Lhermitte Sign as a Presenting Symptom of Thoracic Spinal Pathology: A Case Study by Adam Hills, Mazen Al-Hakim

“…There was no history of trauma or other inciting events within the 2 weeks prior to presentation. Thoracic MRI at this visit showed a three-column fracture at T11-T12. …”
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L’influence des présuppositions sur les témoignages sollicités par questions by Elizabeth Allyn Smith, Myriam Raymond-Tremblay

“…Our sixty participants watched a video of an attempted robbery and answered questions in which the existence of an element was (a) a true presupposition, (b) a false presupposition, or (c) not presupposed. A week later, all participants received a second questionnaire where the critical information was questioned, followed by a working memory task and a demographic survey. …”
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A Case of Kikuchi’s Disease Without Cervical Lymphadenopathy by Shinya Tomori, Seigo Korematsu, Taichi Momose, Yasuko Urushihara, Shuji Momose, Koichi Moriwaki

“…A 15-year-old male has presented with a fever lasting more than 1 week and right axillary lymphadenopathy. An axillary lymph node biopsy revealed coagulation necrosis, nuclear decay products, infiltration of histiocytes, and enlarged lymphocytes; he was diagnosed with Kikuchi’s disease. …”
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Hyponatraemia and hypothyroidism: A case report by Giulia Cantoni, Gabriella Nucera, Pietro Marino

“…An 82-year-old woman arrived at an emergency department with aphasia and a progressive cognitive impairment associated with walking problems during the last week. Examinations excluded neurological disease. …”
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Severe Hyperlipidemia Induced Hemorrhagic Pancreatitis during Pregnancy by Karen L. Koscica, Uzoma Nwaubani, Munir Nazir, Martin Gimovsky

“…Case. A patient at 27-week gestation was admitted for recurrent pancreatitis secondary to severe hyperlipidemia. …”
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Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) Causing Tension Hemothorax in a Pregnant Woman Requiring Emergent Cesarean Delivery by Nidhi Sood, Nikhil Sood, Vibhu Dhawan

“…We present a case of a 25-year-old woman with no previous history of AVM or telangiectasia, who presented with life-threatening hypoxia, hypotension, and pleuritic chest pain in 36th week of gestation. Chest tube placement revealed 4 liters of blood. …”
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Hyperferritinemia at the patient with chronic hepatitis C by Ye. N. German, A. O. Buyeverov, M. V. Mayevskaya, Ch. S. Pavlov, V. T. Ivashkin, A. A. Levina

“…On the other hand, taking into account high level of serum transaminases and lymphadenopathy (developed at the 20-th week of treatment), atypical side effect of the antiviral agents of idiosyncrasy type can be suspected. …”
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Resolution of Multiple Severe Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug-Induced Colonic Strictures with Prednisone Therapy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Robert M Penner, C Noel Williams

“…Discontinuation of NSAID therapy did not result in endoscopic change, but a 20-week course of prednisone was followed by complete resolution. …”
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Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis: A Sub-Saharan Conundrum by Antonina Obayo, Sylvia Mbugua, Sayed K. Ali

“…We present the case of a 36-year-old male who presented to our institution with a one-week history of low back pain with rapidly progressive lower limb weakness, loss of sensation, and flaccid paraparesis. …”
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Bilateral Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Palsy following Total Thyroidectomy in Triple A Syndrome, an Unexpected but Critical Complication by Mathieu Chamberland, Marc-Antoine Poulin, Danielle Beaudoin

“…The palsy spontaneously resolved after a five-week course. Conclusion. Given the rarity of this severe condition and the absence of surgical or medical causes identifiable, there is possibility that it is the neurological involvement caused by TAS that predisposed the patient to this adverse outcome, precipitated by standard manipulations during surgery.…”
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The effect of empathy on remote social connections via paired robots. by Satoru Suzuki, Noriaki Imaoka, Takeshi Ando, Misako Uchida, Kenji Suzuki

“…We conducted an experiment to facilitate communication among distant family members using the paired robot over the course of 1 week. Participants' empathy level and their experience of the communication were assessed using questionnaires. …”
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Intestinal Obstruction following Ingestion of Metallic Instruments in a Psychiatric Patient by Oscar Kivike, Israel Soko, David Mgaya, Frank Sandi

“…We report a 25-year-old female patient who presented with abdominal distension for one week. She is a known psychiatric patient for 5 years. …”
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A Case of an Infantile Lingual Leiomyomatous Hamartoma by Thomas Z. Gao, Austin Schafer, Abdulrahman Althubaiti, Bonita Fung, Charles Elmaraghy

“…This case is a report of a 4-week-old female who presented for evaluation of an asymptomatic 1 × 1 cm dorsal midline tongue mass discovered at birth. …”
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An Underreported Consequence of Obesity in Pregnancy: Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch by William R. Hartman, Katherine W. Arendt, Kent H. Rehfeldt

“…We report a case of PPM that necessitated prosthesis replacement at 16-week gestation. As the incidence of this clinical scenario increases, it is important to understand the implications of prosthesis sizing, as well as the repercussions of having cardiopulmonary surgery to correct the undersized valve prosthesis while pregnant.…”
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Storage of Decapsulated Artemia (Brine Shrimp) by Jason Broach, Cortney L. Ohs, Isaac Lee

“…Fortunately, this 3-page fact sheet written by Jason Broach, Cortney Ohs, and Isaac Lee and published by the UF/IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences describes a method for storing a 7-day supply of the brine shrimp that will allow the task to be done just once a week. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fa203 …”
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Subacute Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in a Patient with Liver Metastases of a Renal Cell Carcinoma by L. C. van der Wekken, R. J. L. F. Loffeld

“…This case report describes a patient who developed DIC within one week and bled profusely from venipuncture wounds. …”
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Travel-Associated Salmonella mbandaka Sacroiliac Osteomyelitis in a Healthy Adolescent by Kirsty Le Doare, Elspeth Brooker, Shamez Ladhani

“…We describe a case of a 16 year-old gymnast who was subsequently diagnosed with Salmonella mbandaka sacroiliac osteomyelitis with adjacent psoas abscess and hepatitis one week after returning from a holiday in Crete. This case highlights a rare presentation of a common travel-associated foodborne infection.…”
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Use of Ganciclovir in the Treatment of Acquired Cytomegalovirus Disease in a Preterm Infant by H Amin, T Jadavji, R Sauve, J Gill

“…The first use of ganciclovir in a preterm infant is reported. The 27 week appropriate-for-gestational-age male infant developed a disseminated cytomegalovirus infection subsequent to a blood transfusion. …”
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Il Palio di San Michele di Bastia (Umbria): un nuovo modello festivo by Fiorella Giacalone

“…The Palio di San Michele, from 50 years, is the city festival, which takes place during one week in September, with sports competitions, theater performances, the "lizza" (the relay game). …”
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Ulcerative and Spreading Nodular Lesion of Epizootic Lymphangitis in Adult Black Horse in Gondar, Ethiopia: Case Report and Wound Treatment by Balemual Abebaw

“…Griseofulvin 750 mg/day for one week was given as antifungal therapy orally. The prognosis was poor due to the long incubation period and high resistance of the causative agent.…”
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