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Stress cardiomyopathy (scmp), also known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy or apical ballooning syndrome, is now a well established disease entity and characterized by rapid and severe reversible cardiac dysfunction without significant coronary arterial stenosis.1,2,3) emotional or physical stressors have been described as t...
5-methylcytosine (5mc) in the dna of mammalian somatic cells is found almost entirely within cpg dinucleotides (1). Approximately 7080% of cytosine in cpg dyads is methylated on both strands in human somatic cells . In general, cpg methylation is highly prevalent in repetitive sequences and in gene bodies but rare at c...
Aging is a cumulative effect of various deterioration processes, such as oxidation, telomere curtailment, fraying and tearing, and disease - specific processes such as accumulation of bone cell oxidation (osteoporosis) or accumulation of blood vessel deposits (atherosclerosis). However, the exact molecular mechanism be...
Eighty - nine subjects with type 1 diabetes were accrued from the endocrinology and neurology clinics at the toronto general hospital / university health network . An additional 60 healthy volunteers were recruited by community advertisement and sampling among family and friends of diabetic subjects . Volunteers were s...
I begin with my own experiences in working with a nontraditional model fungus called ashbya gossypii . As a postdoc in peter philippsen s group in unibasel, switzerland, i started work with ashbya, which is relatively closely related on the genome scale to the budding yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae but has some strikin...
Diabetes mellitus continues to be a tremendous burden throughout the world and is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality . Diabetic retinal neovascularization is considered to be a major consequence of retinal ischemia caused by capillary occlusion, and the mechanism of its development is not clear [2, 3]. Diab...
Colon cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer deaths worldwide . In recent years, new regimens for colon cancer combining chemotherapy and biological agents have improved the overall survival and progression - free survival (pfs). One of them, the combination of bevacizumab and capecitabine plus irinotecan (x...
Several hormonal changes are produced during pregnancy that can increasingly predispose to infections of the lower genital tract [14]. These infections are associated with a great number of gynecologic and obstetric complications, such as preterm birth [513], premature rupture of the membranes [1416], chorioamnionitis ...
Today b - mode is routinely used in clinical practice for the diagnosis of congenital heart disease and to plan surgical procedures.1 two - dimensional echocardiography visualizes the anatomy of the heart in two - dimensional spatial images displayed in real - time, moving pictures . The examiner as well as the viewer ...
Investigators at niguarda cancer centers are supported by the following grants: terapia molecolare dei tumori (ss and asb) from fondazione oncologia niguarda onlus; associazione italiana per la ricerca sul cancro (airc) 2010 special program molecular clinical oncology 5x1000, project 9970 (ss and ab);
Domestic violence is a pattern of threatening behaviour, violence, or abuse including psychological, physical, sexual, financial, or emotional abuse between adults in the same family or who are or have been intimate partners . It is a severe breach of human rights with profound consequences, particularly for women who,...
Facial attractiveness including dental and smile esthetics not only impacts social interactions, but also exerts a significant influence on self - concept, psychological well - being and social behavior . Attractive individuals are more successful at school, in job interviews and even in mate selection [25]. Orthodonti...
The liver is an organ that performs considerable metabolic functions regarding the activity of other organ systems . This regeneration, in turn, will last until the liver regains its original mass . Leptin is a member of the super family of cytokines and influences body weight and homeostasis through effects on food in...
Patients with end - stage renal disease (esrd) have a high incidence of tuberculosis . Isoniazid (inh) is an anti - tuberculosis drug with well - known neurological side effects including encephalopathy . In this report, we present two cases of inh - induced encephalopathy in patients with esrd who received anti - tube...
Pancreatic pseudocysts are a collection of pancreatic secretions enclosed in fibrous tissue layer without a lining of epithelium and are usually located in the peripancreatic region.1 they may also rarely occur at unexpected and atypical locations such as the spleen, liver, mediastinum, pelvis and kidney depending upon...
Breast cancer is the most common cancer of women in the world over, and its incidence is rising, especially in developing countries, where the disease poses a major health care challenge . This growing incidence in developing countries reflects the advanced stage at diagnosis, low levels of public awareness of the risk...
Phylogenetic analysis in biological macromolecule sequences is an important and common strategy for research into evolution and taxonomy . One major advantage of the proposed approach is that it estimates evolutionary distance using genetic information instead of traditional, standard morphological measurements (1,2). ...
