PPIs and hypomagnesaemia: more common than we thought?

Immunodeficiency - “ Much More Common Than We Thought ”

10 years with the development of new genetic techniques more than 100 mutations in various genes were found to be associated with primary immunodeficiencies entities. It should be noted that in some diseases several hundreds of patients were found, while in others only few children were discovered, thus applying that we are dealing with rare situations. Using the same genetic techniques a new c...

More ties than we thought

We extend the existing enumeration of neck tie knots to include tie knots with a textured front, tied with the narrow end of a tie. These tie knots have gained popularity in recent years, based on reconstructions of a costume detail from The Matrix Reloaded, and are explicitly ruled out in the enumeration by Fink and Mao (2000). We show that the relaxed tie knot description language that compre...

Wrong surgery more common than thought.

Munchausen's syndrome--more common than we realize?

Munchausen's syndrome is a condition whereby a patient deliberately simulates symptoms of an illness in order to gain admission to hospital and gain the sick role. It is an uncommon condition and is possibly underdiagnosed. This case-series examines the cases of three patients with Munchausen's syndrome who presented to a Dublin hospital within a four-month period. Two of the presentations invo...

Functional improvement after ventricular assist device implantation: is ventricular recovery more common than we thought?

Of the roughly 5.8 million Americans with heart failure, approximately 10% will have Stage D heart failure, defined as symptoms at rest despite optimal medical therapy. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association and European Society of Cardiology guidelines recommend 3 options for these patients: 1) a ventricular assist device (VAD); 2) a heart transplant; or 3) hospice care (2)....