Acute Dilatation, Ischemia, and Necrosis of Stomach without Perforation by Manash Ranjan Sahoo, Anil T. Kumar, Sunil Jaiswal, Siba Narayan Bhujabal

“…Here we present a 36-year-old man who came to the casualty with pain abdomen and distension for 2 days. …”
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Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis and Hydrocephalus in a Vegan Secondary to Acquired Hyperhomocystinaemia by W. D. D. Priyankara, A.V. I. Chandimal, F. G. Sivagnanam, E. M. Manoj

“…We report a case of a young man with acute onset neuropsychiatric manifestations, admitted to the intensive care unit. …”
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Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics: Gut and Beyond by Usha Vyas, Natarajan Ranganathan

“…The human intestinal tract has been colonized by thousands of species of bacteria during the coevolution of man and microbes. Gut-borne microbes outnumber the total number of body tissue cells by a factor of ten. …”
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THE INNER CONFLICT: CONSCIENCE OR STATE'S RULE by RB. Edi Pramono

“…With the knowledge that conscience or heaven's values are higher than man’s rule or earth’s values, Antigone seizes her power to deal with her conflicts. …”
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Sorafenib-Associated Heart Failure Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock after Treatment of Advanced Stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Clinical Case Discussion by Candace Wu, Kamal Shemisa

“…Compensated hypertrophy ultimately leads to heart failure. Case Description. A 76-year-old man with a past medical history of systolic heart failure due to ischemic cardiomyopathy and stage IIIC hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) presented with symptoms of decompensated heart failure. …”
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Vector Appropriate Distraction and Reduction of a Neglected Trimalleolar Fracture-Dislocation Performed with a Temporary Intraoperative External Fixator by Jordan Brand, Jay Moran, Brad Yoo

“…We discuss a 60-year-old homeless man who presented four weeks after an open trimalleolar fracture-dislocation and was definitely treated with an acute one-stage procedure. …”
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Abdominoplasty: An Easy Approach to Giant Abdominal Lipomas by Bayan Alsharif, Hatan Mortada, Aeshah Mandili, Fahad Aljindan

“…In this case, a 29-year-old man with a known case of hypothyroidism and HCV was in remission but had a huge abdominal mass on his lower left side; it progressed for 7 years and increased in size and caused discomfort. …”
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Mocking Andromeda in Julia Constance Fletcher’s The Fantasticks (1900) by Rebecca Nesvet

“…Specifically, The Fantasticks deploys a comic situation to mock what Fletcher elsewhere in her corpus identifies as the Andromeda myth: the pervasive cultural narrative wherein a woman seems to need a man to rescue her and is expected to marry her rescuer.…”
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Gamification: characteristics, trends, risks by A. P. Avdeeva, Yu. A. Safonova

“…The research methodology was based on the J. Huizing’s “man playing” concept and K. Verbach’s system description of gamification mechanisms. …”
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Foraminiferal test dissolution reveals severe sediment acidification in estuarine mudflats: new perspectives for present and historical assessment by Fouet, Marie, Daviray, Maxime, Geslin, Emmanuelle, Metzger, Edouard, Jorissen, Frans

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Unexpected Coexisting Myocardial Infarction Detected by Delayed Enhancement MRI by Edouard Gerbaud, Henri De Clermont-Galleran, Matthew Erickson, Pierre Coste, Michel Montaudon

“…We report a case of an unexpected coexisting anterior myocardial infarction detected by delayed enhancement MRI in a 41-year-old man following a presentation with a first episode of chest pain during inferior acute myocardial infarction. …”
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Anesthetic Management of a Surgical Patient with Chronic Renal Tubular Acidosis Complicated by Subclinical Hypothyroidism by Hiroe Yoshioka, Haruyuki Yamazaki, Rie Yasumura, Kosuke Wada, Yoshiro Kobayashi

“…A 53-year-old man with chronic renal tubular acidosis and subclinical hypothyroidism underwent lower leg amputation surgery under general anesthesia. …”
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Rectus Abdominis Muscle Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma Causing a Large Abdominal Wall Defect: Reconstruction with Biological Mesh by Evangelos Falidas, Stavros Gourgiotis, Christina Goudeli, Stavros Mathioulakis, Konstantinos Vlachos, Constantinos Villias

“…Surgery in similar cases leads to large abdominal wall defects needing reconstruction. …”
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Septic Pulmonary Emboli and Renal Abscess Caused by Staphylococcus aureus in an HIV-Infected Patient by Isaí Medina-Piñón, Alan Ledif Reyes-Mondragón, Michel Fernando Martínez-Reséndez, Adrián Camacho-Ortiz

“…Staphylococcus aureus is a common cause of bacteremia in the general population and can lead to serious metastatic infection particularly in immunocompromised persons. …”
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Cerebral Wegener’s Granuloma: Surgery Mandatory for Diagnosis and Treatment by Federico Nicolosi, Giovanni Nodari, Giannantonio Spena, Elena Roca, Karol Migliorati, Giacomo Esposito, Roberto Stefini, Marco Fontanella, Pier Paolo Panciani

“…We described the case of a remote intraparenchymal Wegener’s granuloma in a 55-year-old man presenting with seizures and a history of severe generalized WG. …”
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Schizophrenia: a Look from Science, Technology and Society by Dinorah Janet Torres Lugo, Iván Castillo Ledo, Iriam Rojas Díaz, Antonio Masot Rangel, Silvia Janet Masot Torres, Ana Esther Cabrera Pérez

“…This review was carried out with the aim of contributing to the knowledge about the historical cultural development of schizophrenia, taking into account the theories that man has developed through science to explain the appearance of the disease and the importance of social factors in the appearance, evolution and rehabilitation of this condition.…”
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Transvestism Recognized in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: Report of Two Cases by Hiroki Ishiguro, Naomi Honobe, Takefumi Suzuki, Mariko Tamai, Takaya Nakane

“…The first case was of a man in his mid-30s and the second of a woman in her late 20s. …”
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Progressive Nodular Histiocytosis: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature by Numbereye Numbere, Tatsiana Pukhalskaya, Blythe Bowman, Katelynn Campbell, Bruce Smoller

“…We present the case of a 37-year-old Caucasian man with gradually increased appearance of nodular lesions on the forehead and right temple. …”
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Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome Mimics a Conduction Disease by S. Marrakchi, I. Kammoun, S. Kachboura

“…Case Report. A 40-year-old man with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome was presented to emergency with syncope. …”
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Retained Intraabdominal Gossypiboma, Five Years after Bilateral Orchiopexy by Mohammad Kazem Moslemi, Mehdi Abedinzadeh

“…Gossypiboma may cause serious morbidity and may lead to mortality. Case presentation. Herein, we report a 24 years-old man who was admitted due to the intraabdominal mass after evaluation of primary infertility. …”
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