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The methods of recruiting young men into the thai military have been described previously (3,4). Approximately 50,00060,000 men, mostly 21 years of age, are selected each year by lottery in their home province (the province in which they are listed on the house registration). The system produces a representative nation...
Sensitive skin, also designated as hyperreactive skin, is a common condition.1 according to epidemiological studies performed in france,2 the uk,3 and the us,4 more than 50% of the population experience sensitive skin . This condition is characterized by symptoms such as pricking, burning, pain, a tight sensation, and ...
Fumonisins are a group of mycotoxins that are produced by fusarium verticillioides, f. proliferatum, f. nygamai and alternaria alternate f. sp . Fumonisins cause serious diseases such as equine leukoencephalomalacia (elem), porcine pulmonary edema (ppe) and hydrothorax in pigs, liver cancer in rats and esophageal cance...
Malignant mixed mullerian tumor (mmmt) is a very rare tumor, accounting for less than 1% of all ovarian cancers . We present a 64-year - old woman with stage iii mmmt of ovary that was treated with platinum - based chemotherapy after optimal cytoreductive surgery . After 25 months of being disease free, she had a pelvi...
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage . Pain of dental extraction produces moderate to severe pain which is routinely treated with nonsteroidal anti - inflammatory drugs (nsaids) for 23 days. [24] the nsaids have the...
Despite global improvements in caries status, dental caries remains to be the most common chronic childhood disease world - wide . Teeth with deep pits and fissures are shown to be more vulnerable to develop caries . In the other hand, fissure sealant application is proved to be able to block pits and fissures in order...
Human protothecosis is an algal infection due to environmentally ubiquitous achlorophyllic algae: prototheca species . Prototheca wickerhamii and prototheca zopfii are the species reported in human infections, and infection occurs predominantly in the immunocompromised, for whom outcomes are often poor . The optimal ma...
The taiwan national health insurance program was established on march 1, 1995, by the bureau of national health insurance . More than 99% of the taiwanese population is enrolled into this program.14 the national health research institutes was commissioned to national health insurance research databases (nhirds) for res...
Diabetes is one of the chronic diseases that substantially causing to disability, functional deterioration, morbidity, mortality and increased health costs (1, 2). Diabetic patients especially those with disease complications present adverse quality of life and serious impairments in global functioning (1). It appears ...
Obesity is increasingly prevalent . Cheap, calorie - dense foods and relatively inactive lifestyles create long - term imbalances between energy uptake and expenditure, leading to adipocyte hypertrophy and subsequently hyperplasia . Excess adipose tissue functions as an endocrine organ, producing bioactive molecules su...
As of july 2010, who has reported 501 confirmed human cases of avian influenza a/(h5n1) which resulted in 287 deaths worldwide . At the same time, the statistics for the h1n1 2009 outbreak has so far included 214 countries with a total reported number of infections and deaths of 419,289 and 18,239, respectively . Today...
Aging is a highly complex process that affects various tissues and systems in the body, and which is regulated by many divergent pathways and on many levels . The cell culture does model intriguing aspects of aging, but it may be a little preliminary to call changes over time in culture aging per se . Recently, some re...
Loss of reduction following closed or open reduction of displaced supracondylar fractures of the humerus in children varies widely and is considered dependent on stability of the fracture pattern, gartland type, number and configuration of pins for fixation, technical errors, adequacy of initial reduction, and timing o...
A balance between energy intake and energy expenditure is responsible for body weight maintenance; disturbances in this balance may cause individuals to be underweight, anorexic, overweight, or obese [1, 2]. Signals secreted by peripheral tissues, such as fat or the digestive tract, are active participants in body weig...
A 23-year - old healthy female patient presented with metamorphopsia and photopsia in her left eye . At presentation, her medical history was unremarkable except her smoking habit (20/day) and coke drinking habit (2l / day). Anterior segment examination and intraocular pressures were within normal limits (17 mmhg) in b...
