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Administration of blood and blood products carries the risk of post - operative bacterial infection and increased rates of recurrence in various malignancies . Lower transfusion trigger, pre - operative autologous blood donation (with or without erythropoietin), intraoperative red blood cell salvage, regional anaesthes... |
Multiple myeloma (mm) is the second most common hematologic neoplasm that is characterized by a malignant expansion of monoclonal plasma cells in the bone marrow often accompanied with osteolytic lesions, renal failure, anemia, and hypercalcemia . Although mm currently remains an incurable malignancy, with the introduc... |
Higher hemoglobin a1c (hba1c) has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity among individuals without diabetes (13). A potential pathway linking hba1c and cardiovascular events involves the development and progression of subclinical atherosclerosis . The atherosclerotic process begins early in ... |
The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s12471 - 011 - 0198-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users . Aortic coarctation is a congenital cardiovascular malformation comprising a circumscript narrowing of the aortic lumen usually located distally of the left subclavian artery, ... |
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (mpm) is a relatively uncommon malignancy arising from the pleura of the lung . In the united states, incidence in 2011 exposure to asbestos is the major risk factor in developing mpm, and there is often a lag - time of many decades between asbestos exposure and development of the disease... |
Point - of - care ultrasound (poc us) involves a bedside ultrasound examination performed by the attending physician who is not a specialist in radiology / sonography and who can draw conclusions concerning further management based on the outcome of the examination . Poc us uses simplified protocols (e.g. Fast focused ... |
The neuropathology of alzheimer's disease (ad) was discovered by alois alzheimer over a century ago and the amyloid hypothesis was proposed twenty years ago but the molecular pathogenesis still needs to be clarified . In particular genetic and molecular studies have confirmed the central role of amyloid- oligomers and ... |
The search for new antimicrobials becomes more important because of the increasing resistance of pathogenic microorganisms . However, the decrease of the development of the antibacterial drugs has been reported, due to the abandonment and reduction of research and difficulty in isolating novel compounds which can cope ... |
The postoperative hypoxemia seen in obese patients is often secondary to respiratory dysfunction with an increase in the ventilation - perfusion mismatch . In addition, other causes of postoperative hypoxemia, such as pulmonary embolism with a reported incidence of 600,000 per year in the united states, are also common... |
Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence . Sepsis and septic shock in the intensive care unit (icu) still contribute significantly to our workload and, unfortunately, account for significant mortality . Consequently, they continue to provide much interest in t... |
The genotype of m. lychnidis - dioicae used in this study was isolated from s. latifolia in lamole, italy, and haploid products of a meiosis were isolated by micromanipulation and cultured on growth medium (as in hood and antonovics 2004). This is the same strain used in the majority of previous studies by hood and col... |
High - risk status in prostate cancer as defined by t stage, gleason score, or presenting psa confers a high probability of extraprostatic and lymphatic spread of cancer . Radiotherapy (rt) in conjunction with neoadjuvant and concurrent long - term androgen suppression has been demonstrated to improve outcomes in such ... |
There are many anomalies of development of thyroid gland, which include ectopia along the path of descent of thyro - glossal duct or at other places in the neck . We have come across triple thyroid ectopia, i.e., nodules of thyroid tissue at three places, namely base of tongue, sublingual or pre - hyoid region and pyra... |
Medicare spending for physicians' services has been the subject of increasing discussion and congressional action in recent years . There have been major changes to the medicare program every year since 1981 . However, the 1984 deficit reduction act was the first legislation to contain provisions, including a fee freez... |
Keloid (keloid disease) is a mild form of skin neoplasm which appears as a result of abnormal wound healing . It arises from the excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix in the forming scar and it often extends beyond the area of the primary skin lesion [15]. It concerns predisposed persons in whom, as a result o... |
The intrinsic stability of the hip is critical in the prevention of subluxation or frank dislocation and ensures that the integrity of the articular surfaces remains undamaged . As a ball and socket joint connecting the axial to appendicular skeleton, the hip has a strong inherent osseous stability . This is further st... |
The age - related eye disease study was a clinical trial that examined the impact of zinc and antioxidants on incidence and progression of amd . Using areds phenotype data tables made available through the database of genotypes and phenotypes (dbgap) on a subset of participants in the areds, we examined subjects with i... |
