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The transurethral suprapubic endo - cystostomy device (t - spec) is a novel disposable medical device used for insertion of a suprapubic catheter (spc) via a transurethral approach (fig . T - spec device compensates for abdominal girth to allow accurate and efficient catheter placement from an inside - out direction . ... |
Testicular torsion occurs at a frequency of 1 in 4000 in men who are younger than 25 years old . It is a common urologic emergency that leads to testicular necrosis and results in decreased fertility . The primary pathophysiologic event in testicular torsion is ischemia followed by reperfusion; thus, testicular torsion... |
Bleeding is a common complication of antithrombotic treatments of acute coronary syndrome (acs), and invasive procedures are one of the important risk factors of bleeding.1)2) contrast media (cm) and heparin are used during coronary angiography (cag) and play a role as anticoagulants.3) the reported overall bleeding ra... |
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women (about one of every 3 cancers diagnosed) in the united states, excluding cancers of the skin 1 . In 2008 in the united states, 182,460 new female breast cancer cases are estimated to occur and 40,480 are expected to die from this cause 2 . Even though mortality rates ... |
They are seen in sun - exposed areas of the skin, usually in fairer skin types (fitzpatrick types i iii). Commonly occurring as a sign of photoageing, they may also be seen in younger age groups, especially in those with fair skin . The sites involved include, the nose and malar area (most common sites), forehead, and ... |
Manipulating the interactions between dc and nave t cells is an important part of the design of strategies for the immunotherapy of both solid and hematological cancers . In vitro, dc can be generated from cd34 cells by culture with cytokines such as gm - csf, il-4, flt3l, cd40 ligand, scf, and tgf-. Alternatively dc c... |
A 12-year - old male presented with the chief complaint of a 1-month - history of decreased visual acuity in his right eye . At the time of admission, the best corrected visual acuity was 0.5 in the right eye and 1.0 in the left eye . Based on fundoscopy, the serous detachment had a well - defined margin of 1 disc diam... |
Archwires are the most important parts of commonly used orthodontic appliances.1 the surface roughness of orthodontic arch wires is an essential factor in determining the effectiveness of archwire - guided tooth movement, corrosion behavior, surface contact and friction, biocompatibility, esthetics, hygiene, and color ... |
Six men and four women aged between 20 and 45 years were selected for this study after getting approval from institutional ethics committee . Patients with oral submucous fibrosis falling in grades 3 and 4 were only selected for the study [table 1]. Superiorly based platysma myocutaneous flap was raised as described by... |
The human placenta is unique among species . As a matter of fact, of all mammalian organs the placenta shows the greatest variation in terms of anatomy . However, in all species it has the same fundamental function, to nourish the growing fetus, by establishing contact with the maternal blood circulation . In addition,... |
The federal government has begun implementing the prospective payment system, which is designed to improve the efficiency of hospital care for medicare patients . To achieve this goal, the prospective payment system will pay hospitals a fixed payment rate for each category of illness based on the diagnosis - related gr... |
Pancreatic pseudocysts (ppcs) may develop in 10% to 20% of patients with acute pancreatitis and may be present in 20% to 40% of patients with chronic pancreatitis.1,2 during the last decade, the treatment strategies for ppcs have evolved dramatically in terms of indications, patient selection, and dedicated treatment m... |
In the setting of a competitive health care marketplace, factors influencing patient decisions concerning where to obtain medical services have been the focus of considerable study . Some health care consumers may base their choice mainly on convenience rather than characteristics of care delivery,1 although hospital q... |
Insulinoma is a rare pancreatic islet cell tumor with an estimated incidence of 0.4 per 100,000 person - years (1). The characteristic clinical manifestation of insulinoma is fasting hypoglycemia with neuroglycopenic symptoms including confusion, visual changes, and unusual behaviors (2). However, hypeinsulinemia has n... |
Patient satisfaction with care is a useful measure that evaluates care, including the quality of care and provider - patient relationships . Further, being considerate in dental care is a vital feature of the value of care and affects the future utilization of the facility . Therefore, it is necessary to access patient... |
The two popular protein classification schemes, cath (1) and scop (2), partition the protein structure universe hierarchically, proceeding from coarse - grained to fine - grained partitions . The initial, coarse - grained partitioning of structure space is based on the secondary structure content . Because there are tw... |
