Irresistible joys and discouraging pitfalls in diagnosing personality disorders

Pitfalls in diagnosing acute pancreatitis.

We thank Jolobe for his letter (Gut 2005;54:1207–8) which mentions the difficulty of establishing the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis in patients with diabetic ketoacidosis. We did not address diagnostic tests and medical intensive care treatment of acute pancreatitis in our article, but reviewed the interventional and surgical treatment strategies in acute pancreatitis. There is no doubt that ...

Pitfalls in diagnosing acute pancreatitis

We thank Jolobe for his letter (Gut 2005;54:1207–8) which mentions the difficulty of establishing the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis in patients with diabetic ketoacidosis. We did not address diagnostic tests and medical intensive care treatment of acute pancreatitis in our article, but reviewed the interventional and surgical treatment strategies in acute pancreatitis. There is no doubt that ...

Pitfalls in diagnosing coeliac disease.

AIMS To highlight the pitfalls in the diagnosis of coeliac disease and to make recommendations for its diagnosis and the management of refractory cases with equivocal histology. METHODS Six patients, referred since 1989 with a diagnosis of coeliac disease based on duodenal biopsy specimens taken at endoscopy, and who failed to respond to a gluten-free diet were studied. All patients were subj...

Personality Modeling: Potential and Pitfalls

Personality affects the responses of users to many things, so would be very useful for user adaptation. Since assessing personality requires long questionnaires that may not be practical or can be falsified, there is a need for techniques that infer personality from other user artifacts. This research field is too new to have established best practice research procedures. Pitfalls include overf...

Diagnosing borderline personality disorder.