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Training of Physicians in Disaster Medicine [PDF]

, 2017
In disasters, every available physician and lay person alike is called upon to render help. Disaster medicine is a most demanding field because of its multidisciplinary nature.
Hell, Konrad, Pike, P.
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Diabetes‐induced vascular calcification is associated with low pyrophosphate and its oral supplementation prevents calcification in diabetic mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Induction of diabetes in three different mouse strains uniformly resulted in an increase in TNAP activity and a reduction in pyrophosphate (PPi) in the circulation. Inhibition of TNAP restored plasma PPi. Diabetes‐induced calcification in the media layer of the aorta was detected only in the Abcc6−/− strain, which is predisposed to ectopic ...
Krisztina Fülöp, Eszter Kozák, Natália Tőkési, Lilian Kocsis, Anikó Kelemen, Zsuzsanna Geszti, Adriána Kutás, Mariann Harangi, Ágnes Diószegi, Zsolt Rapi, József Balla, Olivier Le Saux, András Váradi, Viola Pomozi   +13 more
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Association between physician characteristics and payments from industry in 2015-2017: observational study. [PDF]

, 2019
OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between physician characteristics and the value of industry payments. DESIGN:Observational study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:Using the 2015-2017 Open Payments reports of industry payments linked to the Physician ...
Blumenthal, Daniel M, Elashoff, David, Inoue, Kosuke, Tsugawa, Yusuke   +3 more
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Quantitative Iron Measurements in the Basal Ganglia of NBIA Patients Using QSM: Insights From a Tertiary Center

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) comprises rare genetic disorders characterized by predominantly extrapyramidal symptoms and iron deposition in the basal ganglia. Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detects qualitative changes but cannot accurately quantify iron accumulation. Quantitative susceptibility
Özge Uygun, Alpay Özcan, Fuat Kaan Aras, Evrim Bozdemir, Sibel Uğur İşeri, Koray Kırımtay, Arzu Karabay, Murat Gültekin, Nihan Hande Akçakaya, Orkhan Mammadov, Gülay Kır, Dilek İnce Günal, Neşe Tuncer, Fatma Betül Özdilek, Banu Özen Barut, Ercan Köse, Hülya Apaydın, Asuman Ali, Sultan Çağırıcı, Pınar Topaloğlu, Alp Dinçer, Zuhal Yapıcı   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Severe clinical immunodeficiency in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus infection and relatively high CD4 counts: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2019
Background The coexistence of neuromeningeal cryptococcosis and Kaposi’s sarcoma is not surprising in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus infection and a low CD4 count, although it is rarely described.
Mickael Essouma, Larry N. Tangie, Mazou N. Temgoua, Ulrich Gabin Kenfack, Antonin N. Ndam, Celestin Danwang   +5 more
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Improving Care at the End of Life [PDF]

, 2011
Reviews RWJF's investments in improving end-of-life care, impact on the field, and lessons learned, including the need to coordinate objectives, integrate strategies, tie strategies to policy changes and incentives, and link communications and ...
Abby Spector, Elizabeth Thompson, Patricia Patrizi   +2 more
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Practice Recommendations for Genetic Testing of Ataxias

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Over the past decade, significant advances in genetic testing for ataxia have improved diagnostic accuracy, informed clinical trial eligibility, guided treatment decisions, and enabled cascade testing of at‐risk relatives. While guidance exists for other neurogenetic conditions, there are no standardized guidelines on genetic ...
Sharan R. Srinivasan, Amy D. Mook, Michelle Rochman, Jin Yun Helen Chen, Weiyi Mu, George R. Wilmot, Liana S. Rosenthal, Wendy R. Uhlmann   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Jefferson Scale of Empathy: a nationwide study of measurement properties, underlying components, latent variable structure, and national norms in medical students. [PDF]

, 2018
The Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) is a broadly used instrument developed to measure empathy in the context of health professions education and patient care.
Bragan, Lynn, Calabrese, Leonard H., DeSantis, Jennifer, Hojat, Mohammadreza, LaNoue, Marianna, Mortensen, Luke H., Shannon, Stephen C., Speicher, Mark R.   +7 more
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Moyamoya Disease and the Risk of Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Moyamoya disease (MMD) is a rare cerebrovascular disorder characterized by the progressive narrowing of arteries at the base of the brain, forming abnormal collateral vascular networks. While vascular parkinsonism is noted in MMD, its link to Parkinson's disease (PD) has not been explored.
Dallah Yoo, Jeong‐Yong Shin, Rugyeom Lee, Jiwon Cheon, Ji Hun Kim, Doeun Kim, Jae‐Kyung Won, In‐Hwan Oh, Yunjong Lee, Tae‐Beom Ahn   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medical students' comfort levels with performing the basic head and neck examination in practice: follow-up during the core clerkship year. [PDF]

, 2015
ObjectiveFollowing our preliminary study on junior medical students' comfort levels in performing the head and neck physical examination (H&NPE) before and after a department-led teaching session, we assessed the longitudinal effect of this session ...
Armstrong, William B, Badran, Karam W, Kuan, Edward C, Passy, Victor   +3 more
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