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Cutaneous adverse drug reactions are estimated to be about 30% of all adverse drug reactions and observed in 2 - 3% of hospitalized patients . Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (agep) is a generalized pustular eruption that is primarily drug - induced in probably more than 90% of case . In a few cases infectio...
Despite recent advances in the management of patients with heart failure, morbidity and mortality rates remain high . It is the only cardiovascular disease that has increased in prevalence over the last 20 years . With over 200,000 patients suffering from heart failure in the netherlands common causes of heart failure ...
Implanted materials such as pacemaker, ventriculoperitoneal shunt, hernia mesh, etc ., are reported to be migrated from their original area to the distant site; however, the exact mechanism of such migration is not always clear . Here, we present a unique case of foreign body (bullet) migration, which entered in the co...
Households were selected by a modified version of the cluster survey of the world health organization expanded program on immunization (4). First, we mapped the population of each census block in laredo and in a major portion of nuevo laredo (sector 1). In each city, 30 clusters were chosen from these census blocks by ...
Neuromuscular diseases (nmd), including duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd), cause ventilatory insufficiency due to weakness of inspiratory muscles, such as the diaphragm1, 2 . Moreover, loss of ventilatory muscle strength and laryngopharyngeal function may cause difficulty in expectoration of airway secretions and forei...
Real time pcr (rt - pcr) can rapidly, reproducibly and quantitatively determine changes in gene expression (1). Although microarray analysis can measure large scale gene expression levels simultaneously, its hybridization - related variation often demands validation by other methods . Routinely, rt - pcr is used to ver...
Titanium and its alloys widely used as implant biomaterials because of their relatively superior physical properties such as lower modulus, low density, and relatively low elastic modulus and because of their superior biocompatibility due to their excellent corrosion resistance, and bioinertness of the oxide layer . Th...
One of the most outstanding contributions to modern medicine has been the introduction of therapeutic organ transplantation . Despite their spectacular and resolutive nature, these procedures are not free of complications in transplant recipients . Neurological problems in particular, occur with a frequency of 2060%, d...
In the current era of better survivals of low and very low birth weight babies and a widespread use of higher antibiotics, the incidence of fungal infection is commonly seen in high volume nicus - particularly those that accept out - born babies from distant places . Even though a vast majority of them subside with the...
The structure and property relationship (spr) in polymer nanocarriers are normally hard to be defined clearly, due to the polydispersity of polymer and the limited capability for the site - specific functionalization . In contrast, the biomacromolecule systems, e.g. Peptide, protein, and the oligonucleotides have a pre...
Tobacco use is a major modifiable risk factor for health, which is one of the leading causes of a range of cardiovascular and respiratory disorders in addition to various cancers in the body . India has a huge burden of tobacco - related morbidity, disability, and mortality . The global adult tobacco survey (gats) in 2...
Surveillance samples: fecal samples were periodically collected from feral pigeons at each prefecture (every two months in principle) in japan (except for aomori, akita, miyagi, aichi, hyogo, yamaguchi and ehime). The collected fecal samples were placed in screw - cap tubes and stored at 80c until virus isolation . Eac...
Quinolones, especially novel quinolones (6-fluoroquinolones), are synthetic broad - spectrum antibacterial agents that compete with beta - lactam . Macrolide antibacterial agents have been used to treat serious infections (1). Since the detection of plasmid - mediated quinolone resistance (pmqr) in klebsiella pneumonia...
The incidence of colorectal cancer (crc) is increasing and is now the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide . Twenty percent of the patients present with synchronous liver metastases and another 3040% develop liver metastases during followup . Hepatic resection remains the only potentially curable treatment a...
Low birth weight (lbw) is one of the most important predictors of the health and survival of the infant . Lbw and preterm babies are particularly vulnerable to illness and death during their initial years of life . Lbw infants suffer more episodes of common childhood diseases like diarrhea, respiratory infections and t...
Mesoporous semiconductor oxide electrodes are used in different applications including electrochemical sensing, electrochromic devices and photoelectrochemical generation of fuels or electrical energy . All these applications rely on the external manipulation or tracking of the charge transfer between an optically and/...
Catheter ablation of af is now recognized as a class i indication for treatment of symptomatic af refractory to at least one membrane active anti - arrhythmic drug . Ablation of af, while effective, can sometimes be a time consuming procedure with significant fluoroscopy exposure for the patient and physician . Until r...
