A 36-year-old man living in Algeria developed abdominal pain, asthenia, jaundice, and vomiting. He had no medical or surgical history. Laboratory tests revealed anemia, leukopenia, cytolysis, cholestasis and hyperbilirubinemia. Gastroscopy showed esophageal varices and duodenal cap ulcerations suggestive of portal hypertension. Abdominal sonography displayed a thickening of the common bile duct...

OBJECTIVE This pilot study investigates the dissolution profile, tolerability, and acceptability of an orally disintegrating olanzapine tablet in patients with schizophrenia. METHOD Eleven patients with schizophrenia stabilized on oral olanzapine (mean dosage 12.7 mg daily [SD5.2]) were given an orally disintegrating olanzapine tablet, rather than their usual tablet, daily for 7 days. At each...

The patient is a 71-year-old woman with serous ovarian cancer hospitalized for asthenia digestive hemorrhage. At esophagogastroduodenoscopy, protruding mass was noted at the level of gastric antrum. She underwent hemostasis an endoscopic by argon plasma; effective hemostasis. final pathology revealed metastases adenocarcinoma. Weekly gemcitabine chemotherapy adopted, but disease progressed rapi...

Today, asthenia is one of the most common syndromes in practice a doctor any specialty. Her treatment uses comprehensive approach that includes physical training, psychotherapy, diet and pharmacotherapy. Pharmacotherapeutic appointment antidepressants, nootropics, tranquilizers, psychostimulants, neuroleptics. Given multimodality multilevel nature lesion nervous system C?VID-19, recovery period...

One of the gifts of America to the world of horticulture is the avocado. The fruit was apparently widespread through Central America and parts of South America in preColumbian times. Since the discovery of the New World the avocado has become widely known and has been grown in nearly all countries throughout the world where climatic conditions permit. Although the avocado of commerce, character...

The issue of whether Central Americans in the United States are 'political' or 'economic' migrants has been widely debated, yet little empirical research has informed the controversy. Earlier studies have relied primarily on cross-sectional aggregate data. In order to overcome these limitations we draw on recent surveys conducted in five Nicaraguan communities by the Latin American Migration Pr...

Th e present paper focuses on the role of domestic resource mobilization for fi nancing poverty reduction strategies. Policy makers should be aware of important macroeconomic trade-off s associated with MDG strategies fi nanced from tax increases or domestic borrowing. Th e trade-off s are largely intertemporal: can poor and middle-income countries absorb the initial fi nancing costs in order t...

The year 2014 marked the fortieth anniversary of Portugal’s Revolution of the Carnations, which inaugurated what Samuel P. Huntington dubbed the “third wave” of global democratization. Any assessment of the state of global democracy today must begin by recognizing—even marveling at—the durability of this historic transformation. When the third wave began in 1974, only about 30 percent of the wo...