A Case of Subcorneal Pustular Dermatosis Successfully Treated with Acitretin

Subcorneal pustular dermatosis is a rare, chronic neutrophilic dermatoses characterized by recurrent, sterile pustules localized to the trunk, intertriginous regions and flexural surfaces of extremities.

The diagnosis of disease is made by demonstration of subcorneal pustules containing neutrophils histopathologically and negative immunofluorescence staining.

We reported a 68-year-old male patient with subcorneal pustular dermatosis, who was misdiagnosed as dermatitis herpetiformis without performing direct immunofluorescence examination and had been treated with dapsone with partial benefit for 20 years.

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Successful Lysis of Thrombus with Tissue Plasminogen Activator in a Bidirectional Glenn on Venoarterial Extracorporeal Life Support

This case report describes a 7 kg male with double inlet right ventricle, transposition of the great arteries and pulmonary atresia admitted to Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta for bidirectional Glenn (BDG) and patch augmentation of the left pulmonary artery (LPA).

The patient had undergone three previous operations, initially a right modified Blalock-Taussig shunt (3.5mm), followed by several attempts to recruit the LPA by bovine pericardial patch. He was palliated with a BDG and LPA autologous pericardial patch.

The LPA thrombosed accepts for its intraparenchymal portion. Given the presence of ongoing hypoplasia and acute thrombosis of the LPA, the decision was made to place a central shunt with the aim of securing pulmonary blood flow to the left lung and augmenting growth of peripheral vasculature.

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Selective Blockage Of The Catalyst Active Sites For The Hydrogenation Of Various Functional Groups Over Raney Nickel And Nickel Supported On Silica

Nickel supported on silica and Raney nickel was used. Hydrogenation was carried out of compounds with >C=C< bond and -NO¬2 bond in different solvents with different degree of deactivation of the nickel catalysts.

It is shown the usability of the method for analysis of poisoning behavior not only for gas reaction, but also for the liquid phase hydrogenation. It was shown that catalyst support as well as the media has a significant effect on the poisoning behavior.

It was demonstrated while different reducible groups are hydrogenating there is different poisoning behavior

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Cytoxicity of Gold NP over Mouse Gastric Stem Cells: Short Commentary

Raman spectroscopy (RS) is an emerging lased based optical technique exploited extensively in the field of bio-medical research.

The principle involved in RS is when a monochromatic light is incident on an analyte, originates scattered light after interacting with sample and a small fraction of the incident light will be in elastically scattered and is used to construct Raman spectrum.

It is a more powerful tool to characterize any biological system, diagnose disease in tissue, cells and to understand the basics in biology.

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Effect of Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty in Glaucoma Patients with High or Low Central Corneal Thickness

In 1997, Latina et al. launched selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) as a new treatment to lower intraocular pressure. Since then, SLT has proven to be efficient and its use has become widespread. Several studies have been performed to investigate which factors influence the outcome of SLT.

Up to now, only higher pre-laser IOP seems to be correlated to higher IOP lowering effect of the SLT; other factors like race 6, trabecular meshwork pigmentation, number and type of previously used anti-glaucoma medications, previous laser and phakic or pseudophakic eyes showed no impact on SLT efficiency.

Shazly et al. examined whether central corneal thickness had influence on SLT outcome and suggested that thinner corneas gave better IOP reduction after SLT

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Hepatocyte Growth Factor as an Indicator of Reduced Handgrip Strength among Non-Overweight Hypertensive Elderly Men

Handgrip strength is an efficient tool to evaluate the loss of skeletal muscle mass and function since handgrip strength is regarded as a predictor of old age disability.

Common agerelated disease including hypertension and sacropenia are reported to be exacerbated by disruption of the micro-vascular endothelium and impair blood flow by increasing in age-related inflammatory agents.

Previously we reported positive association between handgrip strength and circulating CD34-positive cells in hypertensive men but not in non-hypertensive men. This study indicates that vascular maintenance attributed by circulating CD34-positive cells might compensate for the disturbed handgrips strength triggered by hypertension induced vascular damage.

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Mindfulness-Based Intervention: A Culturally Adaptable Intervention In Clinical Psychology

Mindfulness is defined as nonjudgmental acceptance and paying attention in specific way to current thoughts and emotions. The concept of mindfulness is directly inspired by the Buddhist tradition, but it is not considered a religious practice.

It is also not constrained to the Buddhist tradition. Mindfulness-based interventions were derived from the concept of mindfulness and were reported to be effective in relieving pain and alleviating anxiety and depression in different population.

Recently, most studies about mindfulness were reported from Westen literature, and little evience was available regarding using mindfulness in Arab population. As I was a psychiatric nurse, my publications focused on the advanced roles of nurses.

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