Flank hernias are protrusions of abdominal visceral contents through weakened areas in the lateral abdominal wall . They are most commonly caused by trauma but can also be caused by previous surgery, after which the hernia would be considered incisional . Flank hernias occur in 0.2% of blunt trauma patients but are als...
The development of efficient catalytic methods for the formation of bonds between main group elements is of considerable interest for the continued development of main group chemistry . Such processes enable new discoveries to be made in the promising application areas that main group species are now occupying, such as...
Coronary artery aneurysm is defined as coronary dilatation, which exceeds the diameter of normal adjacent segments or the diameter of the patient's largest coronary vessel by 1.5 times . Aneurysms are observed most commonly in the right coronary artery, and least frequently in the left main coronary artery . Among the ...
Hydration mediates many processes in nature, among which are protein folding, phase partitioning of chemicals, and protein there is increasing interest in taking advantage of the water thermodynamics and structure in drug design . Indeed, methods such as watermap and gist use explicit solvent simulations to score the s...
Mongolia s guidelines on tuberculosis care and services recommend dst for patients with newly diagnosed tb when they remain sputum smear - positive after 3 months of tb treatment, when they are in close contact with someone with drug - resistant tb, or when they are co - infected with hiv (ministry of health mongolia, ...
Currently, it is believed that about one - third of the adult population in united states is obese, and this percentage is rising . As a result, we are witnessing a concurrent increase in the number of bariatric procedures performed for treating obesity in this country . For many, weight loss surgery is the treatment m...
Puerto rico receives the impact of the global phenomenon known as african dust events (ade)or storms [13]. This atmospheric formation is one of the largest in the world capable of transporting billion of tons of mineral dust from the northwest african region of sahara - sahel to the caribbean and the americas . It also...
Reduction or elimination of microflora during root canal treatment is achieved by the combined effect of both chemomechanical preparation and intracanal medications . The removal of microorganisms and other irritants from the confines of the root canal is conducted by means of the mechanical action of instruments and t...
Caucasian and caribbean men have a higher incidence of prostate cancer than men in asia . Prostate cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death in men after lung cancer . The incidence of latent prostate cancer observed at autopsy and the incidence and prevalence of clinically manifest prostate cancer increa...
Labour pain is a universal experience among women but the perception differs between individuals and this is influenced by both physical and psychological factors . The difference in pain perception among parturients depends on factors such as pain threshold, culture, social status, parity, prenatal education, counseli...
Department of health and human services, 600,000 hysterectomies are performed each year in the united states . It is the second most common major operation that women undergo, and it is estimated that more than one - third of all women will have undergone the procedure by the age of 65 . During supracervical hysterecto...
Viral hemorrhagic fevers (vhfs) represent an important class of emerging diseases and are classified as category a priority pathogens by the national institute for allergy and infectious diseases . The vhfs lassa fever and the argentine, bolivian, venezuelan, and brazilian hemorrhagic fevers are caused by members of th...
Gastric cancer (gc) is the fourth most frequently occurring cancer in the world, with 989,600 new cases (8% of total) and 738,000 deaths (10% of total) estimated worldwide in 2008 [1, 2]. Gc has a significant global burden, with a particularly high incidence in eastern europe, south america, and eastern asia [2, 3]. Se...
The study group consisted of 186 caucasian nondiabetic subjects participating in the catanzaro metabolic risk factors study (catameris), a metabolic disease prevention campaign for cardiometabolic risk factors (6). After 12-h fasting, subjects underwent an oral glucose tolerance test and a euglycemic - hyperinsulinemic...
Paratuberculosis (johne's disease) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, primarily affecting ruminants . Losses associated with paratuberculosis include failure to thrive, reduced milk production, reduced reproductive performance, reduced culling value and increased replacement rate . Moreover, there are potential c...
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (tc), also called stress cardiomyopathy or apical ballooning syndrome, is a syndrome of reversible stress - induced cardiomyopathy associated with profound emotional or physical stress . Tc is characterized by transient left ventricular (lv) dysfunction with ischemia - like chest pain and ische...
The international continence society defines overactive bladder (oab) as: urgency, with or without urge incontinence, usually with frequency and nocturia in the absence of infection or any other proven causative pathology.1 thus the oab population includes both patients with urge incontinence (oab wet) as well as witho...
