A Retrospective Look at TPN with Pancreatitis: Do Recommendations Match Guidelines? (P12-036-19)

A Brief Retrospective Look at the Cayley-Purser Public-key Cryptosystem, 19 Years Later

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the CayleyPurser algorithm, which is a public-key cryptosystem proposed by Flannery in 1999. I will present two attacks on it, one of which is apparently new. I will also examine a variant of the Cayley-Purser algorithm that was patented by Slavin in 2008, and show that it is also insecure.

A retrospective look at the medical curriculum.

The Baconian concept that knowledge makes perfect and more knowledge makes more perfect is no longer feasible. The quantity and rate with which new information is being added is phenomenal. Moreover, the whole field is in a state of flux. Concepts are being discarded to be replaced by new ones and facts are piling up. The “Learner’s load has become impossible.” Educationists including those inv...

Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) Presenting with Severe Acute Pancreatitis: A Case Report from Iran

The 2019 Coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) has spread to over two hundred countries worldwide, affecting > 170 million people and causing >3,500,000 deaths (May 29, 2021). Severe COVID-19 disease mostly disturbs the respiratory system, but gastrointestinal symptoms, including vomiting, nausea and diarrhea, are also present. Herein, we are reporting a COVID-19 patient with acute pancreatit...

Do decision-analytic models identify cost-effective treatments? A retrospective look at helicobacter pylori eradication.

BACKGROUND Pharmacoeconomic models of Helicobacter (H) pylori eradication have been frequently cited but never validated. OBJECTIVE Examine retrospectively whether H pylori pharmacoeconomic models direct decision makers to cost-effective therapeutic choices. METHODS We first replicated and then validated 2 models, replacing model assumptions with empirical data from a multipayer claims data...

A retrospective look at A-V nodal rhythms (A Zahn).