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Dental Claims Coding & Submission
Understanding dental benefit plans, dental coding and claims submission is critical to running an efficient endodontic practice. The AAE has a number of online tools to help members achieve this goal. They include:
AAE Endodontists Guide to CDT©
Updated in April 2020 to help our members that are providing dental services virtually, such as oral evaluations, we have added the Current Dental Terminology's (CDT) teledentistry codes – D9995 and D9996 – to the Endodontists' Guide to CDT. This guide includes all endodontic CDT© codes and frequently used non-endodontic codes. Practices occasionally file medical claims for endodontic services and guidance is included for "crosscoding" dental claims to medical claims using ICD-10 and CPT© codes. Offices must use the most current version of CDT© when filing claims.
AAE Guide to Claims Submission and Payment
This guide drills down to specific stumbling blocks in claims submissions, including dental plan documentation requirements and assignment of benefits.
AAE Guide to Dental Benefit Plans
This comprehensive overview of dental insurance for endodontist and practice staff can also be adapted for patients.
ADA's Code Maintenance Process
The Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature (CDT©) is developed and updated annually by the ADA Code Maintenance Committee (CMC). The AAE has a voting seat on the CMC, which includes representatives from the ADA, the dental specialties, third party payers and the federal government. CDT is designated by the federal government under HIPAA as the national terminology for reporting dental services and is recognized by all third-party payers and dental specialties.
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Orestes is a REST/HTTP database access protocol for object-oriented persistence that allows read requests to scale horizontally: Scalability is achieved by using Web Proxy Caches to serve database objects, while keeping strong ACID transaction semantics through optimistic verification mechanisms. We call this protocol Orestes (Objects RESTfully encapsulated in standard formats) and validate the approach by comparative benchmarks for a cloud computing scenario.
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The emergence of cloud computing and NoSQL databases has demonstrated a clear demand for scalable database systems with cloud capable, web-based interfaces. With Orestes we try to reconcile four desirable system properties:
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- Loose coupling of persistence APIs and database systems
We developed an implementation of the Orestes network layer in Java, which is easily extensible for new formats, new persistence APIs and new database systems. We created a server-side binding for two object oriented (OO) database systems, the Versant Object Database (VOD) and db4o, as well as client-side binding for JDO and a JPA port for JavaScript. The generic Java Orestes layer also contains a web interface that can be used to browse the database via the REST resource structure. We will provide access to our implementation soon and are working on a web-based console allowing to try Orestes.

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Say your industry's biggest image problem used to be the notion that all of your customers were newlyweds and nearly deads hoping to find themselves in a buffet line with Kathie Lee Gifford.
Today, you wish you still had those kinds of PR headaches. The news lately has you on rougher waters than a leaky dory in a midnight squall. If some panicky helmsman isn't making a hard turn that sends passengers tumbling, some honeymooner has gone over the side and his family won't stop talking to the media about it, or the entire ship's population is working a norovirus through its entrails.
Throw in the kind of post 9/11 trepidation that keeps frightened Americans from leaving home, as well as the PR disaster of making serious cabbage by parking a cruise liner in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina (new industry image: the FEMA of luxury travel) and you can see what travel agents are up against selling a slow boat to the tropics.
Still, you don't panic. You are clever. You have business smarts. There are still plenty of ripe retirees for whom gambling, round-the-clock buffets, and the romance of the high seas equals a helluva better time than working the speed button on a slot machine at the Indian casino.
If you can't lure more new folks onto the boat for a spin around the Caribbean, you have to get creative. And how's this for an angle: Take more jack out of the pilgrims already onboard by turning a cruise ship into a money-sucking megamall.
But you don't stop at peddling the usual designer-name tchotchkes dressed up for snob appeal. Buying Lladro or Swarovski or Fossil duty-free has its appeal, but really, these folks get hit up all the time by up-market types trying to convince them that laying down serious money for a shiny keepsake will fulfill their bougie instincts.
No, there's a much better way to tap into the deep materialistic psyche of the ultimate narcissist, the boomer retiree: Show him fine art, and let him set his own price.
Like any good marketing maneuver, this transaction is as much about the set-up as it is the close. A Picasso on an easel here, a Chagall there, maybe a Miró thrown in for good measure, all get the blood pumping and the endorphins kicking in, but even the bottom-barrel stuff, the repros that are going to net you stupid money, take on the glow of buried treasure as you bait the trap with three essential elements:
The excitement of auction, free champagne, and, most important, the French language.
The tongue of the frogs is a godsend. Almost as if it were made for messing with the minds of smug Americans who figure their dim college memories of the differences between Baroque and Rococo make them plenty well-equipped for the task at hand. But tell them that the portrait they're looking at is a giclée and a bargain at 20 grand, and would they like a refill on that Dom Perignon?
Merde, it's game over.
Terrie Kifer and Joyce Sexton boarded a cruise ship for the first time at Fort Lauderdale in the spring of 2002. The two women are friends from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware; Sexton retired after a government career as an air traffic control manager, and Kifer retired after working in the telecom industry and dabbling in real estate. Lately, they'd thought of opening an art gallery together, so a notice in the Princess Cruise Lines ship's daily newsletter about an art auction caught their attention not to mention the steady inundation of fliers and brochures about the auction in their cabin.
