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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is a common disorder that affects 5.3% to 20% of the children worldwide . Us studies have shown a prevalence of 8.7% in 815 years old (froehlich et al . 2007). Specifically in india, studies in hospital or outpatient clinics, with referral bias, suggest prevalence of 5.2%...
The rising number of children classified as overweight and obese has become a primary health concern in the united states (6,9,14,18,19,22). According to body mass index (bmi), over 33% of children / adolescents, ages 6 19 years, have been classified as overweight or obese (bmi 85th percentile) (6,18,19). If current tr...
Acute gastroenteritis (age), characterized by the onset of diarrhea with or without vomiting, still represents a major cause of morbidity even in industrialized countries, being mortality confined in mostly resource - constrained nations . Although generally considered a mild and self - limiting disease, age is one of ...
Since minimally invasive surgery (mis) is performed using an endoscope and several thin instruments through small incisions made in patients, it provides patients with some advantages like shorter recovery time, less postoperative pain, earlier resumption of normal activity, and cost savings . However, it is more ergon...
The main goal of the adhesion of restoratives materials to dental hard tissues is to obtain high bond strengths and a satisfactory, long - lasting seal.13 over the last decade, a number of investigations have reported that several factors might interfere with the bonding ability of adhesive systems to enamel or dentin,...
More recently, they have been used in autotransplantation procedures to replace non - restorable teeth . The transplantation of third molars may help to maintain alveolar bone and enable endosseous implantation without requiring bone regeneration, fulfilling functional and aesthetic demands . Information regarding morp...
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (nac) has generally been used in treatment of locally advanced and inflammatory breast cancer, but its use is increasing for earlier stages of the disease [1 - 3]. The number of patients who are candidates for breast conserving treatment (bct) increases with the use of nac, which downsizes tumo...
Soft - tissue sarcomas (stss) are mesenchymal - origin neoplasms characterized by locally aggressive behavior and a propensity for metastases 1 . Intra - lesional heterogeneity, a well - documented phenomenon in stss 2 - 8, can lead to imaging characteristics on us, ct, mri, and f - fluorodeoxyglucose (fdg) pet that ca...
In this issue of critical care, protti and colleagues report the effects of metformin on human platelets both in vitro and ex vivo . In vitro experiments were performed on healthy platelets incubated with increasing doses of metformin, whereas ex vivo experiments were done on platelets from patients presenting accident...
Most patients have advanced disease when they are diagnosed, and most experience relapse and metastasis after treatment . The prognosis of advanced gastric cancer is very poor; therefore, systemic multidisciplinary treatment of gastric cancer is particularly important, and chemotherapy plays a critical role in advanced...
The disease is characterized by progressive intracranial vascular stenosis of the circle of willis, resulting in successive ischemic events . Diagnosis is established by the typical appearance on cerebral angiography i.e. ; puff of smoke and refers to the appearance of multiple compensatorily dilated striate vessels se...
W ostatnich latach coraz czciej wprowadza si do leczenia chirurgicznego choroby wiecowej zabieg pomostowania aortalno - wiecowego bez uycia krenia pozaustrojowego (off - pump coronary artery bypass opcab). Zabieg przeprowadzany na bijcym sercu uwaa si za mniej inwazyjny, poniewa pozwala unikn efektw ubocznych zwizanych...
Myocardial infarction (mi), and subsequent reperfusion injury, is the most common and clinically significant form of acute cardiac injury and results in the ischemic death of cardiomyocytes.1,2 among the pathological mechanisms underlying myocardial ischemia / reperfusion (mi / r) injury, inflammation and inflammatory ...
Team working in health care involves interaction among health professionals who work interdependently to provide a given type of care.13 multiprofessional team working has been classified into three major types, each of which has its own characteristics related to the amount and type of collaboration among team members...
The frequency of chronic kidney disease (ckd) has been progressively increasing over the last two decades (1) and has become a worldwide public health problem . The prevalence of ckd is estimated to be 816% worldwide (2). Kidney transplantation is the best alternative treatment for end - stage renal disease and health ...
Slips, trips and falls (stfs) lead recurrently to injuries in occupational situations1 . These accidents are triggered by a movement disturbance (a slip or a trip) when working, especially when walking . Other movement disturbances (a wrench slipping, an arm colliding with a wall, etc .) Can occur in occupational situa...
The introduction of digital technologies in clinical pathology practice could produce great benefits in the form of improved patient care, better efficiency of health services, and novel diagnostic tools . At the same time, it is clear that these benefits can only be achieved if digital pathology solutions are carefull...
Gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) is defined as glucose intolerance 1st recognized during pregnancy with a prevalence of 2% to 14% in all pregnant women . Gdm is associated with maternal, fetal, and neonatal adverse outcomes such as cesarean delivery, preeclampsia, shoulder dystocia, macrosomia, neonatal hypoglycemia...
Crohn s disease (cd) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract characterized by focal, asymmetric, transmural inflammation of uncertain etiology and of an unpredictable course . The clinical presentation of cd is characteristically manifested by repeated cycles of active and quiescent disease of ...
Long - term peritoneal dialysis (pd) is associated with progressive increase in the thickness of peritoneal membrane, predominantly in the submesothelial compact collagenous zone (1), and membrane hyperpermeability (2). The mechanisms involved in these structural and functional changes remain unclear, but prolonged exp...
Use - dependent plasticity shapes neuronal networks within sensory systems during early life to optimally represent sensory stimuli . Experience - dependent organization of eye - specific inputs is a major mechanism whereby refinement of synaptic connectivity is achieved in the developing visual system [24]. Monocular ...
Procalcitonin (pct) is a 14-kd protein encoded by the calc-1 gene and synthesized physiologically by thyroid c - cells . Under normal conditions, serum pct levels are negligible . After shock or tissue injury (i.e. Burn, trauma, surgery) or infections and sepsis, pct mrna expression has been documented in human extra -...
Cell growth is tightly linked with the cell's perception of its nutritional environment . In particular, microorganisms, such as the yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae, that spend most of their time in the stationary phase in the wild, therefore, yeast is a good model organism for the study of nutrient detection and respon...
A change in the genetic code, also known as mutation, is the primary source of genetic variation which gives rise to diversity within a population . When accumulated over generations, these genetic variations may improve the adaptability; hence, the survival of organisms in different environmental conditions [1, 2]. Th...
Laparoscopic surgery has established itself as a durable alternative for both gynecologic and general surgical procedures . With increasing popularity and greater utility, the types and number of reported complications are increasing . We describe the case of a 70-year - old male undergoing routine laparoscopic cholecy...
Voltage - gated sodium channels (nav) are membrane - bound proteins that initiate action potentials in nerve and muscle cells and are critical elements of proper function in these tissues . The channels open when the voltage across the cell membrane is depolarized by a few millivolts above the normally negative resting...
Post - transplant lymphoproliferative disease (ptld) is a serious, often fatal complication after solid organ transplantation . The incidence of ptld is greatest among heart (213%), lung (12%), and heart / lung (59%) transplant recipients, but occurs less frequently in liver (2%), renal (13%), and bone marrow (12%) tra...
Based on a recent systematic analysis, oral conditions affected about 3.9 billion people worldwide and untreated caries in permanent teeth was the most prevalent condition with a global prevalence of 35% for all ages combined (1). Accumulation of microbial plaque on dental surfaces is the first step of dental caries an...
A 23-year - old female presented with an asymptomatic, erythematous, atrophic macule on the upper right side of her back that increased gradually in size within the last four years without any symptoms (figure 1a). On physical examination the surface of the lesion was smooth and no induration was examined on palpation ...
Approximately 6.5 million individuals in the united states have hf, and the cost to care for these patients is estimated to be $39 billion annually.1, 2 most of this cost is incurred through recurrent hospitalizations; a recent report estimated that primary diagnoses of hf account for over 1 million hospitalizations an...
Viruses are the most abundant and diverse biological entities in the biosphere, and their global numbers have been estimated at 1.2 10 and 2.6 10 in the ocean and soil, respectively . Thus, viruses are key elements that contribute to the life cycles of cellular organisms . However, the study of viral ecology in natural...
Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (pocd) is the deterioration of cognitive function, especially learning and memory, which may last for days, months, or even years [13]. Pocd occurs after cardiac and noncardiac surgeries and increases first - year morbidity and mortality after surgery [46]. There is no doubt that age...
This situation seems to get worsened with use of combination of anti - diabetic drugs . The american diabetes association defines the hypoglycemia as any abnormally low plasma glucose concentration that exposes the subject to potential harm, and proposes a threshold of <70 mg% . The spectrum of symptoms depends on dura...
For the past 50 years disulfiram is the commonly prescribed drug for the treatment of alcohol dependence . Important side effects of disulfiram are hepatological, dermatological, neurological (polyneuritis, encephalopathy)1,2) and psychiatric in nature . Psychiatric manifestations include confusion, loss of memory, psy...
