Recognizing and Managing Multiple Organizational Approaches

Recognizing and Managing Multiple Organizational Approaches

Recognizing and managing fibromuscular dysplasia.

Fibromuscular dysplasia typically occurs in young women and most commonly presents with hypertension, transient ischemic attack, stroke, or an asymptomatic cervical bruit. The disease is nonatherosclerotic and noninflammatory and most often affects the renal and carotid arteries, although almost any artery can be involved. On angiography, affected blood vessels characteristically resemble a str...

Managing Kowledge at Multiple Organizational Levels Using Faceted Ontologies

Despite the relative maturity of knowledge management the problem of facilitating knowledge creation and sharing at multiple levels (personal, team, organizational and interorganizational) in a uniform way is still crucial. Moreover, managing knowledge at each organizational level implies a number of critical heterogeneities (representational, semantic, etc) which current solutions cannot addre...

Emerging Approaches for Validating and Managing Multiple Sclerosis Relapse

The autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by relapses in the majority of patients. A definitive clinical diagnosis of relapse in MS can be complicated by the presence of an infection or comorbid disorder. In this mini-review, we describe efforts to develop enhanced imaging techniques and biomarker detection as future tools for relapse validation. There is emerging evidence...

Recognizing and Managing Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries

Physicians may be unfamiliar with posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) injuries because the PCL is injured far less frequently than the anterior cruciate ligament and the injury may have a subtle presentation. Contact sport athletes and persons involved in motor vehicle collisions often are affected. PCL injuries frequently occur in conjunction with damage to other capsuloligamentous structures of...