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Sequestration occurs because parasite - derived adhesins expressed on the surface of mature - ies bind to receptors on human cells . 2): (1) cytoadherence to endothelial cells (often referred to simply as cytoadherence or cytoadhesion) (ref . 12); and (3) interactions with platelets that can lead to clumping of ies in ...
Meckel's diverticulum occurs in 13% of the population and is the most common congenital anomaly of the gastrointestinal tract . It is a remnant of the omphalomesenteric duct, which connects the primitive gut to the yolk sac in early development and is normally obliterated by the 7th- to 8th week of gestation . Meckel's...
Cancer is a major public health concern in the united states with approximately 25% of total deaths attributed to cancer . The projected number of cancer deaths in 2010 alone was 1500 deaths per day, corresponding to a total of over 560,000 deaths . Therefore, investigations into modifiable risk factors that may reduce...
Endocrine tumors of the pancreas (epts) are rare tumors with an incidence of approximately 4 - 12 per million in a given population . The functional pancreatic tumors are usually small and present with clinical symptoms of hormonal excess coupled with biochemical evidence of the same . In contrast, the non - functionin...
Convergence spasm (cs) is characterized by intermittent episodes of convergence, miosis and accommodation associated with disconjugate gaze mimicking abducens palsy . The organic causes are: encephalitis, aromatic l - amino acid decarboxylase deficiency, tabes dorsalis, post - myelography, thyroid disease, primary fail...
About two to three million cases of non - melanoma cancer and 132,000 melanoma cancers are reported annually worldwide . A staggering mortality rate of 75% is reported in the us alone due to skin cancer melanoma when compared to non - melanoma skin cancers, . An average increase of 2.6% deaths caused due to melanoma ha...
Simple bone cysts (sbcs) are benign bone tumors that traditionally present in the first 2 decades of life . The cysts have a predilection to occur in males more frequently than in females (3:1). The most common site of sbcs is the humerus (59%), followed by the femur (25%) and the calcaneus (6%). Alternative therapeuti...
Fractures with no displacement of the zygomatico - orbital complex are often treated conservatively with oral antibiotics . This case report describes a patient who initially presented with what was suspected of being this type of fracture . Subsequent abscess formation led to further investigation and diagnosis of an ...
Collagenous colitis (cc) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease presenting mainly with non - bloody, watery diarrhea and few or no endoscopic abnormalities . The diagnosis is based on clinical presentation and histopathological findings typically inflammation of the lamina propria with an increase in intraepithelial l...
All reactions were performed under an atmosphere of dry n2 using oven - dried glassware . Unless otherwise stated, trifluoromethylation reactions were performed in resealable 15 ml test tubes with ptfe septa . Reactions were monitored by thin - layer chromatography (tlc), visualizing by quenching of fluorescence or by ...
Chemistry - 4 or 5-nitroimidazoles with different substituents at the 2 position (11 - 19) were synthesised following the method described by skupin et al . Stock solutions of the compounds were prepared in dimethyl sulfoxide (dmso) and in all subsequent assays control sets with the highest required solvent concentrati...
After notification of the boy s infection from the ministry of health, we performed active public health surveillance to locate the origin of the infection . A total of 60 nasal swab specimens were collected from pigs at the patient s family farm and a local slaughterhouse . Each swab was placed in 2 ml of minimal esse...
Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in the developed world and one of the most deadly diseases in developing countries . The mortality was estimated at 7.3 million deaths while disability - adjusted life years were estimated at 58 million in the year 2001 . Owing to increasing risk factors, the level ...
Hereditary angioedema (hae) is a rare disease that usually occurs in adolescence and early adulthood . The disease is characterized by the recurrent, self - limited attacks of non - pitting edema . This disease is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait and caused by the deficiency of c1 esterase inhibitor (c1-inh) re...
Its diagnosis requires at least one clinical criterion and one serological criterion as defined during conferences held in 1998 and in 2006 [1, 2]. The serological criteria include the detection of so - called antiphospholipid antibodies (apl) which comprise the lupus anticoagulant (la), anticardiolipin autoantibodies ...
One of the most prominently affected populations are elderly adults, but delirium can occur at any age . Delirium is characterized by a disturbance of consciousness and attention, in addition to changes in cognition, thought, memory, emotions and in the sleep cycle (inversions of the cycle). The symptoms tend to worsen...
