Medullary Sponge Kidney and Testicular Dysgenesis Syndrome: A Rare Association by Stefano Masciovecchio, Pietro Saldutto, Giuseppe Paradiso Galatioto, Carlo Vicentini

“…The medullary sponge kidney is also known as Lenarduzzi’s kidney or Cacchi and Ricci’s disease from the first Italian authors who described its main features. A review of the scientific literature underlines particular rarity of the association of MSK with developmental abnormalities of the lower urinary tract and genital tract such as hypospadias and bilateral cryptorchidism. …”
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Current Considerations in Direct Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy by Yanfei Zhu, Liping Shi, Hao Tang, Guoqing Tao

“…For patients who are unable to meet their nutritional needs orally, enteral feeding via a percutaneous approach has become the mainstay of therapy. …”
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Acute Esophageal Necrosis and Low-Flow State by Ahmad Burtally, Philippe Gregoire

“…The present case report describes the clinical and endoscopic evolution of black esophagus observed in a patient with significant peripheral vascular disease, who was presented to the intensive care unit at the Hopital Saint-Francois d’Assise (Quebec City, Quebec). …”
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A RESEARCH ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN MUNICIPALITIES by Onur Kemal Yılmaz

“…As a result, the ranking was made by the experts who participated in the research as follows; training of municipal top executives, public demand, establishment of Total Quality Management Directorate in municipalities, development of municipal legislation, supervision of municipalities by the General Directorate of local administrations.…”
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What Hope for Open Knowledge? Productive (Armed) vs. Connective (Tribal) Knowledge and Staged Conflict by Hartley John

“…Can knowledge ever be open if it is either armed or wild? If so, then how should we model openness? I suggest that situating knowledge in language, performance and play, rather than property and productivity, offers a way forward.…”
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Pernicious ignorance and the marginalisation of third space professionals: reflections on lived experience by Dustin Hosseini

“…I will surface a recurring challenge encompassing the recognition and visibility of third space professionals in higher education as educators who experience silencing stemming from pernicious ignorance. …”
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Aneurysmectomy with Partial Nephrectomy on a Living Donor Renal Allograft: A Case Report by Siegfredo Paloyo, Junichiro Sageshima, Linda Chen, George W. Burke, Gaetano Ciancio

“…Furthermore, there has been an increasing trend with the use of marginal or kidneys with pathology to address the shortage of organs. We report a rare case of a kidney allograft with a saccular aneurysm and renal cortical cysts for which an excision with primary repair and partial nephrectomy were done, respectively. …”
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Paravertebral Burkitt's Lymphoma in a Child: An Unusual Presentation by C. Hoyoux, P. Forget, C. Piette, M. F. Dresse, B. Florkin, L. Rausin, A. Thiry

“…Paravertebral malignant tumors constitute 4.8% of cancer cases in pediatric oncology and are mostly composed of neuroblastoma (46.4%) and soft tissue sarcomas (35.7%). We describe the case of a Caucasian 6-year-old boy who was admitted for middle back pain radiated to limbs and progressively increasing weakness of the legs, suggesting a spinal cord disease. …”
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Iterative Construction of Fixed Points for Operators Endowed with Condition E in Metric Spaces by Junaid Ahmad, Kifayat Ullah, Hüseyin Işik, Muhammad Arshad, Manuel de la Sen

“…We consider the class of mappings endowed with the condition E in a nonlinear domain called 2-uniformly convex hyperbolic space. …”
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A case of ischemic stroke in the basal ganglia presenting with fecal and urinary incontinence as initial clinical manifestations by Houde Li, Jiaxin Dai

“…The occurrence of fecal and urinary incontinence as the primary clinical manifestation in minor acute ischemic stroke is especially uncommon. In this study, we present the case of a 67-year-old male patient who experienced a minor acute ischemic stroke in the basal ganglia region, notably presenting with both fecal and urinary incontinence. …”
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Bacteremia Caused by Eggerthella lenta in an Elderly Man with a Gastrointestinal Malignancy: A Case Report by Davie Wong, Fred Aoki, Ethan Rubinstein

