Barroca, Inês Santos, Catarina Melo Velosa, Ana Cotovio, Gonçalo Kozlowska, Kasia Pinto, Inês Carvalho, Paula Saraiva
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Portuguese Journal of Public Health
Introduction: Since exposure to potentially traumatic events during childhood and adolescence has been shown to be very common, its screening is very important. Our aim was to develop a self-assessment checklist to perform screening of potentially traumatic events in childhood and adolescence. Methods: The development of the Checklist of Potentiall...
Stenberg, Daniel Jamal, Mazen M. Kaur, Harpreet Arcerito, Massimo
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Case Reports in Gastroenterology
Bouveret’s syndrome is an unusual clinical presentation of gastric-outlet obstruction and is the most infrequent variant of gallstone ileus with just over 300 cases in the literature. A 73-year-old female presented with innocuous constitutional symptoms and was found to have Mirizzi type Vb, a cholecystoduodenal fistula with obstruction. Esophago-g...
Sarwal, Dhruv Yu, Na Veeramachaneni, Nirmal Aslinia, Florence
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Case Reports in Gastroenterology
The diagnosis of gastric volvulus can be a clinical challenge as it is rare, and the symptoms are often nonspecific and intermittent. Upper endoscopy is a minimally invasive intervention that may be repeated more than once to provide key information and ultimately establish such a diagnosis. To emphasize the role of upper endoscopy in surgical case...
Böge, Kerem Catena, Daniel Hahn, Eric
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Verhaltenstherapie
Achtsamkeitsbasierte Interventionen (AI) stellen mittlerweile eine zentrale Säule der dritten Welle der Kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie dar. In den letzten Jahren wurden AI bei Patient*innen mit psychotischen Störungen implementiert und deren Wirksamkeit im Rahmen von einer kleineren Anzahl von randomisiert-kontrollierten Studien (RCTs) gezeigt. Der ...
Marchan, Shivaughn Maria Coppin, Erika Balkaran, Ramaa
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Portuguese Journal of Public Health
Objectives: This work attempted to determine the unmet dental treatment needs and self-reported barriers to continued care, in patients with special needs, attending a dental teaching hospital in the English-speaking Caribbean. Methods: A chart audit of patients who were planned for comprehensive treatment for the period from August 1, 2015 to July...
Mutalik, Sharad Nikam, Balkrishna Salunke, Tejaswini
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Case Reports in Dermatology
Follicular mucinosis (FM)/alopecia mucinosa is not commonly seen in children. There are a limited number of case reports, and its prognosis and long-term outcome are unpredictable. We describe a case of FM in a 3-year-old child, which was confirmed on histopathology. The lesion resolved with topical pimecrolimus cream and targeted phototherapy with...
Plesníková, Paulina Jurenová, Denisa Lysková, Darina Furdová, Alena Valášková, Jela Babál, Pavel
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Case Reports in Ophthalmology
The report aims to present the case of intraocular leiomyoma. We conducted a case study on a patient who presented with an intraocular tumour. After examination, including magnetic resonance, positron emission tomography with computed tomography, B-scan, we performed surgery – enucleation of the eye globe with histological verification of tumour ma...
Aoki, Yoshihiro Hashimoto, Takao
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Case Reports in Neurology
We report a case of bilateral ptosis due to paramedian midbrain infarction, which was associated with ipsilateral impaired adduction of the eye and contralateral ataxia. T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed a right paramedian midbrain infarction. The ptosis rapidly improved without a difference between the left and right sid...
Pavičić-Astaloš, Jasna Ankamah, Emmanuel Nolan, John M. Ng, Eugene García-Feijoo, Julian
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Case Reports in Ophthalmology
We report a case of an inferonasal hypertrophic bleb complication which formed 5 months after Xen Gel Stent implantation for intraocular pressure (IOP) control in a primary open-angle glaucoma patient and its management using a fixation suture. The patient underwent an uneventful right-eye phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation combi...
Gil-Martínez, Tatiana M. Herrera, María J. Vera, Vanessa
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Case Reports in Ophthalmology
Toxic anterior segment syndrome (TASS) is a severe, acute, sterile intraocular inflammation that occurs the same day or in the early stages after intraocular surgery. It has been most commonly reported after phacoemulsification. We report 2 cases that developed TASS after sequential uneventful trabeculectomy surgeries, in which a quaternary ammoniu...