Clivo - cervical chordomas are locally destructive, invasive, slow - growing tumors that originate from the extra - axial remnants of the notochord . Definitive local resection can be curative; however, these tumors are characterized by direct extension, local recurrence, and more rarely systemic and cerebrospinal flui... |
Pain, bleeding, infection, paresthesia, temporomandibular disorders, abscess formation, and dry socket have been known as common complications following extraction of impacted wisdom teeth [1, 2]. This syndrome is characterized by severe pain in the extraction and periextraction site accompanying by blood clot lysis an... |
Maintaining a patent airway becomes more essential when the surgery is being performed in the positions other than supine . The situation would become a nightmare if inadvertent extubation occurs in prone position intraoperatively, and would require immediate intervention to maintain a patent airway . There are anecdot... |
Sporothrix schenckii, the causative agent of sporotrichosis, is a relatively rare infection seen mainly in farmers, gardeners and carpenters . Infection usually occurs when either a contaminated thorn or a splinter directly inoculate the organism through the skin . Sporotrichosis is most frequently encountered as a loc... |
Homosexuality is rarely discussed publically as it is considered a taboo subject by both indian civil society and the government . Since the decriminalization of homosexual intercourse between consenting adults, there has been an increased acceptance of homosexuality and msms have come out more openly with their proble... |
A patient was prescribed oyster shell calcium (500 mg / day) with vitamin d3 (250 iu / day) as supplement and developed parotid enlargement after two doses . Parotid gland may enlarge due to obstruction in parotid duct, inflammation, alcohol intake, diabetes mellitus, cancer, mumps and rheumatoid arthritis . Calcium pl... |
Spinal cord infarction (sci) is uncommon compared to cerebral stroke, but the outcome may be more disabling . Due to its rarity, reliable estimates of incidence are scarce; however, one study noted sci accounted for 1.2% of all strokes.1,2 sci due to occlusion of the anterior spinal artery, the principal vascular suppl... |
This results in about 20 million years of lost life, which means huge economic burden to society and families . These have increased the need for attention of public health officials to suicide as one of the most important health problems in the world . Suicide has been explained by a long list of variables which may f... |
Rheumatoid arthritis (ra), a chronic and systemic inflammatory disease, can cause severe disability and increase the mortality rate because of deformed and painful joints . Previous studies have indicated an increased risk of cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and depression in patients with ra . Furthermor... |
Mitosis is a highly coordinated process, which is complex and dynamic in nature . Errors in this process may lead to the formation of cells with abnormal ploidy, a hallmark of malignant cells . Understanding various biochemical aspects of mitosis in cancer cells requires a systematic investigation of various biomolecul... |
Pathology, as with most medical specialties, is currently facing a growing demand to improve quality, patient safety and diagnostic accuracy because there is an increasing emphasis on sub - specialization . These factors, coupled with economic pressures to consolidate and centralize diagnostic services, are driving the... |
Human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) has become a serious health, economic, and social problem with 35.3 million people living with hiv globally and 2.6 million people only in india till the year 2012 . The first case of hiv in india was found in 1986 in a female sex worker of calcutta . Although the incidence of hiv inf... |
A clinic (either an out - patient clinic or an ambulatory care clinic) is a health care facility that is primarily devoted to the care of patients . Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded, and typically cover the primary health care needs of populations in local communities . The out - patient... |
Cellular therapy has been an area of intense research over few decades, which is widely used for treatment of cardiovascular disease . Bone - marrow - derived mesenchymal stem cells (bm - mscs) were isolated from adult bone marrow, along with the ability for self - renewal and multilineage differentiation into cardiomy... |
The uremic state is associated with an altered immune response (2) and intermittent stimulation by endotoxins from the dialysis water supply and artificial vein grafts or bio incompatibility caused the increased inflammatory proteins, such as c - reactive protein (crp) (3). In addition to inflammatory marker, crp as a ... |
A phacoantigenic reaction to sequestered lens protein usually occurs following capsular rupture or dehiscence, secondary to trauma or surgery . Straub was the first to suggest that liberated lens proteins could incite a reaction within the eye . Verhoeff and lemoine further refined this concept and coined the term endo... |