“…The authors report a case involving an elderly man with a newly diagnosed gastrointestinal malignancy who developed bacteremia caused by E lenta, treated successfully using empirical therapy with vancomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam, followed by directed therapy with metronidazole once the identity and antibiotic susceptibility of the organism was established. …”
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Karakteristik Anak Bungsu by Nilma Zola, Asmidir Ilyas, Yusri Yusri

“…The phenomenon found in the presence of younger children who lack the motivation of achievement, less independent, likes to seek the attention of others, and difficult to adapt in new environment and lack of willingness in taking responsibility. …”
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Sugarcane Variety Census: Florida 1999 by B. Glaz, Robert A. Gilbert

“…(This estimate was based on information supplied by growers and mill managers, and factoring in that growers who previously supplied variety information for 1,198 acres did not submit information this year). …”
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Marchiafava-Bignami and Alcohol Related Acute Polyneuropathy: The Cooccurrence of Two Rare Entities by Samine Boloursaz, Sirous Nekooei, Farrokh Seilanian Toosi, Hossein Rezaei-Dalouei, Behrooz Davachi, Sahar Kazemi, Bita Abbasi

“…We report a 38-year-old man with chronic alcoholism who presented with both cranial and peripheral nerve palsy. …”
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Fast-Track Extubation in a Patient Undergoing Whole Lung Lavage: A Case Report by Gade Sandeep, Subrata K. Singha, Anil Gupta, Keerthi Chinnadurai, Harishchandra Gupta

“…Fast-tracking a patient undergoing whole lung lavage requires vigilant monitoring of arterial blood gases, fluid status, and respiratory mechanics. We report a case of a patient who underwent whole lung lavage for PAP, where early extubation was performed, avoiding the complications associated with prolonged mechanical ventilation.…”
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A 27-Year-Old Severely Immunosuppressed Female with Misleading Clinical Features of Disseminated Cutaneous Sporotrichosis by Atiyah Patel, Victor Mudenda, Shabir Lakhi, Owen Ngalamika

“…However, atypical presentations of the condition can occur especially in immunosuppressed individuals. We report the case of a severely immunosuppressed female who presented with disseminated cutaneous sporotrichosis which was initially diagnosed and treated as disseminated cutaneous Kaposi’s sarcoma.…”
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Extranodal Rosai-Dorfman Disease Involving the Left Atrium: Cardiac MRI, CT, and PET Scan Findings by Vistasp J. Daruwalla, Keyur Parekh, Hassan Tahir, Jeremy D. Collins, James Carr

“…Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) is a rare entity that usually involves the lymph nodes but extranodal involvements have been seen in numerous cases, although RDD with cardiovascular involvement is extremely rare. We describe a case of a young male who presented with intermittent palpitations and was found to have a left atrium mass. …”
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The ballot under the bayonet: election law in the first years of the Brazilian civil-military regime (1964-1967) by Leonardo Augusto de Andrade Barbosa

“…The trajectory of Sebastião Paes de Almeida – an oppositionist representative who was prevented from running for the office of governor of Minas Gerais on the grounds of the newly enacted legislation – provides the opportunity to assess how democratic institutions worked and how political rights were interpreted under a dictatorial regime that paradoxically relied on elections as a legitimizing strategy.…”
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Preventing Foodborne and Non-foodborne Illness: Vibrio parahaemolyticus by Anita C. Wright, Renée M. Goodrich-Schneider, Michael A. Hubbard, Keith R. Schneider

“…Schneider, describes this bacterium that occurs naturally in coastal waters throughout the world and is linked to illnesses associated with consumption of raw or improperly cooked seafood — type of illness, who is at risk of infection, how common infections are, how they occur, how to receive and store seafood and shellfish, and methods to prevent infection in high-risk individuals. …”
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Acute Pancreatitis as an Unusual Culprit of Diabetic Ketoacidosis in a Nondiabetic: A Case-Based Review by Steven Imburgio, Apurva Vedire, Harshavardhan Sanekommu, Anmol Johal, Sobaan Taj, Christopher Lesniak, Arman Mushtaq

“…To date, only rare case reports have demonstrated diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) as a rare sequela of acute pancreatitis. We report a case of a 34-year-old female with no prior history of diabetes who was subsequently diagnosed with DKA after presenting with severe acute pancreatitis. …”
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