This paper discusses the concept, symptom, etiology and pathogenesis of dry eye, treatment lightning moxibustion to master clinical operation methods matters needing attention moxibustion. Lightning is effective safe in eye prevent find more simple efficient at same time, promote it clinic.

Previous studies have focused on the ability of cognitive symptom validity tests to identify simulated malingering or distinguish between clinical samples of individuals at low or high risk of cognitive symptom exaggeration. However, no published studies have examined the latent structure of negative response bias on cognitive tests: measures of cognitive symptom exaggeration may evaluate a con...

Cancer patients may experience multiple concurrent symptoms caused by the cancer, cancer treatment, or their combination. The complex relationships between and among symptoms, as well as the clinical antecedents and consequences, have not been well described. This paper examines the literature on cancer symptom clusters focusing on the conceptualization, design, measurement, and analytic issues...

BACKGROUND So far, little attention has been paid to the value of dialysis adequacy for patients' quality of life (QL). Therefore we studied the impact of demographic, clinical, and dialysis characteristics on physical symptoms and perceived QL. METHODS The study population consisted of 120 incident chronic haemodialysis (HD) and 106 peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients, starting dialysis treatm...

Fatigue is a prevalent symptom in various rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic and ankylosing spondylitis. It characterised subjective, enduring feeling of generalised tiredness or exhaustion, impacting the patient’s life quality exacerbating disability. The fatigue nature multifaceted, encompassing physiological, psychological, social factors, although exact cause inflam...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Identifying symptom clusters of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and their clinical significance may be useful in guiding treatment seeking behaviors and in planning treatment strategy. The aim of this study was to identify clusters of acute symptoms and their associated factors that manifested in patients with first-time AMI, and to compare clinical outcomes among cl...

primary choriocarcinoma of the uterine cervix is an extremely rare disease. the clinical diagnosis of cervical choriocarcinoma is difficult, because of its rarity and being non-specific abnormal vaginal bleeding the most common symptom. in the present report,the authors present a case of cervical choriocarcinoma, which was initially misdiagnosed as a cesarean section scar ectopic pregnancy. rem...

The psychometric properties of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R) subscales have not been validated in a clinical sample of individuals diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Data were collected on 186 patients diagnosed with OCD and 17 patients diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) using the OCI-R and the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS). ...

Although concurrent symptoms are frequently reported in clinical practice, symptom management research has not reflected this reality. Concurrent, related symptoms, i.e., symptom clusters, are possibly the next generation of work to be done in the area of symptom management. It has been suggested that certain clusters of symptoms may have a synergistic effect on future patient outcomes, and may...