The fetal head occiput posterior position, found in about 5% of deliveries, unlike the anterior varieties, involves different labor and delivery management . Due to a higher incidence of physical and psychological traumas, maternal and neonatal outcomes are worse - increased rates of cesarean section (c - section), ins... |
The most common leukemia associated with down syndrome is acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (amkl), and the incidence is approximately 500-fold higher than in healthy children (1). Transient myeloproliferative disorder (tmd) is a leukemoid reaction occurring occasionally in down syndrome newborn infants, and is character... |
The data analyzed were case counts, population data, and distances between affected and nonaffected districts (these distances are influential predictors in the spread of infectious diseases) (35). We first classified as affected those districts within guinea (prefectures), sierra leone (districts), and liberia (counti... |
One of the main goals of synthetic biology is to use well - characterized functional modules for engineering biological systems with novel functionalities . These functional modules are usually protein - coding or regulatory dna parts, which are cloned from various organisms or synthesized, and assembled together into ... |
Since 1995, the alaska native tribal health consortium liver disease and hepatitis program has enrolled 1,234 people into a longitudinal outcomes cohort study of chronic hcv infection . All participants had a positive anti - hcv test confirmed either by recombinant immunoblot assay or hcv rna by polymerase chain reacti... |
It is estimated that close to 20% of human cancers are due to infections with known pathogens, mainly with viruses . Given the difficulties in unambiguously assigning their causative role and the fast rate of discovery of new viruses, it is likely a conservative estimate . One of the first identified cancer - causing i... |
Citrin, encoded by slc25a13, is a mitochondrial inner membrane aspartate - glutamate carrier that transfers a cytosolic nadh - reducing equivalent into the mitochondria as part of the malate - aspartate shuttle in the liver, . Citrin deficiency causes neonatal intrahepatic cholestasis (niccd: omim 603471) and adult - o... |
Spinal meningiomas are the second most common tumors after schwannoma and they represent about represent 25 to 46% of spinal tumors18). Although the most common calcified intradural spinal tumor is a meningioma, totally ossified cases are uncommon and account for only 1 - 5% of all spinal meningiomas2,6). A ossified sp... |
Optimal dose - regimen selection attempts to select a drug input profile that offers the best benefit / risk ratio for a given indication in a given population . Knowledge of the dose exposure response relationship is the key aspect for rational dose selection . The dose exposure response relationship is driven by the ... |
Nearly 10% of patients with secundum - type asd are found to have multi - fenestrated asds (mfasds). The authors describe a case of a woman with multiple asds who was successfully treated with a single asd occluder . The patient was a 45-year - old female who had a cerebrovascular attack (cva), presenting with dysarthr... |
Reliable follow - up of bone mineral density (bmd) by dual - energy x - ray absorptiometry (dxa) scans is essential both in clinical practice and in medical research . However, aging or defective dxa technology may compromise reliability of subsequent dxa measurements and, thus, require change of machinery . Internatio... |
In vitro cross - presentation of ova was measured by a dye dilution assay of cfse - labelled nave ot - i t cells . Ova, -al2o3- ova, anatase tio2-ova, or -fe2o3-ova were incubated with 5 10 bone marrow derived dcs for 6 hrs, washed 3 times, and co - incubated for 60 hrs with 1 10 cfse- labelled ot - i t cells . In addi... |
The equivalent of 1 od600 of cells should produce at least 1g of total rna and a minimum of 30 g is recommended for the procedure . Resuspend cells in lysis buffer solution consisting of 0.3 m buffered na - acetate (ph 4.5) and 10 mm edta . Vortex with an equal volume of na - acetate - saturated phenol / chloroform (ph... |
Endotoxemia in response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (lps) is characterized by the production of inflammatory cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (tnf-), interleukin 1 (il-1), and gamma interferon (ifn-) along with the release of highly reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates which are thought to contri... |
The hippocampus is dysfunctional in schizophrenia (weiss, 2003; ongr, 2006; ragland, 2001; ledoux, 2013; heckers, and konradi, 2010). Meta - analyses have concluded that schizophrenia is associated with memory impairment (heinrichs, and zakzanis, 1998; aleman, 1999) and that hippocampal recruitment is impaired during t... |
Internationally, the appropriate use of acute hospital beds is a main concern of policy makers and hospital practitioners (1). Health expenditures in iran constituted 5.60% of the gross national product in 2010, and hospital expenditures increased by more than three times from 2002 to 2007 . This occurred despite the f... |
