoptysis: Two Case Reports by Şükrü Oğuz, Süleyman Bekirçavuşoğlu, Zerrin Pulathan

“…We present two cases of 73- and 74-year-old men with massive hemoptysis secondary to saccular thoracic aortic aneurysm ruptured lung parenchyma who were successfully treated with endovascular approach with 3rd month’s imaging follow-up. …”
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West Nile Encephalitis, an Unusual Infection in a Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Patient by Manuel R. Espinoza-Gutarra, Sherri L. Cervantez, Zohra Nooruddin

“…We report a patient with active CLL who developed confusion and was found to have West Nile encephalitis that initially mimicked CNS involvement by CLL. …”
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Incidental Discovery of Hepatocellular Carcinoma on 18F-PSMA PET CT Performed for Prostate Cancer Reassessment by Lauren Hekman, Eva Napierkowski, Natalie C. Hartman, Jeffrey L. Ellis, Robert H. Wagner, Davide Bova, Maria M. Picken, Robert C. Flanigan

“…We describe the case of a 76-year-old male with a rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) after definitive prostate cancer treatment and no prior liver pathology who was incidentally found to have HCC on 18F-PSMA PET.…”
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