Improving Dementia-Specific Referrals From the Acute Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Project.

Purpose Of Study: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to design and implement an education and referral protocol for care coordination staff to use when working with hospitalized patients with dementia and their families. The goal was to increase delivery of dementia resource education and dementia-specific referrals during the discharge planning process.

Primary Practice Setting: The practice setting for this project was an acute care hospital in Northern California.

Use of Percutaneous Atrioseptotosmy for Left Heart Decompression During Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support: An Observational Study.

Background Left ventricular overload is frequent under veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which is associated with a worsening of the prognosis of these patients. Several left heart decompression (LHD) techniques exist. However, there is no consensus on their timing and type.

A computational approach for detecting physiological homogeneity in the midst of genetic heterogeneity.

The human genetic dissection of clinical phenotypes is complicated by genetic heterogeneity. Gene burden approaches that detect genetic signals in case-control studies are underpowered in genetically heterogeneous cohorts. We therefore developed a genome-wide computational method, network-based heterogeneity clustering (NHC), to detect physiological homogeneity in the midst of genetic heterogeneity.

Congenital stationary night blindness in a patient with mild learning disability due to a compound heterozygous microdeletion of 15q13 and a missense mutation in .

The complete form of congenital stationary night blindness (cCSNB) represents a non-progressive retinal disorder characterized by night vision problems and often congenital nystagmus, reduced vision, high myopia, strabismus and normal fundus appearance. Clinically this form of CSNB can be diagnosed by full-field electroretinogram. The mode of inheritance can be X-linked and autosomal recessive with mutations in genes coding for proteins mainly present at the dendritic tips of ON-bipolar cells.

Movement disorders in patients with alternating hemiplegia: "Soft" and "stiff" at the same time.

Objective: To assess nonparoxysmal movement disorders in mutation-positive patients with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC).

Methods: Twenty-eight patients underwent neurologic examination with particular focus on movement phenomenology by a specialist in movement disorders. Video recordings were reviewed by another movement disorders specialist and data were correlated with patients' characteristics.