Pantoprazole, a proton pump inhibitor (ppi), is indicated for the treatment of erosive esophagitis associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd). Pantoprazole is one of the highly prescribed ppi in the management of peptic ulcer diseases . It shows high specificity for the relevant binding sites on activated p... |
Mitochondrial complex iii in humans consists of 11 subunits, all of which are encoded by nuclear genes except for cytochrome b (ec 1.10.2.2) which is encoded by mt - cyb in the mitochondrial genome . Complex iii deficiency is most commonly caused by mutations in mt - cyb or the nuclear gene bcs1l . Mutations in mt - cy... |
Gastric - banding is a well - known restrictive bariatric surgery technique that has established benefits of weight loss and reduction in metabolic and cardiovascular disease burden . It has relatively fewer serious complications compared to other techniques such as roux - en - y gastric bypass . Band specific complica... |
Since long ago, man has searched for restoration of esthetics and masticatory function in order to meet these requirements satisfactorily . Buonocore (1955) suggested the utilization of acids to alter the tooth surface and make resins more suitable . By thinking this way, porcelain was the material that met these requi... |
The causes of cognitive disability vary with the severity of the condition: moderate - to - severe intellectual disability (defined as an intelligence quotient [iq] score less than 50) is much more likely to be due to a single pathological cause (genetic or environmental) than mild mr (defined as an iq score between 50... |
The vignette suggests that the philosophers s stone has been found with the introduction of sumatriptan . Subcutaneous sumatriptan 6 mg and subcutaneous naratriptan 10 mg are both highly effective drugs . Headache relief at 2 h was 81, 8589% [14], and 91%, respectively; but in both cases there is a high incidence of ad... |
The standard guidelines for perioperative management of hypertensive patients are to continue antihypertensive medications until the day of surgery . These drugs need to be started as soon as possible after surgery as an interruption of these drugs may cause perioperative rebound hypertension, tachycardia or myocardial... |
Silexan is a patented active substance with an essential oil produced from lavandula angustifolia flowers by steam distillation . Silexan is formulated in a soft gelatin capsule containing 80 mg of lavender oil, and it has been authorized in germany as a medicinal product for the treatment of states of restlessness rel... |
Cerebrovascular complications occur in 2040% of patients with infective endocarditis (ie), . Moreover, in cases complicated by intracranial hemorrhage (ich), because of the high risk of postoperative neurologic deterioration due to systemic heparinization during valve surgery, current guidelines recommend that surgical... |
Stroke patients often have toileting problems, and once such problems occur and the disabled individual requires toileting care, he or she may be burdened psychologically1 . If they need help with toileting, it is hard for them to live at home2, 3 . Therefore, establishing toileting independence is a critically importa... |
Infertility is a common medical problem and the male partner is contributory in half of these cases . While conditions such as a varicocele, cryptorchidism and hypogonadism are definable causes for infertility, no cause may be determined for an abnormal semen analysis in over 25% cases . There are very few scientifical... |
The spinal pain syndromes are foremost among the ailments related to the motor system; data from the literature indicate that from 60% to 80% of the european population is affected . Both the variety of these ailments and their scope are significant, and often they are not spine - related . It appears that there is ins... |
The introduction of anti - vegf treatment has improved the quality of life of wet age - related macular degeneration (amd) patients.1 moreover, modern imaging equipment, including spectral domain optical coherence tomography (sd - oct), has enabled us to improve our understanding about the disease itself and the struct... |
. However, a gap still exists between doctors and patients in understanding clinical conditions . Emergency conditions such as strokes widen this gap, as patients and their family have difficulty understanding technical terms under time constraints . We created medical comics about subarachnoid hemorrhage and intracere... |
Spermatogenesis is influenced by several aspects, those including metabolic, genetic, environmental and physiological factors . Quantity or quality of sperm produced, or both can be influenced in this process (1). This is because many sperm are never produced because of cell death during meiosis, while many sperm relea... |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a commonly occurring nosocomial gram - negative pathogen that is often associated with antibiotic resistant phenotypes, a profile that has been linked to therapeutic failure (georges et al 2006; mesaros et al 2007). This organism can confer multiple mechanisms of resistance, including -lactama... |
The subjects of this study were 51 rhesus macaque monkeys (macaca mulatta), 40 female and 11 male . At the start of the study, their age ranged from 1.2 to 22.6 years (median, 9.6 years) and their weight ranged from 3.3 to 13.9 kg (median, 5.9 kg). This study was done in strict accordance with the recommendations in th... |
