Central venous catheters play an important role in patient care in intensive care units (ICUs), but their use comes at the risk of catheter-related infections (CRIs). Electronic surveillance systems can detect CRIs more accurately than manual surveillance, but these systems often omit patients that do not exhibit all infection signs to their full degree, the so-called borderline group. By exten...

• Cognitive and clinical insight very first evaluation in borderline personality disorder. Hard to treat disorder such as has good level. Borderline, schizoprenic bipolar patients are equal on cognitive insight. stands a great predictor for traits importance. Borderline Personality (BPD) hard the We investigate level differences between BPD patient results from literature regarding other disord...

Borderline tumors have a histological aspect of atypical epithelial proliferation without stromal invasion and typically occur in fertile ages, approximately one-third of women diagnosed are younger than 40. Serous borderline tumors are the most encountered and they can present micropapillary features that are associated with a higher rate of recurrence and the possibility of peritoneal implant...

  Background :Co-morbid psychiatric disorders affect prognosis, psychosocial adjustment and post-surgery satisfaction in patients with gender identity disorder. In this paper, we assessed the frequency of personality disorders in Iranian GID patients.   Methods : Seventy- three patients requesting sex reassignment surgery (SRS) were recruited for this cross- sectional study. Of the participan...

BACKGROUND The full version of the Borderline Symptom List (BSL; for clarification now labeled BSL-95) is a self-rating instrument for specific assessment of borderline-typical symptomatology. The BSL-95 items are based on criteria of the DSM-IV, the revised version of the Diagnostic Interview for Borderline Personality Disorder, and the opinions of both clinical experts and borderline patients...

INTRODUCTION Reliable assessment of clinical significance of borderline angiographic lesions found within the left main coronary artery (LM) is often impossible. Measurement of fractional flow reserve (FFR) is commonly used to verify borderline stenoses of the coronary arteries. However, the usefulness of FFR measurements has been validated only for arteries other than the LM. AIM Evaluation ...

Borderline para-ovarian cysts (PCs) are rare entities. They are commonly present in the third decade. Borderline PCs are often discovered fortuitously on routine ultrasound examination or they are common incidental findings during a laparotomy. They must be differentiated from simple ovarian cysts, peritoneal inclusion cysts and hydrosalpinges on ultrasound sonography. Papillary projections on ...

Although paratubal cysts are well-characterized incidental findings, paratubal serous borderline tumors are very rare, with only one case report in the literature. We describe here a 27-year-old, nulliparous, married woman with a paratubal serous borderline tumor. The patient presented with a huge pelvic mass accompanied by flank pain and underwent paratubal cystectomy and fertility-sparing sur...

INTRODUCTION Benign multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma is an extremely rare tumor that occurs mainly in women in their reproductive age. Its preoperative diagnosis and adequate treatment are quite difficult to attain. CASE PRESENTATION Our patient was a 23-year-old Japanese woman who had a history of right oophorectomy and left ovarian cystectomy for an ovarian tumor at 20 years of age. The ...