They didn't make a connection between the deeply discounted fare they'd paid (still only months after the ultimate travel industry nightmare, the attacks of 9/11) and the blizzard of art sale ads.
Once underway, Kifer and Sexton explored the onboard offerings shopping malls, restaurants, and bowling alleys on a liner that seemed to rival the size of a city.
But it was the art auctions that kept them coming back. Wood-paneled and spacious, the Princess galleries showed off the paintings on the walls and on easels. At receptions, champagne flowed as collectors and wannabes engaged with art directors in edgy patter.
The setup was irresistible to Kifer and Sexton, who bit hard. That first trip, they dropped 86 large.
That amount got Princess' attention.
The California-based company invited them to become members of its exclusive Art Connoisseurs Program, which is run by the cruise line's in-house art division. Princess Fine Arts President Mark Bronson, a University of Virginia-educated art dealer, invited the women on several cruises, free of charge.
Kifer and Sexton accepted, initially choosing a ten-day excursion in the Mediterranean. They flew to Barcelona to meet the ship in the summer of 2003.
This time, the full-court press was on. The two women were feted at invitation-only champagne receptions and dinners in the most exclusive onboard restaurants, where they were introduced to some of the artists whose works were up for bid. The ship's captain took them on a VIP tour of the bridge.
They mingled with fellow collectors as well as Princess' art experts, appraisers, and auctioneers all of whom chatted excitedly about how much less the art connoisseurs would pay at sea than they would on dry land. Princess promised free framing and shipping and said repeatedly that onboard prices were well below those at landbound galleries.
This time, Kifer and Sexton bit even harder, leaving a quarter of a million dollars onboard.
By now, they owned a couple of works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Joan Miró and several pieces by Romain de Tirtoff, who is known in the art world as "Erté," the French pronunciation of his initials.
"I started buying art in Washington, D.C., and Texas... in the early 1980s at auctions and galleries," Sexton says. "I just have always enjoyed art. The only reason a person should buy art is because you love it. You've got to connect with the artist or the piece, and you've got to love it in five or ten years and not say 'This was supposed to make me money.'"
The following summer, Kifer and Sexton flew to Copenhagen for a Baltic cruise, another complimentary art connoisseur trip. At one of the champagne receptions, they met Martiros Manoukian, a Soviet Union-born surrealist painter who immigrated to the United States during the Cold War. They were enchanted.
They immediately connected to Manoukian's Tranquil Remorse, a female nude showing a little backside, some side-boob, and a face obscured by a wild mane. It was not at all clear what the unnamed woman was remorseful about.
Was it worth a lot of money? Who the hell knows? It's art.
Princess described Tranquil Remorse as a one-of-a-kind original that happened to grace the cover of one of Manoukian's art books. Sexton says the deep shades of blue gave her a sorrowful yet calm feeling. She wanted it.
She wasn't the only one. Kifer and Sexton fought off competition and eventually won out with a bid of $71,640. Both Bronson and Manoukian congratulated them.
Later, they say, they got a handwritten note from Manoukian reminding them that the painting had come from his private collection. He thanked them again and wished them "peace and happiness."
And peace and happiness is what they had for another year, as their nude kept remorsing on a wall back home. But then, in the summer of 2005, they took another cruise courtesy of Princess, this time for 12 days in the Mediterranean.
And that's when they really learned the meaning of the word remorse.
"It was absolutely unbelievable!" Kifer says. "When we saw the same identical Tranquil Remorse that we had bought the year before, we were stunned."
Their fellow collectors noticed too and asked the two women if it was the painting they had bought that was up for sale again.
"Everyone was shocked," Sexton says.
They went straight to Manoukian and Bronson, both present for this sale as well, for an explanation about why their "one-of-a-kind original" was up for sale again.
"We were told well, it was a lie by the art director [Bronson] to calm down and that when we got home, we would see that the paintings were different," Sexton says. "In our eyes, they were identical."
Manoukian seemed flabbergasted, they say.
"He said there's been a big mistake," Sexton says. "But at the same time, he seemed to be saying that artists can do whatever they want. He was saying that the marketing was the problem."
They say Bronson and Manoukian tried to quiet them, telling them their Tranquil Remorse was distinctly different from the one on the auction block. Bronson, Kifer says, suggested that the figure portrayed in the painting back in Delaware had a rose clenched in her teeth. (She didn't.)
"They did what they wanted, and they ignored us. And I think they did it out of greed."
Kifer and Sexton watched as the second Tranquil Remorse sold for $20,000 less than the one they'd paid for.
Still, the bubbly was free.
Alan Bamberger, a connoisseur who wrote a book called The Art of Buying Art, says he's working on a new edition that will include a chapter addressing cruise line programs.
"It's not how to buy art," he says, then later uses a solid Anglo-Saxon term to describe the Frenchified selling techniques on the glorified barges:
"It's bullshit."
Fort Lauderdale estate liquidator and art dealer David Fernan says the cruise lines use the French language to confuse consumers and add importance to items for sale.
