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M167 DIAGNOSIS OF FACTOR TWELVE HEREDITARY ANGIOEDEMA COMPLICATED BY SOCIAL ASPECTS AND IGE MEDIATED DISEASE
Introduction Hereditary angioedema is a rare genetic disorder characterized by recurrent swelling. A subtype of hereditary angioedema describes patients with mutations in the gene for factor XII. Predominantly seen in women, swelling can be triggered by increased levels of estrogen. We report a patient whose diagnosis was complicated by social issues and unrecognized IgE-mediated disease.
6 Awesome Charities That Need Your Help
Charitable giving is a fashion that never dies. It’s basically the opposite of man buns, a fashion that should never have been born. Where and how donors spend their charity budget helps to shape the world around them, from a large and happy human society provided for by animal lovers, to a thriving extra-curricular education for children whose parents aren’t available to help them study, the community, the country, and the world becomes a little better with each dollar donated.
Crazed Carbs: 12 Insane Baking Creations
In the last several decades, baking has gone from being a daily household chore to a reality television broadcast competitive sport. The craftsmanship that goes into making a dessert delicious is rivaled by the artistry which makes it beautiful. Delicate brush strokes, sculpture, frosting, and assembly turn cookies into animals or cakes into chandeliers.
Snow Bird Sojourns: 9 Winning Winter Travel Destinations
Whether looking for a magical place to spend the holidays, anxious to get out the snow board and skis, or just hoping to escape the dreary weather on a tropical beach, winter is an ideal time to do some traveling. Built in vacations in December send many jet-setters off on fabulous adventures but if you love to beat the crowds, January and February in some of the world’s hottest tourist traps can be perfect for enjoying the place without the people.
The Lonely Road: 17 of the Best Places to Travel Solo
Getting up, getting out, and traveling the world is an ambition that most people harbor to some degree. Touring with a friend, significant other, or family member will give you a bonding experience like no other, but that experience will be filled with compromises and will often be more about the person than the place. To really see the world, to be fully immersed in the experience, the choice that more savvy travelers are making, and making more often, is to fly solo.
Corrupting Power: 32 Brilliant Books Everyone Should Read
An educated person is a powerful person. It’s true no matter where you rank in terms of financial success or where you stand on the social ladder. The benefits of nonfiction are well known, as fact based works inform us about the world we live in, but recently fiction has been enjoying more admiration. People who read quality fiction are less likely to be swayed by outlandish rhetoric, and their perspective is generally more rounded.
The Digital Domicile: 12 Best Apps for Apartment Hunters
When you need to move, chances are you need to move pretty quickly. Not only that, but everyone you are competing with for apartments also needs to move quickly, which makes the apartment hunting market a cutthroat competition where the snoozers lose and the early bird sometimes gets a worm that’s a real lemon.
Be Chill With These 7 Incredible Cold Brew Coffee Makers
In a coffee loving society, brew methods abound, and each one has their dedicated disciples who wouldn’t dream of using any other. You will hear the virtues extolled of the pour over, the french press, and the percolator– and rightly so! But it would be a mistake to neglect the cold brewer.
The 6 Best Slow Cookers for Frantic Chefs
Today life moves at the speed of the internet and you move with it. Even if cooking is your passion, scheduling the time to stop and exist in your kitchen for an hour before dinner sometimes proves to be an impossible feat. Having the versatility to assemble your meal when it fits with your schedule and let it cook on its own time is a life saver for those who don’t opt to visit the drive through or the diner every time their stomachs growl.
8 Best DSLR Cameras That Are Worth 1000 Words
For some, a simple point and shoot is the only camera they will ever need. It captures the special moments of birthdays and celebrations with no muss, no fuss, and very little skill. They can snap a few shots, try not to cut off the tops of anyone’s heads, and be done. For others, photography takes hold of the psyche in a way previously unfathomed, and becomes an obsession without rival.
9 Best Touchscreen Gloves in Review
Freezing your fingers off while texting is so last season. Many of us are so used to the hazards of touch screens in frozen climates that we don’t even consider numb digits a problem any longer, but with the rise of touchscreen gloves, you don’t have to sacrifice body heat for a social life. Tech savvy hand wear allows you to keep your fingers completely covered and warm in even the coldest winter, while talking with friends, working on your tablet, or changing songs on your MP3 player.