The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s12348 - 012 - 0078 - 6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users . Video 1video showing the surgical removal of the worm (mpg 9,945 kb) video showing the surgical removal of the worm (mpg 9,945 kb) this article is distributed under the term... |
Healthy humans maintain blood glucose within relatively tight limits, a feat of homeostasis that is particularly remarkable considering the wide variations in the amount and timing of carbohydrate intake . An essential feature of the maintenance of glucose tolerance is the ability of the endocrine pancreas to rapidly a... |
At its heart there are essentially only two categories of stem cells: the embryonic stem cell (es cell) and the postnatal stem cell (i.e., adult stem cell). The es cell, as its name implies, is derived from the embryo more specifically, from the blastocyst's inner cell mass . The adult stem cell, in contrast, is derive... |
Large - scale comparison of complete microbial genomes reveals that numerous gene clusters are conserved across species; i.e. Sets of genes occur in the same physical arrangement in two or more species . Such gene clusters often, but not always, represent co - transcribed units, or operons, which are sets of genes that... |
The hypothalamus has long been known to play an important role in feeding behavior . As far back as 1951, anand and brobeck reported that bilateral destruction of the lateral hypothalamus (lh) in rats resulted in the complete absence of eating, leading them to term this area of the brain the feeding center . Shortly th... |
Technetium-99 m is widely used in over 90% of all current diagnostic nuclear medicinal applications [15] due to its favourable nuclear properties (t1/2 = 6.02 hours, y = 140 kev 100%) and availability from a generator . It is routinely used for brain, heart, liver, kidney, and bone imaging . Technetium s third - row co... |
Male health professionals age 4075 years at baseline in 1986 who returned a mailed questionnaire about diet and medical history . We also excluded men who had implausible nutritional information (70 missing food items or estimated daily energy intake <800 or> 4,200 kcal). Furthermore, we excluded men who had died or ha... |
A sixty - year - old man was admitted to the emergency department with sharp, stabbing chest pain . The symptom had first appeared a month ago, and had aggravated in the 5 days prior to presentation . The patient's medical history showed that he had undergone a fixation operation using kirschner wire for treatment of a... |
Multisite coordinated production systems are the common method of swine production in the united states . These systems consist of multiple farms operating in tandem, with each farm responsible for 1 stage of the production process (figure 1). These systems are closed, meaning there are no introductions of animals from... |
Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer - related deaths among women, and the most lethal of the gynecological cancers.1 the high mortality rate in patients with ovarian cancer is primarily attributable to late diagnosis, when metastases have already formed, and to development of chemoresistant clones that ... |
Sequence analysis of mirna positions in the human genome reveals the majority of mirnas are located in intergenic regions,, although a few located within exonic or intronic regions have been described . The canonical pathway for mirna biogenesis begins with transcription of primary mirna (pri - mirna) by rna polymerase... |
Cerebral palsy (cp) is a disorder of movement and posture that appears during infancy or early childhood . It is caused by non - progressive damage to the developing brain before, during, or shortly after birth . Spastic cp is the most common form of cp (accounting for approximately 7080% of cases of cp) and 50% of chi... |
Type 2 diabetes (t2d) is a complicated and chronic metabolic disease characterized by insulin resistance and pancreatic - cell dysfunction (1)., many t2d susceptibility genes were identified (213) due to the completion of the hapmap project, an international collaborative effort to help researchers identify genes assoc... |
Loss of posterior teeth may result in loss of neuromuscular stability of the mandible, reduced masticatory efficiency, loss of vertical dimension of occlusion and attrition of the anterior teeth.1 kennedy classified those patients suffering from bilateral missing posterior teeth as kennedy class i removable partial den... |
Gpr39 is a member of the ghrelin receptor family, all of which are peptide receptors described to be involved in the peripheral and/or central control of appetite, gi tract function, energy homeostasis, and metabolism [15]. The gpr39 locus is rather complex with an overlapping antisense gene lypd1 and the occurrence of... |
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2 dm) has two major characteristics: reduced insulin sensitivity linked to obesity and impaired insulin secretion due to -cell dysfunction . -cell dysfunction occurs when the demand for insulin finally overwhelms the capacity of the -cell to respond, which results in severely reduced insulin ... |
A diffuse interstitial infiltrative pattern is rare and can be misdiagnosed as more commonly accompanying conditions including pulmonary edema or drug - induced pneumonitis . We experienced a 37-year - old man with diffuse interstitial infiltrative lung metastasis of malignant melanoma and report findings of computed t... |
