100,000 genomes pilot on rare-disease diagnosis in health care ? preliminary report

Diagnosis of Asthma in Primary Health Care: A Pilot Study

Some patients with an asthma diagnosis have a poor controlled asthma. One explanation may be an incorrect diagnosis. Aim. The aim of the study was to diagnose and classify patients with non-infectious lower respiratory tract problems in primary health care using internationally applied diagnostic criteria and diagnostic tests. Patients and Methods. New adult patients visiting a primary health c...

An Approach to Management of Health Care and Medical Diagnosis Using of a Hybrid Disease Diagnosis System

Introduction: In order to simplify the information exchange within the medical diagnosis process, a collaborative software agent’s framework is presented. The purpose of the framework is to allow the automated information exchange between different medicine specialists. Methods: This study presented architecture of a hybrid disease diagnosis system. The architecture employed a learning...

Preliminary report on somatostatin receptor imaging in rare endocrine tumours.

Our preliminary experience of Somatostatin Receptor Positive Tumour Scintigraphy (SRPTS) in the management of some rare neuroendocrine tumours is highlighted. Six patients were evaluated using SRPTS. A single patient each with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, recurrent medullary carcinoma of thyroid and Stage IV neuroblastoma. Two patients with phaeochromocytoma, and one patient with suspected insul...

Prepubertal Diagnosis of Klinefelter Syndrome: A Rare Case Report

Klinefelter syndrome is characterised by advancing testicular function deterioration causing aspermatogenesis and androgen deficiency. Klinefelter patients characteristically have complete male sex differentiation, and genital anomalies are infrequently associated. Penoscrotal malformations at birth are very rare in this syndrome. Nonetheless, it is important to know the association, as one of...

Pilot study of childhood accidents: preliminary report.