Opt-out Testing Pilot for Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Immigrant Detainees at 2 Immigration and Customs Enforcement Health Service Corps-Staffed Detention Facilities, 2018.

Objectives: Correctional settings (prisons, jails, detention facilities) provide a unique opportunity to screen for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among correctional populations with a high prevalence of infection. Immigrant detainees are a distinct and poorly described correctional population. The main objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of a national STI screening program for immigrant detainees.

Pilot study of the characteristics of acute stroke events in patients discharged from the Carolina University Hospital, Puerto Rico in 2007.

Background: Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Puerto Rico. We examined the pre-hospital phase, management and case-fatality-rates (CFR) of patients discharged with acute stroke from the Carolina University of Puerto Rico Hospital during 2007.

Methods: Trained personnel collected information on demographics, delay-time, mode-of-transportation, management, and mortality from all medical records.

Diagnosis of congenital nephrotic syndrome: a clinical and a pathologic challenge.

The diagnosis of congenital nephrotic syndrome (NS) is a challenge both for clinicians and for pathologists. We observed three cases in a series of 50 children with NS nonresponsive to therapy, corresponding to one case each of minimal change disease, Finnish-type glomerulopathy, and diffuse mesangial sclerosis--two histopathologic studies were performed in each case. The age at presentation did not predict the diagnosis nor the prognosis: The NS presented at 7 months of age in the patient with diffuse mesangial sclerosis, but it was present at birth in the patient with minimal change disease.

Trisomy 4 as the sole cytogenetic abnormality in a Waldenström macroglobulinemia.

We report a case of Waldenström macroglobulinemia with trisomy 4 as the sole cytogenetic abnormality. Trisomy 4 has been reported previously in Waldenström macroglobulinemia, but only in conjunction with multiple chromosomal aberrations. Trisomy 4 has been reported in other hematologic malignancies including acute myeloid and lymphoid leukemias.