Bronchiolitis obliterans and organising pneumonia (BOOP) presents with fever, dyspnoea, and other features that may be mistaken for pneumonia. Treatment is, however, very different, requiring corticosteroids. A man was admitted as an emergency with fever, dyspnoea, and non-productive cough. The chest radiograph showed consolidation which, despite antibiotics, progressed to become bilateral. BOO...

Three patients with bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia are described. Chest X-ray films showed peripheral densities and pulmonary function tests a restrictive pattern. In all three cases transbronchial biopsy was not useful for diagnosis and we point out the importance of an open lung biopsy in order to make the differential diagnosis with other infiltrative lung disease with a diffe...

A 67-year-old diabetic man presented with progressive multifocal myeloradiculopathy for 6 months, with no pulmonary symptoms. A chest x-ray and CT scan of the lungs revealed bilateral multiple nodular infiltrates in the right upper lobe and the lower lobes bilaterally, mimicking metastases. A thoracoscopic lung biopsy demonstrated bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia caused by capsule-...

Our motivation for putting together this special issue on “Sociomateriality of Information Systems and Organizing” was the mounting interest in the relationship between the social and the material, in the context of our increasingly digital society. The attention to this relationship is manifested in the emergence of studies of technology intended to augment and complement, but also and importa...

The Virtual Campus platform is composed of two main subsystems (see Figure 1). The Authoring Environment supports Educators in creating and organizing didactical material in Learning Objects (LOs). The internal structure of the authoring environment is described in more detail in Section 3.2, and exploits proper languages for LO definition that are described in Sections from 3.3 to 3.6. Learnin...

Primarily, how well organization performs and handles the tough challenges does depend on how well the health care manager is educated and trained. The managers are expected to integrate modern business management practices with clinical and healthcare knowledge in hospital and health care institutions. All managers, irrespective of what they manage, perform four generic tasks (planning, organi...