We present the clinical and serological characteristics of four patients with rhupus (Simon's definition). The 4 patients with rhupus presented ACR criteria for SLE as well as for RA, ANA positive with titers ranging from 1/80 to 1/5,250, and positive anti-DNA, with the predominance of symmetrical erosive polyarthritis. We found anti-CCP positivity and high titers in 3 of the 4 patients, and po...

The Mental Health Continuum – Short Form (MHC-SF) is a self-reporting instrument for assessing positive mental health, which is understood as symptoms of positive affection, self-development and social connectivity. The present article describes the adaptation and validation of the MHC-SF for the Brazilian Portuguese language in a sample of 686 adults, which included 72.7% female participants a...

Emotional appeals in advertising represent one of the most frequently used creative strategies. Considering that their effectiveness lies on consumers’ subjective reactions to emotions, understanding gender differences affective responses can form basis for development successful messages. Prior research has highlighted various across different emotional advertising. For instance, women appear ...

AIM To understand the experiences of caregivers with older people living in Thailand, particularly as related to quality of life and stress management. METHOD In-depth interviews with 17 family caregivers were conducted and then data were thematically analysed. RESULTS Carers experience not only negative impacts but also positive impacts from caregiving. Negative impacts include emotional s...

(1) HISTORICAL.-In the fully-developed state, choroideremia presents a characteristic and unmistakable picture of which Fig. 1 and Colour Plate 1(a and b) may be taken as examples. The almost total lack of choroidal vessels strongly suggests a developmental anomaly. In fact most of the early writers on, the subject, such as Mauthner (1872) and Koenig (1874), stressed the likeness to choroidal c...

The space of volunteering is often seen as a place for rebuilding a world for individuals for whom life has been destroyed by the discovery of AIDS infection. People living with AIDS get involved in HIV support groups, become volunteers, and take care for each other. Without denying the reality of these processes leading to a "positive life" this article questions narratives of the transformati...

Introduction. Histopathological findings of various inclusions were reported in the central nervous system amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients but not peripheral nerves. Case report. We present a 66-year-old man with lower limb weakness, later development weakness upper limbs and loss sphincter control. Neurological examination showed affection both motor neurons. He had paresthesia on...

Existing tools that are used to support the process of transferring tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge do not support the affection of individuals and their knowledge, but rather data and information processing. A more personalised view of knowledge is required, and a toolbox has been constructed in order to increase the individual’s capacity to describe his/her own situation within organi...

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory and recurrent disorder that is characterized by bowel inflammation. Among the extraintestinal manifestations (EIMs) that associate UC are the joints and renal manifestations. Joint affection in the form of arthritis can precede the intestinal manifestations of UC. However, renal affection with amyloidosis does not precede the UC diagnosis. Herei...

Myotonic dystrophy types 1 and 2 are progressive multisystemic disorders with potential brain involvement. We compared 22 myotonic dystrophy type 1 and 22 myotonic dystrophy type 2 clinically and neuropsychologically well-characterized patients and a corresponding healthy control group using structural brain magnetic resonance imaging at 3 T (T(1)/T(2)/diffusion-weighted). Voxel-based morphomet...