Obviously, there are many predisposing conditions leading to atelectasis . In addition to aspiration of materials or accumulation of endobronchial secretions, we have to consider not only endobronchial lesions, such as mucosal edema, fibrous tissue, granuloma, and maligant tumor, but also extrabronchial pathology compr...
Reactive arthritis is the specific entity of aseptic inflammatory arthritis and follows the previous infection in other parts of the body . Current name, reactive arthritis, dates back from the 70 of last century, as proposed by ahvonen and aho with their colleagues (1, 2). According to them, reactive arthritis: appear...
Medulloblastoma (mb) is the most common malignant tumor in children, accounting for 15 to 25% of all childhood brain tumors192021). Occurrence in the adult population is also well documented, but only accounts for 1% of adult tumors11). Treatment includes surgical resection followed by radiotherapy of the entire neuro ...
To compare the lipoprotein profiles obtained using the dguc and gp - hplc methods, blood samples were obtained from three healthy japanese domestic cats (4 years old, male and body weight approximately 4 kg) that were maintained in our laboratory at the nippon veterinary and animal science university . Blood samples fo...
The consequences of atherosclerosis and deaths from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the closest future will replace, in the third world, the frequency of deaths caused by infections (1). There are different hypothesis which try to explain the atherogenesis development: lipid hypothesis - proposed the first ti...
The protocol and consent forms were approved by the institutional review board of the university hospitals leuven (ml6079) and the belgian federal agency for medicines and health products (80m0437). The study had an investigator - initiated, single - center, prospective, randomized, controlled, parallel - group design ...
We applied principal components analysis (pca)16,17 to identify outlier groups (figure s1). The first pc shows that the siddi have african ancestry, consistent with their origin involving the arab slave trade18 . The second shows that the nyshi and ao naga cluster with the chinese (chb), consistent with them speaking t...
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Aspergilloma is a fungal ball which is composed of hyphal structure fungus, fibrin, mucus and cellular debris and settled in a pre - existing pulmonary cavity or an ectatic bronchial . Although chest radiography provides valuable information, it can be scanned more effectively by computed tomography (ct). However, in t...
Alzheimer s disease places a considerable progressive burden on the principal caregiver (schneider et al 1999). The number of people with ad in the usa is 4 million and is predicted to more than treble by 2050 (sloane et al 2002). Kukull and bowen (2002) estimated that ad comprises more than 50% of total dementia cases...
Prevalence of elongated styloid process or calcified stylohyoid ligament is about 4% of the general population, however; only a few of these cases are symptomatic . Eagle's syndrome may be associated with repeated pharyngalgia, sensation of foreign body in throat and tinnitus . In severe cases alterations in voice and ...
Study participants were recruited in a consecutive manner from our glaucoma clinic at the asan medical center, between december 2008 and january 2009 . All procedures conformed to the declaration of helsinki, and the study was approved by the institutional review board of the asan medical center . All subjects underwen...
The past decade has shown remarkable advances in our knowledge of micrornas (mirnas) and their functional importance in a wide range of developmental and physiological processes . These small endogenous non - coding rnas, which post - transcriptionally regulate the expression of several hundred genes, have recently bee...
Pork is the most widely consumed meat in the world, and brazil is the world s fourth largest producer of pork, with a production of approximately 3.483 million tons in 2012 (usda 2006; abipecs 2012). In an attempt to better attend the demand and to increase the productivity of production systems, pork producers have us...
Traditional cancer treatment modalities include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and for some cancer types, hormone therapy . Although these treatment modalities are life extending for many patients, they are rarely curative for disseminated cancers . The use of cancer vaccines to induce a therapeutic antitumo...
Immunosuppression, a dysfunction of the immune system, is triggered by a variety of biological (viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites), chemical (water and feed contamination, antibiotics, heavy metals, disinfectants) and physical factors (stress, suboptimal temperature, excessive concentrations of dust and harmful gases...
Because of their inherent advantages (including high spatiotemporal resolution, lack of ionizing radiation, and the ability to spectrally distinguish multiple signal sources), magnetic resonance imaging (mri)-based molecular imaging techniques promise to revolutionize clinical imaging from the screening and diagnosis o...
