To cite: Carvalho AF, Rodrigues AJ, Sousa N, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014204678 DESCRIPTION A 32 years-old woman with a history of depression, visited her doctor for heartburn and postprandial fullness with 2 months of evolution, possibly due to the consumption of non-steroid antiinflammatory drugs due to knee pain. Upper endoscopy (...

Light chain deposition disease (LCDD) is a rare condition that characterized by the of monoclonal immunoglobulin light chains in glomerular and tubular basement membranes. We report case 72-year-old male with long-standing stable chronic kidney (CKD) presumably due to hypertension.

While EC2000 was developed with the laudable goals of ensuring "program improvement and quality assurance in higher education" [1], from the point of view of the ABET accreditation visitor and the programs being evaluated, the EC2000 criteria can be both more difficult to understand and more difficult to apply than the more specific and straightforward criteria which they replaced. In addition ...

El objetivo máximo en el tratamiento del asma es alcanzar el control total de la enfermedad con el menor riesgo de efectos adversos. Las diferentes guías y consensos nacionales e internacionales, comparten un mismo mensaje en relación al tratamiento: controlar el asma con la menor dosis posible y eficaz de fármacos, referido generalmente al uso de corticoides inhalados (CI).1-4 Las distintas es...

participation has been with us since the inception of living in a family. participation developed in the matrix of religion and, two centuries ago, opend up its way in political systems of european countries. it supported the democratic principle of people's determining their own destiny. today, participation is considered a necessity for the total development of not only individuals, but ...