Drops of Delicious; 10 Best Drip Coffeemakers
Without coffee, morning is just night with sunshine. For some, the pre-work pass through their favorite drive through is daily routine, but for the rest of us, making our wake up juice at home is the only way we’re getting it. Drip coffee has gotten a bad name in the third wave of coffee, but this isn’t always fair. Drip brewers can make some of the best cups around, and it’s hard to judge too harshly a machine that can brew for you while you sleep.
9 Symbols We've Been Using All Wrong
When you see a man in a tie-dyed shirt, with a peace sign peeling off of it, you instantly know something about him and the counter culture with which he associates, but you might be surprised to learn that the design on his tattered tee wouldn’t even exist if not for nuclear arms. When you meet under the mistletoe at the block party and finally get to plant one on your attractive neighbor, do you think of the corpses of Norse gods?
7 Best Waterproof Socks for an Active Lifestyle
Nothing stinks worse than wet socks. Literally and figuratively. Waiting for the weather to perfect itself for your outdoor adventures is not always an option, and never the preference. You can shed the rain like water off a duck’s back with the right jacket, but if that rain drizzles down your leg and pools in your shoe, you haven’t successfully defeated the wrath of mother nature at all.
7 Greatest Coffee Grinders for Brewers on Alert
If you love coffee, but you’re buying pre-ground beans, you’re doing it wrong. Whole coffee beans form a protective seal around the delicious innards; the natural oils that give your coffee flavor and aroma. Once that seal is broken your beans lose potency, and the more time between grinding and brewing, the more potency is lost.
11 Amazing Messenger Bags for the Mobile Toter
About town, on the go, and hitting the road, every modern metropolitan needs a class act messenger bag. Messenger bags are high flying and still rising favorites in the modern era. They are the universal carrying case, swiftly supplanting the backpack, the briefcase, the purse, and the diaper bag, they are social chameleons, equally at home at a business meeting, study group get-together, on a plane, or on a date.
18 Fantastic Field Jackets for Any Weather
Originally created to withstand the capricious weather of Vietnam, the field jacket came back to the states on the backs of veterans, where it soon became a nationwide must for every closet. And deservedly so. A field jacket keeps you dry in a storm, warm when it’s chilly and cool when the sun comes out. For layering gurus and outdoor enthusiasts, a quality field jacket is indispensable. The Ambiance Black Utility Field Jacket is a fantastic find for drizzly spring weather.
9 Penny Pinching Metal Wallets to Fit Any Budget
The concept of a wallet is nearly obsolete. The bulky, bulgy, uncomfortable and uncouth boulder of previous decades is a thing of history. But need you do away with the wallet entirely? As the days of the door stopper fade, the rising star that’s on everyone’s radar is a sleek, slim, metal replacement. The metal wallet is ideal for this age of fast action and digital theft protection. This ultra modern accessory is more likely to provide RFID protection.
Literary Elitists Love These 9 Bookshelves
A home is just a house without a bookshelf. Add in that one magical piece of furniture, and suddenly your abode has class and smarts. The literary unit elevates discarded jackets and dirty dishes, lending them an air of absent minded professor. It soothes obsessive tidiness out of neat freak territory and into that of on-point intellectual. Whatever your game, whatever your interests, a set of shelves with a few of your favorite books brings it all together.
Money Saving Tips to Stay Warm in Cold Weather
Winter weather makes for a near constant struggle to stay warm. The wind takes on a bitter bite, snow and rain clouds block the sun, and you have to re-heat your cocoa three times to keep it from freezing before you’ve drunk it all. This time of year can feel like a constant tug of war between your cold toes and your soaring electrical bill.
11 Best Pour Over Coffee Makers for Caffeine Addicts
If you love coffee, you have to love pour over. The technique is simple and elegant, and the result is some of the finest tasting brew around. Energy efficient and easy to store, pour over coffee makers are great for filling your daily caffeine quota, or as a backup for use during power outages and camping trips. Pour over coffee was popularized by German housewife Melitta Bentz, when, on a whim, she invented the coffee filter.
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