Celiac disease is a prevalent autoimmune disorder, with documented presence in populations of north and south america, europe, north africa, south and west asia, and australia . The symptoms of the disease are triggered in genetically susceptible individuals by ingestion of wheat and related cereal proteins of rye and ...
According to the world health organization, resistance to antibiotics is the biggest challenge in drug development . There is a need not for one new antibiotic substance but several, so these can be combined and strengthen the human position in the fight against bacterial resistance (kaplan and laing 2004). Bacterial p...
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women and is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality . Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with different subtypes that are based upon the expression level of estrogen receptor (er), progesterone receptor (pr), and her-2/neu receptor (her-2). Tri...
Study area, blood sampling and elisa test: this study was conducted on 117 japanese black cattle (bos taurus) production farms located in the cities of kawaminami and tsuno, miyazaki prefecture, japan (fig . 1). In this area, many of cattle were fed by loose housing system . From august 2013 to august 2014, a total of ...
Skin grafting is a widely used method for the reconstruction of wound closures that cannot be closed primarily . Skin grafts are indicated to accelerate the healing of burns, ulcers, and other wounds, reduce scar contractures, and enhance cosmesis . A skin graft may be meshed to cover a greater surface area at the reci...
The main objective of this work is to show how process mapping may contribute to the improvement of intra- and inter - organizational integration of care . Under logic of service integration, quality of care depends not only on how the internal processes are implemented, but also on the quality of the transitions of ca...
Allergic conjunctivitis is a common problem that ophthalmic practitioners have to deal with, almost on daily basis, as it affects nearly 40% of the populace in advanced nation [1, 2]. Various studies in africa have indicated the prevalence of allergic conjunctivitis to range between 7.3 and 32% [3, 4]. The conjunctiva ...
Glaucoma, an optic neuropathy affecting over 60 million people, is the second cause of global blindness and draws intensive attention because of the irreversibility of glaucomatous optic nerve damage . Previous studies have found that collagen tissues create changes in glaucoma patients, such as biomechanics changes of...
Children with special health care needs (cshcn) are at increased risk for poor health outcomes . The cshcn population is growing, the need for services is increasing, and the capacity to provide cshcn services is decreasing due to public sector financial constraints . It is critical to demonstrate the needs of this vul...
In the current era of coronary stenting and adjunctive platelet gp iib / iiia blockade, efficient and effective therapy can be offered to patients who present with non - st segment elevation acs . Empirically defined durations of medical' stabilization' offer no specific advantage to this patient population (unstable a...
Globally, diarrhoea is the second greatest cause of mortality in children aged <5 years after pneumonia . Children in low- to middle - income countries are at risk of frequent diarrhoea episodes; the 2011 national survey in ethiopia estimated that 134% of children in the <5 years age group had suffered an episode of di...
Annually more than half a million peripheral nerve injury cases are reported worldwide (daly et al ., 2012). Gold standard technique to repair a completely transected nerve with gap size larger than 30 mm . However, anaesthesia, denervation and numbness of the donor site, painful neuroma formation and time consuming op...
At iii is the most important plasmatic inhibitor for the activated coagulation factors [1, 2]. Primary target is certainly thrombin followed by inhibition of the free factors of coagulation: x a factor, ix a factor, vii a factor . . A decreased activity of at iii may be resolved by the heparin or low molecular weight h...
Need can be defined as whatever is required for health or comfort; though there are various ways to look at it as normative, felt, expressed, fundamental, etc . A person with psychiatric disorder needs all things that anybody needs to lead a good life . A person's need at a given point of time is likely to be influence...
Angioleiomyoma or vascular leiomyoma is a rare benign tumor formed by smooth muscle cells in the vascular wall or by remnants of embryonic tissue, commonly found in the uterus (95%), skin (3%), and gastrointestinal tract (1.5%).1 2 less than 1% of all vascular leiomyomas occur in the nasal cavity.3 4 hachisuga et al de...
The cavernous malformation (cm), also known as cavernous angioma or cavernoma, is a vascular malformation characterized by the presence of sinusoid - like capillary vessels containing blood with poor circulation.4) cms vary in size from a few millimeters to a several centimeters . However, unlike giant aneurysms, defin...
Learning anatomy and pathology from the dissection of human bodies and examination of internal organs has traditionally played an important role in the training of doctors, particularly surgeons and pathologists; hence the human body is often referred to as the best medical textbook . However, organ retention issues an...
