AIMS The purpose of this study was to examine whether patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have a higher rate of new onsets of substance use disorders (SUD) than do patients with other personality disorders (OPD). DESIGN This study uses data from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorder Study (CLPS), a prospective naturalistic study with reliable repeated measures ov...

A temporal phase-unwrapping algorithm has been developed for the analysis of dynamic interference patterns generated with interference-contrast microscopy in micromachined picoliter vials. These vials are etched in silicon dioxide, have a typical depth of 6 mm, and are filled with a liquid sample. In this kind of microscopy, fringe patterns are observed at the air–liquid interface. These fringe...

Catalytic nanomaterials, widely used as substitutes of peroxidase, exhibit unique properties, which are unattainable for native enzymes. However, their activity is usually examined by means of substrates developed and methods standardized for horseradish peroxidase (HRP). The aim of the presented work was to determine the scope of usefulness of chromogenic substrates for gold nanoparticle (AuNP...

There is no established single diagnostic marker for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). CD26 is a 110 kDa, multifunctional, membrane-bound glycoprotein that has dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV) enzyme activity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical significance of soluble CD26 (sCD26) in patients with MPM. The study included 80 MPM patients, 79 subjects with past asbestos exposur...

BACKGROUND Acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) are a common reason for antibiotic overuse worldwide. We previously showed that over 80% of outpatients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka with influenza-like illness received antibiotic prescriptions, although almost half were later confirmed to have influenza. The purpose of this qualitative study was to assess Sri Lankan ...

OBJECTIVE To observe and compare the Tympanic Temperature (TT) readings with the Oral Mercury Thermometer (OMT) in an OPD setting. STUDY DESIGN Observational comparative study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Outpatient Department, Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, from June to September 2008. METHODOLOGY By consecutive sampling, 2000 OPD patients were included in the study. Both t...

Few reports have described the use of endoscopic vacuum therapy (EVT) for duodenal defects [1–4]. We treated a complicated duodenal leak with EVT using the pull-through technique with a new type of open-pore polyurethanefoam drain (OPD) [5] and a novel type of open-pore film drain (OFD). Construction of an OFD is shown in ▶Video1. First the distal ends of two drainage tubes (Ventrol; 12–18Fr × ...

A 55 year old female came to Skin OPD with extensive pruritic annular papules and plaques over both upper limbs, lower limbs, back and abdomen. Biopsy from one of the lesion confirmed histopathologiclly Granuloma annulare. This case is being presented for its extensive skin involvement without any systemic disorder.