An 86 year old female was referred to our facility for management of severe symptomatic aortic stenosis manifested as dyspnea at rest and syncope. Our multidisciplinary heart valve team deemed her to be high risk for surgical AVR due to NYHA functional class IV congestive heart failure, severe right ventricular dysfunction, pulmonary hypertension, chronic lung disease and diabetes mellitus. Tra...

The microlepidopteran Caloreas cydrota (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae) was first time recorded in Colômbia in 1915 (Meyrick, 1915), but after it has not been documented in other regions of the world. Among the host plants of Choreutidae belong to the families of Lamiaceae and Boraginaceae, and, to a lesser extent, the families of Umbelliferae, Scrophulariaceae and Moracea (Heppner, 1977; Rota and Mi...

BACKGROUND In earlier work, we found important selection biases when we tried to obtain consent for participation in a national stroke registry. Recognizing that not all registries will be exempt from requiring consent for participation, we examine here in greater depth the reasons for the poor accrual of patients from a systems perspective with a view to obtaining as representative sample as p...

There is limited use of home renal replacement therapies in the U.S.A. One percent of dialysis patients are on home hemodialysis (HHD) and only 9% undergo peritoneal dialysis (PD). In an effort to better understand this, 161 satellite hemodialysis patients in 6 units in Brooklyn were surveyed. Forty-eight percent of patients were women, 86% were black, 5% white, 8% Hispanic, and 1% other. Mean ...

INTRODUCTION About 10,000 escalator-related injuries per year result in emergency department treatment in the United States. Since the 1990s, a steady increase has been reported, but few statistics on escalator-related injuries have been published worldwide. We have therefore analyzed escalator accident statistics in admissions to our hospital in Switzerland since 2000. METHODS Using retrospe...

Student-generated videos provide an authentic learning experience for students, enhance motivation and engagement, improve communication skills, and improve collaborative learning skills. This article describes the development and implementation of a student-generated video activity as part of a knowledge, observation, simulation, and experience (KOSE) program at the School of Dentistry, Intern...