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Immunizations are common procedures in the life of most children, preventing diseases that inflict disability or death . The human papillomavirus (hpv) vaccination aims to protect against the development of cancer caused by hpv . Administration of the vaccination is recommended before sexual debut in order to maximize ... |
After the initial description of the role of the pulmonary veins in initiating and maintaining atrial fibrillation (af), increasing clinical evidence of efficacy and safety of left atrial ablation has been gathered . Consequently, catheter ablation of af is performed in increasing numbers and centers [3, 4]. Despite th... |
Precise preoperative planning is a vital principle of success in orthopaedic surgery . Arguably, no field in medicine is as dependent for its success on accurate planning and implementation of alignment correction and implant placement . Traditionally, preoperative planning has been performed on standard radiographs wi... |
Chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) is a clonal myeloproliferative disorder of hematopoietic stem cells characterized by the reciprocal translocation t(9;22) (q34;q11), the philadelphia chromosome (ph). The resulting breakpoint cluster region - abelson 1 bcr - abl1 oncogene has a deregulated tyrosine kinase activity, which ... |
Multiple injections of insulin is the main form of treatment for type 1 diabetes mellitus (t1 dm). However, despite the combination treatment of ultrarapid and longacting insulin, it is not always easy to achieve an ideal blood glucose diurnal profile . The diabetes control and complications trial (dcct) has confirmed ... |
Reactive oxygen species (ros) such as superoxide (o2), hydrogen peroxide (h2o2), and the hydroxyl radical (oh) are produced in all aerobic organisms within the cell and are normally in balance with antioxidant molecules . Oxidative stress occurs when this critical balance is disrupted because of depletion of antioxidan... |
According to the centers for disease control and prevention, 9% of us adults meet the criteria for current depression while 3.4% meet the criteria for major depression . As depression affects such a large portion of the us population, research investigating the risks it imposes is increasing . Depression has been linke... |
Pth modulates osteoblast activity and osteoclast resorption, increases renal tubular reabsorption of calcium, and stimulates conversion of 25-hydroxyvitamin d to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin d by 1-hydroxylase in the kidney . In addition, pth acts on bone cells to increase expression of fibroblast growth factor-23 (fgf-23). H... |
Its pathogenesis is related to human papilloma virus (hpv) types 6 and 11 . The occurrence of these lesions is influenced by smoking, co - existent infections, dietary deficiencies and hormonal changes . Squamous papillomas are traditionally divided into two types: isolated - solitary and multiple - recurring . The for... |
The shoulder and chest muscles regulate normal motion in the shoulder joint by stabilizing the scapula in the chest while the upper arms are raised1 . The serratus anterior muscle (sa), the upper trapezius muscle (ut), the lower trapezius muscle (lt), the rhomboid muscle, and the levator scapula muscle form force coupl... |
In the past two decades, dental implants have become increasingly popular as a procedure to restore missing teeth . A number of patient and procedure related parameters determine the success of the implant treatment . Diabetes mellitus (dm) is the most common systemic disease which is generally considered as a relative... |
Twenty - eight rhesus monkeys, imported in 2006 from guangxi grandforest scientific primate company, dayiling ping nan county, china were used in this study . This colony consisted of 23 females weighting 3.70.67 kg, aged 4y 06 m and 5 males weighting 4.00.69 kg, aged 4y 14 m (table 1). In china farm, these monkeys hav... |
Colonoscopy is usually performed to identify or correct a problem in the colon and distal small bowel, and its clinical applications have increased enormously in recent years . Intestinal perforation and hemorrhage are well - known complications of colonoscopy, but the incidence of these problems is very low1, 2). The ... |
Hydatidosis or human cystic echinococcosis (ce) is a cosmopolitan zoonotic disease that can be found in people and livestock infected with the larval stage of the tapeworm parasite echinococcus granulosus . Dogs are the primary definitive hosts for this parasite, with livestock and humans acting as intermediate hosts .... |
This study used cross - sectional data from participants of the 20032004 and 20052006 nhanes study conducted in the u.s . The three main aspects to the survey are an interview given by a trained interviewer in the participants home, a medical exam completed at a mobile examination center, and laboratory tests . The nat... |
Spinal intradural lipoma is a rare condition, accounting for <1% of all spinal cord tumors.1 when encountered, most are found in the lumbosacral region with coinciding spinal dysraphism . Several reports in the literature have discussed spinal cord lipomas, especially in the pediatric population; however, there are few... |