Directional asymmetry (da) is the consistent difference between a pair of morphological structures, for example, the larger of the pair occurs consistently onone side . Symmetry in external morphology is the rule among metazoans, making the cases of da particularly striking . Good examples of such asymmetries include t...
Traumatic brain injury (tbi) is a major cause of death and disability, affecting 3.2 to 5.7 million in the united states, with an annual cost exceeding $60 billion in the civilian population (coronado et al ., 2012). Tbi is a contributing factor to about a third of all injury - related deaths in the united states . In ...
Zinc (zinc is not commercial) is a public access database and tool set, initially developed to enable ready access to compounds for virtual screening, that has become ever widely used for virtual screening, ligand discovery, pharamcophore screens, benchmarking, and force field development . Increasingly, however, inves...
The animal study was conducted beginning in february 2009, and the human study was conducted beginning in june 2009 . R. conorii, r. akari, r. rhipicephali, r. africae, r. parkeri, and o. tsutsugamushi were grown in l929 cell monolayers, purified, and titrated as reported (12). A suspension of each rickettsial species ...
Patient b.c ., age 59, was admitted to the clinic of nephrology in august 2011 with a suspected rapidly progressing glomerulonephritis . In an interview, the patient described the existence of eczema present for about 5 years, on face, chest, back and limbs recognized as rosacea - like dermatitis . G / l) and neck lymp...
Diabetes mellitus (dm) is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced . Globally, as for 2010, an estimated 285 million people had diabetes, with type 2 making up about 9...
Attempted oxidation of a taddol - derived bisthioacetate resulted in a rather unexpected and remarkable cyclization and deprotection reaction, giving a thiolane-1,1-dioxide as the main product . Systematic in situ esi - hrms studies revealed a bicyclic, highly acid labile key intermediate of this reaction . Supported b...
Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental condition whose different forms are described in dsm - v as autism spectrum disorder (asd). Asd affects almost 1 in 100 children and is characterized, in varying degrees, by deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication, and is associated with repetitive behaviors . Several forms...
Uv absorption and circular dichroism (cd) spectroscopies are effective, inexpensive, and fast techniques for the study of aromatic amino acids and proteins to characterize environments and conformational mobility of chromophores . Near - uv cd spectra of proteins reflect their tertiary structure via unique spatial arra...
Contrast - induced nephropathy (cin) is one of the most important possible complications after angiography, with a prevalence rate of 15% in patients with chronic renal failure (1, 2). This complication can lead to longer hospital stays, renal dysfunction (1, 3), poor long - term clinical outcomes (4), and increased mo...
Investigate changes in chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (cspg) distribution in royal college of surgeons (rcs) rat retinae . Could cspgs distribution act as a physical barrier to transplanted cell migration in degenerating retinae? Cspg expression was examined in rcs and long - evans rat retinae from birth to postnatal...
A set of female thoraco - omphalopagus conjoined twins were born at a rural secondary hospital in a remote location in india . Their combined weight at birth was 3.7 kg . Though their neonatal period was uneventful, at the age of 6 and 8 months, twin b developed pneumonia on two separate occasions, which was successful...
Unless otherwise specified, all the chemicals and laboratory wares used in this study were purchased from sigma chemical co. (st . (jeonju, korea) and used with the emulsifying agent provided by the supplier . The oil was filtered through a 0.45 m membrane filter (sartorius, goettingen, germany) and applied either dire...
Rna degradation is a major component of overall rna metabolism, and plays an important role in determining intracellular levels of rna species . For mrnas, rapid decay serves to continuously adjust the message population to the needs of the cell for specific proteins (14). In contrast, stable rnas, primarily rrna and t...
Characteristics that are objectively measured and evaluated as indicators of normal biological processes, pathological processes, or pharmaceutical responses to a therapeutic intervention . Broadly, biomarkers fall into two categories: bio - specimen biomarkers, including molecular biomarkers and genetic biomarkers, an...
Fibrin glue injection (baxter healthcare corp ., deerfield, illinois, united states) has been used to control intraoperative cavernous sinus (cs) venous bleeding . There have been no reported complications related to this maneuver.1 2 we present a case in which a patient developed a sensory trigeminal nerve (tn) defici...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide . It is induced mainly by tobacco smoking, which leads to chronic, irreversible lung inflammation; both cellular and humoral immunological processes are involved in the pathology [16]. A significant proportion of patients...
