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Dural arteriovenous fistulas are not rare in japan, especially examples involving the cavernous sinus . However, reports of large series are few, and the clinical entity is not widely known . The classical triad [2, 3] of pulsating exophthalmos, conjunctival chemosis, and pulsatile - innitus are well - established clin...
Disease mapping contains a set of statistical methods, which leads to generate accurate maps based on estimations of incidence, prevalence, and mortality of diseases . The oldest example of disease mapping is the address of cholera victims based on distance from water resources, which was presented in 1854 by john snow...
A few studies have found that abnormal findings on diffusion - weighted magnetic resonance imaging (mri) are useful for diagnosing cerebral fat embolism in the acute stage . We applied serial mri to a case of cerebral fat embolism with cognitive impairment lasting for 2 months . Although marked resolution of the previo...
Dermatitis herpetiformis (dh) is an autoimmune skin disorder frequently associated with gastrointestinal disease characterized by intensely itchy, chronic papulo - vesicles, distributed symmetrically on extensor surfaces . It has also been found associated with a number of other autoimmune illnesses including autoimmun...
Until recently, surgical management of breast cancer (bc) has focused on two main choices: tumor resection using breast conserving therapy (bct) and mastectomy with optional tissue displacement by breast reconstruction . From 2003, the techniques that combine the skill of resection and reconstruction in one procedure w...
Cardiovascular disease is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, especially among patients of chronic kidney disease (ckd) [1, 2]. There is an increasing evidence of cardiometabolic syndrome (cms) involvement in ckd [3, 4], but a causal relationship has not been proven . Cardiometabolic syndrome ...
The most common disorders are depression, substance abuse, disturbance of attention, and eating disorders . It is defined by who as a state of well - being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a ...
Integrins are heterodimeric membrane receptors that mediate cell adhesion to ecm or to another cell (hynes, 2002). Ligand binding provides transmembrane mechanical links to transmit forces from extracellular contacts to intracellular structures (e.g., the cytoskeleton) and signals for a wide variety of cellular process...
Herpes simplex virus (hsv) is the most common cause of infectious esophagitis after candidiasis . Herpes simplex esophagitis (hse) in immunocompromised hosts is well documented in the literature, particularly among those diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection . However, rare cases have been reporte...
Families are regarded as a crucial part of specialized childcare during illness (1). The concept of family - centered care includes the values of individuality, flexibility, cultural competence, and partnership with families (2). The involvement of family members carries particular weight in pediatric care, because chi...
These patients can have associated urethrovaginal or vesicovaginal fistula, requiring early or delayed surgical repair . Spontaneous closure of the fistula associated with obstetric or gynecological injury has been described in the literature . To the best of our knowledge, a 45-year - old female sustained pelvic fract...
Nephrotic syndrome is a heterogeneous group of childhood disorders associated with proteinuria, hypoalbuminaemia, oedema and failure to thrive, and is usually managed by glucocorticoid treatment . Between 10% and 20% of the patients fail to respond to this therapy and are diagnosed with steroid - resistant nephrotic sy...
The nonenzymatic replication and transmission of genetic information may have played an important role in the transition from prebiotic chemistry to cellular life by enabling the evolution of selectively advantageous ribozyme catalysts prior to the emergence of ribozyme rna polymerases . The chemistry of nonenzymatic o...
Cell behavior is regulated by numerous distinct cues that impinge on them in vivo . Alongside chemical gradients geard and willadsen, 2009; niehrs, 2010; ben - zvi et al ., 2011; gershenson, 2012) and physical forces (beloussov and grabovsky, 2006; beloussov, 2008; nelson, 2009; von dassow and davidson, 2011; davidson,...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2 dm) is the most common endocrine disorder and its incidence is increasing worldwide . This condition is a serious public health concern due to the need for lifelong care, premature death and the fact that it remains incurable . Insulin resistance, whereby target tissues do not respond to th...
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A 28-year - old man presented with swelling and redness on the right inguinal and buttock area of two weeks duration . Initial laboratory findings showed elevated esr (66 mm / hr) and crp (15.4 mg / dl) levels . Mri was performed to identify the infection focus and guide treatment planning, and showed a thin - walled f...
