PURPOSE ABCD: After Breast Cancer Diagnosis (ABCD) is a Wisconsin-based mentoring service that pairs breast cancer survivors with women recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Since 1999, ABCD has trained volunteers to provide personalized information and emotional support. This review describes participants' perceptions of this survivorship program and its utility for breast cancer patients. ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Transient ischemic attack (TIA) diagnosis is frequently difficult in clinical practice. Noncerebrovascular symptoms are often misclassified as TIA by nonspecialist physicians. Clinical prediction rules such as ABCD(2) improve the identification of patients with TIA at high risk of early stroke. We hypothesized that the ABCD(2) score may partly improve risk stratification ...

The "ABCD" mnemonic to assist non-experts' diagnosis of melanoma is widely promoted; however, there are good reasons to be sceptical about public education strategies based on analytical, rule-based approaches--such as ABCD (i.e. Asymmetry, Border Irregularity, Colour Uniformity and Diameter). Evidence suggests that accurate diagnosis of skin lesions is achieved predominately through non-analyt...

Background and Purpose—Transient ischemic attack (TIA) diagnosis is frequently difficult in clinical practice. Noncerebrovascular symptoms are often misclassified as TIA by nonspecialist physicians. Clinical prediction rules such as ABCD improve the identification of patients with TIA at high risk of early stroke. We hypothesized that the ABCD score may partly improve risk stratification due to...

Amphotericin B colloidal dispersion (ABCD) is a new formulation of conventional amphotericin B designed to minimize drug distribution in the kidney and reduce nephrotoxicity. We studied the safety and efficacy of ABCD in 133 renally compromised patients with invasive fungal infections. Patients had either nephrotoxicity from amphotericin B or preexisting renal disease. Intravenous treatment wit...

Sir, I read with interest the report by Lorentzen et al. describing their evaluation of the ABCD rule compared to simple dermatoscopy in the diagnosis of malignant melanoma (1). As the authors mention, propagation of the ABCD rule is due to its didactic qualities. Another important reason for the attempt to determine exact clinical criteria of a melanomasuspicious, pigmented skin lesion is scie...

Complexing amphotericin B (AmB) with lipids or entrapping it in liposomes may increase its efficacy by reducing toxicity and affecting distribution. However, depending on the lipids involved, interference with antifungal activity has been shown. We compared the in vitro activity of AmB colloidal dispersion by cholesteryl sulfate (ABCD) to the standard AmB deoxycholate suspension (ABDS) against ...

Lessons Learnt in Implementation of ABCD Score in an Emergency Department To the Editor: Sciolla et al’s article1 regarding the prospective validation of the ABCD score is relative to our results. Our group recently reported our own data, which also found the ABCD score highly predictive of stroke (ABCD score of 5 to 6 predicting 4/4 strokes at 7 days and 6/7 at 90 days) and prompted the creati...

A parameter called TDS (Total Dermatoscopic Score), calculated by the wellknown ABCD formula, is frequently used in melanoma diagnosis. In our previous research we found a new formula, similar to the original ABCD formula, that yielded fewer diagnostic errors. This new ABCD formula was developed using data mining techniques, in particular, the rule induction algorithm LEM2, a part of the data m...