During human gestation the placenta as a temporal villous organ fulfills a wide spread panel of pregnancy maintaining functions, including exchange of gases and metabolites, regulation of water balance, and secretion of endocrine factors . The vast majority of placenta derived endocrine factors are synthesized in the s...
Familial adenomatous polyposis (fap) is an autosomal dominant syndrome caused by a germ line mutation of the adenomatous polyposis coli (apc) gene . Surgery for fap aims to minimize colorectal cancer risk while providing good functional and socially acceptable outcomes . Curative surgical treatment is total proctocolec...
The inclusion criteria were patients who underwent revision surgery for recurrent pain after the kidner procedure and completed at least 12-months of follow - up after the revision surgery . The exclusion criteria were patients with recurrent pain from nonunion after fusion of an accessory navicular, a history of a loc...
Ribonucleotide reductases (rnrs) perform an essential function in all organisms, catalyzing the conversion of ribonucleotides into deoxynucleotides and providing the monomeric precursors required for dna synthesis and repair (chart 1). All rnrs initiate nucleotide reduction via a transient protein - based thiyl radical...
Intra - uterine insemination (iui) was first introduced as a technique for subfertility around 200 years ago . This is a simple, inexpensive and non - invasive infertility treatment which is the most frequently used assisted repro - ductive technology (art) worldwide (1). Proper patient selection and sperm preparation ...
The centers for disease control and prevention estimate that more than 2 million individuals in the united states develop illness resulting from antibiotic - resistant infections on an annual basis and published antibiotic resistance threats in the united states, 2013, which provides a snapshot of the complex problem o...
Endoscopic submucosal dissection (esd) has been developed to enable the endoluminal en bloc resection of superficial gastrointestinal neoplasms, thus producing an adequate specimen for a reliable histologic assessment . Several devices and tools have been proposed to make it possible to perform esd safely and in an eff...
Drug - induced dermatological reactions are common with the antiepiletic drugs such as carbamazepine (cbz), phenytoin, lamotrigine, ethosuximide, and phenobarbital . These reactions may occur in the mild form as benign rash or may be severe and life - threatening as erythema multiforme major or toxic epidermal necrolys...
A 59-year - old man presented with a swelling of the left lower extremity that had begun two months earlier . For further evaluation, we performed computed tomography (ct) venography and pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (mri). The ct venography axial images showed a 2.3 cm cystic mass compressing the left common femor...
Rasmussen's aneurysm is a less frequently noticed entity usually associated with pulmonary tuberculosis presenting with massive hemoptysis due to involvement of small peripheral pulmonary or bronchial artery by the tubercular cavity or lesion . Involvement of a large central pulmonary artery by metastatic mediastinal n...
During the course of hiv-1 infection, multifactorial t - lymphocyte (t - cell)-mediated mechanisms contribute to the progressive loss of host immune function [15]. In infected individuals, immune dysregulation occurs early and is characterized by a decrease in cd4 + cell count, a concurrent rise in cd8 + cells, a progr...
Chronic diseases are a major health concern and major cost in australia and in the most developed and developing countries . Since 1999, the australian government, through its national health insurance scheme known as medicare, has sequentially introduced a range of incentives including subsidised computers, payments t...
Do czstych powika mcs nale: incydenty zakrzepowe (w tym zakrzepica urzdzenia), incydenty krwotoczne oraz hemoliza . Ocena zmian w czasie wybranych parametrw ukadu krzepnicia u chorych ze schykow niewydolnoci serca leczonych za pomoc mcs i terapii przeciwzakrzepowej . Przez 6 tygodni obserwowano 16 pacjentw ze schykow n...
Despite the advent of new microbials, meningococcal infection remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. [14] based on the sequence of pathophysiological events and the agent and host factors, a wide spectrum of presentations may be seen . Patients with invasive meningococcal disease can present with meningiti...
Bladder cancer is the second most frequent cancer of the genitourinary system, the fourth most common cancer in men, and the seventh most common of all (1). Hematuria is the most prevalent symptom that occurs in 80% - 90% of cases and is usually presented without other urinary symptoms (called painless hematuria) (2). ...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ect) is an established modality of treatment for severe psychiatric illnesses such as depression, drug - resistant bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia . Among the various complications associated with ect, oxygen desaturation (defined as a spo2 <90%) the incidence of oxygen desaturation in sm...