Severe or profound sensorineural hearing loss causes several deficiencies that are not only sensorial but also social and emotional . Characterized by a lack of perception and speech coding, individuals with this degree of hearing loss might need special resources to minimize the consequences of such a loss . With the ... |
Periodontium is a group of specialized tissues that surround and support the teeth and maintain them in the maxillary and mandibular bones, and it consists of four principal components: gingiva, periodontal ligament, cementum, and alveolar bone . The inflammatory state of periodontium is called periodontitis, which is ... |
Osteoimmunology . An overactive immune response may initiate the onset of inflammatory bone disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis (ra) and periodontitis, which can be significant sources of covert systemic inflammation . Because the prevalence of ra and periodontitis increases with age, it is important to recognize t... |
Treatment of adhesions can be expensive, and in some cases, life - threatening . In spite of the large number of surgical operations performed daily, the mechanism of peritoneal adhesion is not well understood . Previous reports have shown that peritoneal injury is triggered by leakage of plasma proteins, followed by f... |
The cell cycle is a fundamental cellular process that governs the ability of cells to divide . Control of the cell cycle is crucial for the generation of tissues from dividing stem cells, such as the development of the nervous system . Exit from the cell cycle is associated with the control of differentiation because d... |
Extrapulmonary complications of mycoplasma pneumoniae infection involving the central nervous system (cns) are not rare . According to previous reports, encephalitis, meningoencephalitis, aseptic meningitis, transverse myelitis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, and guillain - barr syndrome have been associated wit... |
The hard tissue of human teeth is composed of enamel, cementum and dentin . Multinucleated cells called odontoclasts resorb root dental hard tissues9.the resorption of hard tissue in primary teeth is a normal physiologic phenomenon that leads to their exfoliation and ultimately the transition to permanent dentition . T... |
Members of the nuclear factor - kappa b (nf-baaabbreviations: pkc, protein kinase c, nf-b, nuclear factor - kappa b; ib, inhibitor of nf-b; ikk, b- kinase; carma, caspase recruitment domain (card) carrying member of the membrane associated guanylate kinase (maguk) family proteins; bcl-10, b - cell lymphoma / leukemia 1... |
Mild cognitive impairment (mci) is considered to be the transitional phase between normal aging and dementia and is recognized as the prodromal stage of alzheimer s disease (ad), which is the most common form of dementia1 . Evidence from neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies have suggested that mild cognitive imp... |
Septic complications of central venous catheters (cvcs) remain a significant cause of patient morbidity and mortality both in the intensive care unit (icu) and on general hospital wards . Approximately 25% of cvcs inserted have been reported to become colonised, with rates of catheter - related blood stream infection (... |
The initial treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer (dtc) includes surgery and selective administration of radioactive iodine (rai). Rai has shown to decrease mortality and recurrence in high risk patients, and it is considered an important component of the treatment in invasive or metastatic disease [1, 2]. However... |
Osteoporosis is a disorder of low bone mass and damaged skeletal architecture resulting in impaired bone strength and an increased risk of fragility fracture . During the past 20 years, several classes of drugs with different mechanisms of action have been shown to protect patients with osteoporosis from fragility frac... |
The study was performed between september 2004 and december 2009 at three study sites in sweden, finland, and the netherlands ., 150 patients were screened of which 69 patients were randomized using a permutated block randomization scheme stratified by site and screenings for hba1c to receive exe or glar in addition to... |
Ca release from intracellular stores is mediated by two major classes of intracellular channels, ryanodine and ins(1,4,5)p3 receptors . Mammalian genomes encode three ins(1,4,5)p3 receptor genes, type 13, with disparate tissue distribution and molecular regulation . The ins(1,4,5)p3 receptor is a complex signal integra... |
Diseases of the myocardium associated with cardiac disfunction by world health organization (who), and it is an important cause of chronic congestive cardiac failure in children . The reported incidence for cardiomyopathies is 1,13 - 1,24 per 100,000 children 1, 2 . Although the pathogenesis of disease is not fully und... |
The sporadic (i.e., non - familial) form of the alzheimer's disease (ad) syndrome (sads, where the first s is for sporadic, and the second s is for syndrome) is by far the most common form of this disorder, and appears to result from a more or less individually unique set of converging risk factors, inadequately counte... |