Renal allograft transplantation has been successful in chronic kidney disease (ckd) stage v patients with sickle cell disease or trait, although incidence of complications has been higher than other causes of ckd-5d . We report a case of sickle cell trait who had developed acute patchy renal cortical necrosis (rcn) fol...
The widely accepted theory is retrograde menstruation and implantation of endometrial cells on peritoneal surface (24). Endometriotic cells are capable of attaching to the peritoneal mesothelium, break the peritoneal lining, and destroy the extracellular matrix (ecm); thereby, they invade the surrounding tissue (5). Ec...
According to the world health organization, injuries are still a major cause of severe disability and death . There are approximately 3 - 9 million injuries recorded annually in developed countries . It is predicted that in 2020 they will be a major cause of death . According to statistical data, within an hour in the ...
Sciatica, is characterized by radiating pain that typically follows the dermatome of the affected nerve - root . When strict criteria are used, the prevalence rate is approximately 2% [1, 2]. Roughly 90% of the lumbar radicular pain cases are caused by intervertebral disc herniation with nerve - root compression . Alth...
To improve treatment results, repeat transurethral resection (retur) has been recommended for non - muscle - invasive bladder cancer (nmibc), especially in high - grade / t1 disease . Several reports have documented occult t2 disease in up to 10% of second turs . Meanwhile, high - grade, t1 or multifocal disease is inc...
Mirs are a family of short non - coding transcripts involved in the regulation of at least a third of all translated genes [13]. They are expressed as primary transcripts, which are subsequently processed by the drosha rnase, thus generating the hairpin - shaped precursor mirs (pre - mirs). Pre - mirs are then cleaved ...
The heart is responsible for supplying the organs and tissues of the body with blood, and the kidneys, amongst other functions, play an integral role in fluid balance and salt homeostasis . It should therefore come as little surprise that renal dysfunction frequently accompanies cardiac failure and that cardiac dysfunc...
Chronic bronchitis (cb) is a progressive disease characterized by chronic increase in the production of mucous . It is defined as the presence of a chronic cough with sputum production for at least three months, in each of two consecutive years, after other causes of cough, such as tuberculosis and lung cancer, have be...
With the recent widespread introduction of cone beam computed tomography (cbct), dentists and otolaryngologists are better able to identify anatomical abnormalities and pathological states within the structures of the nasal cavity and the surrounding paranasal sinuses . Mucosal inflammation can be easily identified in ...
The term responsibility has become an integral but diverse element of bioethical and public health debates . Thus, the promotion of responsible health behavior constitutes a major effort of health care policies in europe and the united states . In the name of personal responsibility for health, the us health care refor...
The first reported case was in a dog near a large stable; the dog became inappetant and lethargic and had had a slight nasal discharge and a persistent cough for several days . Over the next 23 weeks, dogs in or near stables with infected horses, including dogs whose owners were handling infected horses or dogs (n = 6)...
Traumatic brain injury (tbi) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide . Yearly, about 1.5 million people die from tbi and those several millions that survive receive emergency treatment . In malaysia, the statistics for the year 2009 - 2010 reveal that the causes of death from motor vehicle accidents are he...
Primary infection with varicella zoster virus (vzv) which is a mild to moderate self - limited disease causes varicella (chickenpox) in children (1). Because of the waning vzv specific cell mediate immunity, virus reactivation in relation to suppressed immune conditions or elder people, could induce herpes zoster (2, 3...
Kidney cancer is currently the sixth and eighth most common cause of new cancer diagnoses in american men and women, respectively, and the incidence has increased by approximately 3% annually.1 - 5 in particular, the rate of renal cell carcinoma has steadily increased over the past several decades, and renal cell carci...
Small nontranslated rnas perform a multitude of functions in the cell, e.g., transfer rnas function as adapters in translation, small nuclear rnas are involved in mrna splicing, and small nucleolar rnas direct the modification of ribosomal rnas . Recently, two other groups of small rnas have received much attention: sm...
