Learning to Detect Cognitive Impairment through Digital Games and Machine Learning Techniques.

Objective: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most prevalent diseases among the adult population. The early detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), which may trigger AD, is essential to slow down the cognitive decline process.

Methods: This paper presents a suit of serious games that aims at detecting AD and MCI overcoming the limitations of traditional tests, as they are time-consuming, affected by confounding factors that distort the result and usually administered when symptoms are evident and it is too late for preventive measures.

[Paravertebral pyomyositis in childhood following closed injury].

Pyomyositis is an acute bacterial infection that affects striated muscle and is generally accompanied by the formation of an abscess. In most cases, the microorganism involved is Staphylococcus aureus. Clinical findings are characterized by pain, swelling and muscular edema, together with variable general symptoms.

Implications of upper respiratory tract infections and drugs in the clinical spectrum of Henoch-Schönlein purpura in children.

Objective: To assess whether children with Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) who had an upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) or received medication prior to the onset of the disease exhibited a different clinical spectrum of features and outcome from children without such a history.

Methods: Retrospective study of children (< or = 14 years old) with HSP diagnosed from 1980 through December 2001 at the single hospital for the Lugo region (Northwest Spain). Children with primary cutaneous vasculitis were classified as having HSP according to currently used criteria.

[Unusual complication post circumcision].

Any surgery for ordinary that it's seen can be to cause the complications but at infection of the penis after circumcision is a rare occurrence. We report a prepuber patient who on the immediately surgery after circumcision was present a penis abscess. The epidemiological, etiopathogenic aspects and therapeutic are analyzed of the penis infection after a circumcision.