Accurate modeling of the 3d structure of a complex assists in understanding its function in the cell . Additionally, atomic structures of molecular complexes are used in the field of drug design, permitting the design of small molecules that prevent or induce the formation of certain complexes . In some cases, the 3d s...
In 95% of cases of acute cholecystitis the cause is a gallstone blocking the cystic duct subsequently leading to inflammation of the gallbladder by chemicals or bacteria (1). The localised peritonitis that ensues means patients characteristically present with a history of severe, sudden onset, constant or colicky pain ...
Stroke patients generally suffer from significant impairments, including muscle weakness, loss of motor control, and spasticity1,2,3,4 . In rehabilitation, it is important to understand nerve and cardiovascular system impairment because this type of subtle disorder might be closely related to functional outcomes in pat...
The most common renal lesions associated with the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) are collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (fsgs) and hiv - associated nephropathy . Lupus - like glomerulonephritis is a type of immune complex - induced renal injury seen rarely in hiv patients which is characterized by histol...
Multidimensional factors in the etiology of childhood malnutrition are intrauterine growth retardation, lack of exclusive breast feeding, inappropriate complementary feeding, repeated attacks of infectious illnesses, inadequate food intake, and micronutrient deficiencies . Inadequate food intake may be diet scarcity an...
Estimates suggest that 10% of individuals over the age of 65 and almost half over the age of 85 have alzheimer's dementia . As human life expectancy continues to rise, the total number of affected individuals is also expected to increase dramatically . Ad is a multifactorial disease but its etiology and pathophysiology...
Cocaine abuse has been associated with multiple known adverse effects, including myocardial ischemia, cerebrovascular accidents, pulmonary edema, and mesenteric ischemia . However, the effects of cocaine on other organs have not been extensively reported . We present a middle age patient who developed multi organ failu...
Three cancers are especially prevalent in human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-positive individuals and are considered acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) defining illnesses: kaposi sarcoma, high - grade b - cell non - hodgkin lymphoma, and invasive cervical carcinoma . Several studies have evaluated the role of fl...
Distal triceps tendon rupture is an uncommon lesion rarely due to a non - traumatic mechanism . In these cases, the majority of patients show predisposing factors for tendon degeneration: underlying medical co - morbidities, previous systemic and locally injected corticosteroids and systemic anabolic steroids . A clear...
Visualization of the spinal cord in zebrafish is inhibited by a number of factors . Due to the thickness of the overlying somites and the internal location of the spinal cord, a considerably long working distance is required for high cellular resolution . The yolk ball (which is still present during early stages of neu...
Cataract surgery in highly myopic patients poses certain challenges, and is also prone to postoperative complications such as posterior capsule wrinkling, posterior capsule opacification (pco), and retinal detachment, all of which require special techniques and solutions to minimize their frequency . There have been ma...
Trauma mortality has been described to have a trimodal or bimodal distribution [1 - 4]. Of trauma deaths there is then a second peak, which represents 30% of the deaths that occur early, half of which are due to uncontrollable hemorrhage . A third phase of later deaths, related to multiple organ failure (mof) associate...
Childhood - onset schizophrenia (cos) describes an individual meeting the adult dsm criteria for schizophrenia, but with onset of psychosis before the age of 13 13 . Childhood - onset schizophrenia is rare, comprising less than 1% of all schizophrenia cases 1,2,4,5 . Compared to adult - onset schizophrenia, which often...
Despite the reported benefit of therapeutic hypothermia (th), its practice in the critical care world remains limited especially in developing countries unlike the western world where it is an established intervention following cardio - pulmonary resuscitation (cpr). Asian countries including middle east and india are ...
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours (mpnsts) have an incidence of 1 per 1,000,000 people per year (1) and comprise around 3% of soft - tissue sarcomas (2). Tumours arise from schwann cells or perineural cells that ensheath axons and extend along neural tracts . They are aggressive cancers that have high rates of ...
The world health organization (who) reported recently a significant decline in the global malaria burden over the last 15 years, achieving the 2000 millennium development goals . Fifty - seven countries have reduced their malaria cases by 75%, in line with the world health assembly's target for 2015 . Malaria mortality...
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (escc) is the major histopathological subtype of esophageal cancer . Unfortunately, systemic radiotherapy alone is ineffective in patients with unresectable, recurrent, or metastatic escc . The evasion of apoptosis is a prominent hallmark of cancer, and induces resistance to radiother...
