Background
The state hospital at Goldsboro opened in 1880 as North Carolina’s first institution to serve the Black mentally ill, and was the second such institution to open in the American South. And while there is a growing historiography on asylums...
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One of the most challenging groups of patients seen by neurologists today are those experiencing convulsive, seizure-like episodes – but in whom no abnormal neurologic activity is found. Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures sit at the...
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is more prevalent in female patients and is frequently diagnosed during reproductive years. Patients with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) have a decreased risk of relapse during pregnancy and this risk increases...
ABSTRACT
Background: Osteocutaneous fibula free flaps (FFFs) are a fundamental component of reconstructive surgery in the head and neck region, particularly following traumatic injuries or oncologic resections. Despite their utility, FFFs are...
Background: This study describes the illness burden in the first year of life for children with single-ventricle heart disease, using the metric of days alive and out of hospital to characterize morbidity and mortality.
Methods: This is a...
Background. Persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have increased risk of cardiometabolic disease. The Supervised Weight loss and Exercise Training for Rheumatoid Arthritis (SWET-RA) trial demonstrated improved RA cardiometabolic risk with a weight...
Background: While exercising underwater, divers experience increased ventilatory load which can predispose them to respiratory muscle fatigue and hypercapnia. Hypercapnic ventilatory response (HCVR) is a highly variable measure of the physiological...
Background: Alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) is a rare condition most frequently caused by mutations in ATP1A3, encoding for the alpha-3 subunit of Na+/K+-ATPase, and D801N is the most common variant. Individuals with ATP1A3-D801N have shorter...
Background: Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is associated with high rates of intrinsic conduction disease. Patients with CA and cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) have demonstrated an eventual reliance on ventricular pacing, regardless of initial...
Background: Laboratory rats are used as the standard animal model for studying liver transplantation (LT) due to their size facilitating microsurgery and easy handling, genome similarity to humans, and post-LT immune responses being similar to that of...