an eleven-day boy neonate with a fetal anamnesis of grade 1 bilateral hydronephrosis according to the grading of the society for fetal urology (sfu), came to our attention for an acute osteoarthritis secondary to urosepsis. in the urological follow-up, a severe bilateral vesico-ureteral reflux (vur) was diagnosed. an early post-natal, reno-vesicle ultrasound evaluation could have changed the cl...

We aim for rationalizing Enterprise Architecture, supplementing models that express EA designs with models that express the decision making behind the designs. In our previous work we introduced the EA Anamnesis approach for architectural rationalization, and illustrated it with a fictitious case study. In this paper we evaluate our approach in terms of its ability to capture design rationales ...

Within the anamnesis, medical information is frequently withheld, incomplete, or incorrect, potentially causing negative consequences for patient. The use of conversational agents (CAs), computer-based systems using natural language to interact with humans, may mitigate this problem. present research examines whether CAs differ from physicians in their ability elicit truthful disclosure and dis...

Introduction: Alcoholic cardiomyopathy represents about 3.8% of all cardiomyopathy cases and it is a result of long-term (>5 years) alcohol consumption (>90 g of alcohol per day). It occurs twice as frequently in men as in women. Case report: We present the case of a 42-year-old patient, not treated for chronic diseases so far, with positive incriminating familiar anamnesis for ischemic heart d...

In July 1996 a 43-year-old illiterate Hispanic woman presented with uncontrollable vomiting, palpitations and confusion. In 1994, despite several hospitalisations in other medical centres where a cerebral CT-scan, oesogastroduodenoscopy, colonoscopy and abdominal ultrasound were performed, no satisfactory diagnosis could be found. A psychiatric origin was finally considered. On admission, the l...