Addressing Prompt Dependency in the Treatment of Challenging Behavior Maintained by Access to Tangible Items.

Prompt dependency is a common concern for individuals with developmental disabilities, particularly autism spectrum disorder. Previous research has shown that different interventions can be used to decrease prompt dependency. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of various treatments to decrease prompt dependency during functional communication training in the treatment of challenging behavior maintained by access to tangible items in a 16-year-old female diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

Enhancing outcomes: Culturally adapted social-emotional and behavioral interventions for rural black elementary learners at risk.

Educators are responsible for supporting positive school experiences for all students, including those with or at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Students with or at risk for EBD experience multiple negative outcomes impacting their school years, and these negative outcomes extend past graduation. Social and emotional learning programs are being used by schools to build students' competency in areas designed to help them successfully manage the school environment and life in general.

Evaluation of a latency-based competing stimulus assessment.

A competing stimulus assessment is used to identify stimuli that are associated with a low level of challenging behavior and a high level of engagement. These stimuli are often used as a treatment component for challenging behavior that is maintained by automatic reinforcement. One limitation of implementing competing stimulus assessments is that they may be time consuming.

[Acute pulmonary embolism related to pulmonary giant cell arteritis].

Introduction: During giant cell arteritis (Horton's disease), Takayasu's disease and atrophic polychondritis, giant cell vascularities eventually involving the large vessels such as the aorta, or iliac or pulmonary arteries have been described. We report a case of giant cell pulmonary arteritis revealed by acute pulmonary embolism and associated with giant cell arteritis.

Observation: An 80 year-old woman was hospitalised for pulmonary embolism with acute pulmonary heart.

Sensitivity of the criteria used to diagnose adult still's disease in internal medicine practice. a study of 17 cases.

Our aim was to compare the sensitivity of various diagnostic criteria for adult Still's disease in 17 patients with established adult Still's disease who were followed in a department of internal medicine over a mean period of 7 years. The median age of the 17 patients was 27 years and the sex ratio M:F was 1:4. The patients had essentially systemic manifestations with fever (n=14), inflammation and leukocytosis (n=16), and moderate liver dysfunction (n=13) that disappeared after a mean of 21 days (range 8-48 days).

[Influence of age on presentation and prognosis of tuberculosis in internal medicine].

Objectives: To compare the clinical, biochemical, radiological features and the outcome of elderly and young patients with tuberculosis.

Methods: Between 1980 and 1997, 83 patients diagnosed as having tuberculosis were treated in two departments of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. They were divided into 42 young (< 65 years) and 41 elderly (> or = 65 years) patients and differences in presentation between the two groups were analysed.

[Adult Still's disease: an unrecognized cause of acute febrile hepatic cytolysis. Study of twelve patients].

Objective: Certain liver test abnormalities have been described in adult Still's disease. The objective of the present study was to analyze their type and frequency.

Patients: In a 10 year retrospective study, patients were included if they fulfilled Kahn's and/or Yamaguchi's diagnostic criteria (median follow-up: 6.

[Veno-occlusive disease of the liver and POEMS syndrome].

Background: Veno-occlusive disease of the liver is a common cause of morbidity and mortality after chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy and bone marrow transplantation. Non thrombotic hepatic venous obstruction is characteristic, but pathogenesis of this disease remains unknown.

Case Report: In june 1993, a 58-year-old man was treated by cyclophosphamide and steroid for a POEMS syndrome.

[Late manifestation of common variable immunodeficiency by Biermer's disease].

Background: Common variable immunodeficiency (CVI) is a heterogeneous disorder characterized by decreased production of antibodies. Clinical presentation of CVI is generally that of recurrent pyogenic infections. Autoimmune diseases can also occur.

[Diffuse digestive tract B-cell lymphoma manifesting as exudative enteropathy].

Background: Early manifestations of primary lymphomas of the digestive tract generally include general signs and abdominal pain. Diarrhea is uncommon and may result from several mechanisms. We report a case of primary lymphoma of the digestive tract in a patient presenting exsudative enteropathy.

Regulation of uveal sympathetic neurotransmission by peroxides.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of naturally occurring and synthetic peroxides on norepinephrine release from isolated iris-ciliary bodies of several mammalian species.

Methods: Hemiirides (bovine) and iris-ciliary bodies (human, rabbit, and rat) were incubated in Krebs solution containing [3H]-norepinephrine ([3H]NE) for 60 minutes. After incubation, tissues were set up for studies of [3H]NE release using the superfusion method.

[Muscular metastases disclosing adenocarcinoma].

The authors report the case of a 67-year old man, with no particular medical history, presenting a large swelling of the left thigh. Investigations conclude to metastases located in muscles of the left thigh and of the pelvis, secondary to an adenocarcinoma of presumed pancreatic origin. With reference to this case, features of muscular metastases are reviewed.

[POEMS syndrome: role and value of interleukin-6].

POEMS syndrome is a systemic disorder with peripheral neuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy and skin changes. The association of POEMS syndrome with lympho-proliferative disorder is very commun. The pathogenesis remains poorly understood but implication of cytokines (interleukins 1 and 6) is suspected.