Quantitative genetic analyses using twin, family and adoption designs have demonstrated that familial resemblance in body mass index (bmi) is largely due to genetic similarity, with high heritability estimates reported from twin studies (4790%), and moderate - to - high estimates from family (2481%) and adoption studie... |
Subjects were recruited from the cacti study cohort described previously (38) for a hyperinsulinemic - euglycemic clamp substudy . Inclusion criteria for initial enrollment of type 1 diabetic subjects in the cacti study were age 19 to 56, no history of cvd, insulin therapy within a year of diagnosis and current insulin... |
The pathophysiology of thrombogenesis is not fully understood yet and the risk of venous thrombotic complications varies according to age, histologic type of renal disease, and level of serum albumin . Deep venous thrombosis, renal vein thrombosis, and pulmonary embolism are common in nephrotic syndrome, whereas portal... |
There is an urgent need to better understand the molecular factors that govern influenza a virus (iav) virulence . Seasonal (human - adapted) iav is a major cause of morbidity and mortality each year, but the pandemic potential of iav strains that originate in animal hosts poses an even more serious threat to public he... |
One of the most important ways to manage the behavior of children is pain control . Since a deep anesthesia is necessary in all dental treatments, a comfortable injection with minimal pain and no injury has a considerable importance . In fact, a local anesthesia induced by a single injection not only provides the patie... |
Lung cancer is one of the absolute priorities in oncology because of its mortality, incidence, social and economic impact . The lack of clinical signs at the early stages and therapeutic inefficiency for advanced stages, lead to the evidence that early diagnosis should reduce lung cancer related mortality, as in early ... |
The diagnosis in verrucous lesions of the oral cavity can range from verrucous hyperplasia to verrucous proliferative leukoplakia (vpl), and verrucous carcinoma . Vpl is a distinct entity among these, and it has a high potential for malignant transformation . The present study evaluates the clinico - pathological featu... |
Aspergillus ochraceoroseus (atcc 38873) and aspergillus rambellii (atcc 42001) are two fungal organisms that were first characterized in 1978 (bartoli and maggi 1978). Both were named a. ochraceoroseus until a more thorough comparison, decades later, revealed differences which resulted in renaming one of the isolates a... |
Rosacea is a persistent and recurrent inflammatory condition of the middle face as a rule . Classical morphology rosacea frequent subtypes are the erythematotelangiectatic (et) rosacea and the papulopustular (pp) rosacea, while the other anatomoclinical forms are the granulomatous (or lupoid) rosacea, the phymatous ros... |
In normal human epidermis, each melanocyte associates with approximately 35 keratinocytes to form an the keratinocytes in each unit exert considerable control over the behavior of the associated melanocyte, via interactions of cell - cell adhesion molecules and release of paracrine factors . Ultraviolet radiation (uvr)... |
Idiopathic adulthood ductopenia (iad) was first proposed as a condition characterized by chronic cholestasis by ludwig et al . In 1988 . Currently, the diagnosis of iad is considered with adult or adolescent onset, biochemical evidence of cholestatic liver disease, evidence of ductopenia by liver biopsy with normal cho... |
The present study aimed to collate the findings from observational studies reporting psychological distress among amputees in india . The search strategy included electronic search engine databases: pubmed, psychinfo, and google scholar . The keywords for the search were amputation, india, and psychological distress or... |
This process includes dna and chromatin modifications by methylation, acetylation, phosphorylation, ubiquitylation, and sumolyation . Epigenetic processes are natural and essential to many organism functions, but if they occur improperly, they may result in major adverse health effects . The best known epigenetic proce... |
We describe a unique case of a plexiform neurofibroma involving the celiac and hepatic plexus in a healthy child without stigmata of neurofibromatosis type 1 (nf-1). Given both the anatomic and functional details, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) has proven to be the modality of choice for both diagnosis and follow - u... |
Antiepileptic drugs (aeds) are used in the treatment of epilepsy, pain, and psychiatric disorders, . Hepatic and renal status may impact the efficacy and toxicity associated with aeds which requires awareness by clinicians in multiple specialties and appropriate dose adjustments . Gabapentin is an aed approved by the f... |
In early 1954 mead has defined an impacted tooth as a tooth that is prevented from erupting into position because of malposition, lack of space, or other impediments . Later peterson, characterized impacted teeth as those teeth that fails to erupt into the dental arch within the expected time . In 2004 farman wrote tha... |
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is characterized by hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, and an impairment in insulin secretion . In the late nineteenth century, william osler described diabetes as a rare disorder more likely to develop in obese people and patients with gout . He estimated its prevalence as approximately two to... |
