Enterococcus gallinarum Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in an HCV Cirrhotic by Hussein Abidali, Maheen Sheikh, Moustapha Abidali, Ali Abidali, Hamoudi S. Farraji, Andrew C. Berry

“…We present the case of a 60-year-old Caucasian male with history of hepatitis C viral cirrhosis with portosystemic encephalopathy and ascites with evidence of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) with absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of 944 cells/µL blood. …”
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Lymphoma-Associated Monoclonal Cryoglobulinemic Glomerulonephritis and Relationship with Hepatitis C Virus Infection: A Case Report by Sangeeta Mutnuri, Hania Kassem, John Badalamenti, You-Wen Qian, Christopher Marquez, Marjan Afrouzian

“…We report a case of type I cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis in a patient with chronic hepatitis C who presented with acute renal failure. …”
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A Case of Aortic Dissection Presenting with Atypical Symptoms and Diagnosed with Transthoracic Echocardiography by Mahdis Solhjoo, Supreeya Swarup, Amgad N. Makaryus

“…We present a case of an extensive aortic dissection (AD) identified in a woman with atypical symptoms. …”
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A Case of Malaria Predisposing to Salmonella Bacteremia in a Returning Traveler from Nigeria by Robert Jakubowski, Lisa L. Steed, Susan E. Dorman, Camelia Marculescu

“…We describe a febrile adult returning to the U.S. from Nigeria. …”
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Affect and Metaphor Sensing in Virtual Drama by Li Zhang, John Barnden

“…We report our developments on metaphor and affect sensing for several metaphorical language phenomena including affects as external entities metaphor, food metaphor, animal metaphor, size metaphor, and anger metaphor. …”
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Delayed Diagnosis of Traumatic Rupture of Anterior Papillary Muscle of Tricuspid Valve; Importance of Trans-Esophageal Echocardiogram in the Evaluation of Major Blunt Chest Trauma by Ryan Bylsma, Mustafa Baldawi, Bruce Toporoff, Matthew Shin, Meghan Cochran-Yu, Davinder Ramsingh, Purvi Parwani, David G. Rabkin

“…We present a case of delayed diagnosis of traumatic tricuspid valve rupture in a patient who was emergently brought to the operating room for repair of lacerations to the heart and liver without intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). …”
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A Case of Acute Hepatitis E Infection in a Patient with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Treated Successfully with Ribavirin by Hasan N. Y. Haboubi, Rizwan Diyar, Ann Benton, Chin Lye Ch’ng

“…We present the case of a man who, following immunosuppressive treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, became infected with viral hepatitis E. …”
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Quantum Barnes Function as the Partition Function of the Resolved Conifold by Sergiy Koshkin

“…We give a short new proof of large N duality between the Chern-Simons invariants of the 3-sphere and the Gromov-Witten/Donaldson-Thomas invariants of the resolved conifold. …”
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Relationship between Fujikawa’s Method and the Background Field Method for the Scale Anomaly by Chris L. Lin, Carlos R. Ordóñez

“…We show the equivalence between Fujikawa’s method for calculating the scale anomaly and the diagrammatic approach to calculating the effective potential via the background field method, for an O(N) symmetric scalar field theory. …”
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Solitary-wave propagation and interactions for a sixth-order generalized Boussinesq equation by Bao-Feng Feng, Takuji Kawahara, Taketomo Mitsui, Youn-Sha Chan

“…We study the solitary waves and their interaction for a six-order generalized Boussinesq equation (SGBE) both numerically and analytically. …”
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Equation of the fixed membrane in the n-dimensional space: some remarks on the maxima of the eigenfunctions subjected to various norms by Yves Biollay

“…We show in this paper that the sequence {max|uk|}, where the uk are the eigenfunctions of the problem Δu+λu=0 in D⊂Rn and u=0 on ∂D, is not bounded generally if one imposes the norm ∫Du2p(x)dx=1, p=(1),2,3,…. …”
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Differentiable semigroups are Lie groups by John P. Holmes, Mitch Anderson

“…We present here a modern, detailed proof to the following theorem which was introduced by Garrett Birkhoff [1] in 1938. …”
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Hippocampal Neurogenesis and the Brain Repair Response to Brief Stereotaxic Insertion of a Microneedle by Shijie Song, Shuojing Song, Chuanhai Cao, Xiaoyang Lin, Kunyu Li, Vasyl Sava, Juan Sanchez-Ramos

“…We tested the hypothesis that transient microinjury to the brain elicits cellular and humoral responses that stimulate hippocampal neurogenesis. …”
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Modal Appropriation for Use with In-Operation Modal Analysis by M. Abdelghani, D. J. Inman

“…We propose in this paper a numerical modal appropriation method for use with in-operation modal analysis (INOPMA). …”
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Using Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography to Monitor Disease Progression in Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis by Aakriti Garg, Joaquin De Rojas, Priya Mathews, Albert Hazan, James Lin, Danielle Trief, Leejee H. Suh

“…We report two cases of peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK) imaged with anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT). …”
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Eikenella corrodens Sepsis with Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis in a Very Low Birth Weight Neonate by Christopher Sawyer, Dimitrios Angelis, Robert Bennett

“…We report a case of Eikenella corrodens sepsis associated with CSF pleocytosis in a very low birth weight neonate. …”
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Near-Miss Diagnoses of Solitary Bladder Tumors Highlight the Importance of Immunohistochemical Staining by Van Schloegel, Syed M. Alam, Katie Dennis, Jeffrey Holzbeierlein, John A. Taylor III

“…We report three cases of prostate adenocarcinoma appearing as bladder masses and misdiagnosed as muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). …”
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Neurobehavioral Aspects of the Delayed Encephalopathy of Carbon Monoxide Intoxication: Case Report and Review by M. F. Mendez, R. C. Doss

“…We report the neurobehavioral aspects of the delayed encephalopathy of carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication in a 29 year old woman and review the literature. …”
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A case of lead migration after sacral neuromodulation with erosion into the rectum by Bridget S. Kastelberg, Madeline C. Donnelly, George B. Smallfield, III, Stephen P. Sharp, Laura R. Carucci, Adam P. Klausner

“…We present a case of a 73-year-old female with medication refractory overactive bladder treated with the InterStim® sacral neuromodulation device. …”
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Severe Human Intestinal Spirochetosis: An Unusual Cause of Diffuse Colonic Ulcerations in a Patient Living with HIV by T. A. Ajose, J. Aniekwena, V. S. Effoe, M. Simien

“…We describe a case of a homosexual male with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and CD4 count of 246 presenting with acute severe bloody diarrhea. …”
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