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The world health organization (who) co - sponsored an international conference on primary health care in alma - ata, ussr (now in kazakhstan) in september 1978 . The declaration of alma - ata stated the need for urgent action by all governments, all health and development workers, and the world community to protect and... |
Mycobacterium malmoense is an acid - fast environmental non - tuberculous mycobacterium (ntm) that rarely causes disease in humans but is becoming increasingly clinically significant, especially within europe . It was first described in 1977 by schroder and juhlin, following isolation in respiratory tract culture sampl... |
Creating peptide - based drugs includes the search of active sites or functionally important sites in the target protein and the selection of peptides capable of specific interaction with these sites . Such a selection usually can be accomplished using peptide libraries containing random fragments of amino acid sequenc... |
Cerebral palsy is a condition in which permanent problems affect movements and postural development due to non progressive lesions in the immature brain . It is accompanied by sensory disabilities, cognitive disorders, communication disorders, hypermetamorphosis, behavioral disorders, or convulsion1 . Among the types o... |
The insulin signal transduction pathway in pancreatic -cells is similar to that in most other cell types (fig . 1). We do not dispute evidence that insulin receptors are expressed in -cells . Moreover, it is generally accepted that some elements in the insulin signal transduction pathways play a critical role for -cell... |
Several studies have shown that subjects suffering from low back pain (lbp) frequently show persistent involvement of the lumbar multifidus muscle . For example, atrophy and fatty infiltration have been reported1,2,3,4,5,6,7, reduced activity has been demonstrated in persistent lbp8,9,10,11, and fiber transformation fr... |
Organophosphate compounds (opcs) are widely used for pest control in agriculture worldwide which leads to increased risk of human exposure . As a result of easy and widespread availability they are also often used as suicidal agents in developing countries killing an estimated 300,000 people per annum . The opcs inhibi... |
Its symptomatology could mimic other disease processes such as cholecystitis, diverticulitis, ruptured ovarian cysts and pelvic inflammatory disease . The diagnosis could be further obscured by underlying undiagnosed anatomical anomalies, for instance intestinal malrotation . Midgut malrotation is a foetal anomaly resu... |
Internal hernias comprise 1% of hernias, 8% of which are through the foramen of winslow into the lesser sac . This is the third reported case describing true gastric outlet obstruction secondary to caecal herniation through the lesser foramen . It is common for this type of herniation to initially be misinterpreted as ... |
The leukodystrophies are a heterogeneous group of genetic diseases involving dysmyelination of brain white matter as a result of substrate accumulation due to enzymatic defects . Recognition of leukodystrophies has been revolutionized by mri technology because of its increased sensitivity compared to ct scan and becaus... |
Bureaucracy has consequences . In 2004, time magazine attributed the nearly 400,000 european researchers in the us to two key factors funds and bureaucracy . Although many researchers were attracted by money and opportunity, many more were escaping constraints that faced them at home . The european union (eu) framework... |
Although substantial progress has been made in the awareness, prevention, and treatment of cardiovascular disease in women in the united states (usa) over the past 10 years, women's lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease is high . Adverse trends in cardiovascular disease risk factors are a growing concern, partly due ... |
Os objetivos do presente estudo foram avaliar as concentraes de flor (f) em leites integrais, desnatados e achocolatados disponveis comercialmente no brasil e estimar a ingesto diria de f a partir destas fontes . As concentraes de f foram determinadas em 23 marcas de leite, aps difuso facilitada por hmds, usando um ele... |
The mode of action of many drugs in clinical use for the treatment of cancer, genetic disorders, and viral diseases is believed to be based on their binding to nucleic acids and subsequent modification of the genetic material [1, 2]. The discovery of the double helical structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (dna) by watson... |
Within hcfa's office of the actuary, the office of national health statistics (onhs) is charged with the responsibility for maintaining the national health accounts (nha). These accounts form the structure for maintaining health care expenditure information for the united states . In response to a request by the 1993 p... |
Bereavement is a common term used to describe having lost someone important or significant through death . This intense emotion or distress following bereavement is referred to as grief, or the emotional reaction to bereavement . Grief is complex, and incorporates multiple symptoms such as anger and sadness, and varies... |
Image - guided tumour ablation is one of the exciting and promising developments in radiology . Radiofrequency ablation (rfa) is used in many centres to treat hepato - cellular carcinoma (hcc) and hepatic metastases as a complementary method to liver resection . There is interest in using magnetic resonance (mr) imagin... |