Environmental temperature fluctuations can pose dramatic challenges to cold - blooded organisms, such as insects, fish, and crustaceans, since temperature changes can cause global perturbation that affects the reaction rates of all the biological processes . When the homeostasis of life is challenged, complex responses...
Diagnostic criteria for both type 1 diabetes (t1d) and type 2 diabetes include fasting glucose values 126 mg / dl and 2-h glucose values 200 mg / dl (1). Those glucose values were selected primarily because they coincide with observed thresholds for the occurrence of diabetic retinopathy (1). Since they were essentiall...
Transgenic ostreococcus tauri lines4 were cultured in keller media - supplemented artificial sea water (km) under 12:12 h blue (ocean blue, lee lighting filter 724) light: dark cycles (17.5 e / m). For imaging, cultures were transferred to 96-well microplates (lumitrac, greiner bio - one) at a density of ~1510 cells / ...
A 27-year - old man visited our hospital because of a sudden - onset generalized convulsion . He had been overworking and had slept less than 5 hours a day for the previous month . A week prior to the hospital visit, the patient had developed a fever and generalized myalgia but had not taken any medicine . High fever, ...
Hypertension is a major global concern and public health problem affecting more than one billion individuals worldwide and is one of the key preventable risk factors for cardiovascular events . It has a massive distributing impact on the population s health, resulting in unnecessary morbidity and mortality.1 in nearly ...
The use of earthworms for soil ecotoxicological risk assessment has advanced significantly over the past few decades . As many environmental contaminants possess neurotoxic properties, there exists a growing interest in using earthworms as neurotoxicity test organisms for environmental risk assessment and as potential ...
The program evaluation is generally classified into three types: planning, summative, and formative evaluation . Even though distinctions between the different types of evaluation are sometimes blurred, differentiating their intent helps us in clarifying our understanding of evaluation process (1). Planning evaluation ...
All rabbits were treated in accordance with the association for research in vision and ophthalmology statement on the use of animals in ophthalmic and vision research, and the experimental protocol was approved by the animal care committee of the massachusetts eye and ear infirmary . All experiments were carried out on...
Identification and eligibility of studies: as the aim was to ascertain the prevalence of pulmonary tb among the tribal population in india, we selected and reviewed all tribal - focused, community studies, targeting a demographic population above or equal to 15 yr of age . Only those studies in which individuals were e...
Peptidyl prolyl cistrans isomerases regulate many biological processes by interacting with molecular switches whose conformations are modulated via cistrans isomerization of the prolyl peptide () bond. (1) many molecular switches are involved in cell signaling pathways, and deregulation of these pathways could trigger ...
Wild - type bacillus subtilis cells (strain 168) were grown in terrific broth (sigma). A monoclonal colony was transferred from an agar plate to 25 ml of medium and left to grow overnight at 35c on a shaker . The culture was diluted 200-fold into fresh medium and harvested after approximately 5 hours when more than 90%...
Preeclampsia / eclampsia (pe) syndrome, defined as new onset and persistent hypertension after 20 weeks of gestation in association with significant proteinuria, is a major cause of maternal - fetal morbidity and mortality worldwide . The pathophysiology of pe remains incompletely understood, and anticipation and appro...
However studies have failed to establish a cause and effect relationship between barium retention in the appendix and subsequent development of the appendicitis . It is still not advisable to perform appendectomy in such circumstances without the evidence of an acute episode . We present one such patient who had featur...
The analysis is based on food consumption data collected in nine european countries: denmark, finland, germany, ireland, italy, poland, spain, the netherlands, and united kingdom . The data were collected by an international life science institute (ilsi) europe expert group (9). The selected micronutrients are vitamin ...
Keratoconus is a progressive noninflammatory thinning disorder of the cornea leading to a decrease in visual acuity as a result of myopia and irregular astigmatism [1, 2]. Corneal collagen cross - linking (cxl) can effectively halt the progression of the disease, but visual acuity following cxl remains poor . In patien...
Ternary boron carbonitride (b c n) nanotubes have recently attracted much attention because of their excellent mechanical properties, electrical properties, and anti - oxidant capacities . In addition, theoretical studies have revealed that the band gaps of b c n nanotubes can be tailored over a wide range by simply va...
The strength of the knee extensor and flexor muscles has been extensively studied and is a relevant clinical indicator of health status and functional capacity in coronary artery disease8, neuromuscular diseases9, the elderly10, renal disease11, and fibromyalgia12 . In sports medicine, knee extensor and flexor muscle s...