Many times, when he's inspecting an estate and looking for things to buy, he comes across art sold on cruise lines. Inevitably, the asking price is in the thousands of dollars, and Fernan has to break it to the sellers that the true value is closer to $30.
"I try to tell them it's a poster," he says. "And they say, 'No it's a giclée,'" pronouncing the word zhee-CLAY.
He turns the artwork over and shows a cruise line mark and explains that what they have isn't something done by hand but by mechanical means. Giclée may be the preferred term on a cruise, but the word translates to "fine spray" and describes a process using high-quality digital ink printers to reproduce art. Initially intended for artists to use as a way to proof their work, it's now used to produce commercial prints en masse.
"It sounds good," Bamberger says. "But it's a digital print. It really has nothing to do with the art."
In auction catalogs issued by Park West Gallery, which runs the auctions on several major cruise lines, including Carnival and Royal Caribbean, works are described as "giclée in color on canvas" or "embellished giclée in color on woven paper."
To the untrained eye, a giclée can resemble an original painting.
Technology is advancing the process every day so much so that Bamberger is having to look harder to discern it. "I'm going to have to upgrade my pocket microscope from 30 power to 100," he says, "because these printers are getting so good."
For about a decade, the major cruise lines Princess, Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Holland America, and Norwegian have been selling fine art onboard. On a recent trip, her seven-day honeymoon cruise aboard Royal Caribbean, Fort Lauderdale legal assistant Debbie Priebe says she was constantly hearing announcements and reminders about art auctions.
"We didn't go into the auction because we could tell it was high-pressure sales, and we weren't going to buy anything," she says. "Most of the art was pretty expensive. They were advertising that they had one-of-a-kind pictures and originals."
Fernan says it's more likely that the only thing on the cruise both real and French was the wine.
After Kifer and Sexton got back from their disastrous Mediterranean sail, they hired an expert to compare the Tranquil Remorse they had bought, the one they had just seen sold, and the one that appeared in Manoukian's book.
Each was slightly different. The expert concluded that their painting was one in a series of "oil reproductions where the artist cleverly tries to represent each version of the Tranquil Remorse as an original."
"We thought we were getting authentic art we thought they had everything in order the certificates of authenticity and appraisals," Sexton says. "The auctioneers said there was nothing they could do because they relied on the cruise line for the marketing information."
Bamberger says there's nothing stopping an artist from painting the same thing over and over. "It has to do with the integrity of the artist," he says. "I don't know what it says to the legal world. There are no rules against painting the same thing again and again."
Kifer and Sexton showed their expert's findings to Princess, and the cruise line offered to buy back their Tranquil Remorse for what they paid. But that wasn't good enough for the retired Delaware duo.
They filed suit this August against Princess, Bronson, and Manoukian in Broward County's state court.
"Our appraiser told us: 'You ladies have been raped,'" Kifer says. "He told us we needed to call the police."
"We never want anyone to be put in the position that we were put in," Sexton says. "This is not a cheap piece $71,000 something but the piece should never have been sold again."
Princess spokeswoman Julie Benson declined to comment about the suit, citing company policy against discussing pending litigation. Benson also refused to discuss anything about the art program. Manoukian couldn't be reached for comment.
This isn't the first time the cruise line has faced legal action over its art program.
Two artists sued the cruise line earlier this year after finding out that thousands of Princess passengers bought unauthorized prints the cruise line had bought in bulk from Kristine Eubanks, a convicted felon.
California artist Charlene Mitchell, who is known for her landscapes, nature scenes, portraits, and animal-in-action scenes, found out about Eubanks' fakes after a passenger who'd bought one of the phonies complete with her forged signature contacted her to commission a portrait of his fiancée because he liked the print so much.
Mitchell couldn't believe so many forged copies of her work had been sold. "I certainly didn't sign 1,100 prints," she says.
She sued both Eubanks and Princess in January, eventually attracting the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which had also begun looking into Eubanks after being contacted by one of Eubanks' former employees. In September, the FBI made its investigation into Eubanks' dealings public and called on victims to come forward. Mitchell says she's the FBI's star witness.
San Francisco lawyer Brooke Oliver, outside counsel to Princess, won't comment on the federal investigation, though she denied that FBI agents reviewed any of Princess' records.
And Oliver says Princess is a victim.
"I'm surprised that Ms. Mitchell is going after Princess," Oliver says. "It's disappointing. Princess has been victimized by the folks who created the unauthorized copies."
Had Princess checked into Eubanks' background, however, the cruise line would have seen that she was on probation after an arrest on charges of forgery, fraud, and grand theft. She was convicted in June 2005 in Los Angeles and given three years' probation. According to court documents, Eubanks used her dead business partner's American Express to run up more than $100,000.
But the cruise line had no reason to learn any of that, Oliver claims. "Princess doesn't have any obligation to do due diligence," she tells New Times. And she adds that the sales of unauthorized copies of Mitchell's works actually benefit Mitchell by giving her a wider audience.
Mitchell disagrees and has sued Princess for copyright infringement, fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, conversion, and unjust enrichment. That case is still pending in California.
