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Several primary and secondary prevention trials have established the beneficial role of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (icd) therapy in preventing sudden cardiac death (scd) [16]. Therefore, the guidelines indicate icd implantation in both survivors of cardiac arrest (secondary prevention) and in patients who a... |
Prior to the antivascular endothelial growth factor (anti - vegf) era, age - related macular degeneration (amd) was considered the leading cause of severe visual loss and blindness in the developed world among people over the age of 50 years . Various imaging methods are available for the diagnosis and classification o... |
Thus, many recent studies have sought to extract interaction information from biomolecular text using natural language processing technology . However, we have insufficient biomolecular data annotated with linguistic information . In 2005, the icml05 workshop on learning language in logic (lll05) task provided a small ... |
Ovotesticular disorder of sex development (ot - dsd) is a rare disorder of sexual differentiation characterized by the presence of testicular tissue with distinct seminiferous tubules and ovarian tissue with mature ovarian follicles in the same gonad (ovotestis) or separately in a single individual (1, 2). Ot - dsd it ... |
Sialolithiasis is the most common disease of salivary glands caused by the obstruction of a salivary gland or its excretory duct by a calculus . It may occur at any age but there is a peak incidence in fourth, fifth, and sixth decades . Majority of salivary calculi (8095%) occur in the submandibular gland, whereas only... |
Extracellular adenosine concentration increases under metabolically stressful conditions, notably in the tumor microenvironment, where hypoxia is frequently given [2, 3]. Such accumulation of adenosine mediates, through four distinct receptors (a1, a2a, a2b, and a3), complex and diverse effects that lead to tumor immun... |
The incidence of oral cancer especially squamous cell carcinoma accounts for nearly 2.4% of all cancers . Due to significant number of oral cancer cases raising rapidly in the developing regions this life style habits such as heavy smoking and alcoholism are the important risk factors for developing oral cancer that in... |
Globally, approximately 40% of households rely on solid fuels including wood, dung, grass, coal, and crop residues for cooking . The 2010 comparative risk assessment of the global burden of disease attributed 3.6 million deaths yearly to the harmful byproducts of solid fuel combustion for cooking and an additional 0.3 ... |
A 66-year - old caucasian woman with a medical history significant for chronic kidney disease (ckd) stage 3, hypertension, and morbid obesity was followed regularly at our nephrology and hypertension clinic . She was being treated aggressively for her hypertension, proteinuria, hyperuricemia, and secondary hyperparathy... |
The success of this therapy is evident between 19401970, where twenty novel classes of antibiotics were discovered . These antibiotics vary, concerning their structure and mechanism of action . Today, many of these drugs are not so effective because bacteria develop resistance, revealing a major challenge for our socie... |
Pain in the upper trapezius (ut) region may be caused by the performance of repetitive tasks or continuous weight on the shoulder1, 2 . Brassieres may be a factor contributing to ut pain in women because the weight of the breast causes the brassiere strap to press on the ut muscle4, 5 . From their teenage years on, wom... |
Orthotopic liver transplantation is an important treatment option for patients with end - stage liver disease . In the united states, 109,126 liver transplants were performed between january 1, 1988 and april 30, 2011 with 6291 transplants performed in 2010 . Indications for liver transplant include cirrhosis secondary... |
Sodium valproate is a frequently used drug for the treatment of seizure disorders, bipolar disease and chronic pain . It is known to cause a serious complication, hyperammonemic encephalopathy which is characterized by acute onset of impaired consciousness, headache, vomiting, seizures, ataxia, generalized slowing on e... |
Aneurysmal bone cysts (abcs) are rare entities which cause expansile and destructive bone lesions characterized by reactive proliferation of connective tissue1,5). They are benign lesions and can occur in any part of the skeleton and the spine can be affected up to 30% of the cases . Abcs can cause symptoms such as bac... |
Hypertension is one of the most common if not the commonest medical complication in pregnancy.19 hyper - tensive disorders in pregnancy are found to be the greatest single cause of maternal mortality.911 it also causes a lot of prenatal mortality.12 most of the complications caused by this problem could be reduced by e... |
The use of implantable cardioverter - defibrillators (icds) is important for preventing sudden cardiac arrest in patients at high risk of fatal ventricular arrhythmias.1) in the past decades, cardiologists paid attention primarily to medical problems and prolongation of the life expectancy of patients with heart failur... |
Cerebral palsy (cp) is a non - progressive disease with symptoms that include neurological disorders or developmental disabilities . Children with cp have spasticity, musculoskeletal problems, mobility disturbances, and decreased pelvic movements that lead to awkward movement and sitting posture1, 2 . Symptoms also ind... |