A pandemic caused by the new influenza a (h1n1/09) virus resurged in march 2009 . This new virus is a quadruple - reassortant influenza a virus composed of human, swine and avian strains . Clinical disease generally appears mild, but complications can occur, especially in those with underlying disease, pregnancy or pat...
The trypanosomatids trypanosoma cruzi, trypanosoma brucei, and leishmania major are the causative agents of chagas disease, african sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis, respectively . These protozoan pathogens affect over 27 million people, primarily in developing countries within tropical and subtropical regions . The...
Verruca vulgaris is caused by a human papillomavirus (hpv) infection of the epidermis . Verruca in the external auditory canal (eac) has rarely been reported . A previous case report introduced surgical excision for verruca treatment because there was no available nonsurgical treatment for verruca in the eac . We prese...
Italy has recently ratified the framework convention on tobacco control (fctc), approved by world health assembly (wha) in 2003, and was among first countries to promote a smoke free society implementing effective strategies for smoking prevention . In italy, as in all developed countries, cigarette smoking is the main...
The alterations in plasma lipids related to obesity that contribute to the higher incidence of cardiovascular disease in obese subjects mainly involve hypertriglyceridemia1,2 and low serum high - density lipoprotein (hdl) cholesterol . Increases in low - density lipoprotein (ldl) cholesterol levels are less frequent3,4...
Arginine vasopressin (avp) is an antidiuretic hormone produced in the hypothalamus and stored in the posterior pituitary gland 1 . Avp acts principally on renal collecting tubules to increase water reabsorption through stimulating v2 vasopressin receptors and also has direct roles in regulating cardiovascular function,...
Carotid atherosclerosis is a progressive, multifactorial artery disease, associated with high risks of morbidity and mortality . Several underlying environmental and modifiable factors, such as increased, elevated systolic blood pressure (sbp), dyslipidemia, smoking, and increased body mass index (bmi), play a signific...
Enzymatic catalysis, defined as the degree to which an enzyme is able to accelerate the rate of a given chemical reaction, remains to be fully understood . Enzymes are able to achieve rate enhancements in the range of 1010 in comparison to uncatalyzed reactions, exceeding those of any artificial catalysts by many order...
Antigen - presenting cells (apcs) activate t cells through a two - signal mechanism: one is initiated by t cell receptor (tcr) binding to antigenic peptide presented by major histocompatibility complex (mhc) molecules and the second signal involves costimulatory molecules that interact with costimulatory receptors on t...
Metastasis to the bone is a common complication of breast, lung, prostate, gastrointestinal, haematological, melanoma, and other tumours,, . In many patients with primary breast, prostate and lung primary tumours, bone metastases (bom) are signs associated with the presence of disseminated disease . These metastases to...
Skeletal muscle tissues are responsible for the provision of postural control, the coordination of excitation - contraction - relaxation cycles for voluntary movements, the integration of key metabolic and biochemical pathways, and the regulation of heat homeostasis . Under normal physiological conditions, hence, supra...
Over the last twenty years, china has achieved unprecedented economic growth, with an accompanying growth of large numbers of wealthy and middle classes, which has led to the requirement of the building of a well - off society in a comprehensive way . To this end, china is currently in the process of reforming its heal...
Atrichia congenita without ectodermal defects (isolated form) is a rare autosomal recessive condition characterized by the shedding of scalp hairs between one and six months of age, after which no growth occurs . Eyebrow, eyelash and body hair may also be sparse or absent; patients may have a few pubic and axillary hai...
Coeliac disease (cd), also called gluten - sensitive enteropathy or nontropical sprue, is a unique autoimmune disorder which results from the interaction between gluten and immune, genetic and environmental factors . Originally cd was considered as a malabsorption syndrome of childhood, whereas it is now recognized as ...
Gaucher disease is an autosomal - recessive lysosomal storage disorder caused by mutations in the gene encoding acid beta - glucosidase (gba1). The decreased enzymatic activity leads to accumulation of glucocerebroside within characteristic gaucher cells of mononuclear phagocyte origin identified in most tissues . Type...
The immune system has a complex but flexible network of cellular and molecular components to deal with the constraints of limited genetic space in responding to almost limitless types of infectious organisms, i.e., viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic variants . These components are broadly divided into innate and an...