The protozoan parasite toxoplasma gondii (t. gondii) which causes toxoplasmosis, is primarily hosted not only in cats but also in mice, rabbits, dogs, farmyard and wild animals, and domestic fowl, and is transmissible to man [15]. It has been implicated in the pathogenesis of many diseases, most notably schizophrenia [... |
A biomarker used in a clinical trial can be prognostic or predictive, and it is important to distinguish between these two types of biomarkers . A prognostic biomarker is associated with how well patients will do with a given treatment . Predictive biomarkers tend to be more useful because they can improve outcomes for... |
Juvenile hyaline fibromatosis (jhf) is a rare, autosomal - recessive hereditary disease with distinct clinical and histopathological features . A scan of the world literature revealed that less than 70 cases have been reported so far. [13] the clinical onset is usually noted from birth up to 5 years of age . It is char... |
Hospital supply systems should ensure adequate stock of all the required items to maintain uninterrupted supply . Advances in medical care and drugs have disproportionately increased the expenditure on health care delivery . Therefore, about one - third of the hospital budget is spent on purchasing various materials an... |
Listeria monocytogenes can rarely infect atherosclerotic abdominal aortic aneurysms (aaa) in nonimmunocompromised patients . In contrast to listerial meningitis and bacteraemia, where over 90% of patients have immunosuppression due to neoplasia or other reasons, it has been suggested that patients with listerial endoca... |
The catalytic functionalization of aldehyde c h bonds represents a mild and atom - economical approach to prepare esters . While there has been much progress in developing hydroacylation of aldehydes, the hydroacylation of ketones is relatively unexplored and warrants attention due to its potential for constructing chi... |
In recent years, there has been an increase in the incidence of invasive candidiasis (ic) and a shift toward non - albicans candida species, some of them resistant to fluconazole . Despite advances in the diagnostic and therapeutic management, the crude mortality associated with ic is as high as 40 - 50% . Among candid... |
Exercise facilitates metabolic functions in the human body and benefits physical health by preventing disease, controlling weight, and maintaining homeostasis1 . The american heart association reported that a lack of exercise is one of the main factors of heart disease (along with high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, a... |
Semiconductors usually exhibit quantum size effects and electric and optical properties different from bulk materials, when their particle size decreases to nanometer scale . The fabrication strategy for semiconductor nanostructure includes a wide variety of vapor, liquid, and solid state processing routes . Different ... |
Prepregnancy obesity is associated with adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, including increased risk of gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, caesarean section, and having a large - for - gestational - age neonate [1, 2]. Prepregnancy obesity rates in the us are high, affecting approximately 1 in 5 pregnancies . There ... |
A 33-year - old man with ebstein anomaly and klinefelter syndrome was referred to severance cardiovascular hospital for the surgical treatment of severe tricuspid regurgitation (tr). The patient underwent surgical repair of carpentier type b ebstein anomaly when he was nine years old using the danielson technique, whic... |
Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by both multiple motor and one or more vocal tics present some time during the illness with onset before 18 years . A large majority of the patients with gilles de la tourette syndrome are known to have psychiatric comorbidities with attention - d... |
Advances in genetic epidemiology have revealed that some genetic variants increase the risk for is . Evidence suggests that genetic variation in the rennin angiotensin - aldosterone system (raas) contributes to the risk of ischemic stroke . Among the various sequence variations in raas, the insertion / deletion (i / d)... |
Neuroendocrine tumor (net) is a relatively rare tumor with predominant neuroendocrine differentiation and it is found in most organs of the body (1). Most nets are located in the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, and bronchopulmonary system (2). Well - differentiated nets were originally classified as carcinoid tumors ... |
An ideal endodontic material should be bio - compatible, radiopaque, antibacterial, dimensionally stable and easy to manipulate . It should be able to adhere to the root - end cavity walls and remain in place under dislocating forces (i.e. Mechanical stresses caused by tooth function or operative procedures) [13]. Alth... |
Sepsis is a systemic disease characterized by microbial infection and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs), which has high morbidity and mortality rates in intensive care units (icus). The exacerbation of sepsis is always accompanied by the dysfunction of the innate and adaptive immune responses [2, 3] and fo... |
