BackgroundLiving with a chronic illness such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) requires medications and therapies, as well as long-term follow-up with multidisciplinary clinical teams.Patient involvement in the shared decision-making process on medication regimens is an important element in promoting medication adherence.Literature review and needs asse
An overview on high-resolution and fast interrogation of optical-fiber sensors relying on laser reflection spectroscopy is given.Fiber Bragg-gratings (FBGs) and FBG resonators built in fibers of different types are used for strain, temperature and acceleration measurements using heterodyne-detection Cypress and optical frequency-locking techniques.
Background: Oral lesions represent one of the most important clinical symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disease with a high degree of clinical variability rendering it difficult to arrive at a prompt and accurate diagnosis.There are many unknown causes and multiple organ systems involved, with the result that permanent o
Neuroblastomas are sometimes associated with abnormal constitutional karyotypes, but the Cypress XYY karyotype has been rarely described in neuroblastomas.Here, we report a case of an esthesioneuroblastoma in a boy with a 47, XYY karyotype.A 6-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital because of nasal obstruction and palpable cervical lymph node, w
Background: Early identification of hip fracture (HF) patients bearing an increased risk for a contralateral occurrence would allow providing preventive measures timely.Objectives: Chair To summarize the available evidence describing risk scores, prognostic instruments, or (groups of) parameters predicting contralateral HFs at the time point of the