Effectiveness of super-selective digital subtraction angiography and 3D rotational digital subtraction venography for a developmental venous anomaly with an arteriovenous malformation: A case report and literature review.

Background: Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) and developmental venous anomaly (DVA) rarely coexist. Developing a surgical strategy to treat this co-occurrence is difficult due to the unclear pathogenesis. We report the use of super-selective digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and Three-dimensional (3D) rotational digital subtraction venography (DSV) to develop a surgical strategy for complex AVM draining into a DVA.

Cavernous Sinus Meningioma of the Oculomotor Nerve in a Child: A Surgical Case Study.

Pediatric cavernous sinus meningiomas are rare. Herein, we present the case of a 5-year-old boy who presented with progressive left oculomotor nerve palsy. A head magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mass lesion in the left cavernous sinus, following which tumor resection was performed.

School Connectedness and Adolescent E-cigarette Susceptibility in an Urban Sample of Middle and High School Students.

Adolescent school connectedness generally protects from risk behaviors such as tobacco use; however, its relationship to e-cigarette use is unclear. This study examines the relationship between adolescent school connectedness and e-cigarette susceptibility in a diverse longitudinal sample. This secondary analysis of a school-based intervention surveyed 608 middle (66%) and high school (34%) students from 10 schools at 3 time points over 1 year.

13-Weeks subchronic toxicity of isoquercitrin-γ-cyclodextrin (IQC-γCD) molecular inclusion complex in Sprague-Dawley rats.

Flavonoids such as quercetin and its glycoside Isoquercitrin and are abundantly present in the diet and have various pharmacological effects. However, limited data about its potential toxicity is available. In this study, we aim to evaluate the subchronic toxicity of the isoquercitrin-γ-cyclodextrin (IQC-γCD) molecular inclusion complex (SunActive® QCD/EN) in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats.

Replication and extension of a model predicting response to psilocybin.

Background: Recent research demonstrated the potential of psychedelic drugs as treatment for depression and death-related anxiety and as an enhancement for well-being. While generally positive, responses to psychedelic drugs can vary according to traits, setting, and mental state (set) before and during ingestion. Most earlier models explain minimal response variation, primarily related to dosage and trust, but a recent study found that states of surrender and preoccupation at the time of ingestion explained substantial variance in mystical and adverse psilocybin experiences.

The impacts of mandatory service on students in service-learning classes.

This naturalistic study examined differences in students' motivations for elective versus required service-learning (SL) classes. Students in two successive academic years' cohorts were surveyed by the SL center at a large Midwestern university. Analyses compared classes differing in requirements for community-based service.

Subcutaneous angiolipoma: magnetic resonance imaging features with histological correlation.

Purpose: Despite producing pain, angiolipoma is sometimes misdiagnosed as an ordinary small lipoma, which is usually not associated with pain. Few reports have described magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings of angiolipoma. The aim of the present study was to clarify the MR imaging features of angiolipoma.

[A pregnant woman with inoperable advanced gastric cancer who received systemic anti-cancer chemotherapy after the non-full term fetus delivery by cesarean section].

A 28-year-old pregnant woman at 26 weeks and 2 days gestation visited a local outpatient clinic complaining of a tender abdominal mass. Examinations revealed an advanced gastric cancer with multiple liver, bone, lymph node metastasis and mesenteric dissemination, thus she was transferred to our division at 27 weeks and 1 day-gestation. With her consent we decided to maintain her pregnancy until 28 weeks when the delivered fetus could be kept alive an incubator, avoiding the adverse effect on the fetus by anti-cancer chemotherapy to mother.

Current utilization and radiation dose from computed tomography in patients with trauma.

Objective: To quantify the cumulative effective dose of radiation received during hospitalization after traumatic injury and to compare the computed tomography (CT) utilization practices for two time periods in patients with trauma.

Design: A retrospective analysis of radiologic and medical data.

Setting: A level I trauma center.

Measuring continuity of elders' posthospital care.

Continuity of care is a critical component of quality patient care, yet the paucity of reliable and valid measures of continuity of care make it difficult to ascertain the extent to which continuity has been achieved. The purpose of this article is to describe the development of an instrument to measure continuity of care that incorporates the perspectives of elders hospitalized for a chronic illness and their family caregivers. The instrument was used, and its reliability and validity examined, in a series of studies related to elders' posthospital transition.