Blood flow rate (bfr) <300 ml / min often is used to define hemodialysis catheter dysfunction, including in the national kidney foundation's (nkf) kidney disease outcomes quality initiative (kdoqi) vascular access guidelines [1, 2], and in many research studies . Causes of catheter dysfunction include mechanical kinkin... |
A seventy year - old woman presenting gradual evolution pruritus gets worse recently . At clinical examination, both labia were observed as white plates, dispersed, irregular borders and sanded surface, suggestive of high - grade intraepithelial vulvar neoplasia . She was undergone to a vulvar polyp that revealed a hig... |
Priapism constitutes a urologic emergency in which persistent erection occurs that is not accompanied by sexual desire, usually lasting for more than 6 h and typically involving only the corpora cavernosa . Priapism has been associated with many known different disease states and some situations that constitute risk as... |
The duodenum is a common location for intestinal obstruction in the newborn requiring surgical intervention . Intrinsic obstruction ranges from complete atresia with a gap to membranous web and to stenosis . In contrast to small intestinal atresia, ontogeny is thought to be secondary to failure of luminal recanalizatio... |
Primary intraosseous odontogenic squamous cell carcinoma (pioscc) is a rare and malignant tumor . The etiology seems to be related to the malignant degeneration of embryological remains . In this line, epithelial rests of malassez, dental lamina and epithelium of the dental follicle represent potential suspects . Accor... |
Cerebral microbleeds (cmbs) are defined as small perivascular hemosiderin deposits . With the widespread use of magnetic resonance imaging (mri), cmbs are more commonly detected . In studies using sensitive mri technique, the prevalence of cmbs is as high as 11.1%23.5% in community - dwelling elderly people . Prevalenc... |
Dermatitis herpetiformis (dh) is one of the subepidermal autoimmune bullous diseases (abd) characterized by skin and intestinal lesions . Diagnosis of dh is established based on the results of direct immunofluorescence test (dif) and the presence of circulating iga antibodies directed against endomysium and/or tissue a... |
Preservation of hard tissues close to the living state is essential for understanding of cellular and subcellular structures and functions . The cutting of thin sections by ordinary methods is impossible in the case of tissues such as teeth, bone, teratomas containing bony tissue, lesions that have become partly calcif... |
The ttm trial randomized 950 adult comatose patients resuscitated after out - of - hospital cardiac arrest of presumed cardiac cause from november 2010 to january 2013 . The trial protocol was approved by the ethics committees in the participating countries and registered at clinicaltrials.gov (nct01020916). Sedation w... |
Daily lifestyle habits, such as physical activity, smoking, alcohol drinking and dietary intake, are associated with the risk of developing impaired glucose tolerance (igt) or diabetes mellitus (dm). Recently, sleep duration, one of the daily lifestyle habits, has gained attention with regard to its association with li... |
Pulmonary vein isolation (pvi) has become an important treatment modality for atrial fibrillation (af) [1, 2] although af recurrences can occur . Several pvi techniques have been developed [4, 5] in an attempt to increase af - free survival, among which the endoscopic laser balloon ablation system (eas) [6, 7]. The eas... |
The archetypal animal mitochondrial dna (mtdna) is a 15- to 20-kb circular molecule (boore 1999). Medusozoan cnidarians (jellyfish and hydroids) are among the few metazoans whose mtdnas depart significantly from this traditional architecture . Staurozoans, scyphozoans, and most hydrozoans have linear monomeric mitochon... |
Denvdengue virusesdc - signdendritic cell - specific intercellular adhesion molecule-3-grabbing non - integrinhsp70heat shock protein 70hsp90heat shock protein 90ssrna+single - stranded positive - sense rna virusesmrcamore recent common ancestorutruntranslated regioneenvelope proteinmmembrane proteinns1non - structural... |
Obesity and overweight have both been described as anomalous accumulation of excessive body fat which may be harmful to health . There is no single cause to explain all cases of obesity and overweight but most studies implicate imbalance in the amounts of calories consumed and those expended . The disruption of the nor... |
Malaria is a major public health problem in tropical and subtropical countries including india and its dynamics vary from place to place . Among all anopheline vectors, anopheles culicifacies (diptera: culicidae) is a principal malaria vector in rural, periurban and tribal settings (mishra et al . Culicifacies has a wi... |
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and accounts for 7.6 million deaths every year . The first and second most common causes of cancer death in the world are lung cancer (1.37 million deaths, annually) and gastric cancer (736000 deaths, annually), respectively (1). About 70% of all cancer deaths have occurred ... |
