BROKEN HEART SYNDROME IN A PATIENT ON MAINTENANCE HEMODIALYSIS

Broken Heart Syndrome in a Patient on Maintenance Hemodialysis

Context: Broken heart syndrome or Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) is a disorder characterized by transient left ventricular apical ballooning that almost invariably precedes emotional or physical stress.Although the patients with chronic kidney disease on Cases hemodialysis have shown to exhibit sustained activity of sympathetic nervous system, the p

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Paraphrenia: a lost concept

Introduction Paraphrenia consists on a syndrome of insidious development with a chronic delirium of great phenomenological richness, predominating productive or delusional-hallucinatory forms and with time it evolves to pure fabulation.Delusions appear in 100% of cases predominating persecution, reference and false identifications.It is a classic t

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Manifestation of Socio-Cultural Components in the Informal Oral Communication Practices of the Teaching and Non-Teaching Personnel in the Philippines: An Ethnographic Inquiry

Communication is immensely dynamic in the 21st century as evidenced by the fast-changing communication mechanisms.However, global trends show that oral communication skills are still considered among the most desired skills that employers are seeking in the workplace.Thus, there is a need to explore the manifestation of the socio-cultural component

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Foot-and-mouth disease dynamics in multi-species livestock systems at the interface of African protected areas

Abstract Many pathogens have the capacity to infect multiple hosts.Multi-species epidemiological systems are characterized by populations that interact and perform different functions in pathogen transmission and maintenance.This study investigated the epidemiological dynamics of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus in cattle and goats and their resp

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