Multidisciplinary care model for HIV improves treatment outcome: a single-centre experience from the Middle East.

Multidisciplinary team (MDT) care models have been shown to improve clinical outcomes among HIV patients. We aim to assess the impact of adopting MDT approach in a tertiary HIV clinic in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. We introduced MDT approach in our HIV centre in January 2016 where existing team members (counsellors, nurses, social workers, pharmacists and doctors) worked together, through care pathways, to support patients as they go through the HIV care continuum from diagnosis to viral suppression.

Structural forces from directed self-assembly.

We investigate a candidate structure for the bottom-up design of nanocomposite materials. At a pair of crossing carbon nanotubes, surfactants self-assemble into a micelle-like aggregate incorporating the two tubes. The aggregate forms as long as the gap between the tubes is smaller than the core diameter of a bulk micelle.

Comparison of pheochromocytomas and abdominal and pelvic paragangliomas with head and neck paragangliomas.

Objective: To compare clinical, radiologic, and pathologic characteristics, as well as management and outcomes, in a series of pheochromocytomas, abdominal and pelvic paragangliomas, and pelvic paragangliomas with head and neck paragangliomas.

Methods: In this retrospective study, we reviewed charts of all patients seen at our institution between January 1995 and December 2006. We searched pathology and medical record databases under the terms pheochromocytoma, paraganglioma, head and neck tumors, carotid body tumors, glomus jugulare, and neuroendocrine tumors.