November 2014, a total of 20 suspected cases of illness were clinically diagnosed as dengue in wenzhou (5 cases) and wuhan (15 cases). The cohort comprised 14 male and 6 female patients 761 (median 31) years of age . Of the patients from wuhan, 11 had recently traveled to guangdong province; 3 had recently returned fro... |
Overweight and obesity are serious health problems [1, 2] which have increased during the past decades [1, 3] in the us, in other they tend to cause health damages with potentially immense expenditures [5, 6]. An appropriate definition of overweight and obesity is essential to the public health community for designing ... |
Esophagorespiratory fistula (erf) is an uncommon condition, despite of the anatomical proximity of these structures . Malignancy of esophagus, lung, or mediastinum is recognized as the most common cause . Causes of erf development include direct tumor invasion and subsequent perforation or after radiation, laser therap... |
Sjgren's syndrome is a slowly progressing autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration of the exocrine glands, mainly the lacrimal and salivary glands, resulting in impaired secretory function . Simultaneously, systemic features of cutaneous, respiratory, renal, hepatic, neurologic, and vascular nature ... |
A 59-year - old female receiving alemtuzumab for chronic lymphocytic leukemia was admitted to a local hospital near her home in eastern kentucky in october 2007 for altered mental status of two weeks duration . Admission laboratory values included a white blood count of 5 900/mm, hemoglobin of 10.4 g / dl, platelets of... |
The study was conducted at specialized deaddiction services provided at a tertiary care hospital in south india . The participants for the study were recruited from an inpatient setting . To be included in the study, the patients were required to be older than 18 years of age, fulfilling the diagnostic criteria for sub... |
A cyst is a pathological epithelial cell - lined cavity that is filled with fluid or soft material . They are frequently found as intra - bony lesions of the jaw, which can expand so drastically that sometimes the facial appearance can change . Although removal of the cyst is necessary in these cases, enucleation of th... |
Fracture of dual columns of the acetabulum is the most complicated type of acetabular fracture . Posterior - anterior column fixation is considered to be important for joint stability and early mobilization after surgery . Ochs et al . Investigated screw placement into the anterior column with ct analysis for 260 cadav... |
On march 6, 2015, we conducted an aerial survey covering a 24-km radius around the pope county facility and identified 100 resident mallards (anas platyrhynchos) and 21 trumpeter swans (cygnus buccinator). During march 912, 2015, we collected 148 representative waterfowl fecal samples, pooled in groups of up to 3, to d... |
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2 dm) has continued to increase worldwide, reaching a figure of about 370 million in 2011, with 4.6 million associated deaths per year.1 the standard therapy for this epidemic disease includes diet, exercise, use of oral hypoglycemic drugs, and/or subcutaneous insulin injections.2,3 several m... |
Drug delivery strategies commonly use endocytosis to access the cell interior; however, the potential for disease to affect endocytic behavior remains relatively unexplored, hindering the design of robust therapeutics . Endocytosis encompasses several energy - dependent and highly regulated processes through which cell... |
The elderly are at risk for nutritional disorders and malnutrition, including undernutrition and nutrient deficiencies and imbalances . Several age - related physical, clinical, economic, and social factors can compromise nutritional status; furthermore, changes in the body composition of elderly people and sedentary l... |
Injuries to the extrahepatic biliary system in blunt abdominal trauma are uncommon [17]. Extrahepatic hepatic ductal injuries (ehdis) occur even less frequently [18]. Because of their rarity and the frequently insidious onset of symptoms, ehdis are commonly missed during the initial trauma evaluation, and debate contin... |
Diabetes mellitus (dm) is a chronic progressive metabolic disorder due to absolute (type 1) or relative (type 2) deficiency of insulin hormone . Worldwide, 366 million people were estimated to have diabetes mellitus in the year 2011, and numbers are predicted to double by 2030 [24]. Dm has caused approximately 4.6 mill... |
All subjects were evaluated during a 2010 family forum in chicago, as part of our monogenic diabetes registry (http://monogenicdiabetes.uchicago.edu) (11). All parents provided informed written consent as approved by the university of chicago institutional review board . The beery - buktenica developmental test of visu... |
Diagnosis of fronto - temporal dementia (ftd) requires beside brain - imagining a careful evaluation of genetic and neuropathological, cognitive processes disorders, and behaviour problems . The complexity of the symptoms observed after frontal lobe damage creates the necessity for a very careful neuropsychological exa... |
Arterial baroreflex is the main mechanism for the regulation of the cardiovascular system, and sinoaortic denervation (sad) is a widely used tool to study its function.1 it is well established that chronic sad increases blood pressure variability (bpv) without increasing mean blood pressure.2 previous studies have demo... |