Synchronous multiple primary lung cancers are reported rarely and account for about 8% (0.2% to 20%) of all lung cancers [1, 2]. Patients with two or more lung tumours always require thorough diagnostics and an individually planned treatment procedure due to the nature of nodular lesions in the lung . Two primary lung ... |
Animals: all experiments were approved by the animal care and use committee of the faculty of agriculture at the university of tokyo, according to guidelines adapted from the consensus recommendations on effective institutional animal care and use committees by the scientists center for animal welfare . Experimentally ... |
Many lines of evidence support the proposal that visceral obesity is strongly associated with features of the metabolic / insulin resistance syndrome, and that obesity predicts the development of both type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (cvd). Obesity is associated with a chronic low - grade inflammation, as evi... |
We reviewed outbreak reports to identify outbreaks associated with an imported food from the inception of the surveillance system in 1973 through 2014, the most recent year for which data were available . We obtained additional data for some outbreaks (e.g., country of origin) from the us food and drug administration (... |
This whole genome shotgun project has been deposited at ddbj / embl / genbank under the accession jpul02000000 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/jpul00000000.2). The stramenopile blastocystis is a common anaerobic protist living in the digestive tract of several animal groups . Its prevalence in human often exceeds ... |
Factor v is a coagulation protein that is present in blood plasma as a single - chain polypeptide (approximately 80%) and in platelet alpha - granules (approximately 20%).1 factor v is cleaved after binding to activated platelets and serves as a cofactor for factor xa in the prothrombinase complex . This complex forms ... |
Von willebrand disease (vwd) is the most common inherited bleeding disorder, with a prevalence of approximately 1% according to population studies,1 but clinically relevant cases have a tenfold lower prevalence.2 the 2011registro nazionale delle coagulopatie congenite [national registry of congenital coagulopathy],3 wh... |
A 64-year - old man visited our hospital with the chief complaint of microscopic hematuria for the past 2 months . Abdominal computed tomography (ct) revealed a homogeneous solid tumor with slightly low attenuation in the left renal sinus (fig . Altogether, these abdominal ct findings were suggestive of invasive urothe... |
Ethical approval was acquired and informed consent was obtained from the patient or the family of the patient . In addition to patient samples, control pancreatic blocks and isolated islet sections were prepared from five deceased donors without diabetes (three women; age 2461 years; bmi 2534 kg / m). Sections were sta... |
Posterior urethral valve (puv) is the commonest cause of renal impairment in boys during early childhood . Despite a systematic approach in deciding choice of therapy in each case, renal failure antenatal diagnosis of hydronephrosis is possible since 1980s but sensitivity and specificity of ultrasound for antenatal dia... |
The classical golgi method for staining neurons in the brain was first developed by camillio golgi (golgi, 1873 in mazzarello, 1999). Subsequently, the great neuroanatomist ramon y cajal (1909) applied the technique to demonstrate previously unimagined neuronal morphology virtually in all parts of the nervous system . ... |
The experimental works of macklin and macklin provided insights into its pathophysiology [4, 5]; alveolar rupture occurs because of a pressure gradient between the alveolus and the surrounding tissues . This gradient develops either through overinflation of the alveolus or a reduction of interstitial pressure . The air... |
Leri - weill's dyschondrosteosis (lwd) is anautosomal dominant condition with variable penetrance characterized by mesomelic short stature and with madelung deformity . It is due to deletion or mutation in short stature homeobox (shox) gene . Here, there is deficient growth of a volar and ulnar aspect of distal radialp... |
Age - related maculopathy (arm), also known as age - related macular degeneration, affects approximately 30 million people worldwide . In the united states, there are an estimated 13 million people with some vision loss from arm, including two million with the most severe late - stage of the disease . Fortunately, ther... |
The greatest burden of malaria morbidity and mortality occurs in children under 5 years of age in africa . Travel and migration increasingly transport malaria to the usa and other industrialized countries, up to 30,000 cases per year by some estimates . In 2005, surveillance from the centers for disease control identif... |
To increase awareness of the limitations of high - risk human papillomavirus (hrhpv) laboratory - developed testing (ldt) widely used in us cervical cancer screening . A young woman in her 30s was diagnosed and treated for stage 1b1 cervical squamous cell carcinoma in which hpv 16 dna was detected using polymerase chai... |
