INTRODUCTION Language and cultural barriers are detriments to quality health care. In acute medical settings, these barriers are more pronounced, which can lead to poor patient outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS We implemented a longitudinal Spanish-language immersion curriculum for emergency medicine (EM) resident physicians. This curriculum includes language and cultural instruction, and is in...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory local recurrence (ILR) after breast-conserving surgery for noninflammatory breast cancer (BC) is associated with dismal prognosis. Risk factors for ILR are not well defined. METHODS Between 2001 and 2010, twelve patients at our hospital developed ILR after breast-conserving surgery, adjuvant chemotherapy, and radiotherapy for BC. We compared their clinico-pathological ...

Purpose: Isolated local recurrence (ILR) after mastectomy is associated with increased risk of cancer-specific survival. This study evaluated the long-term survival and prognostic factors after ILR. Methods: Between January 1988 and December 2004, 1,169 patients with early breast cancer (stage I or II) were treated with modified radical mastectomy at Kyungpook hospital. Retrospectively, 40 pati...

BACKGROUND The implantable loop recorder (ILR) is an important tool for the evaluation of unexplained syncope, particularly in cases of rarely occurring arrhythmia. OBJECTIVES To review the clinical experience of two Israeli medical centers with the ILR. METHODS We reviewed the medical records of patients with unexplained syncope evaluated with the ILR at Rabin Medical Center (2006-2010) an...

DigitalCommons@ILR is a multipurpose institutional repository (IR) for scholarship produced by faculty at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Unlike most IRs, it also functions as a subject-based repository for workplace-related information. This paper will discuss the issues involved in the implementation of DigitalCommons@ILR, including the choice of software, ...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is characterized by a highly variable clinical course. The role of an autologous tumor-specific immune control contributing to the variable length of survival in CLL is poorly understood. We investigated whether humoral immunity specific for the CLL-associated Ag oncofetal Ag/immature laminin receptor (OFA/iLR) has a prognostic value in CLL. Among sera of 67 u...

The gold standard for diagnosing syncope is to elucidate the symptom-electrocardiogram (ECG) correlation. The ECG recordings during syncope allow physicians to either confirm or exclude an arrhythmia as the mechanism of syncope. Many studies have investigated the use of internal loop recorder (ILR), while few studies have used external loop recorder (ELR) for patients with unexplained syncope. ...

High-density lipophorin (HDLp) in the circulation of insects is able to selectively deliver lipids to target tissues in a nonendocytic manner. In Locusta migratoria, a member of the LDL receptor family has been identified and shown to mediate endocytosis of HDLp in mammalian cells transfected with the cDNA of this receptor. This insect lipophorin receptor (iLR) is temporally expressed in fat bo...

AIMS Recently, the remote transmission of data detected by implantable loop recorders (ILRs) has become available. The aim of this study was to evaluate effectiveness and acceptance of remote monitoring in the clinical management of syncope and palpitations in patients with ILR. METHODS AND RESULTS Consecutive patients implanted with ILR (Reveal DX/XT Medtronic, Inc.) and followed up by means...