Increased expression of genes necessary for detecting and repairing dna damage can result when cells are exposed to certain genotoxic compounds [13]. These same treatments can also induce differential expression of genes in the ubiquitin- (ub-) mediated proteolytic pathway [4, 5], suggesting interplay between dna repai... |
A ruptured infected aortic aneurysm with staphylococcal sepsis is rare yet potentially life - threatening condition . Although ruptured infected aneurysm is usually treated surgically, it has still high operative mortality and morbidity, especially high surgical risk . Despite recent improvement in endovascular treatme... |
Vesicoureteral reflux (vur) in children has been referred as the prostate cancer of pediatric urology, as the 2 conditions share many features such as the high prevalence rates in their respective populations, the recent decline in utilization of diagnostic studies for these conditions, the historically high utilizatio... |
Clinical manifestations of toxicity are similar to those of cocaine and include sudden death due to cardiac arrhythmia, stroke, seizures, psychosis, and rhabdomyolysis . Neuropathologic alterations of amphetamine abuse include cerebral infarcts and hemorrhage, often caused by emboli associated with cardiac arrhythmias ... |
Biobanks collect and store human and non - human biological material for diagnostic and research purposes . These biobanks keep sensitive data and biological samples also for long periods of time, and such data and samples can be used for research even many years after they have been deposited . Therefore, a well - des... |
All the authors provided substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; they assisted in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and they provided final approval of the version to be published . Extramural fundi... |
The different forms of contamination come from different sources and are dealt with in different ways . Contamination can occur at the source, between source and storage points or in storage tanks . Defective joints, syphonage, rusted pipelines, and crossing over of sewage pipelines are other causes of contamination . ... |
The selective modulation of eukaryotic gene expression by small molecules may have important implications in the field of chemical biology and human medicine . Pyrrole - imidazole polyamides are a class of synthetic ligands that can be programmed to bind the minor groove of specific dna sequences . Antiparallel, side -... |
Osteochondromas are rarely localized in the foot and ankle, except in cases of multiple hereditary exostoses . We describe an unusual case of a distal tibia osteochondroma affecting the lateral malleolus of a young girl . A thirteen - year - old female came to us with a palpable lump in her right ankle . On physical ex... |
Intraductal papillomas are relatively common benign breast lesions, and represent about 5% of proliferative benign breast lesions 1 . They may clinically present either as mammographically detected or palpable breast masses, with or without nipple discharge . Giant intraductal breast papillomas are uncommon and to our ... |
Immortalized human nscs using a retroviral vector carrying v - myc and vascular endothelial growth factor (hb1.f3.vegf) were maintained at a density of 1 10 cells/100-mm dish (sarstedt, sparks, nv) in dulbecco's modified eagle's medium with high glucose (dmem, hyclone, logan, ut) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (fbs,... |
Alpha spectrometry is the most widely used method for the determination of plutonium isotopes in environmental samples . However, this method does not permit the determination of beta - emitting pu, a radionuclide abundant in the environment . The best way to determine pu in an environmental sample is by liquid scintil... |
The groups of suprahyoid muscles include four muscles: the digastric, the geniohyoid, stylohyoid and mylohyoid . The bellies of the digastric are joined together by an intermediate tendon that passes through a fibrous sling that is attached to the body of the hyoid bone . These muscle groups anchor the hyoid bone again... |
Staphylococcus aureus is a main source of hospital - acquired infections causing pneumonia, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, soft - tissue, and skin infections . S. aureus also causes serious nail infections (paronychia) and is a common cause of food poisoning due to the production of enterotoxin . A main problem concernin... |
Partial gonadal dysgenesis (pgd), one of the 46,xy disorders of sex development (dsd), is a rare disorder characterized by sex ambiguity due to variable degrees of testicular dysgenesis in individuals without a syndromic picture who have a normal male karyotype . The histology of dysgenetic testes may vary from gonads ... |
The ingestion of instruments or materials used in various dental procedures may occur accidentally in dentistry . Foreign bodies vary in size and shape and range from burs, posts, root pieces, teeth, orthodontic brackets, endodontic instruments (files, broaches), impression materials, implant components, and restoratio... |
Clinical studies of the efficacy of fingolimod (fty) investigated fty as first line medication in relapsing - remitted multiple sclerosis (rrms) in comparison to placebo or once weekly intramuscular interferon--1a showing its superiority regarding relapse rate, progression of disability and end points of mri . While th... |
