Methemoglobinemia is a rare dyshemoglobin disorder which can either be congenital or acquired. Dyshemoglobin disorders can be asymptomatic or symptomatic. We narrate the case of a 12-year-old girl who presented with a fever, cough, and oxygen saturation of 85%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCentral nervous system tuberculosis accounts for approximately 1% of all tuberculosis cases. Transverse myelitis is an extremely rare manifestation of central nervous system tuberculosis, involving 1 or more vertebral segments of the spinal cord. However, it may extend to involve 3 or more segments of the cord, which would then be designated as longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: In view of the persisting conceptual confusion related to the convergence of attachment measures, we investigated several common measures within a clinical and a non-clinical sample, tested the convergence/divergence of different measures, and tried to find a dimensional model. 175 patients with panic disorder/agoraphobia and 143 matched non-clinical individuals completed seven self-report attachment measures/ clinical self-reports and were interviewed by applying the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), the Adult Attachment Rating (AAR) and the Adult Attachment Projective (AAP). The categorical and most dimensional attachment measures differentiated between the samples.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Adult attachment is commonly associated with emotion regulation. Less is known about the nonverbal embodiment of adult attachment.
Objective: We hypothesized that dismissing attachment is related to less movement and fewer facial expressions of emotions, whereas preoccupied attachment is associated with more negative emotional facial expressions.
Assessments based on reaction time and language-based interviews postulate that unconscious attachment processes be measured. Nevertheless, a possible empirical equivalence of these two approaches has not yet been investigated. To fill this void, the Adult Attachment Interview and the Implicit Association Test were implemented with a group of patients with panic disorder (n = 157, mean age = 29, SD = 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlasmodium berghei ANKA (Pb ANKA) is a lethal strain of malaria that causes experimental cerebral malaria (ECM) in rodent models. Pathology of the disease is associated with the sequestration of the infected rbc (irbc) in the micro vessels of brain. In the present study, we analyzed the nature of the glycoprotein modification occurring in irbc membrane during erythrocytic stages of Pb ANKA infection.
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