A 48-year - old female presented to the emergency department (ed) with syncope . Her past medical history was significant for mild mental retardation, former tobacco use, and hernia repair . The patient stated that while cooking she felt lightheaded, subsequently lost consciousness, and fell to the ground recovering af...
It is a point of convergence of the sutures between the frontal, sphenoid, parietal, and squamous temporal bones . There are varied patterns of articulation of these bones and sometimes a small epipteric bone may be present . There are four types of sutural pattern: sphenoparietal, the sphenoid and parietal bones are i...
Pregnant women are at increased risk of 2009 influenza a / h1n1 infection and its complications [13]. The viral infection does not only cause significant maternal morbidity, but also have a negative impact on pregnancy outcome in women hospitalized because of the infection . Preterm birth rates and stillbirth have been...
Traf6-flag, traf6-flag (or traf6 298522), traf2flag (or traf2 87501), myd88-au1, myd88-au1 (or myd88 152296), irak, nik(kk - aa), and ha - p46sapk-pcdna3 expression vectors have been described (8, 18). Expression vectors for nh2-terminal flag - tagged htoll and htoll (amino acids 1666) were constructed by inserting pcr...
From march 2003 though november 2004, admitting physicians in district and provincial hospitals within 9 provinces of thailand in the north, northeast, central, and southern regions were invited to recruit patients of all ages suspected on clinical grounds to have leptospirosis . Clinical features considered were those...
Central giant cell granuloma of the jaws and giant cell tumor of long bones are well - recognized entities revealing benign nature16 . Their clinical behavior8,13,29, prognostic factors and the histogenesis have been subject of several studies . In spite of that, these questions remain unclear 11,16,23,26 . Morphologic...
Dna double - stranded breaks (dsbs) are potentially lethal lesions if unrepaired, and their misrepair can give rise to genome instability, a hallmark of cancer (jeggo and lavin, 2009). To maintain genome stability in response to such lesions, cells employ either homologous recombination (hr) or nonhomologous end - join...
Acute diarrhea still remains a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in children of the developing countries . The appropriate management of acute childhood diarrhea consists of fluid and electrolyte therapy, suitable antibiotics (e.g. In case of shigellosis, severe cholera, etc . ), and adequate nutritional therapy...
Rotavirus (rv) is the primary etiological agent causing severe gastroenteritis (ge) in children . In 2008, rv accounted for approximately 453,000 (420,000494,000) worldwide deaths and 36% of diarrheal hospitalizations among children under 5 years of age.1,2 each year, approximately 65,000 deaths can be attributed to rv...
It is a well - known fact that endometriosis most commonly affects such organs as the ovaries, utero - sacral ligaments, uterine tubes, pouch of douglas, and rectum . The bladder, however, is an infrequent site of endometriosis localization, and it is estimated that only 1% of patients suffering from this disease have ...
A 5-month - old feral kitten developed worsening respiratory signs, including tachypnea, coughing and wheezing after standard anthelmintic treatment with fenbendazole at a local shelter . The kitten was referred to the university of california, davis, william r pritchard veterinary medicine teaching hospital for furthe...
These interactions stimulate a subpopulation of mesenchymal cells to differentiate into odontoblasts, which, in turn, form the primary dentin . But, after dentinal damage these processes may be reactivated, which is subsequently associated with the formation of tertiary dentin including reactive and reparative dentin ....
Philosophical, religious, and cultural differences in the concept of death and ways it is defined make discussions of the subject very complex . Advances in medicine and technology that have made it possible to support, repair, or replace failing organs challenge commonly held notions of life and death . The lack of un...
Single cell suspensions of lymph node cells and thymocytes were prepared from c57bl/6 or cd8 mice thymi . Purified populations of cd4cd8 thymocytes> 96% pure were obtained by anti - cd8 panning of whole thymocyte populations and selecting the adherent cells, as described previously 17 . Cells (0.53 10, as indicated) we...
Recently, the number of laparoendoscopic single - site surgery (less) procedures performed has increased because of advancements in surgical instrumentation, cosmetic considerations and trends toward minimal invasiveness.1 the less procedure was developed due to the unique characteristics of the umbilicus, ie, it is th...
In coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (cabgs), the vessels that must be used are internal mammary arteries (i m a) and saphenous veins (sv); however, svs present a greater risk of occlusion . Nitric oxide (no) could be involved in the improvement of sv graft patency rates [2, 3] since no plays a pivotal role in va...
Streptococcus pyogenes is the major causative agent for pharyngitis and tonsillitis, but may also cause, although relatively rarely, invasive infections such as meningitis, sepsis, and necrotizing fasciitis . For such infections, treatment with antimicrobial agents exhibiting superior activity against s. pyogenes must ...
Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the urethra (ccau) is rare in both sexes but has been more commonly described in the female urethra . Even in the female ccau is very rare . Information regarding ccau has been obtained from single case reports and small case series [1, 2]. The ensuing paper contains a review of the literat...
A 39-year - old male with medical history of gastric bypass surgery and chronic alcoholism was admitted for a syncopal episode . Previously, the patient underwent roux - en - y gastric bypass in 2008 after failed lifestyle modifications in effort to reduce body weight . Additionally, in the last two and half years, the...
-amyloid (a) peptide is the main cause of alzheimer's disease (ad) [1, 2]. A has two major types, a40 and a42, which are derived from a ubiquitous type i transmembrane protein amyloid precursor protein (app) by a two - step secretase (- and -secretase) pathway [35]. The amyloid cascade hypothesis predicts that the aggr...
Despite differing estimates, about 4 - 8% of the population in india are differently abled . One in every 10 children is born with or acquires a physical, mental or sensory disability . These translate into 40 - 90 million children's, which is a substantial number . Only 35.29% of all people living with disabilities ha...
Mixed cortical cell cultures containing both glia and neurons, were prepared from icr mouse brains at 15 - 16 days of gestation . Briefly, dissociated neocortical cells (3.510 cells / well) were plated onto primaria - coated 24-well plates (falcon) containing a glial bed in plating medium consisting of eagle's minimal ...
They are often associated with morbidity and varying degrees of physical, functional, and esthetic damage . The road traffic accidents (rtas) are now considered a public health hazard of primary magnitude and are likely to increase in the coming years owing to rapid increase in the automobile users . The country has wo...
Improvement in the standard of living and changes in diet have led to an increase in the prevalence of hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and diabetes mellitus . Moreover, cerebrovascular diseases are the second - highest cause of death, followed by cancer, in korea1 . Among the cerebrovascular diseases, the prognosis of ...
A body mass index (bmi) of 30 or greater is defined as obesity with a bmi less than 35 classified as grade 1 obesity, bmi equal to or greater than 35 but less than 40 classified as grade 2 obesity, whereas a bmi 40 categorized as grade 3 obesity . The risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer increas...
All aspects of the study were conducted in accordance with the declaration of helsinki and received a favorable ethical opinion from the surrey research ethics committee and the university of surrey ethics committee . They then attended a prescreening session at the university of surrey, typically within 1 month of the...
An aortoenteric fistula (aef) is a rare but life - threatening cause of gastrointestinal (gi) bleeding . Patients with an aef are commonly encountered as a medical emergency associated with acute gi bleeding . Although the reported incidence of aef is low, immediate recognition and management is essential for the patie...
The widely used 450k dna methylation array (infinium humanmethylation450 beadchip) includes 485,577 cytosine positions in human dna distributed among all 22 autosomal and 1 sex chromosome pair . When correlated to rna transcripts, 74.4% of cpgs correspond to coding messenger rna genes, 0.85% are associated to noncoding...
Rheumatoid factors (rfs), a class of immunoglobulins (igs) that have different isotypes and affinities, were first detected more than 70 years ago, but there is still much to discover about the mechanisms underlying their production, physiological role, and pathological effects . Waaler described an antibody directed a...
Primary biliary cirrhosis (pbc) is a chronic cholestatic liver disease recognized at histology as chronic nonsuppurative destructive cholangitis with an autoimmune pathogenesis supported by th1 or th17 cells producing ifn- or il-17 [1, 2]. Several inflammatory cell populations, including t and b cells, are found around...
Periodontitis is a multifactorial disease caused by the presence of periodontopathogenic species in a susceptible host and this susceptibility maybe influenced by environmental and genetic factors . The most important goal of periodontal therapy is to reduce or eliminate the sub gingival microorganisms, which cause the...
