Characteristics of atopic dermatitis patients using complementary and alternative medicine: A literature review.

Background: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease. Due to the burden of the disease, some patients try complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

Objective: To identify characteristics associated with CAM use in children and adults with AD.

[Fatal interstitial lung disease and pneumocystis during dermatomyositis associated with anti-MDA5 antibodies].

Background: Dermatomyositis (DM) in an auto-immune inflammatory myopathy with skin lesions, and, occasionally, organ involvement. Herein, we report a case of DM during anti-MDA5 antibody therapy associated with interstitial lung disease (ILD) and pneumocystosis.

Patients And Methods: A 64-year-old woman was hospitalized for impairment of her general health and skin lesions.

Evaluation of Nitinol Stents Using a 3-Dimensional Printed Superficial Femoral Artery Model: A Preliminary Study.

Background: Mechanical tests assessing Nitinol stents used for the superficial femoral artery (SFA) are designed without taking into account their deployment environments. The objectives of this study were (1) to create normal and pathologic femoral artery models, (2) to run mechanical tests reproducing the stresses of the SFA, and (3) to study and compare Nitinol stents in those conditions.

Methods: Femoral artery models with identical mechanical properties to the SFA were created using the 3-dimensional printing technology.