Complete genome sequencing has become the standard modus operandi for bacterial genomics, and tens of eukaryotic genomes have also been completely sequenced (see http://www.genomesonline.org). Plant genomics is, however, frequently hindered by the typically large and repetitive nature of the genome . Certain plant spec...
Inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is a chronic, complex inflammation of gastrointestinal tract which includes at least two major disorders: crohn s disease (cd) and ulcerative colitis (uc). Ulcerative colitis, with a slightly higher incidence than cd, affects only the colon and inflammation is typically confined to the ...
The preoperative preparation of a patient for video - laparoscopic cholecystectomy (vlc) is well defined and includes short - term antibiotic therapy, prevention of deep venous thrombosis, and prophylactic cleaning and disinfection of the skin . Open access, during a hasson video - laparoscopic cholecystectomy (vlc) te...
High cumulative doses of anthracyclines (300500 mg / m) are frequently administered to children with cancer . Cardiac toxicity is a serious adverse effect that limits the therapeutic potential of anthracyclines and threatens the cardiac function of pediatric cancer patients leading to debilitating long - term effects r...
Lying at the interface between dermatology and psychiatry; dermatitis artefacta (da) is an enigmatic entity, one excellent imitator and, therefore a source of great confusion for unsuspecting physicians as well as for trained specialists . The confusion and consequent misdiagnosis might unnecessarily increase morbidity...
Most recently, studies dealing with functional changes in prolapsing hemorrhoids have treated patients with the prolapsed hemorrhoids (pph) method . There is little information available on the physiological and clinical abnormalities which may develop in the anorectum of patients with grades ii or iii hemorrhoids that...
Alterations in microvascular perfusion are common characteristics of patients with systemic inflammation and sepsis and substantially contribute to the development of organ failure [1, 2]. Microcirculatory defects in critically ill patients such as capillary leakage and disturbed capillary perfusion are not necessarily...
Mr . A.l . Is a 27-year old male, who was originally diagnosed at the age of 6 with tourette s syndrome manifested by vocal tics, presented to his family physician with a 4-month history of hoarseness . Is treated for his tourette s syndrome using haloperidol 1 mg twice daily, clonazepam as needed and sertraline . On p...
Despite the large number of studies about left ventricular noncompaction (lvnc), many uncertainties exist . Echocardiography is accepted as the method of choice for lvnc diagnosis . Magnetic resonance imaging (mri) was used extensively for this purpose as well; however, artifacts from arrhythmias or breathing and highe...
Mean life expectancy has been increasing in many countries, and the management of malignancies in the elderly has thus become a global issue [1, 2, 3]. Hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is a common malignant tumor with poor prognosis, and the numbers of elderly patients with hcc are expected to increase around the world ....
Osteonecrosis or avascular osteonecrosis (avn) of the femoral head is a devastating multifactorial disease that affects 20 000 persons each year in the united states . Although the pathophysiology of avn has not been completely elucidated, this progressive clinical condition is characterized by bone death and reduced l...
Opioid analgesics represent a cornerstone therapy for ameliorating moderate to severe pain and chronic pain, including that in both malignant and nonmalignant patients . Analgesic tolerance phenomenon is observed in prolonged opioid abusers with a progressive need for higher doses to achieve constant analgesic effects ...
Cesarean sections have been a global public health concern for decades.13 as a key component of comprehensive emergency obstetric care (emoc), the adequate provision of cesarean sections during intrapartum care is a life - saving procedure.2,3 this is particularly vital for mothers living in low and middle income count...
Prnp / mice (edinburgh strain)21 on an inbred c57bl6 background were obtained from dr . Chesebro of the rocky mountain laboratories and prnp / mice (zurich i)20 on a mixed strain background from the european mutant mouse archive . For binding assays, cos-7 cells were transiently transfected with cdna expression plasmid...
Histopathologically, it is a neutrophilic dermatosis which presents as deep purulent ulcers with well - defined and often undermining margins with a violaceous hue . Multiple phenotypes of pyoderma gangrenosum have been described; ulcerative form is the most common type (1). The most common location of pyoderma gangren...
Congenital segmental dilatation of ureter is a rare entity in children and characterized by a giant, focal segmental dilatation of mid ureter . We report two children with segmental dilatation of ureters; one child had ipsilateral megacalycosis and contralateral vesico - ureteric reflux (vur) presenting with acute rena...