Decays of b mesons to two - body final states containing a charmonium resonance such as a j/ or (2s) offer a powerful way of studying electroweak transitions . Such decays probe charmonium properties and play a role in the study of cp violation and mixing in the neutral b system . The relative branching fractions of b,...
Physical activity (pa) has been identified as a hallmark contributor to individuals' quality of life, most notably among women . Indeed, several research endeavours have converged on trying to understand the principal determinants of pa, and in particular, those factors that can be associated with individuals' volition...
Ingestion of some amino acids has presumable roles in performance improvement in athletes. [13] among them, -alanine supplementation has been suggested to improve performance during high - intensity exercises . On the other hand, it has been shown that large amounts of h are produced in the muscles during high - intens...
In india among the urban women, the numbers of breast cancer patients were increasing annually, both to aging of the population and increase in age - specific incidences . Case control studies in mumbai and chennai have identified the factors such as null parity, late age at marriage, and late age at first pregnancy ar...
A 64-year - old male who suffered from osteoarthritis of the right knee underwent a uka (biomet, swindon, uk) on the right knee . Preexisting however, 4 months postoperatively, he began to feel a painful snapping sensation on the posteromedial side, particularly when he rose from a chair after prolonged sitting . On ex...
Retrograde nailing is an effective and increasingly more popular method of distal femoral fracture fixation1 - 4), and has been shown to produce good clinical outcomes5 - 10). However, concern remains regarding potential articular damage and angular deformities for comminuted or incompletely reduced fractures11). To av...
Tumor samples were collected from 505 consecutive lung adenocarcinoma patients who underwent curative surgical resection at seoul national university bundang hospital between may 2003 and december 2012 . Clinicopathological information and follow - up data were obtained by reviewing the medical and the pathological rec...
Since 1980, when the first implantable cardiac defibrillator (icd) was implanted, the use of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (cied) including permanent pacemaker and icd has become more popular . With growing indications, infectious endocarditis is a rare complication following implantation of these devic...
In the past, traditional dental luting agents such as zinc phosphate were commonly used for cementation of crowns . In spite of disadvantages, such as solubility, lack of retention and low ph, this luting agent has been successfully used and was the most researched cement for over a century . Nowadays, some new adhesiv...
Many epidemiological studies have shown that regular flavonoid rich fruit intake is associated with delayed parkinson's disease (pd), alzheimer's disease (ad), ischemic diseases and aging effects (ono et al ., 2003; savaskan et al ., 2003; marambaud et al ., 2005; data from in vitro and animal studies suggest that amon...
Ovarian cancer is a highly fatal gynecologic cancer and the fifth leading cause of cancer mortality in women, with 14,030 deaths occurring in the united states per year (1). In korea, ovarian cancer is the ninth leading cause of death with an age - standardized cancer mortality rate of 2.3 per 100,000 women during 2010...
Subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (cnv) is a leading cause of visual loss in the geriatric population . Peripapillary cnv membranes (ppcnvm) have been associated with multiple etiologies [2, 3]. While ppcnvm, associated with optic nerve head drusen (onhd), is a well - described entity in the pediatric population, ...
Yttria tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (y - tzp) ceramics serve as an upcoming material for engineering applications and are also considered important for restoration medicine . The excellent mechanical characteristics such as high strength and fracture resistance are attributed to the ceramic's unique ability known as...
Metabolism lies in the heart of cell biology . Understanding how cancer cells cope with metabolic needs for their unique biology it began with the landmark observation reported more than 80 years ago by otto warburg that cancer cells consumed more glucose and produced a large amount of lactate even in a well - oxygeniz...
Relapsing polychondritis (rp) is an uncommon disorder of unknown etiology that is characterized by recurrent and progressive inflammation of cartilaginous structures . A minority of patients with rp develop central nervous system (cns) manifestations, and limbic encephalitis has also been reported . Glucocorticoid has ...
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the lack of commercial development for drugs that treat rare diseases became an important political issue in the us . These so - called orphan drugs were largely neglected by the pharmaceutical industry because they represented small markets that were unlikely to be profitable . T...