Genome - wide biases in nucleotide content have been extensively studied in a wide variety of organisms . During the past decade, there has been accumulating evidence that these variations at the dna level can result in parallel changes in the frequencies of amino acids in the encoded proteins . For example, the gc con...
Lung cancer is the most deadly cancer disease with an estimated 27% of all cancer deaths, . A large part of patients with lung cancer undergoes radiotherapy . Tracking tumor motion poses a significant challenge for precise dose delivery in lung cancer radiotherapy, due to respiratory motion of up to 3.5 cm for primary ...
Calcific aortic valve stenosis has become the most common acquired valve disorder with the highest prevalence in the 8th or 9th decade of life . Comorbidities such as diabetes mellitus, stroke, coronary heart disease, peripheral artery disease, pulmonary disease, and renal impairment appear to markedly increase the ris...
Study population - in total, 49 patients with chronic viral hepatitis, consisting of 28 hbv - infected patients and 21 hcv - infected patients, and 33 healthy, non - infected controls were included in the study . The patients were recruited from the clinic of infectious diseases of julio muller hospital (federal univer...
Busy clinicians sometimes think twice before reading studies of animal models . Yes, it sounds interesting, but is it really going to change my practice? There is so much else i should be reading...this writer does not mean to cast aspersions on such an attitude - and, in fact, share sit, at least to some extent . The ...
Development of the central nervous system (cns) is a complex process, which requires integration of many cellular processes including neural stem cell proliferation, migration, and neuronal differentiation . The major neuronal migration occurs in humans between the 12th and the 24th weeks of gestation and results in th...
More than 25 years after the identification of the causative agent of aids, hiv / aids is still a major challenge to society . The latest who / unaids report (2010) states that the number of people living with hiv has risen to 33.3 million, with more than 2.6 million new cases annually and almost 5000 aids - related de...
Haploid saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cells use a prototypic, g - protein coupled - receptor / map kinase cascade signaling system, the pheromone response system 1, to sense and transmit information about the concentration of mating pheromone secreted by cells of the opposite mating type (fig . 1). The more informatio...
It is known that breast density is a risk factor of breast cancer . A woman who has more than 75% breast density is 46 times more likely to have breast cancer than a woman who has a breast density of less than 25%1 . Guidelines for breast cancer screening have been suggested, and women over 50 years old are generally r...
According to the world oral health report, dental caries remains a major public health problem in most countries, affecting 6090% of school going children and a vast majority of adults, and this may be due to the changing lifestyles, dietary habits, increased sugar consumption and inadequate exposure to fluorides . The...
Each year, approximately 1.68 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer worldwide, and over 500,000 women died of the disease (about 1400 deaths per day). Breast cancer might be controlled but usually not cured when diagnosed in the metastatic setting . However, the revolution in the molecular biology gives rise ...
Platinum, ruthenium, rhodium, and iridium (platinum group metals) and gold together with silver (copper group metals) are known as noble metals . We discuss the ones that are already used in oncology or have a therapeutic potential . Platinum (pt), with atomic number 78, atomic mass 195.08, density 21.45 g / cm, and me...
Nearly all aspects of rna metabolism involve rna helicases, enzymes that use atp to bind or remodel rna and rna protein complexes (1). As one of the largest class of enzymes in rna metabolism, rna helicases are encoded by organisms from all kingdoms of life and by many viruses (2). In structure and sequence, however, r...
A 64-year - old man with a 15-year long history of hypertension was presented to the emergency room with a 24-hour history with symptoms of cyanosis and pain on the right upper extremity, consistent with acute ischemia . The major physical findings revealed that the right upper extremity was pale, cold, and exhibited r...
Emphysematous cystitis is a distinct complicated lower urinary tract infection (uti) characterized by air within the bladder wall and lumen . Patients with chronic utis, indwelling urethral catheters, urinary tract outlet obstruction, or neurogenic bladders are predisposed to complicated utis such as emphysematous cyst...
Transverse testicular ectopia (tte) is an uncommon anatomical abnormality in which both the gonads migrate towards the same hemiscrotum . The ectopic testis may lie in the opposite hemiscrotum, in the inguinal canal or at the deep inguinal ring . An inguinal hernia is commonly present on the side to which the ectopic t...