Forty adolescent girls (aged 1218 years) with diabetes (20 with type 1 diabetes and 20 with type 2 diabetes) were identified from our hospital adolescent diabetes database and invited to participate: 11 patients with type 1 and 8 patients with type 2 diabetes agreed to participate . Twenty healthy, nondiabetic girls we...
Veterinary drugs are widely used in medical and veterinary practices to treat and prevent disease as well as improve feed efficiency and increase animal growth rates . Pesticides are also widely used to enhance food production by protecting food crops from potentially harmful and destructive pests . However, the result...
Micrornas (mirs) are endogenous 22 nucleotide noncoding rnas which suppress gene expression at posttranscriptional levels by binding to the 3-untranslated region of specific mrna targets through base pairing . A number of recent studies reveal that mirs have critical functions in key biological processes such as cell p...
Finding effective methods to diagnose bacterial vaginosis (bv) has taken on increased urgency since bv was associated with a greater than 3-fold increased risk of female - to - male hiv-1 transmission and a doubling of risk for acquiring sexually transmitted infections [14]. Bv has also been implicated in neonatal morb...
Cardiometabolic risk factors (cmrfs) such as elevated fasting glucose, elevated blood pressure, low high - density lipoprotein cholesterol, elevated fasting triglycerides, and abdominal obesity often coexist in the same individual . The presence of multiple cmrfs has been broadly termed as the metabolic syndrome.1 alth...
Bone - replacement graft materials have played an important role in regenerative dentistry for many years . Several types of filling biomaterials have been evaluated for bone regeneration, and the choice of the biomaterial mostly depends on its features and application site . The grafts could be classified according to...
Self - expanding metal stents (semss) are a useful therapy to palliate malignant and benign luminal gastrointestinal (gi) obstruction.1 although sems placement has been widely reported for colonic, esophageal, and gastric obstructions,2 - 5 little is known about its applicability for small bowel strictures ., we presen...
Gatti and colleagues reported the first successful allogenic marrow graft in a patient with severe combined immunological deficiency using a sibling donor in 1968 . With the refinement of hla testing, anti - cancer drugs, intensive care units, the spectrum of hematopoietic stem cell transplant (hsct) has widened to inc...
Biocompatibility of root canal filling materials is of particular importance particularly when an inadvertent intimate contact occurs between the extruded root canal filling material and the adjacent periapical tissue cells [1, 2]. On the other hand, a substantial number of teeth requiring root canal treatment have nec...
Hemodialysis is one of the most prevalent treatments for these patients estimated as over 1 million worldwide . In iran, this estimate was about 11,250 patients in 2003, 18,000 in 2007, and 20,000 in 2012 . The patients undergoing hemodialysis usually have several complications which result from either the end stage of...
Choriocarcinoma is a highly aggressive malignant human chorionic gonadoprotein - producing neoplasm with usually an intrauterine location and can be gestational or non - gestational in origin . Extrauterine choriocarcinomas are very rare and can be seen in other parts of the female genital tract like fallopian tube, ov...
Dental caries have been described as a social disease, as their formation is associated with biological, dietary, behavioral, and socioeconomic factors, as well as access to consumer goods and health services . Although the prevalence and severity of dental caries has decreased among brazilian children and adolescents ...
The maxillofacial region occupies the most prominent position in the human body and rendering it vulnerable to injuries quite commonly . It is estimated that more than 50% of patients with these injuries have multiple trauma requiring coordinated management between emergency physicians and surgical specialists in otola...
Malaria is a disease that is caused in humans by parasites of the plasmodium species through the bite of infected anopheles mosquitoes . About 3.3 billion people half of the world's population are at risk of malaria . Every year, this leads to about 250 million malaria cases and nearly one million deaths . Nigeria is k...
