Physical or mental exertion is an important antecedent to dissection. A fall is one of the causes of hip fracture in the elderly population. We report the case of a 78-year-old woman who was diagnosed to have a thrombosed aortic dissection after a fall. We wish to emphasize with this case report that aortic dissection should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients who complain o...

The word ‘psoriasis’, is derived from the Greek word “psora” meaning “itch” or “scurf” or “rash”, although most patients suffering from the condition do not complain of itching. It has been known since ancient times and was originally considered a type of leprosy. For quite some time now, it is one of the most common human skin diseases. Up to a few deca‐ des back, psoriasis was considered to b...

Cases of sprue-like enteropathy associated with olmesartan have sporadically been encountered since it was first reported in 2012, and their most characteristic manifestation is severe diarrhea. We herein report the first case of sprue-like enteropathy manifesting as Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome due to vitamin B1 malabsorption with only minimally increased bowel movements. When patients are rece...

and therefore failure to investigate it early is more often due to the doctor's shortcomings than to those of the patient. Secondly, of all the various symptoms of which a patient may complain and which may be difficult to localise, haematuria at least fixes the urinary tract as the source of the symptoms. Thirdly, and I think this is important) although haematuria is a very common symptom to a...

In this study the antecedents and the consequences of agro-food products consumers' dissatisfaction is studied. Particularly, the main reasons for triggering dissatisfaction are identified and ranked. Moreover, the consumers complaining behavior is also studied and the level of e-complaining adoption is investigated. Additionally, consumers future intentions to complain traditionally or electro...

Older patients frequently complain of difficulty initiating sleep, sleep maintenance or excessive daytime sleepiness, while bed partners or caretakers are distraught by episodes of nocturnal confusion or belligerence. Sleep disorders may represent a primary disorder of mechanisms regulating sleep or failure of a specific organ system manifesting in a unique way during sleep. Sleep complaints sh...

Although they complain that qualitative proposals are not reviewed fairly when funding agencies use quantitative criteria, qualitative researchers have failed the system by not developing alternative criteria for the evaluation of qualitative proposals. In this article, the author corrects this deficit by presenting criteria to assess the relevance, rigor, and feasibility of qualitative researc...

But, some of patients complain of uncontrolled persistent chronic pain and progressive collapse of vertebral body, post-traumatic kyphosis with or without neurologic deficits. It is well known that osteoporotic fracture is also associated with significant morbidity and mortality in postmenopausal women.8-12 There was an approximate 2-fold increase in risk of death following any clinical fractur...

The frequency of poor sleep increases with age. Yet, not all poor sleepers complain of insomnia. Our Cognitive Model of Insomnia predicts that sleep complaints in poor sleepers are a function of negative thinking during nocturnal wakefulness. To test the Model, we examined thoughts of two large samples of older individuals. Results support the model: negative thoughts were closely related to po...