Four cases of polyarthritis concomitant with active tuberculosis is reported. In three patients pulmonary tuberculosis was confirmed by identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage specimens, and in another one tuberculous lymphadenitis was confirmed by excisional biopsy. In all patients arthritis resolved by tuberculosis treatment and did not recur ...

Canine brachycephalic airway syndrome is a progressive disease that affects many brachycephalic dogs. This article describes the components of this syndrome and focuses on acute emergency management and long-term conservative management of these patients. Surgical management is described in a companion article. Canine Brachycephalic Airway Syndrome: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Nonsurgical M...

A 55-year-old, menopausal woman with history of breast carcinoma was referred for recurrent abdominal pain without diarrhea. Physical examination, routine biological investigation, and serum CA15-3 were normal. Abdominal contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) found a 15-mm ileal hyper-vascularized lesion mild intestinal dilation mesenteric mass about 20 mm. Both ovaries moderately enlarged ...

Background: Atherosclerosis-related inflammation fulfils the three required Koch’s postulates to be considered as an autoimmune disease. Accordingly, several auto-antibodies have been associated with an increased cardiovascular (CV) risk suggesting that they could be of help for cardiovascular risk stratification in the future. Aims: to compare the prognostic accuracies of auto-antibodies to β2...

This article studies the features of co-movements of prices and production between six CEECs recently joined the EU and the euro zone. More precisely, based partially on the methodology suggested by Alesina, Barro and Tenreyro [2002], we evaluate the size and the persistence of prices and outputs shocks between each CEECs and euro zone. Results will contribute to the debate around the participa...

Background Fractures of the tibial eminence, first described by Poncet in 1875, are bony avulsions of the ACL from its insertion on the intercondylar eminence of the tibia (Figure 1). Tibial eminence fractures are relatively rare with an incidence of approximately 3 per 100,000 per year, and account for 2 to 5% of knee injuries in the pediatric pediatric population. While most commonly seen in ...

Relative risk aversion (RRA) of consumption (RRAC) differs from RRA of wealth (RRAW) is an empirical fact explained in the study of Meyer and Meyer (2005). However dynamic consumption/ investment problems are only solved in the finance literature when both RRA equal (RRAC = RRAW). Following the martingale route, we derive optimal consumption and investment solutions for a (CRRA) investor when b...