Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a familial angiodysplastic disorder. Dermal, mucosal, and visceral vascular lesions of this disorder are well known. However, central nervous system (CNS) manifestations, occurring in as many as one-third of patients, have not been well appreciated until recently. The etiology of neurologic symptomatology includes hypoxemia or ischemia secondary to...

Pachnis, V., P. Durbec, S. Taraviras, M. Grigoriou, and D. Natarajan. Neural Injury, Repair, and Adaptation in the GI Tract. III. Role of the RET signal transduction pathway in development of the mammalian enteric nervous system. Am. J. Physiol. 275 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 38): G183–G186, 1998.—The enteric nervous system (ENS) in vertebrates is derived from the neural crest and constitute...

The epidermal nevus syndrome (ENS) is an uncommon neurocutaneous disorder in which epidermal nevi are found in association with congenital abnormalities of the brain, eye, and/or skeleton. The association of epidermal nevi and neurologic abnormalities was comprehensively described by Schimmelpenning in 1957. Pavone et al. (1991) identified a homogeneous variant of ENS with hemimegalencephaly, g...

This article presents a study of the French-speaking digital humanities. It is based on experience two research engineers from French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) who have been studying these issues last ten years. They conducted survey at École Normale Supérieure (ENS-Paris) which enabled them to draw up an overview transformation profession humanities and social sciences in ...

e Abstract—Emergency nurses (ENs) typically place peripheral intravenous (IV) lines, but if repeated attempts fail, patients usually receive central line access. To measure the effect of ultrasound (US) guidance on the perceived difficulty of EN peripheral IV access in Emergency Department patients, a prospective observational study was conducted of ENs in a level I trauma center with a census ...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to describe the nursing staff's opinion of caring for older persons with dementia with the focus on causes of falls, fall-preventing interventions, routines of documentation and report and the nursing staff's experiences and reactions when fall incidents occur. A further aim was to compare these areas between registered nurses (RNs) and enrolled nurses (ENs)...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the outcomes of surgical intervention for empty nose syndrome (ENS). DATA SOURCE Cochrane Collaboration database, U.S National Institutes of Health database (ClinicalTrials), U.S National Library of Medicine (PubMed). REVIEW METHODS Structured search using medical subject-heading terms: nose, turbinate, surgery, atrophic rhinitis, and empty nose syndrome. RESULTS A t...