Femoral hernias (fhs) represent a projection of the sac below the inguinal ligament, through the femoral triangle and may contain omentum, pre - peritoneal fat, small intestine, colon and the appendix [13]. Garengeot's hernia (gh) is a rare type of fh that includes the vermiform appendix in its sac, with low frequency ...
Dental calculus is considered to be a mineralized bacterial plaque, which acts as a secondary etiologic factor in periodontitis, although extremely important in the maintenance and aggravation of the disease.1 due to keeping the plaque in close contact with the gingival tissue, dental calculus creates areas unfavorable...
First we establish the characteristic spectral signatures of unintentional exciton localization using a representative cnt of several microns in length . The atomic force micrograph in figure 1a shows the respective hipco cnt with a length of 10 m and a diameter of 0.8 nm determined from the height profile in figure 1b...
It has been well established that being born preterm (<37 weeks gestational age) is associated with adverse health and development outcomes for the infant that extend into the early childhood and beyond . These include neonatal morbidities, delays in motor, cognitive, and behavioral functioning during early childhood, ...
Primary squamous cell carcinoma (scc) of the liver is a rare tumor which has been sporadically reported . To our knowledge, only 24 cases have been reported in the english language literature . Of those cases, many developed in livers accompanied by nonparasitic hepatic cysts [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Solitary and multiple nonp...
Compelling evidence suggests that the kidney develops from a single mesenchymal progenitor, which expresses the transcription factor osr1 . This progenitor gives rise to distinct mesenchymal progenitors, which form the nephron and the microvascular endothelium as well as the stroma of the kidney . Whereas epithelial pr...
Alcohol and drug dependence are conditions characterized by psychological, physiological, and pathological changes, all of which are directly relevant to dentistry . The psychological effects and the personality changes in the abuser may affect the patient / dentist relationship as they take a reduced interest in seeki...
Some microorganisms have acquired the ability to catabolize chemical compounds that do not form part of their central metabolism as they face them in the environment (1). This is being exploited for developing strategies aimed at the cleanup of pollutant compounds from soils and waters (bioremediation) (2). This discip...
As the survival of patients with congenital heart diseases continues to improve, adult cardiologists will increasingly become involved in the management of these patients . Infrequently, we face difficulties during device implantation . Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (cctga) is one of them ....
Quantitative trait loci (qtl) mapping has been widely used to discover underlying genetic factors that can explain particular phenotypes of interest . Thanks to dna microarray technology, the expression phenotype of thousands of genes was associated with the genotypes across the whole genome in expression qtl mapping ....
The advent of laparoscopic techniques has placed minimally invasive surgery as the preferred procedure for thoracic and intraabdominal conditions . Patients treated with this approach have decreased needs for narcotic analgesics, shorter hospitalizations, quicker recovery, and excellent cosmetic results . Because of th...
Nepafenac is a nonsteroidal anti - inflammatory drug (nsaid) and a prodrug that is metabolized into its active form, amfenac, following ocular administration . Delivering amfenac as a prodrug permits increased corneal penetration and high aqueous concentration of the compound . Amfenac suppresses prostaglandin producti...
Reconstructive surgery is performed on abnormal structures of the body caused by congenital defects, developmental abnormalities, trauma, infection, tumors or disease . It is generally performed to improve the function, but may also be performed to approximate a normal appearance . Periodontal reconstructive surgery co...
Children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (t1 dm) have to deal with a complex and demanding daily treatment regime, which can have a negative impact on their quality of life (qol) as well as pose an economic and psychological burden for them . Disease - specific qol problems, including a negative impact of diabetes on dai...
Myh9-related disorder has been known as may - hegglin anomaly, sebastian syndrome, fechtner syndrome, and epstein syndrome . Mutations in the myh9 gene encoding the nonmuscle myosin heavy chain iia (nmmhc - iia) have been identified in these syndromes . The common laboratory findings are autosomal dominant macrothrombo...
