Clinical predictors of outcomes in patients undergoing emergency air medical transport from Kinmen to Taiwan.

Emergency air medical transport (EAMT) is indispensable for acutely or critically ill patients in remote areas. We determined patient-level and transport-specific factors associated with all-cause mortality after EAMT.We conducted a population-based, retrospective cohort study using a prospective registry consisting of clinical/medical records.

Factors Associated With Hyperphagic Behavior in Patients With Dementia Living at Home.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence and patterns of and factors associated with hyperphagic behavior in Taiwanese patients with dementia living at home.

Methods: A cross-sectional and correlational design was used. A total of 104 patients with dementia and their primary caregivers were recruited from the geriatric, neurology, and memory clinics of a regional hospital, a medical center and two day-care centers in central Taiwan.

Infectious pathogens in pediatric patients with primary immunodeficiencies.

Background And Purpose: Primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs) are rare disorders. Unusual infections often guide the initial investigation for immunodeficiency.

Methods: In order to ascertain the organisms that lead to a predisposition for PIDs, we reviewed the charts of 92 children diagnosed with PIDs at the National Taiwan University Hospital between March 1984 and March 2004.

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia with 11 beta-hydroxylase deficiency.

A rare form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), 11 beta-hydroxylase deficiency, may be misdiagnosed as 21-hydroxylase deficiency, the most common form of CAH, because of similar clinical presentations at times and elevated level of 17-hydroxyprogesterone in both conditions. We report a case of 11 beta-hydroxylase deficiency that was originally misdiagnosed as 21-hydroxylase deficiency. Hypertension and hypokalemia complicated with seizures and arrhythmia developed in this 9-year-old girl after abrupt withdrawal of oral dexamethasone but maintenance of fludrocortisone.