A 56-year - old male with a history of deep vein thrombosis located in left common iliac vein and hypertension underwent thromboembolectomy in july 2015 . Contrast - enhanced computed tomography (ct) scan revealed a renal cyst with internal enhancing structure in the upper pole of the right kidney, which measured 1.6 c... |
Counties with a high incidence of lyme disease were identified by using satscan version 9.1.1(4). Numbers of confirmed lyme disease cases reported at the county level during 19932012 were aggregated into 5-year intervals (19931997, 19982002, 20032007, 20082012) to minimize the influence of travel - associated cases and... |
Computational drug discovery efforts are generally focused on calculation of equilibrium protein ligand binding affinities . There is no question that the equilibrium binding affinity is an important predictor of ligand efficacy, and achieving adequate values of this quantity is a necessary (although not sufficient) co... |
Marijiuna is the most widely used illicit drug in the united states and, marijiuana smoking is rapidly increasing in europe and in some regions of turkey.1)2) it is well known that marijiuana has several well - defined effects, such as irregularity of heart rate or blood pressure, vasospasm, vasodilation, and altered c... |
Through the use of chemical probes, chemical genetics allows elucidation of the biological role and therapeutic significance of proteins [1, 2]. Chemical genetics is similar to classical genetics (knock - outs, mutations, knock - downs), but alters a different point in the gene protein classical genetics typically inte... |
Apart from the impact of leishmania on world health, leishmaniasis represents an elegant infection model that can teach us a lot about host - parasite interactions and immune evasion . This parasite has the ability to enter host macrophages (ms) safely and replicate inside the very same phagocytes that were recruited t... |
Opioids are potent analgesics that are often necessary for treating moderate to severe pain . However, experimental studies report that opioids may also elicit hyperalgesia and allodynia 1 . It is, therefore, likely that tolerance develops more rapidly with a rapid offset drug such as remifentanil than with longer acti... |
The principal role of hospital pharmacists in japan has changed from drug compounding works for outpatients to total inpatient care as a member of the medical team1, 2 . Drug compounding and filling of prescriptions for outpatients have been transferred to dispensing pharmacists in community pharamacies3 . We previousl... |
Wikipedia defines personalized medicine as the " use of information and data from a patient's genotype, or level of gene expression to stratify disease, select a medication, provide a therapy, or initiate a preventative measure that is particularly suited to that patient at the time of administration . " A more convent... |
With advancement in trauma care, the evaluation and management of vascular injuries of neck are of primary concern as they cause significant mortality . Clinical examination along with computed tomography (ct) angiography plays a major role in assessment of vascular injury in neck.2, 3 vascular injuries are managed by ... |
Recent data suggest that mean birth weight has increased over time in many developed nations [1, 2]. Birth weight shows a u shaped relationship with adult obesity, such that both small and large babies are at increased risk [3, 4]. The long - term effects of higher body fat at birth are now attracting attention [5, 6].... |
Irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is one of the most common cases referred to a general practitioner and consultation with gastroenterologists . Based on the rome ii criteria, 10%20% of people in different communities have ibs, which is two times more common in women . Celiac disease (cd) has many symptoms which imitate i... |
Eosinophilic granuloma (eg) is the benign form of three clinical variants of langerhans cell histiocytosis (lch). The other two variants are letterer - siwe disease and hand - schller - christian disease . The term, eosinophilic granuloma was first introduced by lichtenstein and jaffe in 1940 . Eg is characterised by s... |
A 70-year - old man (155 cm and 52.7 kg) presented with progressive dysphagia underwent an endoscopic examination and was diagnosed with esophageal cancer . He did not have a prior medical history of diabetes or hypertension but he had undergone esophageal stent insertion one month earlier due to an esophageal strictur... |
Idiopathic scoliosis is a three - dimensional spine deformity that frequently occurs during adolescence (adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: ais); however, its aetiology remains unclear and is probably multifactorial1 . Kuo et al.2 showed that patients with ais demonstrate asymmetric muscle activation during an anticipate... |
Despite the enormous investment in critical care resources, severe sepsis mortality ranges from 28% to 50% or greater . Moreover, cases of severe sepsis are expected to rise in the future for several reasons, including: increased awareness and sensitivity for the diagnosis; increasing numbers of immunocompromised patie... |