Here, we describe a case of a hispanic male with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura induced by nonsteroidal anti - inflammatory drugs (nsaids). The patient was a 21-year - old latino male who presented to the emergency department reporting a five day history of nausea, vomiting, and decreased urine output . The patien... |
Mscs can be extracted from adult fat and bone marrow, as well as peripheral blood,8 9 and can be induced to differentiate into various mesenchymal tissues including bone, cartilage, and muscle.10 11 in vitro induction can be accomplished by growth factor supplementation and creating culturing conditions that are favora... |
The influenza viruses include three genera, a, b, and c within the family orthomyxoviridae . Avian influenza viruses (aivs), all of which are contained in the genus influenza virus a, are an economically important cause of disease in fowl and occasionally affect humans, pigs, and horses [1, 2]. Each genus of the virus ... |
The squat is one of the most frequently used exercises in the field of strength and conditioning . The squat is an exercise that increases hip and knee extensor muscle strength which then indirectly improves the quality of life in athletic and nonathletic populations . Muscle forces also vary depending on joint positio... |
Since the beginning of the 1990s cases of illicit trafficking and other unauthorised acts involving nuclear material from various stages of the nuclear fuel cycle have taken place . Due to these incidents nuclear materials were started to be analysed in the context of criminal investigations, and a new branch of forens... |
The association of pancreatic disease with fat necrosis at distant foci was first described by chiari in 1883 (1). The most common pancreatic disorders associated with pancreatic panniculitis are acute or chronic pancreatitis, especially the alcohol - related types, and pancreatic carcinoma . Other pancreatic disorders... |
, several trauma scoring systems have been validated for prediction of patient survival, new injury severity score (niss) is defined as the sum of the squares of the abbreviated injury scale (ais) of each of the patient's most severe ais injuries irrespective of the body region in which they occur . The pediatric traum... |
The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards), a clinically important complication of severe acute lung injury (ali) in humans, is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients [15]. Infectious etiologies, such as sepsis and pneumonia, are leading causes of ali [1, 2, 5]. Histologically, al... |
Pityriasis rubra pilaris (prp) includes a spectrum of rare chronic, idiopathic inflammatory disorders with papulosquamous eruptions of unknown cause . Prp shows consistent clinical heterogeneity; consequently, it is hard to predict the outcome of treatment . A 29-year - old female presented for evaluation of a skin con... |
Elderly depressed people who experience cognitive impairment or dementia need to be assessed using special instruments . The cornell scale for depression in dementia (csdd) is considered one of the best tools to use with cognitively impaired residents, and is thus widely used in nursing home and long - term care (ltc) ... |
Teratoma is a special type of mixed tumor that contains recognizable mature or immature cells or tissues representative of more than one germ cell layer and sometimes all three . Teratomas can develop in almost any area of the body, but usually occur in median sites . The most common sites are the sacrococcyx, anterior... |
Asthma is an enormous public health issue with 8.5% of people in the us diagnosed with asthma . Asthma disproportionately impacts the young . According to the 2011 national health interview survey,> 10 million children under age 18 years in the us or 14% have been diagnosed with asthma in their lifetime . This public h... |
Patients who present to the emergency department with chest pain require rapid triage, evaluation and management . Myocardial infarction with st segment elevation (ste) on electrocardiography (ecg) is a common presentation in emergency rooms across the world . Acute coronary syndrome (acs) marked by ste on the ecg warr... |
Cavernous sinus thrombosis (cst), which was first described by dease in 1778, is a rare disease associated with high mortality and morbidity rates if not treated immediately1 . Cst can result from infection of the paranasal sinus or any of the anatomic structures drained by the cavernous sinus, including the mid - face... |
Microalbuminuria (ma) was delineated many years ago to describe the appearance of small quantities of albumin, too little to detect by standard dipstick methods, in urine samples from subjects with diabetes [1, 2]. According to recent guidelines, ma may be defined as the urinary excretion of 30300 mg / d in a timed uri... |
Diabetes mellitus (dm) is a metabolic disorder characterised by an increase in plasma glucose level due to insulin deficiency and/or resistance that can lead to damage to multiple organs . Currently, approximate 347 million people are suffering from dm worldwide and the number will continue to increase . There are two ... |
Metastatic disease is rare and usually occurs within the first two years after initial diagnosis, and is extremely rare after that time period . However, metastases to forearm bones are very rare with only very few reports published till date . Here we present a case of bilateral retinoblastoma with metastases to right... |
