Cutaneous mucormycosis involving a colostomy site.

Cutaneous mucormycosis is a rapidly advancing fungal infection that most commonly occurs due to airborne spread or direct inoculation and requires early detection and prompt treatment for optimal survival. Major risk factors include diabetes, transplantations, malignancies, surgical procedures, and HIV. Diagnostic criteria are based on microscopy and culture.

New Model for Osteoporosis Risk Screening Using Emergency Department Visits.

Background Even though osteoporosis is the most common bone disease in the United States, it is frequently underscreened and underdiagnosed. In this study, we aimed to utilize the Emergency Department to conduct preemptive osteoporosis risk screening and assess the risk associated with gender and race based on a statistical analysis of survey responses. Methodology Patients >40 years of age presenting at two Emergency Departments were eligible.

Bernard J. Miller: MD, ScD. (Hon), FACS: Lifelong Surgeon-Scientist and Critical Contributor to the Gibbon Heart-Lung Machine.

Bernard J. Miller, MD, ScD. (Hon), FACS, is known as a critical contributor for his work in the John H.

A Cheek Mass in a 5-Year-Old Child.

Objectives: To describe the management of a 5-year old female with a painless, mobile cheek mass.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of presentation, imaging, pathology and management.

Results: Magnetic resonance imaging showed a heterogenous mass with solid and lipomatous components.

Risk Factors of Recurrent Falls Among Older Adults Admitted to the Trauma Surgery Department.

Falls affect more than 29 million American adults ages ≥65 years annually. Many older adults experience recurrent falls requiring medical attention. These recurrent falls may be prevented through screening and intervention.

Physician adherence to 'Seattle' and 'International' ECG criteria in adolescent athletes: An analysis of compliance by specialty, experience, and practice environment.

Background: Screening electrocardiography (ECG) for athletes is both controversial and rapidly evolving. While identifying an abnormal ECG could detect a serious cardiovascular disease, falsely interpreting a benign ECG pattern as abnormal can lead to unnecessary testing, cost, and anxiety. Though recent refinements of athlete screening ECG criteria have significantly improved its accuracy, in clinical practice physician adherence to these criteria may vary.

Parameters of cardiac symptoms in young athletes using the Heartbytes database.

: To determine clinical parameters that are related to abnormal cardiac symptoms in physically active youth. : We used Simon's Heart Heartbytes National Youth Cardiac Registry to collect data from adolescent athletes in southeastern Pennsylvania. We collected age, race/ethnicity, abnormal cardiac symptoms, medical history, medication use, caffeine intake, and family history.

Complete Genome of Bacillus subtilis Myophage Grass.

Bacillus subtilis is a ubiquitous Gram-positive model organism. Here, we describe the complete genome of B. subtilus myophage Grass.

The human serum proteome: display of nearly 3700 chromatographically separated protein spots on two-dimensional electrophoresis gels and identification of 325 distinct proteins.

Plasma, the soluble component of the human blood, is believed to harbor thousands of distinct proteins, which originate from a variety of cells and tissues through either active secretion or leakage from blood cells or tissues. The dynamic range of plasma protein concentrations comprises at least nine orders of magnitude. Proteins involved in coagulation, immune defense, small molecule transport, and protease inhibition, many of them present in high abundance in this body fluid, have been functionally characterized and associated with disease processes.