1818. Immunogenicity of Inactivated Varicella Zoster Vaccine (ZVIN) in Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (auto-HSCT) Recipients Michael Boeckh, MD, FIDSA; Ann Arvin, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS; Kathleen Mullane, DO, FIDSA; Drew J. Winston, MD; Janice (Wes) Brown, MD; Steven Pergam, MD, MPH, FIDSA; Kimberly Hurtado, BS; Lei Pang, PhD; Ingi Lee, MD, MSCE; Zoran Popmihajlov, MD, MS and on behalf...

We report vitamin D toxicity in an infant following consecutive administration use of a large dose of vitamin D, causing symptomatic hypercalcemia, which was successfully managed with injectable calcitonin. However, the child developed bilateral medullary nephrocalcinosis which persisted 42 mon after the initial episode.

A congenital hypodysfibrinogenemia, fibrinogen Baltimore II, was found in a young asymptomatic Caucasian female. Prothrombin, partial thromboplastin, and euglobulin lysis times were normal, as were platelet function and coagulation factor assays. Subnormal plasma fibrinogen levels were found using chronometric, rate-independent, and immunologic assay methods. Kinetic analysis of fibrinopeptide ...

This article reports an exploratory study of how people see and explain a prominent exhibit (Tornado) at an interactive science museum (the Exploratorium). Our data was assembled using a novel, technically mediated activity system (Video Traces) that allowed visitors to reflect with an interviewer on video records of their own visits to the exhibit. We present qualitative data comparing initial...

Existential theory is derived from the existential philosophy movement of the nineteenth century. There were several individuals instrumental in the development of existential therapy including Bugental, Frankl, May, and Yalom. It is not a concise theory but is a loose collection of theories centering on the meaning or purpose of life. However it is applicable to counseling because of its focus...

Therapeutic community/TC/ is a sociotherapeutic method that uses sociotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic techniques for various mental disorders. In Croatia, during and after the war many war veterans have been in treatment through TC and many of them still participate in it. Majority of them were diagnosed with PTSD diagnosis, but some of them also had other diagnosis, e.g. depression, paranoid...

The article deals with the theme of motherhood in poetry twentieth-century American writers Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich. Particular attention is paid to analysis images that reveal various aspects motherhood: a pregnant woman, an infertile mother her child, woman after miscarriage or abortion, creative poet, etc. A. S. Rich considered close connection creativity marriage.The th...

Over the past 35 years, peer-run Hearing Voices Groups (HVGs) have proliferated across globe. More recently, research has begun to focus on precise psychological mechanisms that make groups effective and enable individual change. While important in their own right, theories of peer support are limited ability explain by which complex transformation occurs. As such, it is necessary look beyond b...