Parosteal lipoma is an extremely rare benign tumor composed mainly of mature adipose tissue with a bony component . It is among the rarest neoplasias of skeleton, accounting for less than 0.1% of primary bone tumors and 0.3% of all lipomas . The most common locations for this tumor are the femur, proximal radius, humer... |
We sampled ants in three regions of morocco: first in the north - west, in the region of tangiers - tetouan where we focused on several areas: (1) mediona and cap spartel within the province of tangiers, (2) al hamra and balota within the province of tetouan, and (3) dardara, fifi, talassemtane national park, and bouha... |
More than 10 million patients with new cases of cancer are diagnosed every year, and about 27 million new cases of cancer will have been recorded by 2030.1,2 some traditional cancer therapies, such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy, have enhanced the 5-year survival rates of cancer patients . For improving the therapeut... |
Systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is a multifactorial autoimmune disease characterized by several clinical manifestations and the appearance of multiple autoantibodies.14 analysis of sera obtained from the same sle patient over a long period of time has demonstrated that different autoantibody specificities appear at ... |
The emergence of primordial metabolism has been postulated to play a central role in the origins of life . Many of the investigations so far have centered on the reductive citric acid cycle . However, in his glyoxylate scenario, eschenmoser theorized that glyoxylate 1 may have played an important role in the developmen... |
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer and second cause of cancer death in chilean men . Prostate specific antigen (psa) is the most accurate serum marker for prostate and the only biomarker routinely used for the early detection of prostate cancer . Although psa is highly specific for prostate, an elevated l... |
Aging is a gradual process, proportional to time, that causes structural and functional changes due to internal degeneration . Aging can be divided into intrinsic aging, which is natural with the progression of time, and environmental aging caused by the external environment . Uv - induced photoaging is usually observe... |
The phantom consisted of 5 components; the driver, the control, the support, the balloon phantom and the ecg . The phantom's end - diastolic phase, with the longest motion - free periods, was designed at 85% of the r - r interval despite of the changes of the hr . Different sized acrylic tubes (3, 4 and 5 mm) were used... |
Most studies about laparoscopic skills acquisition are focused on the validation of simulators, i.e., devices that recreate operative conditions . However, other important issues concerning the learning process, like feedback, are seldom discussed . This often leads to the absence of validated feedback during training ... |
Clinically significant mrsa and mssa isolates, identified during january 2006march 2008, within 3 select communities (sites a site b also included 1 adjoining community, and sites a and b also included additional first nations reserves serviced by the community . A total of 1,280 isolates, obtained from skin and soft t... |
A total of 2.78 million tickets were sold to the london paralympic games, making the paralympic games the world s third biggest sporting event, after the olympic games and the fifa world cup . The movement is genuinely global174 countries have national paralympic committees and participation is increasing, with> 6000 i... |
The incidence of esophageal cancer has increased in recent years, reflecting a shift in histologic type and primary tumor location in the west . Although adenocarcinoma of the esophagus is more prevalent in western countries, squamous cell carcinoma is still the most prominent histologic type worldwide . Esophageal can... |
In the industrialised nations, food allergy is a growing epidemic affecting all age groups and appearing at any time in life . A marked increase in the incidence of food allergy in young children is of particular concern, with a reported 68% of young children and 3 - 4% of adults having some type of food allergy [13]. ... |
The first study of this dissertation (chapter 2) concentrated on trauma exposure in childhood . Early in life, the hpa - axis is in development and trauma exposure during childhood is thought to have profound effects on hpa - axis regulation . These effects may be evident even throughout adulthood and in the absence of... |
Hemopericardium is an effusion of blood into the pericardial sac and it is due to heart disease (heart rupture as a consequence of necrosis or traumas) or to an intrapericardial aortic rupture . In both cases, death may occur as a result of cardiac tamponade due to the accumulation of blood in the pericardium, which le... |
The purpose of this ancillary study was to determine if the risk for diabetes complications in the action to control cardiovascular risk in diabetes (accord) glycemia trial differed among individuals with lower or higher hba1c levels than predicted by fasting plasma glucose (fpg). Accord participants were middle - aged... |
During root canal treatment, clinicians face various unwanted procedural mishaps that can occur at any stage of treatment . Of all, instrument fracture within the root canal system and more rarely fractured piece protruding beyond the apex are among the most troublesome and frustrating errors . Fractured instrument ext... |