"Princess is so twisted it thinks that mass distribution of unauthorized, forged copies of artists' works on their ships helps artists," says Mitchell's lawyer, Robert Lauson.
Meanwhile, in October, a judge revoked Eubanks' probation on the credit card fraud conviction, and she is back in prison. Lauson says he expects a federal grand jury to issue a new indictment leveling charges against Eubanks for the prints she sold Princess.
There is a company that treats artists better, Mitchell says. It's the Michigan-based Park West Gallery, which claims to have the largest collection of art in the world.
Its Park West at Sea division manages the arts programs on the other major cruise lines. Princess is the only one with an in-house art sales program.
Mitchell says Park West meets with artists or their estates before selling their work, at least in part to verify the goods.
But Park West is fighting its own legal battle with former Carnival Cruise Line passengers.
In 2001, a group of passengers filed a class action lawsuit against Park West and Carnival Cruise Lines alleging, among other wrongdoings, driving up prices by using phantom bidders.
The case is still pending, but a judge dismissed Carnival from the litigation a few years ago. Park West at Sea, however, continues to manage Carnival's fine arts program.
Kifer and Sexton say they were told that the Princess art program is the company's top moneymaker.
According to an economic impact study done by the International Council of Cruise Lines, onboard revenues of the cruise industry are higher than the money made on ticket sales. Money made from art, alcohol, and other onboard retail sales have boosted the industry's gross revenues at the same time that fares have been declining. (Ticket prices have steadily declined for the past ten years, in part because of an economy of scale as the boats have grown larger.)
No wonder, then, that cruise lines strictly prohibit passengers from bringing anything in the way of alcohol, soda, or bottled water onboard with them.
Florida, meanwhile, is the epicenter of the cruise industry more than half of the people who take cruises departing from the United States leave from Port Everglades, Miami, Port Canaveral, Tampa, or Jacksonville. And the lion's share of the civil litigation occurs in Florida, particularly in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, where 4.8 million of the 8.6 million passengers boarding cruise ships in the United States departed from last year.
Generally, a U.S. citizen is protected by American laws while in international waters. But that simple idea is not so easily executed.
At a March congressional subcommittee hearing on cruise safety, Kifer and Sexton's attorney, Brett Rivkind, told congressmen what law enforcement, judges, and lawyers have known for years.
"An American citizen cannot feel comfortable on a foreign cruise ship that is sailing to ports outside of the United States... and cannot be assured that the FBI will have jurisdiction or in fact exercise jurisdiction," he said.
"Cruising can be a great vacation if you like it," says Rivkind, who has 23 years' experience with maritime law four of those spent defending the cruise lines. "We just tell people to be aware of potential problems, not to let their guard down simply because they're on a cruise ship, that things happen on ships."
Hundreds of passengers and employees sue the cruise lines every week for a variety of reasons, ranging from poor medical care to failing to adequately deal with sexual assaults. Not surprisingly, the companies vigorously defend themselves, usually by arguing a lack of jurisdiction first.
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On July 18, more than 200 people sustained injuries when Princess' 3,100-passenger Crown Princess listed about 15 degrees just off the Port Canaveral Coast in, by all accounts, calm seas. The captain righted the ship in less than a minute but not in time to stop people from falling or from being hit by things flying through the air. Nearly 100 passengers were taken to the hospital. In February, another cruise liner in Princess' 15-ship fleet had a similar accident after leaving Galveston, Texas. That time, 30 passengers were injured. A Princess spokeswoman said both incidents were caused by human error.
Still, the industry is making more money in part because of how much dough passengers spend after boarding. Terry Dale, president of the Cruise Lines International Association, reports that global cruise line revenues jumped 13.8 percent in 2005, to $19.2 billion. The rate per passenger went up 7.3 percent, while the returns from daily passenger spending increased 4.7 percent. And fine art programs continue to drain bottles of champagne. Princess cruises goes right on promoting their own sales, excitedly promising four auctions a day while at sea.
Rivkind, meanwhile, says Kifer and Sexton have now agreed to put their lawsuit on hold until after a meeting Princess has requested them to attend.
"We hope the meeting will be fruitful," Rivkind says.


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You should already be using two-factor authentication to prevent unauthorized access to your online accounts. While your phone is up to the task of helping you with that, Google believes it's time for to take the next step: using a physical security key.
At its ongoing Google Cloud Next event, the company announced that it's launched the Titan Security Key, which lets you log in to your account on your desktop by authenticating your identity with over USB or Bluetooth.
The Titan key's USB version plugs into your laptop, while the Bluetooth one works wirelessly and lasts up to six months without needing a battery change. CNET reported that they presently cost between $ 20 and $ 25 apiece, but Google said it hoped to bring the cost down to around $ 10 soon enough.
These aren't a new invention by any means: Swedish security firm Yubico has been making security keys for several years now, and offers a range of different models that you can use with online services on your desktop and phone – including those from Google.
These devices can help prevent hackers from gaining access to your accounts through phishing attacks: they might be able to trick you into giving up your password with a cleverly crafted email, but they'll be out of luck if your account requires a physical key to log in.
