BACKGROUND Chronic and inescapable trauma is implicated in the stress-induced analgesia (SIA) response. METHODS A sample of 27 chronically battered women was compared with 28 trauma-exposed nonbattered women on their SIA response at 1 month postindex assault. RESULTS For the battered women sample, the SIA response at 1 month postindex assault was found to significantly predict an increase i...

In the United States, every 7.4 seconds a woman is battered by her husband. Of women who present to emergency departments with traumatic injuries, 16% to 30% report that their injuries were secondary to domestic violence. Not infrequently, battered women's medical and surgical problems are treated by ED staff and the women are released without any intervention directed toward the prevention of ...

case presentation the current report presented an eight-year-old girl with microscopic hematuria and chronic abdominal pain along with short review of anatomy, pathophysiology, clinical significance and management of this syndrome. conclusions the nutcracker syndrome should be differentiated from unexplained chronic abdominal pain. introduction renal vein entrapment, named nutcracker phenomenon...

For a complete list and the full text of the papers in the Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice series, visit the AIC web site at: In order to gain an understanding of the complexities surrounding child abuse and neglect, it is initially necessary to consider the historical context. From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1960s, concern was primarily centred on the protec...

BACKGROUND The relationship between boyhood exposure to physical abuse, sexual abuse, or to a battered mother and subsequent risk of impregnating a teenage girl has not previously been examined. METHODS In a retrospective cohort study set in a primary care clinic for adult members of a large health maintenance organization, questionnaire responses from 4127 men were analyzed. Respondents prov...

The social files and medical records of 98 acutely battered wives who attended a surgical emergency department were studied. Although all women had been hospitalized during the decade preceding the present incident, wife battering was documented in the records in only 18%. The majority of the women (73%) were also known to the social services, but battering was documented in less than half of t...

The Danger Assessment is a clinical and research instrument that has been designed to help battered women assess their danger of homicide. Completing the Danger Assessment with a nurse is conceptualized as a means of increasing the self-care agency of battered women, according to Orem's nursing conceptual framework. The instrument was used in a study of 79 battered women. Results of this study,...

The main goal of this article is to suggest some processes by which the behavioral interactions of an abusive couple can be developed and maintained. A summary of these processes as they have been adapted from the animal analog and human research follows. First, the pairing of abuse (punishment) with love and affection (reinforcement) could indicate that the battered woman responds to the reinf...

introduction h syndrome (omim 612391) is an autosomal recessive disease with some features such as hyperpigmentation, hypertrichosis, heart anomalies, hepatosplenomegaly, hearing deficit, hypogonadism, short stature, flexion contracture of fingers and toes and hypertriglyceridemia. case presentation a 17-year-old boy with hyperpigmented, hypertrichotic and indurated seborrheic keratosis-like cu...