During the winter months of 2014 a 47-year - old man was found unconscious by his family at his home in victoria, australia . He had a 2-day history of upper respiratory tract symptoms (cough, dyspnea, rhinorrhea, myalgia, and headache). Emergency services personnel determined he had a glasgow coma scale score of 10; i...
Peter takes pleasure, maybe somewhat perversely, in standing thigh - high in slow - flowing water, principally cold mountain lakes and rivers . Garbed in heavy waders and water - proofs against the weather, he monitors the health of fresh - water fish, concerned with the effects of the wash - off of organo - phosphate ...
Sleep disorders have been linked to a number of generalized health and behavioral disorders, including reduced efficiency while operating a motor vehicle . In recent years, a number of studies have shown consistent linkages between lack of sleep, circadian rhythm disorders (crsds), and fatigue, on the one hand, and psy...
Oral bacteria cause many infectious diseases such as dental caries, periodontal disease, and endodontic infections . It has also been demonstrated that oral bacteria are involved in various systemic diseases such as endocardial inflammation, aspiration pneumonitis, and diabetes, and controlling these bacteria is a majo...
Repeated inflammation and the resulting increased proliferation (mitotic activity) of tissue cells are correlated with the development of carcinoma, presumably by chromosomal instability, an increased rate of random mutations [1, 2], and promotion of tumor growth [3, 4]. There are many reported clinical instances that ...
Non - obstructive azoospermia (noa) is generally considered a non - medically manageable cause of male infertility . These patients, who constitute up to 10% of all infertile men, have abnormal spermatogenesis as the cause of their azoospermia . The establishment of in vitro fertilization using intracytoplasmic sperm i...
In the neck, various vital structures, such as blood vessels, respiratory organs, and parts of the digestive system, nervous system, and endocrine system, are present in a narrow space . A penetrating trauma occurring in the neck can cause severe complications such as hemorrhage as the result of vascular injury, spinal...
A 68-year - old woman was referred to the department of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery because of speech and swallowing problems following a circumferential pharyngolaryngectomy with free jejunal repair because of an extended papillary thyroid carcinoma (pt4n0m0). Postoperatively, the patient was treated wi...
Aria guideline defines rhinitis as a chronic inflammatory disease of the nose resulting in nasal symptoms including nasal obstruction, sneezing, and anterior or posterior rhinorrhea (occurring during two or more consecutive days for more than one hour). Allergic rhinitis (ar) is the most common form of noninfectious, c...
Because slightly different sets were used in different phenotyping experiments, the total number of lines used was 199 (supplementary table 1). Genotyping was done using standard protocols, and a combination of snp calling and imputation algorithms were used to analyze the results (see supplementary section 1). A mixed...
Myxomas are the most common type of primary cardiac tumors, representing 30 - 50% of all cardiac tumors.1) typically, myxomas manifest as a solitary, pedunculated, mobile mass in the left atrium (la) with a stalk that is attached to the interatrial septum . However, the echocardiographic diagnosis of myxomas is not alw...
The most common lesions of venous malformations in the head and neck region are internal jugular vein aneurysms and phlebectasias . Although these terms are frequently used as synonyms, they pertain to two divergent conditions, likely of different etiology and pathophysiology . Macroscopically, aneurysms are described ...
Cardiofacio - cutaneous (cfc) syndrome (omim: 115150) is a rare, sporadic, heterogeneous disorder first described by reynolds et al . In 1986 . Cfc syndrome is characterized by multiple congenital anomalies consisting of peculiar craniofacial dysmorphism, congenital heart defects, ectodermal anomalies, and psychomotor ...
Azacitidine (5-azacitidine) is an analogue of the naturally occurring pyrimidine nucleoside cytidine possessing pharmacological effects on cell differentiation, gene expression, and dna synthesis and metabolism [14]. Mechanistically, azacitidine is believed to exert its antineoplastic effects by causing hypomethylation...
Recognizing that the reimbursement methodology for medicare inpatient care was contributing to the rapidly escalating national medical care expenditures, congress enacted public law 98 - 21 in april 1983 . The act provided for an entirely different reimbursement methodology, one that completely discarded the retroactiv...
-diversity comparison of mock community reads filtered using select quality parameter settings (dataset 1). Family - level taxon counts (z - axis) for mock communities filtered with variable split_library_fastq.py parameters, showing all cross - interactions between minimum per - read length as% of total read length (p...