Different types of pesticides have been used in agricultural practice in order to enhance food production . These pesticides differ greatly in their modes of action, uptake by the body, metabolism, elimination from the body, and toxicity to humans . Among pesticides, organophosphate pesticides (op) although op are freq... |
Pneumonia is the most common infection in intensive care units (icus) which constitutes 31% of all nosocomial infections in these units . Ventilator- associated pneumonia (vap) is a common nosocomial infection among patients admitted in icus . Vap is a respiratory disease that occurs after spending more than 2448 hours... |
The extreme elderly population, defined as patients greater than 75 years of age, is the fastest growing segment of the population . Along with the aging population comes a concomitant sharp rise in the incidence of atrial fibrillation (af).1) long - term oral anticoagulation therapy is critical in the management of th... |
Granulomas are tissue reactions typically elicited by persistent, indigestible pathogens, pathogen products, or inert foreign material . Granulomas are pathologically defined by the presence of macrophage - derived epithelioid cells and giant cells, whose organization can be modified by the cells of acquired immunity .... |
Although the value of mammographic screening before age 50 and after age 74 has recently been called into question by the us preventive services task force current clinical practice guidelines recommend annual mammographic screening of all women aged 40 years or older for early detection of breast cancer . However, imp... |
Intravascular large b - cell lymphoma (ivlbcl) is an extremely rare subtype of non - hodgkin lymphoma, characterized by the presence of cd20-positive large b - cell lymphoma cells in the lumina of the small blood vessels . The diagnosis of ivlbcl is often delayed, as it mainly presents with nonspecific symptoms, such a... |
Metabolomics is a new technology that applies advanced separation and detection methods to capture the collection of small molecules that characterize metabolic pathways . This rapidly developing discipline involves the study of the total repertoire of small molecules present in the biological samples, particularly uri... |
Childhood overweight and obesity is increasing worldwide [1, 2], and children who are overweight or obese face increased health risks such as hyperlipidemia, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes [35]. Obesity has a long - term impact on health and research has shown that children who are overweigh... |
Schwannoma (neurilemmoma) is a common soft tissue tumour that occurs usually in the extremities, trunk, head and neck, mediastinum, retroperitoneum, and pelvis, but it appears to be very rare in the gastrointestinal tract . Published reports mainly describe gastric schwannomas . These tumours occur uncommonly in the ot... |
Preserving the remaining tooth structure is a major concern in restorative dentistry . When full coverage of teeth is indicated, a reduction of dental hard tissue is necessary in order to secure structural durability and restore natural anatomy and esthetics . The amount and geometry of the reduction should also decrea... |
Chronic hepatitis c (chc) due to infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) affects approximately 170 million people worldwide and is the most common cause of chronic liver disease . Of hcv - infected individuals, 20% to 30% eventually develop liver cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc). The primary aims of anti - hc... |
The national longitudinal mortality study (nlms) comprises us census bureau annual social and economic supplements (march 1973 to march 2011), current population surveys (cps, february 1978, april 1980, august 1980, december 1980, and september 1985), and one 1980 census cohort . Surveys gather data about the noninstit... |
The prevalence of obesity in population of children and adolescents is still rising rapidly and it is one of the biggest public health issues in the world today [13]. Approximately today every fifth child and adolescent are obese in the us, while in europe the prevalence of obesity ranges from 5% to 31% depending on re... |
Parasites have a profound impact on wildlife population dynamics, by having a broader effect in the ecosystem health and function and can cause temporary or permanent declines on local populations (daszak et al ., 2000, smith et al ., 2006, thompson et al ., 2010 although the prevalence of parasites have been widely st... |
The anterior mitral leaflet (aml) cleft is an unusual congenital lesion first described in 1954 . It results from the failure of the endocardial cushions to seal together the two components of the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve . Echocardiography is the investigative modality of choice in the evaluation of suspec... |
Degenerative disease of the mitral valve (mv) is the most common etiology of mitral regurgitation (mr) requiring surgery . The most common finding in patients with degenerative mv disease is leaflet prolapse due to elongation or rupture of the chordae, resulting in varying degrees of mr . Degenerative mv disease is rec... |