Google noted earlier this week that since early 2017, not a single one of its 85,000+ employees had fallen prey to such attacks, thanks to the use of these keys. It's been working on them for a year or so, and is currently offering them to customers of its Cloud service through sales reps.
Should you get one? If you're working with sensitive information on a regular basis, you should certainly consider it – regardless of whether you buy a Titan key from Google, one of Yubico's offerings, or an open-source alternative from Berlin-based Nitrokey.
Google says it'll soon begin selling Titan keys in its online store. It'll be interesting to see if the company can start a global shift towards the use of these devices with this push. But it'll have its work cut out for it in building the habit among users: earlier this year, Google engineer Grzegorz Milka said that less than 10 percent of Gmail users use two-factor authentication on their accounts.
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Edmunds.com Creates Easiest Car Shopping Experience During "Car Week"
Car Shopping Site Enlists Comedian Adam Carolla to Kick Off the Inaugural Car Shopping Event
Jun 09, 2014, 08:00 ET
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- In a continued effort to make it easier to buy a new car or truck , car shopping site Edmunds.com is kicking off the first-ever "Car Week" from June 9th - June 15th, 2014. Modeled after successful Restaurant Week events that have introduced diners to local restaurants for over 20 years, Car Week connects shoppers in the Los Angeles and New York metro areas to hundreds of local dealers offering prices at or below Edmunds.com's True Market Value® -- which means shoppers can save thousands off sticker price without wasting a second on negotiating.
"Shopping for a car can be a stressful, time-consuming process, so we are launching Car Week to create an easier and better experience for both shoppers and dealers," said Edmunds.com Chief Executive Officer Avi Steinlauf. "Car Week allows shoppers to learn how to make car buying easier while getting a great price on the right car, from the right dealer, with a lot less hassle. No matter what they are looking for, shoppers can save thousands on their perfect car during this week-long event."
To kick-off the first-ever Car Week, Edmunds.com has enlisted the help of car enthusiast and comedian Adam Carolla for a launch event on Monday, June 9th at the Keyes Audi dealership in Van Nuys, California. Carolla will be on-site for a meet and greet as car shoppers learn just how easy it can be to buy a car. In addition to helping to kick-off the week-long event, Carolla will man Edmunds.com's free Live Help service, providing advice to people around the country as they shop for a vehicle. Car shoppers will have the chance to get expert car advice from Carolla or another auto expert by calling Edmunds.com's free Live Help Line at 1-855-782-4711 during Car Week from 3pm-4pm Pacific Time on June 9th. Car shoppers can also connect with Edmunds.com's Live Help service via email at [email protected] or by simply by texting their questions to ED411 (8 AM to 5 PM Pacific Time) – a new service being launched in time for Car Week.
"Everyone who has ever been car shopping probably wishes that a smart friend had been along for the ride," said Adam Carolla. "Or maybe you had a friend with you that wasn't as smart as you thought. If you only had brought Edmunds.com along with you, you would have had an easier car shopping experience and you wouldn't have had to buy anyone lunch afterward."
Throughout Car Week, participating dealers will offer no-haggle, upfront pricing on all new car inventory through Edmunds.com's Price Promise® program, and feature other offers to help meet the needs of their customers. Hundreds of dealers across the Los Angeles and New York markets will participate in Car Week with many also featuring extra promotions and fun/charitable events throughout the week. To find the full list of participating dealers, events and more information, visit www.Edmunds.com/carweek.
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Edmunds.com is a car-shopping Web site driven to make car buying easy. Almost 18 million visitors use our shopping tools every month to connect with nearly 10,000 dealer franchises across the U.S. Shoppers can browse our inventory listings for available cars and trucks, and with Edmunds.com's Price PromiseSM, they can get an instant, upfront price on those same vehicles. Recently named the "Highest Ranked Third-Party Automotive Web Site" according to J.D. Power's 2014 Third-Party Automotive Website Evaluation StudySM, Edmunds.com is also home to comprehensive car reviews, shopping tips, photos, videos and feature stories. Even when you're at the dealership, we're always by your side. Use our acclaimed Edmunds.com iPhone and iPad apps or Edmunds.com Android App, or contact our free Live Help line at 1-855-782-4711 or text our experts at ED411. Edmunds.com also founded Car Week, a special shopping event that connects more car shoppers with dealers. We're based in Santa Monica, Calif., but you can connect with us from anywhere by following @Edmunds on Twitter or by becoming a fan of Edmunds.com on Facebook.