Glucocorticoids are a class of steroid hormones that bind to the glucocorticoid receptor and contribute to the hypothalamic - adrenal - pituitary feedback system . They are part of the feedback mechanism in the immune system that turns immune activity down and therefore used to treat diseases caused by an overactive im...
Since the 1960s, levodopa is a pharmacological drug that has been used in the treatment of parkinson s disease (pd).1 often, the pharmacological treatment of pd is started with levodopa due to its favorable effect and initial few side effects.2 moreover, levodopa is the drug that eventually all patients get, even if st...
Surgical treatment of malignant glaucoma is based on interrupting the sequence of events lying at the foundation of its pathophysiological process . In the classical form of this complication, aqueous humor accumulates in the area of the vitreous cavity due to ciliary block, and, as a result of this, there is an increa...
Sarcopenia is defined as an age - related decline in skeletal muscle mass and muscle function (defined by muscle strength or physical performance), resulting in increased risk of adverse outcomes, such as falls, hospital admissions, and mortality.1 obesity is associated with poor functional status, morbidity, and morta...
Despite comprising the majority of many eukaryotic chromosomes, heterochromatin remains the least characterized and least understood portion of the higher eukaryotic genome . Traditionally, heterochromatin (literally, different in' color' or staining properties) has been defined by the cytogenetic criterion that it has...
All reported sars patients who stayed in the medical wards or intensive care unit of princess margaret hospital and wong tai sin hospital on april 16, 2003, were screened . Patients were excluded if subsequent follow - up serologic tests showed no rise in antibody titer against sars - associated coronavirus . One healt...
The product of genetics, parenting, environment, social circumstances, and acquired attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, identity represents those intrinsic and extrinsic factors that make us exceptional . When we share parts of our identities with others, we form social groups, bonded by common features and recognizable...
Electron spin resonance (esr) or electron paramagnetic resonance (epr) is now widely used to analyze free radical species in living body and materials . It can be potentially used for estimating postmortem duration in the cause of death . Pashinian and proshut, who suggested the potential of using esr in forensic medic...
A biological species is usually defined in principle as a set of actually or potentially interbreeding organisms, but as interbreeding is very difficult to measure, species have in practice been identified by their phenotypic traits . Until recently, progress in most microbe - related disciplines has been hampered by t...
Herbal plants are valuable gift of nature for mankind and they are the source of a variety of phytochemicals which are utilized for human and animal diets also . It is capable of synthesizing an overwhelming variety of low molecular weight organic compounds called secondary metabolites, usually with unique and complex ...
The mammalian cerebral neocortex consists of six layers comprised of morphologically and functionally distinct neurons . Approximately 7080% of the neurons in the cerebral neocortex are glutamatergic excitatory neurons; the remainder are gabaergic inhibitory neurons . During development, excitatory neurons are generate...
The increasing use of liquid chromatography / mass spectrometry (lc / ms) instrumentation for proteomics studies at a large scale stimulates the development and improvement of data analysis tools . The precise retrieval of biological information from a large lc / ms dataset critically depends on algorithms for data int...
The recent literature on chronic hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection suggests that genetic variants in the human interleukin-28b (il28b) locus, on chromosome 19, have an important role in response to therapy . Hcv genotype 1 is the most common genotype worldwide and one of the most difficult to treat . Even with pegylate...
Spasticity and contracture in patients with spastic cerebral palsy (cp) may result in apparent impairments, and the lack of selective voluntary motor control (svmc) of the lower limbs can reportedly lead to severe functional disorders1, 2 . The evaluation for svmc of the lower limbs is considered to be an important con...
Most people with disabilities depend on a wheelchair for their mobility . For these people, environmental obstacles, increase wheelchair users mobility restrictions, because they require greater effort to overcome1, 2 . Ramp ascent is an example of an environmental obstacle that wheelchair users often encounter . Wheel...
Diabetes mellitus is a common chronic hyperglycemic, prevalent disease, with significant associated mortality and morbidity that affects millions of population worldwide . It is associated with a variety of complications that are well known to healthcare providers . In time, the bones may also be affected, in addition ...
Hydrogenases are ni- and fe - based enzymes that catalyze highly efficient and reversible h2 cycling . A major class known as [nife]-hydrogenases activate h2 at a buried binuclear site formulated as [(cys - s)2-ni-(-cys - s)2-fe(cn)2co] that is served by an electron relay system of fe s clusters . Although physical tec...