Dacryoadenitis is a rare disorder that is caused by an obstruction occurring anywhere between the conjunctiva and the lacrimal ductules . If improperly treated, dacryoadenitis can result in orbital abscess or cellulitis . As a result, patients should be monitored very closely and iv antibiotics should be administered i...
Summary of three patients was shown in table 1 . Detailed angiographic findings were compared in table 2 . A 53-year - old healthy female patient developed an acute onset of severe occipital headache . Computed tomography (ct) scans showed a subarachnoid hemorrhage (sah) mainly around the brainstem . Cerebral angiograp...
There are 52,715 bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery (mbbs) seats across 412 medical colleges in india . And, more than 10 times are the numbers of applicants eyeing for entry to this coveted field . There is usually a selection bias such that those who are intelligent have high levels of personal drive and de...
The principal theory of laser refractive surgery is that the optical power of the eye can be changed by modifying the corneal curvature . Laser in situ keratomileusis (lasik) is performed to correct myopia and myopic astigmatism by ablating the corneal tissue and flattening the central anterior corneal curvature . The ...
Cryptococcus neoformans is a yeast - like encapsulated fungus, which is mainly found in the droppings of pigeons . The inhalation of contaminated dust is the major infectious pathway, which can result in pulmonary involvement and may spread to other organs such as the cns and skin . Cryptococcal infections occur more c...
Renal biopsy interpretation requires histological examination by light microscopy, direct immunofluorescence (dif)/immunohistochemistry, and electron microscopy . Dif is simple, fast and very sensitive technique in which fluorescent tagged monoclonal antibodies are used for staining on frozen kidney biopsies sections ....
For benign diseases of the gall bladder (gb), laparoscopic cholecystectomy has been established as the gold standard and is preferred over open cholecystectomy . As patient demand has increased for improved postoperative quality of life and cosmesis, surgeons have continued to decrease the number of ports for laparosco...
Renal cell carcinoma (rcc) accounts for approximately 2% of all adult malignancies and represents the third most common tumor of genitourinary tract affecting 115,200 new cases and 49,000 deaths in europe . Rcc behavior is variable; up to 20% of cases may have periods of slow tumor growth or stability lasting many year...
A number of stressors have been implicated in honeybee losses in many parts of the world, including habitat loss; viral diseases; parasites such as varroa destructor, which can be a disease vector; and use of pesticides . Because these stressors may interact, it is difficult to predict how they change the colony dynami...
Urogenital infections (ugis) are prevalent during pregnancy and are recognized as an important cause of premature labor . Normal cervicovaginal flora plays a crucial role in the defense against the growth and ascension of pathogens . Lactobacilli exercises a local defense mechanism due to its production of lactic acid ...
Recently the mean age at menopause is over 45 years in 88% of women, under 45 years in 9.7%, and under 40 years in only 1.9%.1 there have been some researches about premature ovarian failure (pof), hormone and chromosome.234 the loss of functional follicles occurring in women under the age of 40 is defined as pof.567 p...
Swim s 77 medium, fetal bovine serum, calf serum, horse serum, and wortmannin were obtained from sigma - aldrich, (st louis, mo). Rnase h, and proteinase k were purchased from gibco / brl (bethesda, md). Rnasin was obtained from promega (madison, wi), dnase i and rnase t1 from worthington / cappel biochemicals, inc . L...
Osteoporosis is characterized by the depletion of bone mineral mass, combined with bone micro - architecture deterioration, greater bone fragility and a resultant increased fracture risk; a 10% loss of vertebral bone mass can double the risk of a vertebral fracture . Osteoporosis is one of the most prevalent skeletal d...
Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (men2) is a rare autosomal dominant inherited disorder with a high lifetime risk of medullary thyroid carcinoma (mtc) [1, 2]. Men2 consists of three syndromes: familial medullary thyroid carcinoma (fmtc), men2a, and men2b [1, 3]. Men2a families have mtc, with at least one individual ...
Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic, and debilitating neuropsychiatric disorder that involves a profound psychopathology disruption of cognition, emotion, perception, and other aspects of behavior . It is an illness that compromises the effective functioning of the individual in social, occupational, and daily life.1 it...
Esophageal leiomyoma, although rare, is the most common benign mesenchymal tumor of the esophagus: it accounts for 60% to 70% of all benign esophageal tumors.12 the incidence of esophageal leiomyoma in autopsy cases ranges from 0.005% to 5%.3 it usually appears as a solitary tumor (97%), and multiple leiomyomas of the ...
