Diabetes is a disease that affects about 422 million people in the world. It is associated with serious chronic complications, among which the diabetic foot stands out due to the rapidity with which it deteriorates the quality of life of these patients and can even lead to death.

Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of the application of the Tardivo Algorithm as a predict method for amputation risk in patients with diabetic foot.

Methods: The Tardivo Algorithm was designed to indicate the approximate risk of amputation in patients with diabetic foot injuries. Several parameters are used for their calculation, such as the staging of the lesions using the Wagner classification, the determination of peripheral arterial disease (using the ankle-arm index) and specifying the location of the ulcers. Based on their score system, we place patients in three categories: elevated amputation risk 12-32 points, moderate 8-11 and low 2-7 points.

Results: Twenty-four patients with mean age of 62 ± 9.8 years, were evaluated in the Diabetic Foot Sub-Unit during June to October 2015 and when using the Tardivo Algorithm, was found with a score of 12-32 points at 42% (n:10), a score of 8-11 to 25% (n:6) and a score of 2-7 to 33% (n:8) of the patients evaluated. Subsequently, in March 2016, 40% (n:4) of high risk patients were amputated, as were 17% (n:1) with medium risk.

Conclusion: The use of the Tardivo algorithm allowed us to make a prognosis of amputation risk and thus facilitate intensive treatment to prevent this serious complication.

In this study we have analyzed 20 Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS) and 20 control group. The gene HPRT1 analyzed in terms of genetic mutation made. In this study, people who have genetic mutation were targeted, with nervous disorders, Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS). In fact, of all people with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS) 20 Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS) had a genetic mutation in the gene HPRT1 Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS). Any genetic mutations in the target genes control group did not show

One of the aims of clinical and investigative dermatology is to develop a model of the processes underlying normal belief generation and evaluation, and to explain delusions such as delusional parasitosis in terms of impairments to processes implicated in this model of normal functioning. Clinical and investigative dermatology can be viewed, in this sense, as a branch of cognitive neuropsychiatry, which is in turn a branch of cognitive neuropsychology, a field that investigates disordered cognition as a means of learning more about normal cognition.

Depression is one of the most frequent mental disorders in clinical practice, which has been closely associated with impaired daily functioning and quality of life, and increased morbidity and mortality. Although depression has been related to a wide spectrum of medical conditions, the link with Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) appears to be particularly robust in regards to epidemiology and pathophysiology. Indeed, depression and CVD may share a common mechanistic continuum via the molecular phenomena featured in a chronic stress response. In this regard, chronic inflammation, insulin resistance and dysregulation of thrombogenesis may be instrumental in the neurobiological “slippery slope” from chronic stress to depression, and further, to cardiometabolic disease. This article summarizes current knowledge on the pathophysiologic relationship between chronic systemic stress, depression and CVD, highlighting potential novel therapeutic targets.

The population of Hong Kong will continue to age as life expectancy increases and is projected to rise from 1,065,900 in 2014 to 2,582,300 by 2064 for the population aged sixty-five and over. In 2011, 12.7% of elderly aged sixty-five and above lived alone, constitute a 9.5% increase from 2006. Dementia is a biomedical disease that involves degeneration and increase in prevalence as the population ages. In 2014, there were about 70,000 elderly living with dementia aged seventy or over in Hong Kong. By 2036, it is estimated that one in three families will have member aged eighty-five or above with dementia. The Principle Investigator (PI) conducted participant observation with two elderly individuals living alone with dementia. They were invited to participate in four games facilitated by trainers in a natural setting. The PI conducted semistructured interviews to reveal the participants’ own interpretation of the games and clustered these observations into categories. A qualitative analysis of behaviours and emotional responses will be conducted as a foundation for future participatory design with care takers, designers and occupational therapists in order to propose a series of experience-based rehabilitation tool for dementia care day centres.

Chronic patellar tendinopathy is one of the most common overuse knee disorders. Etamsylate injection, performed in the peritendinous tissue of chronic patellar tendinosis resulted in reduction of pain and pathologic neovascularization with improvement of leg function, after four weeks of treatment.

Objectives: We addressed retrospectively the results of polyintrasynovial infiltration with Rifamycin SV, related to 658 patients with different forms of arthritides. The objective was to verify whether this treatment, in addition to treating synovitis, had the ability to induce the remission of extrarticular signs of diseases.

Methods: The patients were subdivided according to the treatment schedule:

 - The group of arthritides (374) in which patients were subjected to infiltration on only one big joint with the aim to cure the individual synovitis;

- those (189) in whom the treatment had been extended from one to weekly infiltration of three or four big joints;

 - the group of patients (95) in which only the small joints were treatedd.

Each of 1,364 joints, 727 big and 637 small, had been infiltrated once a week for 10 weeks and all patients were followed for three years.

Results: The individual synovitis showed a significant correlation with the kind of arthritides, the presence of radiological damage and dimension of joints. Patients in whom three or four joints were weekly infiltrated showed the remission of extra articular manifestations in psoriatic arthropathy and the clinical improvement and normalization of inflammation markers in many patients with rheumatoid arthritis. These changes occur very slowly, sometimes months after the end of 10 weeks of infiltrations.

Conclusions: The outcome of synovitis was related to anti-proliferative and cytolytic properties of Rifamycin SV. The remission of extrarticular manifestations of arthritides should be sustained by complex immunological mechanisms that Rifamycin SV indirectly might have activated only when it was infiltrated by the intrasynovial route.

Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is one of the world’s most widely used non-prescription medicines from cradle to grave. It is readily available and inexpensive. As an analgesic, paracetamol is better tolerated than the Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) although it may be somewhat less efficacious. Paracetamol is used to treat many conditions such as headache, muscle aches, arthritis, backache, toothaches, colds, and fevers. It relieves pain in mild arthritis but has no effect on the underlying inflammation and swelling of the joint. The apparent COX-2 selectivity of action of paracetamol is shown by its poor anti-platelet activity and good gastrointestinal tolerance. Unlike both non-selective NSAIDs and selective COX-2 inhibitors, paracetamol inhibits other peroxidase enzymes including myeloperoxidase. Inhibition of myeloperoxidase involves paracetamol oxidation and concomitant decreased formation of halogenating oxidants (e.g. hypochlorous acid, hypobromous acid) that may be associated with multiple inflammatory pathologies including atherosclerosis and rheumatic diseases.

The human immunodeficiency virus, namely HIV, weakens the immune system’s resistance to off common germs, viruses, fungi, and other invaders. It’s the virus that causes AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome. People with HIV can get sick easier than common. AIDS can’t be cured, but the medications available today help people stay healthy, live longer, and even obtain a normal life expectancy. There are two main types of the virus: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-2 is most commonly found in West Africa, although places in other parts of the world are seeing it, too. HIV tests usually look for both kinds. The main goal of HIV treatment is to defeat the virus in your body. The most importance is trying to do this without causing unpleasant and unhealthy side effects. There’s no cure for HIV, but treatment options are much better than they were a few decades ago. Because of medical advancements, many people with HIV now live longer, active lives with HIV. More than thirty kinds of antiretroviral drugs have been approved by the FDA to treat HIV infection. We try in this review to discuss related methods against the AIDS.