The occurrence of foreign bodies such as metal screws, staple pins, darning needles, pencil leads, beads and tooth picks lodged in the exposed pulp chambers of carious or traumatically injured deciduous and permanent teeth has been reported . Most often, these cases are diagnosed accidentally on radiographic examinatio... |
Inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is a chronic, relapsing, idiopathic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract . Subtypes of ibd include crohn's disease (cd), ulcerative colitis (uc), and inflammatory bowel disease unclassified (ibd - u). The majority of epidemiological studies on the incidence and prevalence of ibd r... |
As more and more protein sequences become available with their structures undetermined, recognizing functional signatures directly from sequences is particularly desirable in functional proteomics (13). Automatic discovery of patterns in unaligned biological sequences is an important problem in molecular biology (48). ... |
It has long been appreciated that the regulation of biological processes involves a complex orchestration of genes in networks . However, typical analytic frameworks for genome - wide association studies (gwas) have assumed a simplified genetic architecture, largely considering independent additive contributions to gen... |
Malaria has been one of the major challenges to global health during the past century . In 1900, 58% of the world's land area more than a million deaths annually have been attributed to malaria throughout the latter half of the 20th century, most in children younger than 5 years, with countries of sub - saharan africa ... |
Toxoplasmosis occurs in advanced stages of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection and is the most common opportunistic infection of the central nervous system in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids), especially in those patients with a cd4 + count <200 cells / mm . The most common clinical ... |
Microtubules are polymers of /-tubulin dimers that stochastically switch between phases of growth and shortening . These dynamics are generally reported by four parameters: the rates of growth and shortening and the frequencies of switching between these phases, referred to as catastrophes and rescues1 . Conventional a... |
Keratomycosis caused by filamentous fungi rapidly progress deep into the stroma with edematous infiltrations, often accompanied by a severe anterior chamber inflammation . In contrast, some species of filamentous fungi, such as alternaria, can cause mild superficial corneal infections . Unfortunately, these are frequen... |
Therefore, prevalence of depression, anxiety, phobia, and obsessive disorders are increased during pregnancy . About 18% of pregnant women are depressed during pregnancy while 14% of them experience depression for the first time during pregnancy . Anxiety is also other common disorder during pregnancy with a prevalence... |
Giant cell pancreatic cancer was first described by sommers and meissner in 1954 . In the literature, these rare tumours have been divided into two subtypes: osteoclast - like giant cell and pleomorphic giant cell carcinoma of the pancreas . Although a number of reviews have shown possible prognostic differences betwee... |
Local anesthetic agents are chemicals that reversibly block the transmission1 of action potential of nerve membrane . An essential pre - requisite to success in dentistry is to achieve good quality local anesthesia (la). Local anesthetic agents are normally associated with absence of pain during surgical intervention i... |
A pleasant and pleasurable first dental visit of the child is important in establishing a bond of trust between him and the dentist, thus ensuring a successful outcome of the ensuing treatment . Achieving a child's co - operation to deliver children avoid dental treatment mainly due to fear and anxiety resulting from a... |
Peyronie disease (pd) is a connective tissue disorder that is characterized by localized fibrotic plaques in the tunica albuginea, most commonly on the dorsal surface of the penis, that result in penile bending and often pain . As an initial trigger, an inflammatory process and subsequent aberrant wound healing by repe... |
We report a case of a 67-year - old male who presented with a cecocentral scotoma caused by a septic embolus from subacute bacterial endocarditis (sbe). A 67-year - old man presented with sudden, painless decreased vision in the left eye . A dilated fundoscopic exam, humphrey visual field test, transthoracic echocardio... |
Paclobutrazol (chemical structure as in figure 1) was a plant growth regulator registered for the reduction of terminal growth and pruning volume, the inhibition of gibberellins and sterol biosynthesis, and hence the rate of cell division [1, 2]. Due to its toxicity, the agreed adi (accepted daily intake) and arfd (acu... |
Currently, endoscopic submucosal dissection (esd) is widely used as an alternative to surgical resection in patients with early - stage gastric cancer or adenoma.1 since esd enables en bloc resection of large lesions, esd results in the creation of larger artificial ulcers . Kakushima et al2,3 have reported that gastri... |