We report the first autopsy findings of a personalized external aortic root support (pears) operation, which confirm the incorporation of the mesh into the aortic adventitia as was shown in sheep . Our patient had a typical marfan phenotype with a characteristic habitus, pectus excavatum and a dislocated lens . His aor... |
The designs of the health professionals follow - up study (hpfs) and nurses health study (nhs) have been described (10,11). Men, all health professionals, who were 4075 years of age in 1986; and the nhs enrolled 121,700 u.s . Women, all registered nurses, who were 3055 years of age in 1976 . In both cohorts, participan... |
Inherited metabolic disorders (imds) are a complex group of genetic conditions in which an enzyme deficiency prevents normal metabolism . When the enzyme deficiency prevents normal use of nutrients, effective treatment of the associated imd depends primarily on dietary restriction because use of off - the - shelf foods... |
Angiostrongyliasis, gnathostomiasis, toxocariasis, lymphoma, and drugs can produce eosinophils in the cerebrospinal fluid (csf). Eosinophilic meningitis is defined as the presence of 10 eosinophils / ml in the cerebrospinal fluid (csf) or at least 10% eosinophils in total csf leukocyte count . We describe a rare case o... |
Multiple sclerosis (ms) is a chronic auto immune disease that affects all aspects of patient's lives . Physical, emotional, cognitive, intellectual, sexual, and social feature of their lives are impaired . Health - related quality of life (qol) is defined as individual's perception of function and health further than t... |
A large amount of norepinephrine (ne) is released from sympathetic nerves during acute myocardial ischemia . Ne participates in ischemic preconditioning (ipc) during short - term myocardial ischemia, which can reduce myocardial injury induced by long - term myocardial ischemia and the incidence of arrhythmias . However... |
This is a video describing shidham s method for cell block preparation from liquid based cytology (lbc) specimen using histogeltm (thermo scientific) (hg). As compared to other random approaches, the following are the two critical features of this protocol for preparing cell blocks from relatively hypocellular specimen... |
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the united states and causes significant morbidity and mortality . Inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is a chronic autoimmune condition that is associated with increased risk of development of skin cancer . Proposed mechanisms predisposing ibd patients to skin cancer inclu... |
Olfactory receptor neurons (orns) in fish and amphibia have been shown to respond to various groups of odorants, e.g., prostaglandins (sorensen et al ., 1988; kitamura et al ., 1994), nucleotides (kang and caprio, 1995), bile acids (kang and caprio, 1995; sato and suzuki, 2001), and amino acids (caprio and byrd, 1984; ... |
Nephrotic syndrome (ns) in children is typically idiopathic, but may also occur secondary to other diseases including eosinophilic disorders1234). Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (eg) is an eosinophilic disease characterized by eosinophilic inflammation of the gastrointestinal (gi) tract56). There have been few previous r... |
The following case report highlights a potentially life threatening complication of undertaking an incision biopsy on a soft tissue tumour, namely surgically uncontrollable haemorrhage from an unsuspected vascular lake . The case report demonstrates the value of interventional radiology for acute bleeding and radiother... |
Depression and anxiety are common mental health disorders; however, the risks for depression and anxiety are not distributed equally . Women are twice as likely as men to experience depression and generalized anxiety disorder due to a variety of biological and social factors [1, 2]. Women's hormonal fluctuations associ... |
Ogilvie's syndrome is rare type of acute intestinal pseudoobstruction associated with spontaneous massive dilation of cecum and proximal colon in the absence of mechanical obstruction . Colonic pseudoobstruction is most often seen in postsurgical patients and in medical patients with multiple comorbidities . Exact etio... |
The nutrition care process (ncp), developed by the american dietetic association (now the academy of nutrition and dietetics), was designed to improve the consistency and quality of individualized care for patients / clients or groups and the predictability of the patients / client outcome . It consists of four distinc... |
Flowers of n. indicum were collected from the local area of vidharbha region and authenticated from the department of botany, amravati university, amravati . Flowers were dried in shade and coarsely powdered weighing 1 kg was extracted with ethyl acetate by maceration process for 7 days . The extract of n. indicum flow... |
Celem pracy jest ocena moliwoci diagnostyki nowotworw neuroendokrynnych jelita cienkiego przy uyciu ultrasonografii poprzez identyfikacj zmian w krezce . W okresie od 1996 do 2013 roku zgromadzono 17 chorych (9 kobiet i 8 mczyzn w rednim wieku 57 lat) z nowotworem neuroendokrynnym w jelicie cienkim . Wszystkie objte re... |