In terms of symptoms, women are less likely to report snoring or witnessed apnoea but are more likely to complain of daytime fatigue, lack of energy, insomnia, morning headaches, mood disturbance and nightmares compared to men [7, 8]. In sleep studies, compared to men, women have a lower apnoea hypopnoea index (ahi), a...
Telemedicine is the practice of healthcare using interactive audio, visual, and data communication; this includes healthcare delivery, diagnosis, consultation, and treatment, as well as education and transfer of medical data . Telemedicine may be as simple as two health professionals discussing a case over the telephon...
The disease often occurs spontaneously, especially in the elder population with underlying atherosclerosis, and is caused by embolic or thrombotic occlusion of colonic vessels or by conditions leading to hypoperfusion of the colonic wall (nonocclusive form). The typical clinical presentation is sudden onset of left - s...
We used 49 purpose - bred juvenile and adult male rm (macaca mulatta) of indian genetic background in this study, including 12 rhcmv and 6 rhcmv rm inoculated with rhcmv / siv vectors, 9 rm that received a gag protein prime followed by ad5(gag) boost vaccine protocol, and 22 rhcmv rm used as unvaccinated controls . All...
Tissue doppler imaging (tdi) quantitatively assesses global and regional systolic function and abnormal relaxation of the heart by measuring tissue velocity, strain and strain rate . Tissue velocity directly describes wall motion, which is a tethering motion of the heart regardless of whether regional myocardium moveme...
Although less prevalent than trisomy 21 (1 per 800 births), they are by no means extremely rare (bundy et al ., 1986; shields et al ., 1998; fleischer et al ., 2011). Trisomy 18, also known as edwards syndrome, is the second most common autosomal trisomy with a prevalence ranging between 1:3500 and 1:8000 births . Appr...
The human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) epidemic arose from zoonotic infections with simian immunodeficiency viruses from african primates . Since then, the global epidemiology of hiv infection has changed markedly: the prevalence of hiv has increased from 31 million in 2002 to 36.9 million in 2014, essentially due to p...
Alexander disease (ad) is a fatal and progressive leukodystrophy of the central nervous system . The destruction of white matter in a rostrocaudal gradient is accompanied by the accumulation of abnormal deposits, known as rosenthal fibers (rfs), in astrocytes, which result in cell death . The clinical phenotype of ad h...
Morbidly obese women are at increased risk of obstetric complications and poor neonatal outcomes (1). The recourse to surgery to treat morbid obesity has shown a rising trend in some countries like america, where researchers have estimated that the annual number of deaths attributable to obesity is roughly 280,0001 . W...
A 54-year - old man presented with acute right - sided abdominal pain and nausea . 1a) with multiple lesions of poor contrast enhancement (fig . 1b) and a mass in his pancreas . A fine needle aspirate of one of the liver lesions showed cellular smears with moderate variation in nuclear size and shape with delicate cyto...
Discarded amaranthus cruentus is a form of vegetable that cannot be consumed by humans and are ready for disposal after 48 hrs of being harvested . It serves as spices in human diets but begins to deteriorate after 48 hrs of harvest . When unsold and discarded, it becomes a total loss to the seller . Conventional prote...
It is now evident that adipose tissue not only stores excess triacylglycerols, but functions as an endocrine organ by releasing adipokines, which have important roles in the regulation of appetite, glucose and lipid metabolism, inflammation, and insulin resistance.1,2 such adipokines include adiponectin, leptin, resist...
Increasing experimental and clinical evidence show that thrombosis and atherosclerosis might be closely associated with an inflammatory reaction . Inflammation decreases the activity of natural anticoagulant mechanisms, initiates clotting, and impairs the fibrinolytic system . Indeed, proinflammatory molecules are invo...
Among the rats that commonly patronize human dwellings are rattus rattus (linnaeus, 1758) and r. norvegicus . The former is black and has a tail which is longer than the rest of the body axis (head- thorax - abdomen) while the latter is brownish and having a tail that is shorter than the rest of the body axis . Text bo...
Two basic considerations are necessary to identify a profession: its central area of interest and its mission . Although not the only things that identify a profession, these are necessary before other prerequisites of a profession are obtainable . Others hold that the definition of a profession pertains to its area of...
Human immunodeficiency virus prevalence in the world has levelled - off in most regions in the world . Women formed about 50% of the adult population (15 years or older) infected with hiv / aids in the world . In sub - saharan africa, women living with hiv make up 59% of the adult population living with the infection ....