The schedule shown in table 1 is for persons aged 0 through 18 years without delayed vaccination . For children and adolescents whose vaccination has been delayed for more than one month, the schedule should be referred to the catch - up immunization schedule (table 2). The schedule comprises two parts; for infants and... |
According to china's ministry of health, china has approximately 4 million cataract victims, with 500,000 new cases being diagnosed each year . As a developing country, especially in rural china, poverty and limited access to health care, due to the uneven distribution of health care sources, can make it very difficult... |
Body and pancreas weight were recorded, and blood glucose (glucometer elite, bayer, terrytown, nj), plasma insulin (enzyme - linked immunosorbent assay), and glucagon (radioimmunoassay) levels (joslin derc specialized assay core, boston, ma) were measured before experiments . Glucose tolerance tests, acute glucose - st... |
Hereditary gingival enlargement (hgf) is a rare condition with incidence of 1 in 750, 000 people . It may occur isolated or as a part of multisystem syndrome . It may present itself as an autosomal dominant which has been linked to chromosome 2p21-p22 and 5q13-q22 or recessive mode of inheritance . Although involvement... |
Lynch syndrome (ls) is an autosomal - dominant genetic predisposition to cancer, accounting for about 1%-5% of colorectal cancer (crc). Ls is caused by an inactivating germline mutation in a mismatch repair (mmr) gene, including mlh1, msh2, msh6, pms2, and epcam . Ls entails a lifetime crc risk of 60%-80% and displays ... |
Wszyscy pacjenci mieli wykonane badania rtg i usg stawu skokowego do 7 dni od urazu . W badaniu rtg nie stwierdzono patologii u 129 pacjentw (63%); u 24 pacjentw (12%) stwierdzono zamanie awulsyjne kostki bocznej; u 36 pacjentw (17%) stwierdzono wysik w stawie skokowym grnym . W badaniu usg nie stwierdzono patologii u ... |
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (fshd) is a common inherited muscular dystrophy presented clinically with slowly progressive weakness and wasting of facial and limb muscles and rare bulbar muscle involvement . We present herein a known case of fshd presented with recent onset of severe bulbar symptoms and was fo... |
Technetium-99 m (tc-99 m) in complex with methylene - diphosphonate (mdp) is a commonly used substrate in radionuclide bone imaging . Bone scans utilizing this radiotracer are very sensitive and enable nuclear medicine physicians to screen for various osseous abnormalities and pathologies . Localization of the radiotra... |
The success of endodontic treatment is mainly dependent on thorough cleaning, shaping and disinfection of root canal system . The irrigation protocol thereby plays a key role in the disinfection of the root canal space . A clean root canal system along with a three dimensional seal is the clinician's road to success . ... |
It is estimated to increase the prevalence rate of cancer about 45% by 2025 in developed countries . Iran is one of developing countries, in which recently occurred the significant population growth and economic and social status changes . Nearly, 38% of these cancer cases in both sexes were due to gastrointestinal tra... |
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als) is a rapidly progressive degenerative neurological disease . About 5%-10% of als is familial, with the remaining 90% of people diagnosed with als being classified as having sporadic disease (1). Although several environmental risk factors have been considered, the causes of als are l... |
The qualitative process used for reflection on and assessment of this particular participatory method is also provided . Ten students in the grade 912 cohort were trained as researchers and conducted interviews with students in grades 212 at the klemi dene school and students in grades 26 at the neighbouring kaw tay wh... |
Treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock remains a major challenge in the critically ill, and it is still one of the leading causes of death worldwide . Despite increased awareness of the importance of early resuscitation, mortality in north america and europe ranges between 28 and 41% . Based on a consensus agreeme... |
Short - term atmospheric blocking over greenland contributes to melt episodesassociated temperature anomalies are equally important for the meltduration and strength of blocking events contribute to surface melt intensity short - term atmospheric blocking over greenland contributes to melt episodes associated temperatu... |
Abnormal amounts of maternal circulating glucocorticoids (gcs), which can be induced by conditions such as chronic maternal stress, may produce protracted neurobehavioral alterations in the offspring . It has been shown that maternal prenatal (but not postnatal) emotional stress is linked to abnormal infant affective r... |
Derangements of the condyle - disc complex arise from a breakdown of the normal rotational movement of the disc on the condyle . The thinning of the posterior border of the disc can cause the disc to be displaced in a more posterior position . With the condyle resting on a more posterior portion of the disc or retrodis... |
Corneal collagen cross - linking (cxl) is the only conservative therapy for keratoconus that has been demonstrated to stiffen the cornea and halt the progression of the ectasia . Cxl results in an increase in tensile strength of the cornea as a result of an interaction between riboflavin photosensitizer and ultraviolet... |
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