Despite the decreased prevalence of dental caries in the recent years, it is still a common chronic disease of the childhood . It primarily affects the cervical third of the maxillary incisors and then the primary first molars . Due to the small size of crown of incisor teeth, progression of caries causes extensive des...
Obstructive jaundice is commonly caused by a stone or growth in common bile duct (cbd). Foreign bodies in the biliary tract like sutures,1 fish bone,2 tomato skin,3 surgical gauze,1,4,5 and chicken bone6 represent an uncommon clinical entity and are rare cause of biliary obstruction.1,4 however with recent advancements...
An estimated 50% of pregnancies with maternal syphilis will end in fetal or perinatal death, low birth weight babies, or babies born with congenital syphilis . Necrotizing funisitis, which is associated with increased rates of stillbirth, perinatal infection, and preterm delivery, is sometimes accompanied with congenit...
They are also marker of the atherosclerotic burden of the individual especially the descending aorta . The calcific great vessels, on losing the elastic property place a high afterload on the heart accentuating heart failure . Management of these calcific aortas is a controversy and revascularisation of the calcific co...
Multiple sclerosis (ms) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system with symptoms that impact health - related quality of life (hrqol) [1, 2]. The extent to which the menopausal transition in women worsens ms symptoms remains largely unexplored . Previous studies have addressed symptom management in ms through m...
Ala - al - din abu al - hassan ali ibn abi - hazm al - qarshi al - dimashqi, known as ibn al - nafis (1210 - 1288 ad), was a muslim syrian physician primarily famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood . The most voluminous of his books is alshamel fi sanaat tebbiat, which is a compre...
It is believed that the gingival epithelial cells play an active role in host defenses by responding to bacteria in an interactive manner . Among the immune cells, intraepithelial lymphocytes together with immunocompetent langerhans cells (lcs) the lcs are a type of antigen presenting cells and their function is to rec...
Helping patients regain the ability to walk is one of the primary objectives of rehabilitation facilities, such as those in hospitals and nursing homes, during both the acute and recovery stages of stroke . Walking environments vary tremendously, however, and patients must learn to cope with many different surroundings...
This study analyzed data from the ncdr icd registry, the details of which have been previously published . In brief, this registry was established in 2005 in concert with the centers for medicare and medicaid services expansion of coverage for primary prevention icd implantation, with the goal of prospectively enrollin...
Postoperative venous thromboembolism (vte), which includes deep vein thrombosis (dvt) and pulmonary embolism (pe), is a serious and potentially life - threatening complication and an important safety issue in acute care hospitals (1). Among major surgical procedures, hip and knee replacement arthroplasty (hkra) carries...
All procedures on animals followed protocols approved by the harvard standing committee on animal care and national institutes of health guidelines . In utero electroporation of egfp was performed at e15.5 in c57bl/6 mice . All studies were performed on layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons in acute coronal slices identified bas...
Study site - the department of meta is in the eastern orinoco region of colombia and consists of 29 municipalities, including puerto gaitn, and 25 indigenous reserves, the latter representing 2% of the population (gobernacin del meta 2004). The municipality of puerto gaitn extends from 3 05-4 08n to 71 05-72 30w and co...
The prevalence of congenital cataract is reported to be between 3.0 and 4.5 per 10,000 children.12 timely cataract extraction, refractive correction and amblyopia management have a significant role in visual prognosis . The best optical management in cataract surgeries during the 1 year of life (infancy) remains contro...
Neck pain is one of the most prevalent and costly health problems in the united states . Among us residents, 5070% will experience neck pain at least once in their lives, as many as one - third are affected each year, and about 10% suffer from neck pain at any given time . Surveys of the general population have found t...
The nhi program has been the basis of the health - care system in taiwan since 1995 . As of 2007, 98.4% of taiwan s population of 23 million was enrolled in the nhi program . The nhi research database (nhird) is derived from this program for research purposes . From the registration and reimbursement files in the nhird...
Antiphospholipid antibodies (apl) are a heterogeneous group of autoantibodies directed against phospholipids, phospholipids complexed with proteins, or phospholipids binding proteins, localized on the membranes of endothelial cells, platelets, and other cells involved in the coagulation cascade [1, 2]. Antiphospholipid...