Spinal epidural angiolipomas are uncommon, benign tumors accounting for 0.041.2% of spinal axis tumors and 23% of extradural spinal tumors . All angiolipomas show iso- or hyperintensity on t1-weighted images and hyperintensity on t2-weighted images of magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and most lesions enhance with gadol... |
Advances in three - dimensional imaging resulted in a better understanding of the craniofacial structures . One of the modern techniques, cone beam computed tomography (cbct), which was invented for angiography in 1982, was then used for maxillofacial imaging . In contrast to the common cephalometric radiographies, cbc... |
Neuroendocrine tumors (nets) of the pancreas are rare, comprising 12% of all pancreatic malignancies . The vast majority of these are primary pancreatic malignancies, as metastases to the pancreas are rare, and metastases of neuroendocrine tumors from other primary sources to the pancreas are even rarer . Pulmonary neu... |
Obesity, an excessive accumulation of fat in an individual, is an important public health issue and contributes to serious health problems and extensive economic costs worldwide . A common measure of adult obesity is body mass index, defined as a person's weight (in kilograms) divided by the square of his or her height... |
The term comorbidity was introduced in 1970 by feinstein, a doctor of internal medicine and epidemiologist who studied cooccurrence of diseases among persons with diabetes . Any distinct clinical entity that has existed or that may occur during the course of a patient who has the index disease under study, in which lat... |
Nearly all types of malignant cells and many types of diseased tissue cells demonstrate alterations in their glycosylation patterns when compared to their normal counterparts . Alterations in glycosyltransferases expression, sugar nucleotide donors, and disruption of the golgi contribute to the development of diseases,... |
Access to public ltss programs varies across states and across disability and age groups, resulting in inequities based on where one lives, whether one s disability is lifelong or acquired, and which functions it affects . A complex, fragmented system is at the root of the problem, along with the institutional bias in ... |
To evaluate the role of high resolution ultrasonography (us) and endoscopic ultrasonography (eus)-elastography in predicting malignant lymphadenopathy . This prospective study included 88 patients who underwent eus or us examination of different groups of lymph nodes (lns). The classification as benign or malignant bas... |
It classically occurs in the second decade of life, has its onset during puberty, and affects both sex and all ethnicities . The estimated prevalence in the general population is 54 per 100,000 . Using a combination of four indices, ie, central k (descriptive of central steepening), the i - s value (inferior - superior... |
In the current issue of critical care, venkatesh and colleagues present a novel study on adiponectin in critical illness . This article, along with the concept of adipose tissue and adipocytokines being involved in the mechanisms of critical illness, requires some commentary . Historically, adipose tissue was thought t... |
It has now been 20 years since the first reports appeared demonstrating that interleukin-2 is required to prevent the development of systemic autoimmune disease . Subsequent studies by sakaguchi and colleagues identified cd25, the interleukin-2 receptor chain (il2r), as one of the first useful markers for the identific... |
The light microscopic study was performed on 40 human horizontal rectus muscles obtained from 3 normal subjects and 34 patients with oculomotor disorders . Six control horizontal rectus muscles were obtained from the right globe of 3 multiorgan donors (2 muscles from each) a few hours after postmortem in conformity wit... |
Incomplete spinal cord injury (sci) is characterized by partial functional loss, with varying degrees of voluntary motor and sensory functions remaining in the three segments below the injury at a neurological level1, 2 . The majority of patients with incomplete sci showed impaired upper extremity function due to damag... |
The classic scenario for crc progression is the lymphatic, hematogenous (to the liver, the lungs, etc) and peritoneal metastases . There have been standard treatment strategies for the first two forms of metastases, but a unified treatment guideline is yet to be formulated for the third form of metastasis, which is typ... |
Traumatic brain injury (tbi) is known to cause several secondary effects, which lead to peripheral organs dysfunction . The close relationship between brain injury and subsequent intestinal mucosal injury has been recognized [1, 2]. This pathologic course may not only influence the intestinal mucosa itself but also imp... |
Microencapsulation has gained importance in the fields of cell and tissue engineering, as well as in the development of drug formulations and oral delivery systems . The term microencapsulation, in this work, encompasses the terms microcapsules, microparticles, microspheres, and microemulsions . Generally, the term mic... |
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is a serious and increasing health problem worldwide and is endemic in nearly 90 countries, including iran (1). In iran, the disease is mainly caused by leishmania major and l. tropica, although leishmania infantum has been infrequently isolated from patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (2... |
