Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510077

Case Based Game: Integrating the Practice Framework with Cases

Elizabeth Fain

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: August 07, 2017

Understanding the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF) and its integration with newly learned clinical skills requires students to progress from early information acquisition of the OTPF to synthesis and application to case studies. Active learning facilitates clinical reasoning and is defined as planning, directing, performing and reflecting on client care....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510069

Eye for IgG4-Related Disease

Divya Jayakumar, Suneesh Anand and Stephen A Lobo

Article Type: Clinical Images | First Published: August 30, 2017

IgG4-related disease is a relatively new disease which has gained significant recognition in the last decade. It is an immune mediated disease and diagnosis is often missed because of limited awareness and a typical presentation....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510068

An Unusual Cause of Shortness of Breath in an Adult Man: Alveolar Microlithiasis

Ali Cengiz, Meral Buyukterzi, Muhsin Nuh Aybay, Mesut Sivri, Arzu Cengiz and Fatma Zeynep Arslan

Article Type: Image Article | First Published: August 28, 2017

A 51-year-old non-smoking man, refered to our pulmonary medicine clinic with a 3 years history of severe shortness of breath. His complaints has increased even more in the last 1 year. There was no history of fever, weight loss, hemoptysis and old cronic infections like tuberculosis....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3690/1510025

Whole Exome Analyses to Examine the Impact of Rare Variants on Left Ventricular Traits in African American Participants from the HyperGEN and GENOA Studies

Anh N Do, Wei Zhao, Vinodh Srinivasasainagendra, Stella Aslibekyan, Hemant K Tiwari, Nita Limdi, Sanjiv J Shah, Degui Zhi, Uli Broeckel, C Charles Gu, DC Rao, Karen Schwander, Jennifer A Smith, Sharon LR Kardia, Donna K Arnett and Marguerite R Irvin

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: July 20, 2017

Left Ventricular (LV) hypertrophy, highest in prevalence among African Americans, is an established risk factor heart failure. Several genome wide association studies have identified common variants associated with LV-related quantitative-traits in African Americans. To date, however, the effect of rare variants on these traits has not been extensively studied, especially in minority groups....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5750/1510047

The Treatment of Ota's Nevus Using Dr. Hoon Hur's Golden Parameter with a High Fluence 1064 nm Nd: YAG Laser without Side Effects

Hoon Hur, Chan Hyuk Park, Yu Ri Kim and Dong Nyeok Hyun

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: August 17, 2017

Ota's nevus is a congenital benign oculodermal melanocytosis as a macular hyperpigmentation on the face. The color of lesion is mostly blotchy gray to blue or blue. Ota's nevus can cause emotional and psychological distress because the face can be a disfigurement, so appropriate treatment is necessary....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3656/1410178

Burkitt's Lymphoma Presenting as Endobronchial Lesion

Fatih Uzer, Levent Dertsiz and Aykut Cilli

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: July 29, 2017

Primary endobronchial tumor is seen rarely in young adults. Benign neoplasms such as hamartoma, hemangioma, papilloma, leiomyoma are seen more often whereas maling conditions are infrequent. Lymphoma is quite rare in children. ...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3672/1410026

Visions of the Hereafter: Releasing the Brakes of the Immune System by Checkpoint Inhibition Immunotherapy

Isabel C Hageman, Frans J van Overveld and Ger T Rijkers

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: July 24, 2017

Activation and control of the immune system is regulated by costimulatory molecules as well as by checkpoint inhibitors. Checkpoints are essential in maintaining self-tolerance and minimizing collateral damage by modulating the immune response....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/iaoms-2017/1710001

Relevant Aspects in Surgical Expansion Osteotomies Used in the Management of Maxillary Atresia for Efficiency and Stability

Kerlison Paulino de Oliveira , Valmir Braga de Aquino Mendonca, Romulo Dias de Oliveira and Marco Aurelio Medeiros da Silva

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: July 29, 2017

To obtain a functional and stable occlusion, it is important to have an adequate transverse maxillary dimension. It is estimated that 8 to 18% of patients seeking an orthodontic assessment present alterations to that dimension associated to multiple etiological factors....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3656/1410177

Severe ANCA Associated Vasculitis in the Setting of Cocaine Abuse: A Case Report

Ana Ramirez Berlioz, Orlando Garner, Eliana Wiesner, Alfredo Iardino Scarano and Kalpana Bhairavarasu

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: July 27, 2017

A 41-year-old Hispanic female with known medical history significant for bronchial asthma presents to the Emergency Department (ED) in February 2010, complaining of a 3-week long history of an erythematous tender rash with irregular margins on the tip of her nose, upper and lower extremities (Figure 1) accompanied by bilateral elbow, knee and ankle pain. ...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3397/1410057

The Evaluation of the Early and Late Postoperative Pancreatic Function and Nutritional Status: Central Pancreatectomy Versus Distal Pancreatectomy

Wataru Izumo, Ryota Higuchi and Masakazu Yamamoto

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: July 31, 2017

Central pancreatectomy is performed to preserve pancreatic function in selected patients with low-grade tumors. We evaluated short-term and long-term pancreatic function and nutritional status after central or distal pancreatectomy....