A 28-year-old right-handed male presented in December 2012 with complaints of numbness in the right arm and leg. Neurological examination revealed right hemiparesis and hemihypoesthesia. He had a history of epilepsy, and his mother had Sjogren syndrome. He reported that the numbness in the right arm and leg had started 2 years ago and he was then diagnosed with vasculitis, and thus, was adminis...

Systemic autoimmune and autoinflammatory disease are associated with all types of diffuse kidney disease, that is, glomerulonephritis (including rapidly progressive), thrombotic microangiopathy, tubulointerstitial nephritis, AA-amyloidosis. However, the occurrence nephropathies differ significantly in patients various systemic immunemediated inflammatory diseases. For example, is one leading ma...

In preparing for today’s address, I have been spending quite some time reflecting on the unusual trials and triumphs that have characterized the history of laparoscopic surgery. Through these ruminations, it was with special gratitude that I reflected upon SLS, recalling how, even when the role of operative laparoscopy had yet to be clearly defined, let alone fully accepted, SLS stood as anunwa...