introduction dilated cardiomyopathy (dcm) is the leading cause of heart failure and arrhythmia. case presentation a 47-year-old male, diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, died due to heart failure. during the screening of his family members, his 17-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son also had dilated cardiomyopathy. another daughter had died suddenly at the age of 12 years. conclusions we he...

Children in single-parent families, particularly children born to unmarried parents, are at high risk for experiencing material hardship. Previous research based on cross-sectional data suggests that father involvement, especially visitation, diminishes hardship. This article uses longitudinal data to examine the associations between nonresident fathers' involvement with their children and mate...

human parvovirus (hpv) b19 induced aplastic crisis in a family leading to the diagnosis of hereditary spherocytosis (hs) is a very rare condition being barely reported in the literature. we herein report a 4-year-old girl, her brother, and their mother who all presented with progressive pallor and jaundice after a febrile illness. the hpv b19 was diagnosed using polymerase chain reaction (pcr) ...

Widow remarriage practices in the Punjab-Haryana region of northern India are described as frequently mismatched and undesirable alliances, without widow choice, which serve to support the practice of polygamy. The average spacing between arranged spouses could be 10 years, with the younger spouse being the brother-in-law (this customary practice of remarriage within the husbands' family is ca...

background: alkaptonuria is a rare genetic disease leading to the accumulation of homogentesic acid in joint and ear cartilage, sclera and some other tissues causing significant morbidity in these patients. in this paper, we report three cases of alkaptonuria among the family or household members. case presentation: a 51-year-old man with mechanical low back and knee pain was referred to rheuma...

this research investigates the extent of intimacy among family members and the social elements effective on it. to start with, the intimacy has been defined on the basis of the present theoretical issues and its status among family members has been examined through some elements. accordingly, it has been studied some elements such as the self-reliance, satisfaction of the needs, coherence, as w...

congenital recessive myotonia is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in clcn1, which codes for the main skeletal muscle chloride channel clc-1. more than 120 mutations have been found in this gene. the main feature of this disorder is muscle membrane hyperexcitability. here, we report a 59-year male patient suffering from congenital myotonia. he had transient generalized myotonia, which...

To understand the role of family emotional socialization across cultural contexts, this research examined associations between expressiveness and early adolescents' emotions in United States China. Two times over course 1 year, 566 American (n = 331) Chinese 235) adolescents (age range: 11–14 years) reported on their members' expressiveness, which was further categorized into three facets (i.e....