Nod / ltj female mice were purchased from charles river (calco, italy). Animal care procedures were performed according to protocols approved by the hospital san raffaele institutional animal care and use committee (iacuc no . Blood glucose was measured in the morning three times a week using a glucometer ascensia bree...
Zinc is an essential element in the nutrition of animals, human beings, and plants [1, 2]. Zinc plays an important role in replications, gene expressions, and the metabolism of nucleic acids and different proteins there are many methods for zinc determination such as spectrophotometry [35], atomic absorption spectromet...
Noise is one of the physical factors in industries, and, today, more attention is being paid to its harmful effects . After smoking and air pollution, noise pollution world health organization (who) also considers noise as the third dangerous pollutant of megacities . Moreover, damage to the hearing system, interferenc...
For many years, the identity of components of microtubule - organizing centers (mtocs) that nucleate microtubule assembly and establish microtubule polarity was a central unanswered question in the field of mitosis and the cytoskeleton . The discovery of -tubulin (oakley and oakley, 1989), the key finding that allowed ...
Although uncommon in pregnancy, liver disease may cause a significant risk for the mother and fetus . Liver diseases presenting during pregnancy are usually specific to pregnancy including preeclampsia, hellp syndrome (haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets), obstetric cholestasis, hyperemesis gravidarum, an...
Genitourinary involvement causes untoward symptoms of atrophic vaginitis including dryness, burning, dyspareunia, vulvar pruritus, and discharge . These symptoms are localized, affect up to 50% of postmenopausal women, and significantly reduce their quality of life . For this reason, many investigations have been perfo...
There is a plethora of tools that focus in proteomics sequence analysis, alignment and visualization but there are few examples for web servers and other software tools dedicated to peptide analysis . There are three major classes where the tools for peptide analysis can be classified: (i) the peptide / protein identif...
Although not the most prevalent of human malignancies, a unique combination of physiology, anatomy and biology leads to an extremely poor prognosis for all but a few patients diagnosed with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (pdac). Pancreatic cancer is known for its early metastasis and aggressive invasion of surroundin...
Helicases are enzymes that separate in an energy - dependent manner stretches of duplexed dna and/or rna into single - stranded components . Currently, based on characteristic motifs and the sequence comparisons, three superfamilies (sf1 through 3) and two smaller families (f4, f5) of helicases have been identified (1)...
Ldl is a lipoprotein made up of outer phospholipids, apolipoproteins, free cholesterol and inner triglycerides (tgs) and cholesterol ester . -quantification is the standard method for estimating ldl, which includes ultracentrifugation and chemical precipitation . -quantification requires ultracentrifuges and takes time...
Heavy metal toxicity due to occupational and domestic exposures raises apprehension over their potential effects on human health and the environment . Chronic arsenic toxicity, also known as arsenicosis, is a global health problem affecting millions of people and mainly caused by drinking of arsenic - contaminated grou...
Cultures, susceptibility testing and dna extraction - one hundred and eight cultures had previously been tested for drug susceptibility using the ogawa - kudoh standard proportion method (canetti et al . 1963) at the central laboratory of rio grande do sul (ipb / lacen - rs), the regional reference laboratory for mycob...
Radiographers understand the importance of getting the most diagnostic information from as few radiographs as possible . In the world of pediatric scoliosis imaging, pediatric orthopedic surgeons, radiologists and orthotists must obtain more than just spine data from each and every radiograph . Scoliosis is a lateral c...
In the last few decades, computer simulation has become an important tool to investigate various phenomena in cardiac biology, including studies of single ion channel properties, action potentials of the myocyte [3, 5], dynamics of action potential propagation in tissue, subcellular calcium dynamics, etc . In spite of ...
Ebus echobronchoscopy is a relatively recent examination method, introduced in clinical practice in 1992 . It is a combination of echography and bronchoscopy, allowing the physician to directly examine the tumors and adenopathies situated next to the airways, both extrabronchial and extratracheal ones, inaccessible to ...
Snake bite was added to the world health organization (who) neglected list of tropical diseases in 2009 . An estimated 5.5 million people are bitten by snakes per year resulting in 400,000 amputations and between 20,000 and 125,000 deaths annually . A relatively recent report highlighted that one of the highest burdens...