Gait stability can be defined as the ability to maintain functional locomotion despite perturbations (england and granata, 2007). As a minimum, this ability is provided by position- and velocity - dependent resistance to perturbation - elicited deviations from the ongoing locomotion (krasovsky et al ., 2012). Gait stab...
In this work, we demonstrate the concept of a sers - nanoreactor cluster using the capability of cb[n] vessels to bind aunps creating precisely separated hot - spot nanojunctions for sensitive sers . The cb[n] sequesters reactants in its internal cavity and their optimal location within these sers - active cluster nano...
But the combination of nasogastric tube and double aortic arch (daa), a rare congenital vascular abnormality, is known to cause fatal aortoesophageal fistula (aef). Moreover, daa had never been reported as a cause of superior mesenteric artery (sma) syndrome . A 19-year - old woman was admitted to our hospital for naus...
Among the currently investigated metal - based chemotherapeutic agents, ruthenium (ru) and its compounds hold a promising future as these compounds exhibit different oxidation states and lower toxicity compared to other metal - based drugs.1 in general, ru compounds with oxidation states ii and iii have potential appli...
Paracoccidioidomycosis (pcm), also known as south american blastomycosis, is a chronic mycosis caused by paracoccidiooides brasiliensis . Pcm more commonly affects farm workers and/or people who live in rural areas, people between 30 and 50 years of age, particularly males . The disease is more prevalent in south and c...
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) represents the most common and emerging form of chronic liver disease worldwide . Indeed, nafld reached epidemic proportions and the general prevalence of this condition is reported to be ranging between 2030% and 7090% in patients with severe obesity or with type 2 diabetes mel...
Conditions such as multiple chemical sensitivity (mcs), fibromyalgia (fm), and chronic fatigue syndrome (cfs) are a significant problem to the health care system due to the lack of effective management strategies.14 mcs is defined as a chronic condition with reproducible symptoms involving multiple organ systems whose ...
Intracameral phenylephrine, an -1 adrenergic receptor agonist, is used in small pupil cataract surgery for mydriasis of the pupil and maintaining dilation throughout the procedure.1 intracameral phenylephrine has also been instrument in preventing complications due to intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (ifis), induced...
The thalassemias are a group of hemoglobinopathies characterized by a deficient synthesis of protein chains (either or the) of globin in the hemoglobin molecule . Affected individuals are either heterozygotes, homozygotes, or compound heterozygotes for the - or -chain genes . The heterozygous individual are known as ha...
Since 1938 endolymphatic hydrops is generally accepted as the histopathological substrate for menire s disease, based on autopsy studies of the ear of menire patients [1, 2]. However, it is still unclear if endolymphatic hydrops is the cause of the symptoms, or just a histological marker of the disease . The effect on ...
Gambling disorder (gd) is associated with high rates of depression, substance - use disorders, and suicidality; as well as occupational and legal problems (bland, newman, orn, & stebelsky, 1993; cunningham - williams, cottler, compton, & spitznagel, 1998; muelleman, denotter, wadman, tran, & anderson, 2002; petry & kil...
Infantile perianal pyramidal protrusions (ippp) as the name suggests either pyramidal, leaf like, or cigar - shaped protrusions which are rare congenital anomalies and most often present at birth or soon after.because of their rarity and inadequate reporting in our literature they are often mistaken for sentinel hemorr...
Glioblastoma multiforme (gbm) is the most common form of all primary adult brain tumors . Although significant technical advances in surgical and radiation treatments for brain tumors have emerged, their impact on clinical outcome for patients has been modest [1, 2]. Of the features that characterize gbm, arguably none...
Rapid rise of noncommunicable diseases has been considered as a major health challenge in the present century, which threatens social and economic development of communities and people health . Such diseases impose half of the burden of diseases cost in the world [24]. Following the present trend, it is predicted that ...
The microscope is composed of two excitation arms: a video - rate laser - scanning two - photon imaging arm and a point - detection two - photon phosphorescence lifetime sensing arm (extended data fig . 1). Output from a 80 mhz femtosecond laser source (maitai, newport, mountain view, ca) tuned to 840 or 913 nm is spli...