Since the advent of icodextrin in 1994, its use is continuously increasing in peritoneal dialysis (pd) patients . It has proven advantage in ultrafiltration failure, high transport peritoneal membranes, and diabetics as compared to standard glucose based dialysate . With successful result of a case of single nocturnal ... |
1.26 mol of lipids in chloroform (typical lipid composition: dopc(1,2-dioleoyl - sn - glycero-3-phosphocholine):dopg(1,2-di-(9z - octadecenoyl)-sn - glycero-3-phospho-(1'-rac - glycerol)): mpb (1,2-dioleoyl - sn - glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine - n-[4-(p - maleimidophenyl) butyramide) = 4:1:5 molar ratio, all lipids fro... |
An 8-year - old girl presented with a progressively enlarging mass in the right conjunctival fornix composed of normal appearing eyelashes . The patient had a history of aberrant conjunctival eyelash growth that had caused recurrent conjunctivitis in her right eye over the past few years . The mass was surgically remov... |
Overproduced free radicals or a weakened natural antioxidant system can often lead to the oxidative stress that may eventually result in oxidative injury and diseases . Modern medical studies have shown that a variety of free radicals caused by oxidation in various tissues is one of the important factors of organic dam... |
In the previous issue of critical care, rodriguez - nunez and coworkers report their experience with terlipressin in 16 children with refractory septic shock . Over the past few years there has been much interest in the use of terlipressin in such settings, both in adults [2 - 6] and children [7 - 10]. The objectives o... |
Infection is acquired either by contact with infected animals or consumption of contaminated milk or dairy products . The disease has major economic impact not only due to time lost by patients from normal daily activities but also due to the loss in animal husbandry [1, 2]. Indeed, brucellosis is characterised by abor... |
The neuroimaging intermediate phenotype is conceptually analogous to an intermediate phenotype for common complex medical disorders . It is logical to assume that genes would show stronger associations with the biological substrates contributing to risk of a disorder, with measurable quantitative traits along a pathoph... |
Lung cancer is the most common fatal cancer worldwide and has become the leading cause of cancer deaths in korea the risk of human cancer can be associated with environmental, occupational, and recreational exposures to carcinogens (2). Oncogenesis is related with epigenetic changes, oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, ... |
The common cold, an acute infection properly known as cold syndrome, is the most common human illness . The majority of cases of cold syndrome are acute infections of the upper respiratory tract, and its major cause is viral infection . From 30 to 50% of cases of cold syndrome conventional methods of treatment use medi... |
Focused electron beam induced deposition (febid), which also goes by the alternative names of focused electron beam induced processing (febip) or simply as electron beam induced deposition (ebid), is a promising technique for the direct writing of patterns onto solid surfaces . It operates at a resolution approaching 1... |
Available data indicates that the prevalence of periodontal disease is very high in several african countries affecting all age groups . Libya is one of the north african country in the mediterranean region and sebha is the largest city situated in the south of the libyan arab jamahiriya and located in the middle of li... |
Malignant cells infiltrate the subarachnoid space and cerebral pia mater, causing meningeal irritation and cranial nerve symptoms . Mc is frequently diagnosed in patients with breast cancer, lung cancer, lymphoma or leukemia as well as tumors of the central nervous system (cns), mostly medulloblastoma . Intrathecal che... |
A replication - deficient recombinant adenovirus expressing human hsp72 was constructed using the adeasy system (qbiogene, carlsbad, ca, usa). The cdna for hsp72 (approved gene symbol hspa1a) was amplified by reverse transcription - polymerase chain reaction (pcr) using total rna extracted from hela cells that were pre... |
The inferior alveolar (ian) and lingual nerves can be injured by many dental or maxillofacial surgical procedures involving the mandible (third molar extraction, placement of endosseous implants, excision, osteotomy). Due to compression, stretching, or laceration of the alveolar or lingual nerves during surgical steps,... |
Human brucellosis remains the most common zoonotic disease worldwide, with more than 500,000 new cases annually 1 . It is caused by gram - negative bacteria, brucella spp . And is transmissible to humans through direct contact with infected animals, consumption of dairy products, or inhalation of aerosols 2 . Its main ... |
People living with cancer experience a variety of symptoms - such as pain, worry, depression, diarrhea, cough, shortness of breath, nausea, weakness, fatigue, fever, and confusion . Lack of care results in untreated symptoms that hamper an individual's ability to continue his or her activities of daily living . Treatme... |