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Corresponding author: Robleh Hassan, Service des Urgences Chirurgie Viscérale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Rochd, Casablanca, Morocco
Received: 06 Nov 2014 - Accepted: 29 Nov 2014 - Published: 10 Dec 2014
Domain: Clinical medicine
Keywords: Hydatid liver cyst, Rupture, Common bile duct (CBD), jaundice
©Hassan Robleh et al. Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cite this article: Hassan Robleh et al. Total rupture of hydatid cyst of liver in to common bile duct: a case report. Pan African Medical Journal. 2014;19:370. [doi: 10.11604/pamj.2014.19.370.5727]
Available online at: https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/19/370/full
Total rupture of hydatid cyst of liver in to common bile duct: a case report
Hassan Robleh1,&, Fahmi Yassine1, Khaiz Driss1, Elhattabi Khalid1, Bensardi Fatima-zahra1, Berrada Saad1, Lefriyekh Rachid1, Fadil Abdalaziz1, Zerouali Ouariti Najib1
1Service des Urgences Chirurgie Viscérale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Rochd, Casablanca, Morocco
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Robleh Hassan, Service des Urgences Chirurgie Viscérale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Rochd, Casablanca, Morocco
Rupture of hydatid liver cyst into biliary tree is frequent complications that involvethe common hepatic duct, lobar biliary branches, the small intrahepatic bile ducts,but rarely rupture into common bile duct. The rupture of hydatid cyst is serious life threating event. The authors are reporting a case of total rupture of hydatid cyst of liver into common bile duct. A 50-year-old male patient who presented with acute cholangitis was diagnosed as a case of totally rupture of hydatid cyst on Abdominal CT Scan. Rupture of hydatid cyst of liver into common bile duct and the gallbladder was confirmed on surgery. Treated by cholecystectomy and T-tube drainage of Common bileduct. Key words: hydatid liver cyst, Rupture, Common bile duct (CBD),jaundice.
Hydatid disease is a health problem still causingconcern in endemic areas such as the Mediterraneanregion [1]. Inhumans, 50% to 75% of hydatid cysts occur in the liver,25% are found in the lungs, and 5% to 10% are distributedalong the arterial system [2]. Hydatid cysts of the liver exert pressure on the surrounding parenchyma, and in approximately one-fourth of the cases, due to higher pressure in the cyst, the cysts eventually leak into small bile ducts or perforate into large ones [3]. The most common complication of hydatid cyst of the liver is spontaneous rupture into the biliary tract with biliary obstruction being reported to occur in 5% to 17% of cases [3]. Liver hydatid can rupture in any part of biliary system but the communication with the hepatic bile ducts is most common. Rupture between a hepatic hydatid cyst and the gallbladder is rare [4]. Intrabiliary rupture occurs into the right duct in 55-60% of cases, into the left duct in 25-30% and rarely into the confluence or gall bladder [5]. We present a case of a hydatid cyst of the liver which ruptured spontaneously into the common bile duct resulting in jaundice and cholangitis thattreated on emergency cholecystectomy,T-tube drainage of common bile duct after clearance of cyst daughters and their membranes from the common bile duct.
A fifty-year-old male with no special note of past or social history presented with high-grade fever and right hypochondrial pain of two week duration. The patient was jaundiced, febrile and had a tender hepatomegaly just below right costal. Investigations showed a deranged liver function test (LFT) with a total bilirubin of 258,40mg/dl, AST(420 U/L), ALT(415 U/L), G.G.T(328 UI/L) and raised serum alkaline phosphatase(1181 U/L). Hydatid serology was positive. CT scan revealed intraparenchymic hydatid cyst type IV(4th and 5th segments) that opened totally into common bile duct (Figure 1 , Figure 2).
The cyst was seen to communicate inferiorly with common hepatic duct in the region of ductal confluence with extension of the hydatid membranes into common hepatic duct (CHD) and proximal CBD withupstream dilatation of the right and left hepatic ducts and intra-hepatic biliary radicles with ruptured membranes present, the right intrahepatic duct was seen communicating with cyst cavity. CBD was dilated with internal debris seen inside and Gallbladder was distended showing irregular linear intensities inside. Atretic hydatid liver cyst containing infected bile with ruptured membranes into common bile duct through probably right hepatic duct (Figure 3). Patient under went right subcostal laparotomy was performed , cholecystectomy and choledochotomy with evacuation of cystic content and debris via CBD with irrigation with 0.9% NaCl solution, T-tube drainage of CBD and under hepatic drainage by Salem tube. The postoperative period was unremarkable and patient was discharged on day 7, Salem's tube was removed on day 6thand the T-tube was removed after a control cholangiography was done on day 16th postoperatively.
Hepatic hydatid disease after a long asymptomatic course becomes symptomatic in an unknown percentage of patients. Hydatid cysts grow at a variable rate and stabilize, and may become calcified, while others may collapse and completely resolve. The clinical course is long and even after surgical treatment; decontamination is difficult to achieve [6]. The rupture of the hydatid cyst is probably the most common complication of liver hydatid disease, appearing in about 15% of all cases [7]. Cysts of the liver exert pressure on the surrounding parenchyma, and in most cases the cysts eventually rupture into the biliary tree in 1% to 25% of cases although an incidence of 64.75% has been reported from a multicentric study in Tunisia [3]. Ultrasonography and CT have been reported to be the main diagnostic methods, with 85% and 100% sensitivity, respectively, in identifying hydatid cyst rupture [2]. It is difficult to suspect the diagnosis pre-operatively. In most of the reported cases, the diagnosis has been made only at operation, the pre-operative diagnosis being calculus jaundice, amoebic liver abscess, cholangitis, empyema of gall bladder or carcinoma of the head of the pancreas [8]. In the present case,the primary symptom was jaundice with fever. Therefore, we diagnosed as acute angiocholitis due to calculus or rupture of hydatid cyst into biliary tree that confirmed on abdominal CT scan.