Pain can be produced by activation of the nociceptive pathways following damage to tissues, or by damage to nerves (1). Neuropathic pain is defined by the international association for the study of pain (iasp) as pain that arises as a direct consequence of a lesion or disease affecting the somatosensory system (2). Neu... |
Knee dislocation is a complex trauma often characterized by association of several capsulo - ligamentous lesions; its treatment remains controversial . For rational planning and treatment, it is important to define exactly the degree of dislocation and the complexity of the associated lesions . Various scales have been... |
An 82-year - old man presented at our institution with a chief complaint of an abdominal mass and associated abdominal discomfort . He had first noticed it 4 years before the consultation, and it was revealed as a lipomatous retroperitoneal tumor by computed tomography (ct) performed at a local clinic . The clinic refe... |
Being highly accessible and facilitating simultaneous doppler signal and b - mode image, ultrasonography enabled an unique, non - invasive, imaging method of the portal system . The primary studies on this technique investigated blood flow in the portal veins and its tributaries quantitatively . Using this data, some r... |
Enzyme - catalyzed reactions organized into sequential pathways are responsible for producing the molecules needed to sustain life . While many essential metabolic pathways are present in all known life forms, there are also significant differences between microbial and mammalian metabolism . Most microbial species can... |
Visual loss in cryptococcal meningitis may occur from chronically elevated intracranial pressure, adhesive arachnoiditis, or direct invasion of the visual sensory pathway by the organism (kupfer and mccrane 1974; ofner and baker 1987; tan 1988; lipson et al 1989; garrity et al 1993). Medical therapy with antifungal age... |
The reca gene was first identified in escherichia coli more than 40 years ago, and hundreds (if not thousands) of papers have shown this gene to be centrally important to both the recombination and repair of dna . While genetic recombination helps create genetic diversity and therefore increases the fitness of a popula... |
Age estimation of has to be done in both living and dead individual's for legal procedures, to identify victims during mass disasters, and for anthropological studies . In deceased individual's age estimation; post - mortem environment can modify the body parts and render estimation difficult . When different parts of ... |
Craniofacial fibrous dysplasia (fd) is a bone development anomaly characterized by hamartoma proliferation of fibrous tissue within the medullary bone, with secondary bony metaplasia, producing immature, newly formed and weakly calcified bone without maturation of osteoblast which appears on radiographs as a radiolucen... |
Concerns about the integrity of the research enterprise have been raised for many years (e.g., 7, 8, 13, 18). One proposed remedy has been to promote training of new scientists in responsible conduct of research (rcr). This has been tried now for approximately 25 years (14, 23), beginning with a national institutes of ... |
Long - term hyperglycemia not only significantly impairs the microstructure of the kidney, leading to diabetic nephropathy (dn), but also causes renal artery stenosis (ras) in diabetic patients [1, 2]. The ras detection rate in type 2 diabetes patients was recently reported to be 36.9% using duplex ultrasound scanning ... |
Primary renal squamous cell carcinoma (scc) constitutes less than 1% of all urinary tract neoplasms . Renal scc is more frequently reported in the urinary bladder and male urethra than in the renal pelvis . Although this malignancy is rare in the upper urinary tracts, this diagnosis should be included in the differenti... |
Insomnia, in terms of a diagnostic entity, is defined as having difficulties to fall asleep or to maintain sleep during the night, or early morning wakening and consequently experiencing impairments in daytime functioning for at least 4 weeks . Consequently, patients worry and ruminate about their symptoms at night and... |
Spillage of bile and gallstones due to accidental perforation of the gallbladder wall is often encountered during laparoscopic cholecystectomy . Although spilled stones were once considered harmless, there is increasing evidence that they can result in septic or other potential complications . We report a case of spill... |
Progressive outer retinal necrosis (porn) is a rare but devastating infectious retinitis associated with varicella zoster virus (vzv) and responsible for severe visual loss . A 59-year - old man treated for generalized myasthenia with oral azathioprine and prednisone presented with severe unilateral necrotizing retinit... |
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the united states after heart disease, yet a cure for this disease remains elusive . Soybean isoflavones have been shown to exhibit anticancer and antiproliferative activity toward cancerous cells . Much of the health - related research concerning soy - derived products ha... |
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