The classic account, made by dandy & blackfan in 1914 *, where autopsies showed severe hypertentorial hydrocephalus, cystic dilatation of the fourth ventricle, small vermis, removal of the cerebelar hemispheres and absence of the roof of the fourth ventricle, thickening and opacity of the pia - arachnoid cisternae of t... |
For patients of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (cah) with ambiguous genitalia (ag), the decision of gender assignment and sex of rearing can be complex, especially if the genitalia are highly virilized . While assigning gender, apart from karyotype and prenatal androgen exposure, sociocultural influences, and parental ... |
Pyomyositis is charactarized by abscesses in the skeletal muscles of mainly the pelvis and lower extremities and is rarely seen in temperate regions . Due to an increase in immunocompromised patients the incidence of pyomyositis is rising in the western world . We describe a case of a young man with tenderness of his m... |
We present a case of acute torsion of a previously diagnosed huge accessory spleen in a young patient . A 20-year - old woman was admitted to our department with a 5-day history of left - sided abdominal pain accompanied by loss of appetite and a single vomit . It was first found on ultra sound in the left low quadrant... |
A 39-year - old male patient presented with a slow - growing, painless, scrotal enlargement with a soft consistency growing over a 2-year duration . Recently, another 2 cm sized, ovoid lesion had been newly palpated on the contralateral spermatic cord area . His medical history revealed no evidence of previous urinary ... |
We studied 29 eyes of 25 patients with exudative armd complicated by rap of variable onset that were identified from january, 2007 to january, 2011 . The diagnosis of rap was based on angiographic evidence (fa and icga) of an intraretinal neovascular complex connected with the retinal circulation, the patients were sub... |
One hundred and eighteen postmenopausal women (no menstruation for 12 months), aged 5174 years and receiving standard u.k . Care for type 2 diabetes (including statin therapy, established for 12 months and glycemic target of hba1c of 7.0%) were recruited through general practitioners, specialist diabetes clinics, and l... |
The combination of external beam radiotherapy (ebrt), chemotherapy and brachytherapy (bt) is the standard treatment of locally advanced cervical cancer . Image - guided adaptive brachytherapy (igabt) has been widely adopted during the last years [1, 2] and guidelines have been published for treatment planning and dose ... |
Hypertensive encephalopathy (he) is heralded by headache, visual disturbance, seizures, and altered mental status, all associated with severe hypertension6). Without prompt the most common feature of he by magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is hyperintensity of subcortical parietal and occipital white matter on t2-weight... |
Hepatitis c virus (hcv) is the most common cause of chronic liver disease and also an important factor in liver transplantation (cdc, www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hcv/hcvfaq.htm). The world health organization (who) has estimated that 3% of the world s population has been infected with hepatitis c virus (hcv) and currently mo... |
The cnisn includes 554 sentinel hospitals conducting surveillance for influenza - like illness (ili; hereafter called sentinel hospitals) and 408 network laboratories in all 31 provinces of china (figure 1). On a weekly basis, sentinel hospitals report the number of outpatient visits, by age group, for ili and the tota... |
Histoplasmosis is an infective condition caused by a dimorphic, saprophytic fungus, histoplasma capsulatum and is acquired by inhalation of its spores . Soil rich in bird and bat dropping is its natural habitat, and it exists as a mycelium in the atmosphere . The disease is endemic in the united states, africa and asia... |
Concern regarding facial esthetics is one of the most probable reasons to seek orthodontic and/or surgical orthodontic treatment . The dentition and the occlusal relationship play a vital role in determining the overall perception of facial esthetics . The degree of anteroposterior (ap) discrepancy, either dental or sk... |
Sexual dysfunction is a common complication in diabetic patients which accompanies with some complications of diabetes and should be considered especially in patients with nephropathy or retinopathy . Nowadays, 246 million people in the world are affected by diabetes and it is expected to affect 380 million by 2025 . M... |
Sct is a carrier state of sickle cell disease with one copy of normal beta globulin gene and one copy of sickle variant gene - producing heterozygous hbas (1). Sct is estimated to have prevalence of 300 million worldwide, mostly concentrated in africa, middle east, and mediterranean region (2). In the united states, al... |
A 14-year - old siamese neutered male cat was evaluated for anorexia and a left periorbital mass . Skull radiographic findings showed a well - defined lesion resembling new compact bone formation without destruction . The tumor was removed intact with a normal tissue margin of at least 1 cm . There were no postsurgical... |
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