This study was a controlled double blind randomized clinical trial based on random number table . All patients that needed arthroscopic acl reconstruction from 2006 to 2009 and referred to the university hospital were enrolled in this study . All patients signed an informed consent form after approval of ethical commit...
Graft - versus - host disease (gvhd) in its acute and chronic form is the major cause of mortality and morbidity following both, experimental and clinical allogeneic stem cell transplantation (sct). Donor t - cells activated by major or minor histocompatibility antigens on host antigen presenting cells (apcs) are the e...
Kelly described obesity, stating to be a storehouse for useless adipose tissue and to carry this handicap around, openly displayed wherever one goes, is one of the most distressing of life's minor ailments . While current viewpoints may be less extreme, obesity continues to carry a social stigma and is increasingly pre...
Internal hernia is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction with a reported incidence of 0.20.9% . Paraduodenal hernias are the most common type of internal abdominal hernias, accounting for over one - half of reported cases . Less common types include mesocolic (transmesenteric) hernia, which occurs following abdominal...
Colorectal cancer is a common illness and continues even today to be the second cause of death in the us, after lung cancer . Although the incidence of gastric and pancreatic cancer has declined dramatically in recent years, the incidence of colorectal cancer has increased . Colorectal cancer is one of the most common ...
It has been well known for many years that dna sequence is highly variable, even within populations . Dna variation can be in the form of single nucleotide substitutions, the deletion or insertion of one or more nucleotides, or the variable repetition of a number of nucleotides (small tandem repeats [strs] or longer va...
Similar to the sebaceous glands or hair follicles, sweat glands are epidermal appendages that are normally distributed over the whole body, excluding the nipples, lips, and external genital organs . Sweat glands are involved in perspiration and act as excretory organ like kidney and lungs for drugs and their metabolite...
Left atrial myxomas often present with one or more effects of a triad of obstructive, embolic and constitutional manifestations . We present a patient with recurrent pulmonary edema who was diagnosed to have a large left atrial myxoma using bedside transthoracic echocardiography in the emergency department (ed). A 55-y...
Approximately 60% of patients with head and neck cancer (hnc) present with locoregionally advanced stage iii and iv disease . Multiple clinical trials have confirmed the locoregional control and overall survival (os) benefit of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (crt), and crt is now considered the standard management paradi...
Gene therapy has been proposed as a novel strategy for the treatment of refractory disease . However, direct injection of naked dna coding a therapeutic gene generally fails to exhibit a satisfactory therapeutic effect [1, 2]. The low efficiency is due to the negative charge of the dna molecules, which interferes with ...
Participants were drawn from the northern swedish cohort, a 27-year prospective cohort study previously described in detail (7). The sample is defined as all school leavers of the 9th (final) grade of the swedish compulsory school in 1981 in the municipality of lule at participant age 16 years (n = 1,083). The cohort h...
Alexithymia is a multidimensional concept that associates an emotional component, focused on the difficulty in identifying and describing feelings, with a cognitive one, centred on the use of a concrete and poorly introspective way of thinking.1 even though alexithymia has been related to various psychiatric disorders,...
A 40-year - old homosexual man with history of adpkd was admitted to palermo university hospital in july 2012 complaining of high fever, headache, and general malaise . Physical examination showed oral candidiasis, seborrheic dermatitis, skin lesions on the trunk compatible with kaposi s sarcoma and hepatosplenomegaly ...
Our aim was to create a tool that would allow the construction of gene lists with homology to any specified protein domain, coupled with the capability to analyze the expression levels of these genes as provided by gene microarray experiments . Our motivation to develop such a resource originated from the general lack ...
In infants and prepubertal children, anatomical urinary tract abnormality predisposes for recurrent epididymitis . Urethro ejaculatory reflux (uer) can be pathological or idiopathic . Prostatic utricle (pu) is a tubular or vesicular, midline cystic structure which communicates with the urethra . Cystoscopic - guided la...
Non - infectious complications of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (capd) are increasing in importance in parallel to reduced peritonitis rates . They arise from insertion and maintenance of the pd catheter in the peritoneal cavity, the increase in intra - abdominal pressure caused by dialysate and metabolic e...