Although generally claimed to be safe, prolonged lens wear may cause corneal hypoxia, microtrauma, and decreased turnover of corneal epithelial cells . Secondly, lens wear not only disrupts the tear film and increases evaporative tear loss, it may also cause corneal dehydration leading to dryness of eyes . It is estima... |
India is facing a huge burden of diabetes with 65.1 million adults diagnosed with the type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2 dm) in 2013, and this figure is projected to increase to 109 million by 2035 . The major epidemiological studies support that maintaining glycosylated hemoglobin (hba1c) levels as close to normal may achie... |
Alkalis saponify the fatty acids in cell membranes, which results in their disruption and dissolution . Fat - soluble alkalis also have a high tissue permeability and can rapidly damage even deep areas of the tissue . Ocular injury due to an alkali burn can result in extremely serious visual impairment, depending on th... |
However, in clinical settings, some problems have been found in certain types of attachment used, such as early loss of rertention that leads to increase in the cost of treatment . A consensus statement from mcgill university and the british society for the study of prosthetic dentistry determined that a two - implant ... |
A foreign body in the rectum is always a challenging diagnostic and management dilemma that begins with the initial evaluation in the emergency department and continues through the postextraction period . Usually, it is a result of pathological sexual activities performed by the patient themselves, or by other people, ... |
Peroxisome proliferators are a chemically and structurally diverse class of chemical compounds that include phthalate esters such as di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (dehp), hypolipidemic drugs, analgesics, uricosuric drugs, and environmental pollutants . Because of the commercial value of many agents that do induce peroxisom... |
Kidney disease is increasing rapidly along with the increasing prevalence of hypertension and the aging of many societies worldwide . A decline in the glomerular filtration rate (gfr) and an increase in albuminuria, established markers of kidney function, have been reported to be risk factors for various diseases, such... |
At present, acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical conditions, requiring an emergency operation and accounting for 4% to 8% of all emergency department (ed) visits . Situs inversus totalis (sit) is rare congenital disease in which the thoracic and abdominal organs are transposed [2 - 5]. Therefore, in pa... |
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos) is the most common endocrinopathy, present in 15.2% of the iranian women of reproductive age, based on the rotterdam criteria . The most commonly used definition of pcos include at least two of the three following criteria: clinical and/or biochemical signs of hyperandrogenism, oligo ... |
With improved outcomes for patients suffering from bcr - abl fusion protein - harboring leukemias [1, 2, 3, 4], there is a growing population of patients on long - term therapy with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (tki) directed at the bcr - abl fusion product of the philadelphia chromosome . While previous tkis have been a... |
Proanthocyanidins (pas) are various length polymers of flavanols (catechins and their enantiomers) linked through a single c4c8 or c4c6 bond (b - type pas) or with an additional c2o c7 or c2o c5 bond (a - type pas) as shown in figure 1 . There are a variety of different classes of pas, depending on the substitution pat... |
Drug - eluting stents (des) are widely used as devices of first choice in percutaneous coronary intervention (pci). However, certain concerns are associated with the use of des, i.e. Delayed arterial healing with a subsequent risk of neo - atherosclerosis, late stent thrombosis and hypersensitivity reactions to the des... |
Excessive sexual behaviors have been described and studied by clinicians and sexologists since the 19th century (e.g., von krafft - ebing, 1965). At that time, excessive and uncontrolled sexual behaviors were often considered as satyriasis or don juanism in males and nymphomania in females . Initial research took the f... |
Evidence has supported the role of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (bdnf) in mediating the pathophysiology of depression.1 all bdnf transcripts are translated in the endoplasmic reticulum into precursor bdnf (probdnf) protein, which is then folded in the trans - golgi and packaged into either the constitutive (pass... |
Sildenafil citrate (pde -5 inhibitor) as a vasodilator increases utero - placental blood flow and potentiates fetal growth . In this study, a case was examined and sildenafil was administered for her . It was found that sildenafil improved the uterine blood flow with a favorable fetal outcome at delivery . Sildenafil, ... |
Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (crt) followed by total mesorectal excision (tme) is a standard treatment in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer . In addition to improved local control, reduced toxicity, increased sphincter preservation, and tumor downstaging have been demonstrated after neoadjuvant crt . Patien... |
Of particular importance is the occurrence of fatal toxicities in the liver where these anaesthetics are actually metabolised . Like all the other branches of medicine, anaesthesiology recently made great improvements, but the search for the ideal anaesthetic agent is still ongoing . There are reports of postoperative ... |
