[JEWISH MEDICAL STUDENTS FROM THE BRITISH MANDATE OF PALESTINE/ERETZ ISRAEL - THEIR FINAL MD EXAMINATION IN BERLIN DURING THE THIRD REICH].

Two Jewish medical students who were forced to discontinue their study upon the raise of the Nazi regime, returned/ immigrated to Palestine and did their internship in Palestine. A third student, although faced with many procedural limitations, was able to continue most of his studies in Berlin including passing the MD examination. The first two students returned, after some years, to Berlin to sit for the Doctor examination which enabled them to gain a permanent medical license in Palestine.

Pachyvitelliform maculopathy: an optical coherence tomography analysis of a novel entity.

Purpose: To describe the optical coherence tomography features of pachyvitelliform maculopathy (PVM), an acquired vitelliform lesion (AVL) associated with pachychoroid disease.

Methods: This study was a retrospective, multicentre, observational analysis.Medical records and multimodal imaging were reviewed in all patients with pachychoroid disease and AVL.

Reverse shoulder arthroplasty with isolated latissimus dorsi or combined with teres major transfer for lack of external rotation: a comparative study.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to evaluate the clinical and radiological outcomes of reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA) associated with two techniques: L'Episcopo procedure (combined teres major and latissimus dorsi transfer) and modified L'Episcopo procedure (isolated latissimus dorsi transfer).

Methods: A retrospective review of 36 RSAs (mean age 69.8 years; SD 8.

BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine is significantly less effective in patients with hematologic malignancies.

Patients with hematologic malignancies have an increased risk of severe COVID-19 infection. Vaccination against COVID-19 is especially important in these patients, but whether they develop an immune response following vaccination is unknown. We studied serologic responses to the BNT162b2 vaccine in this population.

Oral administration of Domain-I of beta-2glycoprotein-I induces immunological tolerance in experimental murine antiphospholipid syndrome.

It is well established that the humoral immunity in antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is presented by circulating pathogenic anti-β2GPI autoantibodies targeting mainly domain I of the β2GPI protein, playing a major role in the disease pathogenesis. Previously, we have demonstrated that treatment of experimental APS mice with tolerogenic dendritic cells loaded with domain-I was more efficient in tolerance induction than with the whole molecule or domain-V. In the current study we had orally administered a domain-I derivative of the β2GPI molecule, as a new therapeutic approach to induce oral tolerance in this mouse model of APS.

Phosphate binders, appetite and nutritional status in maintenance hemodialysis patients.

Background And Objectives: The potential side effects of common phosphate binders are gastrointestinal in practice. We hypothesized that regular use of phosphate binders may be associated with decreased appetite, dietary intake and consequently, poor nutritional status.

Methods And Study Design: This was cross-sectional study of 78 patients (mean age 67.

In whom does horizontal canal BPPV recur?

The objective of this study is to examine the rate of horizontal canal BPPV recurrence of the same type and search for predisposing factors.

Age modifies the association between serum obestatin, appetite and nutritional status in maintenance hemodialysis patients.

Background/objectives: Increased age is strongly associated with anorexia and protein-energy wasting (PEW) in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) population. We hypothesized that the association of obestatin, a recently discovered anorexigenic gut hormone, with appetite and nutritional status differs by age groups.

Subjects/methods: We performed a cross-sectional study on 261MHD patients.

Improving Adherence in Hospitalized Patients Diagnosed With Schizophrenia: An Integrative One-on-One Intervention.

Objective: This study examined an individualized integrative nursing intervention for improving attitude and adherence.

Methods: The sample included 60 patients, randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. Measures included The Visual Analog Scale for Assessing Treatment Compliance and the Drug Attitude Inventory (DAI- 10).

Decreased IGF-1 levels potentiate association of inflammation with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in prevalent hemodialysis patients.

Objective: Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and inflammation have both been linked to high cardiovascular risk and mortality in the general population, as well as in hemodialysis (HD) patients. We hypothesized that the association of low IGF-1 with chronic inflammation may increase the mortality risk in HD patients.

Design: We investigated the interactions between inflammatory biomarkers (IL-6 and TNF-α) and IGF-1 as predictors of death over a 4 years of follow-up (median--47 months, interquartile range--17.

Anti-GalNAcβ: a novel anti-glycan autoantibody associated with pregnancy loss in women with antiphospholipid syndrome and in a mouse experimental model.

Objectives: We evaluated the presence of anti-glycan antibodies (aGA) in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), and associations between aGA and clinical features of the disease.

Methods: Sera from APS patients and healthy controls were analyzed for aGA levels by ELISA. Analysis of the association of specific aGA with clinical manifestations of APS was performed.

Longitudinal study of leptin levels in chronic hemodialysis patients.

Background: The influence of serum leptin levels on nutritional status and survival in chronic hemodialysis patients remained to be elucidated. We conducted a prospective longitudinal study of leptin levels and nutritional parameters to determine whether changes of serum leptin levels modify nutritional status and survival in a cohort of prevalent hemodialysis patients.

Methods: Leptin, dietary energy and protein intake, biochemical markers of nutrition and body composition (anthropometry and bioimpedance analysis) were measured at baseline and at 6, 12, 18 and 24 months following enrollment, in 101 prevalent hemodialysis patients (37% women) with a mean age of 64.

Evaluation of the effect of trunk tilt on compressive soft tissue deformations under the ischial tuberosities using weight-bearing MRI.

Background: Deep tissue injury is the new acceptable term for deep pressure ulcers. Deep tissue injury of the buttocks is typically caused by sustained soft tissue deformations under the ischial tuberosities. Wheelchair users are at high risk, and although usually laterally tilted, the effect of tilts on tissue deformations is unknown.