We evaluated nine loci dnae, lap, reca, pgm, gyrb, cat, chi, rstr, and gmd from 96 v. cholerae o139 isolated from patients seen at the infectious diseases hospital, calcutta, from 1992 to 2000 (see appendix, online only). Each locus was amplified by using polymerase chain reaction (pcr) with primers (table 1) selected ...
In patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (adpkd), urinary protein excretion is usually <1 g every 24 hour, and renal function declines at a slow rate, i.e., a 2.8 ml/(minute1.73 m / y) decrease in glomerular filtration rate . In cases of nephrotic - ranged proteinuria and rapid aggravation of renal...
Post - operative analgesia is important after surgery to avoid various complications such as venous thromboembolism, respiratory complications and prolonged hospital stay . Substantial pain and discomfort are anticipated after caesarean delivery; hence, analgesic regimen should ensure effective and safe analgesia . The...
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (npc) is rarely reported in children13 and is more often of undifferentiated type . Combined chemoradiotherapy is the treatment of choice for this malignancy, and has shown promising results.35 overall survival rates of 50%77% are reported.24 however, the high radiation doses needed to provide ...
Trichosporon species is now emerging as an important life - threatening opportunistic systemic pathogen, especially in leukemia patients although the optimal antifungal therapy for treatment has yet to be established, voriconazole seems to be preferred as first - line antifungal agent in past decade, according to the p...
The development of regenerative medicine has enthralled researchers to study and exploit its usage and therapeutic effects . Different types of stem cells exhibit a potential that has helped improving symptoms of various intractable neuronal diseases, such as stroke . Bone marrow - derived mononuclear stem cells (bm - ...
Atherosclerosis is a chronic condition whereby vessel walls thicken through infiltration of inflammatory cells, fat deposits and cell proliferation . Unstable atherosclerosis, resulting from apoptosis and necrosis, can lead to thrombus formation, causing myocardial infarction and stroke . Several genetic, behavioural, ...
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (bpd) is a chronic lung disease that usually occurs in premature infants receiving prolonged oxygen supplementation and ventilator support . Recent improvements in the survival of very preterm infants through advances in neonatal intensive - care medicine have, therefore, made the task of pro...
Myasthenia gravis (mg) is an autoimmune syndrome caused by a failure of neuromuscular transmission, which results in variable muscle weakness and is exacerbated by exercise (1). Autoantibodies against the muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (achr) can be detected in approximately 80 - 85% of all patients with gener...
Vulvar and vaginal atrophy (vva) is a chronic and progressive medical condition that develops as a result of the decline of estrogen levels . The process of atrophy is universal following the decline in estrogen with physiological changes taking place in the vulval, vaginal and urogenital epithelia . These changes unde...
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (osas) is a complex clinical syndrome characterized by apnea episodes, sleep fragmentation, oxygen desaturation, and increased daytime somnolence as a result of recurrent obstructive episodes in upper airways during sleep . Previous studies have revealed that osas is related with many c...
Solution ph is one of the most important environmental variables that affects the structural and dynamic properties of biomolecules . Various biological events such as protein folding / unfolding, ligand binding, and enzyme activity heavily depend on solution ph . Solution ph affects protein denaturation, aggregation, ...
Although often life - threatening, the uncommon vascular infections are often clinically unsuspected and underdiagnosed . Septic thrombophlebitis represents a very rare condition, most usually reported to involve the dural sinuses, the internal jugular vein, the portal vein (during abdominal inflammatory processes), so...
Our modelling suggests that the use of measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella combination vaccines (mmrv) instead of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine with varicella vaccine (mmr + v) can substantially reduce the number of hospitalisation days via higher vaccination coverage against varicella, despite the observed in...
Primary lung cancers rarely metastasize to the gastrointestinal tract and frequently present disseminated spreads at the time of the diagnosis . Although the incidence of metastasis to the gastrointestinal tract has been reported to be as high as 11% in autopsy studies according to some reports, solitary metastasis to ...
Intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia (ivpeh) is a relatively uncommon benign neoplasm of endothelial cells that has been well described in surgical pathology literature . However, there are only a few published reports on aspiration cytology of ivpeh. [15] all the cytopathology reports underscore the difficu...
Pressure ulcers represent a frequent and significant challenge for medical, nursing, and social care systems among the elderly, disabled, and other patient populations.16 deterioration of physical, psychological, and social health due to pressure ulcers within susceptible patients is often devastating7,8 and increases ...