Clinical presentation of neonatal mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver (mhl) varies from incidental detection on imaging, asymptomatic mass to symptoms like abdominal distention, pain, respiratory distress, cardiac failure, anorexia, vomiting, poor weight gain, vascular steal and thrombocytopenia, intralesional bleeding,... |
In 2005, the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation (aspe) and cms joined together to explore both theoretically and empirically whether the use of an economywide measure of mfp growth was a reasonable proxy for use in medicare physician ratesetting . This issue of the review is based largely on analyses that ... |
Postoperative cerebrospinal fluid (csf) leak is still the most serious complication of the transsphenoidal approaches to pitui tary adenoma with the rate of 0 to 27% (1). The csf leak predisposes the patients to life - threatening bacterial contamination that can lead to serious infections, especially meningitis (2 - 6... |
Monoclonal gammopathy of undeterminated significance is the most common form of plasma cell dyscrasia, usually considered as benign . In rare cases it may have a malignant course, sometimes limited to an organ such as peripheral nerves . We describe clinical, electrophysiological and pathological findings in a patient ... |
Synthetic approaches are widely employed to observe novel phenomena in living organisms [1, 2], particularly in studies on species sustenance and population adaptation [36]. As a fundamental characteristic of living systems, adaptation is generally achieved by well - known sensing mechanisms, such as operons and regulo... |
Pws is caused by the lack of expression of paternally inherited imprinted genes on chromosome 15q11-q13 ., we discuss a case of pws, who presented to our out - patient department with uncontrolled diabetes . Patient was born of non - consanguineous marriage, full - term cesarean section delivery and cried normally afte... |
Multidrug resistance (mdr) is now recognized as one of the most common causes of failure in cancer chemotherapy . The mdr phenotype renders cross - resistance to structurally and functionally unrelated antitumor agents . This phenomenon often causes overexpression of mdr1 gene that encodes a 170-kd transmembrane glycop... |
The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the research ethics committees of the institute of puericulture and pediatrics martago gesteira of the federal university of rio de janeiro and the educational foundation of serra dos rgos of terespolis . The parents of all children involved in the study gave informed con... |
Particulate air pollution caused by fine particles with aerodynamic diameters under 2.5 m (pm2.5) is well known to be associated with the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases [1, 2]. Epidemiological studies have reported that fine particulate matter is a risk factor for the mortality of cardiovascular dis... |
Gambling behavior can be defined as to put in risk something valuable, and relying on the expectation of obtaining a benefit in profit.1 gaming disorder is distinguished by gaming behaviors that seriously alter the finances, social relationships, and the occupational progress of a subject.2 gambling disorder has a life... |
The protocol was approved by the local ethics committee, and informed consent was obtained from all participants . Nine ubo women (waist circumference> 88 cm) and 6 lean women (waist circumference <80 cm) scheduled for voluntary laparoscopic tubal occlusion were recruited . All were nonsmokers, used no medication excep... |
Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (rfa) of liver tumors has been extensively described, and is considered safe and effective mode of treatment with minimal morbidity and mortality . Several authors have described minor and major complications as a result of rfa being between 2.2% and 9%, respectively . Besides bleed... |
This condition must always be kept in mind when a perirenal fluid collection is encountered, particularly as a bilateral presentation . Symptomatic cases are treated either by percutaneous drainage, marsupialization (open or laparoscopic) or by nephrectomy, depending upon the presentation . A 23-year - old female prese... |
A 5-year - old male presents to the emergency room with worsening constipation and stool leakage . For the past 2 months, he had only been passing small amounts of smearing and sticky stool once every few days . He has had no abdominal pain or vomiting, and he only had occasional discomfort with mild distention . Exami... |
The purpose of this video is to demonstrate the use of the robot to perform a transmesocolonic pyelolithotomy of a horseshoe kidney . Ct scan imaging revealed the presence of a left horseshoe kidney with multiple pelvicalyceal stones . A 3-arm da vinci robotic surgical system was docked, and the arms were connected . T... |
Fusarium is a genus of filamentous fungi spread in cereals, fruits and vegetables, water and air, and even in the soil in temperate climates . Almost all fusarium species are harmless, although some species (fusarium solani, fusarium oxysporum, fusarium chlamydosporum and fusarium moniliforme) produce mycotoxins, such ... |
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