Every year, more than one million cases of scorpion stings are reported in the world (1). Most of these cases are reported in mexico, tunisia, and brazil (2). The hemiscorpius genus of scorpions is distributed throughout asia (iran, iraq, oman, pakistan, saudi arabia, yemen, and the united arab emirates) and africa (er... |
The study population consisted of overweight (bmi 25 kg / m) adults without diabetes who were abdominally obese (waist circumference> 40 inches in males and> 35 inches in females) and who lived in eight rural underserved communities in southwestern pennsylvania . We excluded individuals who reported a diagnosis of diab... |
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in male worldwide, which accounts for 14.5% of all cancer, according to globocan 2012 from world health organization . In united states and europe, it is amounting to 25% of newly diagnosed cancer . In korea, annual incidence of prostate cancer in korea was 8.5 per 100,0... |
During the past decade, organic light - emitting diodes (oled) have been one of the most intensively explored topics in chemistry and applied physics owing to their wide applications in full - color displays with color filters, backlighting for liquid crystal displays, and general lighting sources [13]. While a large n... |
Ami and scd are among the most serious and catastrophic of acute cardiac disorders, accounting for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide . Although the incidence of ami has been decreasing in the us according to the american heart association, heart disease is still the leading cause of mortality in adult... |
Although considerable evidences have demonstrated that percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) is the most advantageous and rewarding reperfusion strategy available in patients with acute st - segment - elevation myocardial infarction (stemi), but they fail to restore optimal myocardial reperfusion in a sizeable porti... |
Fibromatoses / desmoid tumors are fibroblastic proliferations with an intermediate dignity between benign fibroblastic tumors and fibrosarcoma . They are characterized by an infiltrative growth pattern, high rate of local recurrence, and the inability to metastasize [13]. Referring to weiss and goldblum there are two m... |
Osseointegrated implants have provided alternative treatments to conventional prostheses for patients who lost their teeth and achieved predictable long - term results.1,2 an accurate and passively fitting prosthesis as well as successful surgical operation is suggested as one of the critical requirements for long term... |
Schizophrenia is a chronic and often debilitating illness affecting approximately 1% of the world population.1 it is a complex disorder characterized by profound disturbance of perception, cognition, emotion, and social function . The onset of schizophrenia is typically in late adolescence or early adulthood, and inclu... |
Endodontic treatment of teeth is a routine therapy to treat inflammation or necrosis of the pulp . It is established that the success rate of conventional endodontic therapy is 85% to 95% . Inspite of this high success rate, root canal therapy occasionally fails for which retreatment is needed . However, some cases can... |
Vascular calcification is often observed in advanced vascular lesions and is a common consequence of aging, diabetes mellitus, and chronic kidney disease . Patients with diabetes mellitus or chronic kidney disease often exhibit more severe atherosclerosis and a higher prevalence of vascular calcification . Vascular cal... |
Outpatients with mucocele of the glands of blandin nuhn treated with absolute ethanol at the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery, tianjin hospital for stomatology, totaled 14 patients from 2013 to 2015 . Of them, the age range was from 6 to 30 years, with an average age of 14.4 years . Lesion dimensions ranged... |
A 73-year - old man was admitted to our intensive care unit (icu) via the emergency department with severe diarrhea, oliguria, and generalized edema . The patient's vital signs were blood pressure (bp) 85/50 mmhg, heart rate 120 beats / min, and drowsy mental status . His medical history included diabetes mellitus for ... |
Although differential diagnosis of deep t - wave inversion includes life - threatening conditions, such as myocardial infarction and stroke, even a thorough workup may not reveal its etiology 2 . Deep t - wave inversion is commonly associated with takotsubo cardiomyopathy or takotsubo - like myocardial dysfunction 3, b... |
Cells of the immune system continually monitor a host for invading pathogens and participate in clearing those pathogens so the body remains free of infection . This active response is an immunogenic response . Under non - infectious conditions, cells of the immune system are also continually exposed to proteins of the... |
Lung cancer can be mainly classified into squmous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, small cell carcinoma and the other subtypes . It is very important to diagnose the subtype of lung cancer fast and accurately as the therapy is different . Endobronchial ultrasound - guided transbronchial needle aspiration (ebus - tbna), ... |
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