The most effective procedures following the evacuation of hydatid material from the biliary tree remaincontroversial.Alper et al argued that wide choledochoduodenostomy decreases morbidity and mortality, whereas Ulualp et al and Humayun et al considered Kehr drainage adequate. The groups of Lygidakis, Paksoy, and Kornaros preferred T-tube drainage and performed choledochoduodenostomy in less than 10% of cases. Lygidakis et al. reported one death among the patients who underwent T-tube drainage (3.4%), but none of their patients experienced external fistula. In a series of 64 patients, Daali et al. reported only four cases (6.3%) of prolonged biliary drainage [1]. In this case report, he had cholecystectomy and T-tube drainage of the common bile duct after its clearance the cyst membranes and debris with verification of its permeability. According our experience,T-tube drainage is superior to choledochoduodenostomy
Hydatid hepatic cyst rupture into the biliary tree is frequent common complication of hydatid disease. Usually, it leads to biliary colic, cholangitis and jaundice. Accurate diagnosis and emergency surgical intervention is mandatory, if there is suspect or an obvious biliary communication with the liver cyst.
The authors declare no competing interest.
All authors contributed to the manuscript's preparation in writing, preparing images, and literature review. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Figure 1 : abdominal
CT showing hydatid cyst of 4th & 5th segments of liver communicating wit
dilated CBD
Figure 2: abdominal CT showing hydatid cyst of 4th & 5th segments of liver communicating wit dilated CBD
Figure 3: operative view showing a hydatid materiel of CBD after choledochotomy
Hydatid liver cyst
Common bile duct (CBD)


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Regulars at Chengdu Taste, the Alhambra Sichuan restaurant famous for its toothpick lamb and its two-hour wait for a table, know they can order specials off the menu. Stop in for dinner, and servers regularly carry platters of lion fish -- a "secret menu" special of intricately sliced and deep-fried whole fish -- across the dining room to in-the-know customers. At least until the kitchen runs out.
The secret menu might have remained elusive for non-Chinese speakers, but organizers of the Chinese Cuisine Festival -- an event that takes place at 15 restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley through March 16 -- have printed an English menu of Chengdu Taste's specials, including dishes not normally listed or written only in Chinese.
Here's what's on the "secret menu":
Deep-fried squid $14.99
Sliced pork with house special sauce $10.99
Pig's kidney $11.99
Spicy crispy deep-fried frog $16.99
Hot spicy shrimp with sizzling rice $15.99
House special shrimp $15.99
Tomato beef soup $12.99
Sauteed ox tripe $10.99
Cabbage with rice noodles $8.99
"Flavoured chef's special fish" $12.99 to $19.99
Sauteed pepper squid with sizzling rice $19.99
House special tofu pudding $6.99
Lion fish (limited quantities) $25.99
Chrysanthemum fish (limited quantities) $34.99
Thin sliced sweet potatoes with spicy sauce $6.99
Preserved meat with sliced sweet potatoes $12.99
On a recent visit to Chengdu Taste, the lion fish and sweet potatoes with spicy sauce were sold out and mapo tofu was served instead of the house special tofu pudding that was ordered. But the hot spicy shrimp with sizzling rice was a platter of awesome: deep-fried shrimp with clusters of puffed rice, sliced green onions, garlic and, of course, chiles.
Also among the recommended dishes on the Chinese Cuisine Festival menu are the following house specials:
Green onion chicken in pepper sauce (numb taste) $10.99
Boiled fish with green pepper sauce (numb taste) $12.99
Wonton with pepper sauce (numb taste) $5.99
("Recommended only choose one dish above for best taste")
Mung bean jelly noodle with chile sauce
Boiled vegetable and meat in Szechuan Style special hot sauce (8.99 for vegetables, $11.99 for meats)
Toothpick lamb $13.99
Mapo tofu $7.99
Chengdu Taste, 828 W. Valley Blvd., Alhambra, (626) 588-2284.


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Radioactive Sparrow – Burst! (The Hidden Real Truth Behind Angwitch's Secrets) (1989)
Regular visitors to the online Kak circus will be familiar now with Sparrow's rule of exceptions whereby the material initially considered the least worthwhile when putting an album together turns out to be stronger and more interesting than what's originally favoured. In the case of Burst! we're now two layers deep, a whole album of rejects already having been mounted and framed as Blood, Piss & Burps, whose content was deemed album-worthy soon enough to give it a series number (43), but by the time the forgotten material here was rediscovered, some 6 months later, the band had already moved on past album 47, and were deep into the portoman era. Rather than making it an album b-side (which wasn't so practical with hour-long helpings, since C120s are notoriously chewsome and snap-happy) Burst! has always been considered an alternative album 43, even though, out of the three albums they ground out at the Angwitch session in January, this turns out to be at least the other two's equal.