Systemic sclerosis (ssc) is a complex autoimmune disease characterised by fibrotic changes in the connective tissues of skin and internal organs . Aetiology of ssc is not clear to date, however, polymorphisms in genes for inflammatory mediators, tissue - matrix proteins, and growth factors have been recently implicated...
Distant metastases are the predominant mode of failure of adjuvant or neoadjuvant multimodal treatment in crc . More than 50% of crc patients experience distant metastases during the course of malignancy and the liver represents the predominant site of first metastatic relapse (crc - lm). Regarding international guidel...
Isolated extramedullary relapses of granulocytic sarcoma (gs) of acute myeloid leukemia (aml) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo - hsct) are reported to be rare and are usually followed by bone marrow relapses . Gs was first described by burns in 1811 and subsequently termed " chloroma " by ...
The national confidential enquiry into patient outcome and death (ncepod)1 highlighted issues concerning safety in endoscopic procedures including endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ercp). Although it did not identify a relationship between the numbers of procedures performed and performance, it found that...
Calcium hydroxide makes dentin bridge formation is not perfect and porous therefor, allowing the bacterial leakage at 5087% of cases . After 83 days, the application of zinc oxide eugenol materials as much as 66.66% of the cases showed dentin bridge formation was not perfect with inflammation and necrosis . The using o...
Posttraumatic immune activation and dysfunction in form of systemic inflammation response syndrome (sirs), subsequent multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (mods), and multiple - organ failure (mof) still remains a leading cause of late posttraumatic morbidity and mortality . Mof exerts a profound influence on patient ou...
Rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic, progressive, inflammatory joint disorder, the primary treatment for which consists of medical regimens aimed at controlling the synovial inflammation of the joint . Its intention is to destroy the inflamed synovium, in the expectation that the regenerated synovium will be disease...
Liver fibrosis is an important cause of mortality and morbidity and contributes substantially to increase health care costs in patient with chronic liver diseases . Fibrosis can lead to cirrhosis, for which the complications such as hepatic decompensation, hepatocellular carcinoma, and portal hypertension involve growi...
Descrever as principais caractersticas clnico - radiolgicas de pacientes com histoplasmose simulando cncer de pulmo . Estudo descritivo e retrospectivo baseado na anlise dos pronturios mdicos de 294 pacientes diagnosticados com histoplasmose no laboratrio de micologia da irmandade santa casa de misericrdia de porto ale...
The generally accepted cause of obesity is an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure, but this cannot account for the total increase of this disease worldwide . Among other risk factors, evidence is increasing that exposure to endocrine - disrupting chemicals (edcs), also known as obesogens, can have adverse e...
To identify possibly unrecognized hpevs, we systematically searched for hpevs in patients in brazil with enteritis . We used stool samples for the study because the related enteroviruses are preferentially transmitted through feces . Because reverse transcription pcr (rt - pcr) for the genus enterovirus cannot detect h...
The pathogenesis is complex and linked to the proliferation of smooth muscle cells, synthesis of connective tissue matrix, focal accumulation of monocytes / macrophages, infiltration of lymphocytes and various levels of intracellular and extracellular lipid accumulation . Atherosclerosis can be considered to be a respo...
A 51-year - old nondiabetic man was admitted to the vaio hospital general surgery unit, affiliated with the university of parma medical school, for silent jaundice due to a 4.5 3.5-cm mass of the pancreas head without distant metastases . A dp was performed with end - to - side pjs by the technique described in hakamad...
This deformity is more pronounced during puberty as the thoracic circumference increases upto 50% during the growth period of puberty . On very few occasions, pe causes exercise intolerance due to impaired activity of important thoracic organs such as lung and heart . Malek et al . Suggested that impaired cardiovascula...
Base metal dental alloys are often used as alternatives to precious alloys due their cost considerations, mechanical properties, and low density.1,2 currently, there is growing concern about nickel (ni) being an allergen and beryllium (be) being a toxic element.3,4 therefore, cobalt chromium (co - cr) alloys may serve ...
Infection is the most disastrous complication of total knee arthroplasty (tka) with reported rate of 1 - 5% in early studies,13 although this rate has declined to 0.5 - 1% in recent studies.246 the options for treatment of an infection of the prosthesis includes two stage reimplantation, exchange arthroplasty, or open ...
Parthenium hysterophorus l. (asteraceae), a noxious plant, inhabits many parts of the world, in addition to its native range in north and south america and the west indies . According to holm et al . This noxious invasive species is considered to be one of the worst weeds currently known . This is a weed of global sign...