Testing a model of family caregivers' perceptions of elder behavior two weeks posthospitalization on caregiver response and health.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of family caregivers' perceptions of elders' behaviors on caregiver burden and health while controlling for other factors often associated with burden. The model tested included the following concepts: elders' health, caregivers' perceptions of elder behaviors, caregiving involvement, coping, discrepancy in social support, caregiver response and caregiver health. Data for the analyses were obtained from a longitudinal study of 346 elder/caregiver dyads in which the elders had been hospitalized for acute episodes of chronic conditions.

Testing a model for posthospital transition of family caregivers for elderly persons.

The purpose of this study was to test a model of factors influencing family caregivers' responses and health outcomes during the 2-month period following an elder's discharge from the hospital for acute episodes of chronic illness. The elder's average age was 72.3 years.

Symptom Questionnaire anxiety and depression scales: reliability and validity.

Many instruments have been developed with college students and used primarily with students or younger adults. Thus, researchers face challenges in selecting measures of psychological state that are valid and reliable for use with elders. This article describes a measure of psychological state, the Symptom Questionnaire; provides information about its reliability and validity; and details the steps used to evaluate reliability and validity of its anxiety and depression scales for elders hospitalized for an acute episode of a chronic condition.

Educating students with mild disabilities in general education classrooms: Minnesota alternatives.

This article reports two major data collection efforts conducted during successive years. Study 1 examined the relationship between the school effectiveness variables identified in the Minnesota Educational Effectiveness Project (MEEP), and the attitudes and achievement of students in 31 MEEP schools. Study 2, which focused on 11 of the Study 1 schools, compared the instructional programs provided to students with mild disabilities in three integrated programs in these 11 schools, with those provided by conventional resource "pull-out" programs in three other schools.

Using structured controversy to promote ethical decision making.

This article describes the use of structured controversy as an educational strategy for helping students learn content and skills needed for dealing with difficult ethical situations that arise during the practice of nursing. Structured controversy, an innovative technique that encourages learners to deal with conflict constructively, is described, and research validating its benefits is reviewed. A comprehensive description of how structured controversy was operationalized, using the issue of whether or not to give nutrition and hydration to a dying patient, is included to provide other nursing educators with an illustration of how this strategy can be applied.

Structure of adaptive behavior in samples with and without mental retardation.

The structure of adaptive behavior as a function of age and status of handicap was investigated in two samples with mental retardation and five samples without retardation. Exploratory factor analysis of the subscale scores from a comprehensive, nationally standardized measure of adaptive behavior (Scales of Independent Behavior) revealed a large Adaptive or Personal Independence dimension. Although not consistently identified in all samples, secondary Academic, Personal Responsibility, and Community/Vocational dimensions were also identified.

The relation between popularity and achievement: a longitudinal test of the lateral transmission of value hypothesis.

Data from a longitudinal study of school desegregation were used to examine the relation between normative social influence processes and academic achievement in order to test theoretical models of how school desegregation produces benefit. Subjects were white, Mexican-American, and black elementary school children who were measured once prior to and twice after desegregation of their schools. For all groups, analyses using structural equation techniques showed that, contrary to the lateral transmission of values hypothesis, which views social influence processes as shaping academic achievement, "causal influence" did not flow from social acceptance to academic achievement; instead, achievement appeared to affect subsequent social acceptance.

Roles of attribution, affect, and cognitive interference in test anxiety.

The impact of performance outcome, task difficulty, and level of test anxiety on attributional accounts for performance and achievement-related affect was explored. Subjects high and low in test anxiety (Sarason, 1972) worked on tasks of varying difficulty, evaluated their own performance, and then responded to two types of attribution items, inventories of major affective reactions (Izard, 1972), and a measure of cognitive interference (Sarason and Stoops, 1978). Meaningful attributional accounts were uncovered; in particular, performance outcome and task difficulty had independent effects on subjects' attributional judgments.

Concomitant appearance of antibodies to two viruses in cerebrospinal fluid of an infant with acute encephalitis.

Acute encephalitis developed in a 5 1/2-month-old infant with a previous history of uncomplicated measles at 4 months of age. The patient survived his acute illness with resultant severe neurological sequelae. The serum complement fixing antibody titer for herpes simplex virus in the early phase of the illness was less than 1:4, and increased significantly to 1:64 in the convalescent phase.

A simple method for the measurement of low levels of serum IgE.

A simple method for the estimation of low serum IgE levels is presented. Radioimmunoassay often gives falsely high values because of the presence of non-specific factors in the serum when an excessive amount of serum is used in order to measure low serum IgE levels. Therefore the serum sample has to be diluted to minimize the influence of the non-specific factors and the lowest IgE level measurable in the serum is about 5 u/ml.