The first three songs clear up the last of the fucked-tape, flat-battery session (which provided no numbers at all for Blood, Piss & Burps), probably the strongest tracks from that sitting. 'During War Time' is so wonky that, even while it makes a great track now, it's really hard to tell what it would have really sounded like – certainly it seems to be an exceptionally inventive performance which the trio were very eager to listen back to, so consequently this would have exacerbated their dismay at its bent capture, a moment of poetic greatness lost to the indifferent motor of their beloved Panasonic. Then we get three unfinished, aborted attempts from the main day-time Hut session, followed by three complete songs from same. The second of these, 'A Big Lorry Full Of Sand & Gravel' is an early Gage stunner, shaped by his classic sardonic take on the ordinary. The album closes out with two final pieces from the small hours, Stews's percussion on 'Oh Darlin" way ahead of its contemporary attitudinal post. Rendingly, this is Emma 100-Fingers last appearance until the band's 80th offering, Brownstar, the following century.
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- Undies Per Chance
- During War Time
- Ethyl
- Ladies Charm
- Rocking For Your Mother-In-Law
- My Best Friend's Girlfriend Reads Minds
- A Big Lorry With A Delivery Of Sand & Gravel
- Customer & Long
- Oh Darlin'
- Dockland Fantastic
Emma 100-Fingers
Heaving Stews
Tony Gage
Bill Bargefoot
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With a programming philosophy to Do The Right Thing, we are looking for candidates who are comfortable with data and eager to learn on the job. We are a small, highly collaborative team with a live product. If your target culture is one that encourages ownership, taking calculated risks, data-driven decision making and values evidence over ego, this may be the role for you.
On our team, we start with unstructured data from a myriad of regulatory data from various sources. We process this data, analyzing it and providing insights about it. We then direct these insights and analyses into normalized views that are consumed by our user-facing applications.
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Founded by Master Certified Coach, Psychotherapist, and Buddhist Chaplain Ann-Marie McKelvey, LPCC, MCC, Mindfulness Coaching School was created to offer the integration of:
- Engaged Mindfulness
- Positive Psychology
- Right Speech
- Wellness Practices
- Somatic Coaching Skills
- Wholistic Business Principles
Utilizing growth mindset along with the most current evidence-based research, Mindfulness Coaching School is dynamic in its approach to teaching. Each class highlights coaching skills and ICF Core Competencies through experiential processes for students, credentialed coaches, and their clients.
Mindfulness Coaching School guides students to develop resiliency through speaking their truth, engaging their compassion, and living altruistically; all while creating for themselves a strong financial foundation.
Our commitment is to significantly contribute to each student to impact the international coaching community, and ultimately to transform the world for the better!
Our mission is to work together, through coaching, in helping others to adapt, integrate, and flourish in a world that is reinventing itself on a daily basis.
Yes, a big agenda, and yet the ones who think they can change the world are the ones who do!
In a world that reinvents itself on a daily basis, we empower students and credentialed coaches to adapt, integrate, and flourish from the inside out, for the betterment of all sentient beings.
-Ann-Marie McKelvey, MCS Founder & Director
Let's look at what that means…
In a world that reinvents itself on a daily basis…
Have you ever felt like a whole week has happened and it's only been one day? We, as individuals and as a collective, are evolving at an exponential rate. Our world is rapidly changing. With the immediate connectivity of technology and social media, what is there (besides our own self-imposed limitations) to hold us back anymore?
we empower students and credentialed coaches…
Whether you are a fully credentialed coach, a licensed therapist, someone brand new to coaching, or someone who's taken a few classes, our curriculum will meet you where you are and empower you to live your potential.
to adapt, integrate, and flourish from the inside out…
Our intention is to support you on your path, to inspire you to embody and realize the resiliency, awareness, and connection it takes to live the good life. We believe that true change comes from within, and that global change happens on an individual basis.
for the betterment of all sentient beings.
We are all in this together, quite literally! When the well-being of others is at the forefront of action and inspiration, the beauty of humanity and its potential is apparent. Coaching is quickly becoming a powerful way to inspire and actualize change. To reference a quote from Ghandi, to help others be the change they wish to see in the world.
What does our logo represent?
This is the Kanji (Japanese character) for the word mindfulness. It combines the ideograms for now (the present moment/that which covers all things) and heart/mind (the pairing of love and wisdom).
In 2016, Ann-Marie and Brittany attended a calligraphy workshop with renowned calligrapher and translator Kazuaki Tanahashi. Inspired by the meaning and beauty of this Kanji, they decided to incorporate it into the Mindfulness Coaching School's logo.
The strength of heart and mind acting as one in the present moment felt like the perfect inspirational symbol for the mission of the school.
Our History
In April 2015 the Mindfulness Coaching School was founded by Ann-Marie McKelvey, LPCC, MCC. She was already teaching and coaching, and knew how much she loved both. Ann-Marie realized the best way for her to live in a world with more kindness, compassion, and respect, that also supported her endeavor to live in an engaged and mindful way, was to teach more. One thing led to another, and the Mindfulness Coaching School came into being…
The school exceeded its five-year plan in just about nine months. Ann-Marie wasn't alone in wanting to create and live in a more compassionate world. There are humans around the planet seeking the same, who have been coming to the school to co-create and realize that dream. One of them might be you.