Alzheimer s disease (ad) is a progressive and the most prominent old - age debilitating disease which had a notable epidemic growth in recent years . According to statistical analyses, it is estimated that the number of people suffering from ad will double every twenty years; and by 2050, the number of sufferers from a...
Left ventricular hypertrophy (lvh) and increased left ventricular mass (lvm) are strong risk factors for cardiovascular disease and morbidity . Cardiac hypertrophy is characterized by increased cell size, cardiac remodeling of myofilaments, and increased expression of fetal genes . Lvm results from a complex of interac...
Blood was recovered from 14 individuals with type 2 diabetes who arrived in our patient clinic (sex [m / f], 8/6; a1c, 8 1.2%; age, 55.8 9.46 years; bmi, 28.1 3.22 kg / m; creatinine, 1.06 0.20 mg / dl; waist circumference, 98.8 8.02 cm; total cholesterol, 198 30 mmol / l; hdl cholesterol, 48 12.98 mmol / l; ldl choles...
According to the international continence society (ics), overactive bladder (oab) is a condition characterized by frequency (> 8 micturitions per day) and nocturia (waking one or more times at night to void) with or without urge incontinence (involuntary emptying of the contents of the bladder). Many epidemiological an...
Phlegmon is a spreading diffuse inflammatory process associated with the formation of a suppurative exudate or pus . Phlegmonous infection may involve any gastrointestinal tract site, although the stomach is most frequently involved (1). However, phlegmonous involvements of the esophagus, small bowel, or colon are rare...
An internet - based survey was conducted by harris poll on behalf of dexcom, inc between july 2016 and november 2016 among adults with t1d and insulin - using t2d who either were currently using rt - cgm (current rt - cgm users) or had sought to obtain an rt - cgm device but found that their insurance would not cover i...
A lot of research has been done in the past, and still research is going on to explore tools and techniques for regeneration of lost tissues as a result of the disease process . The use of various grafts and recent tissue engineering techniques including stem cell research are testimony to the ever increasing need for ...
Infections are currently one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct). One of the most prevalent bacterial infections in these patients is due to gram - positive organisms which have been rising during last decade . Hence many of these patients...
Auditory processing disorder (apd) is defined as difficulties in the processing of auditory information in the central nervous system and is characterized by the poor localization, separation, grouping, discrimination, or ordering of sounds . Children with apd have poor speech perception, especially in challenging envi...
The identification of ligand - binding sites is a crucial part in functional annotation of proteins, which benefits enormously from the knowledge of the protein 3d structure . It can provide clues about the molecular function of a protein, even in cases in which the relationship between molecular and biological functio...
Inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is a group of chronic conditions of the colon and small intestine, consisting of crohn's disease (cd) and ulcerative colitis (uc), characterized by acute pain, vomiting, and diarrhea symptoms followed by remission . A single etiology has not been identified, but rather the pathogenesis ...
Diabetic retinopathy (dr) is a one of the most common microvascular complications of diabetes . In 2012, there are more than 371 million people suffering from diabetes, and it is being projected that the number of diabetic patients will reach 550 million in 2030 (http://www.eatlas.idf.org/; assessed 29-nov-2012). Diabe...
To evaluate the interactive effects of different self - adhesive resin cements and tribochemical treatment on bond strength to zirconia . The following self - adhesive resin cements for bonding two zirconia blocks were evaluated: maxcem (ma), smartcem (sm), rely x unicem aplicap (un), breeze (br), biscem (bi), set (se)...
Colorectal cancer (crc) is one of the most common malignancies and usually ranks high in incidence and mortality among all malignancies in the western world . Carcinoma of the rectum and sigmoid is one of the most sites of gastrointestinal tract malignancy and accounts for 20% of all gastrointestinal malignancies . The...
The design of efficient water oxidation catalysts (wocs) based on nonprecious materials remains an important challenge for achieving a clean and sustainable solar fuels - based energy economy . We have previously shown that active wocs can be formed by anodic electrodeposition of metal - oxides from neutral and near - ...
A 50 year male presented on july 2011 to the emergency department with right heel pain and inability to bear weight following falling from height . Clinical examination revealed mild uniform swelling of the right heel and moderate tenderness with full ankle range of motion . 1) revealed undisplaced calcaneal fracture w...
Angular deformities around the knee joint necessitate special consideration to restore normal alignment during total knee arthroplasty (tka). Valgus knees are defined as those with> 10 of mechanical tibiofemoral angle on standing hip to ankle anteroposterior (ap) radiographs . Typically, a valgus deformity may be due t...