Medications have been cited as a primary or contributing cause of hyperkalemia in 35% to 75% of hospitalized patients . Nonsteroidal anti - inflammatory drugs (nsaids) may be associated with more than 10% of these cases . Cox-2 inhibitors appear to have similar effects to nsaids via the inhibition of renal prostaglandi...
Respiratory syncytial virus (rsv) is the leading viral pathogen responsible for bronchiolitis and pneumonia in infants during the first year of life in the united states . The risk of serious rsv illness is highest among those with prematurity, bronchopulmonary dysplasia (bpd), chronic lung disease (cld), congenital he...
The prevalence of low back pain (medscimonit-21 - 1934) ranges from 6.0% to 15.7% across the world; it accounts for 49.6% of the global disability burden and causes an enormous economic impact [13]. It was estimated that 41.8% of lbp can be attributed to intervertebral disk degeneration (ivdd). Several radiographic fin...
Parkinson s disease (pd) is characterized by bradykinesia, tremors, rigidity, and postural instability . A meta - analysis of global data demonstrated an increasing prevalence of pd with age,1 and a higher prevalence of pd was observed in the chinese male population.2 in addition to age and sex, other potential risk fa...
Eight mixed - breed adult dogs, aged between 1 and 6 years old and weighing between 11 and 18 kg, were studied . The dogs were healthy based on physical examination and exhibited no clinical signs or biochemical laboratory abnormalities (amylase, lipase and c - reactive protein) suggesting pancreatic disease . Prior to...
Schizophrenia is a complex and clinically heterogeneous psychiatric disorder with unknown etiology, age at onset in late adolescence / early adulthood, and a lifetime prevalence of approximately 1% [1, 2]. One of the hallmark characteristics of this devastating disorder is a disturbance in emotion processing, which has...
Oxaliplatin is a 3rd - generation platinum - based chemotherapeutic, possessing the 1,2 diaminocyclohexane - containing carrier ligand, useful in treating advanced colorectal cancer . It is often used in combination regimens with 5-flourouracil, capecitabine, or 5-flourouracil / irinotecan for the treatment of colorect...
Surgical site infections (ssis) as one of the most common causes of nosocomial infections is accounted for 20 to 25% of all nosocomial infections worldwide (1,2). The ssis are the most common complication following surgery, with reported rates up to 30% (2, 3). These infections place a substantial burden on healthcare ...
Histone deacetylases are a family of enzymes that remove acetyl groups from lysine residues present in the n - terminal extension of core histones of nucleosomes and have been found in bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals . Histone acetyltransferases (hats) and deacetylases (hdacs) play an important role in chromatin s...
Medication error can be defined as a failure in the treatment process that leads to, or has the potential to lead to, harm to the patient (1). Adverse drug events (ades), defined as a drug - related injury (2), is a widespread patient safety concern, happening in 540% of hospitalized patients and in 1217% of patients p...
Many current - day health problems in individual and community are associated with lifestyle changes . Adopting unhealthy lifestyle oral diseases are predominantly man - made attributing to his / her lifestyle [1, 2]. Human society is undergoing continuous transformation through the harnessing of information and knowle...
Providing comprehensive education to caregivers for the promotion of good oral health in their children is now termed as anticipatory guidance . Anticipatory guidance, as defined by nowak and casamassimo, is the process of providing information about children to their parents by alerting them to impending changes, teac...
Childhood obesity is increasingly being observed with the changing lifestyle of families with increased purchasing power, increasing hours of inactivity due to television, video games, and computers, which are replacing outdoor games and other social activities . The world health organization has described obesity as o...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is a chronic autoimmune disease associated with considerable morbidity, increased mortality and poor health - related quality of life (hrqol).1 2 belimumab is a human immunoglobulin (ig)-g1 monoclonal antibody that inhibits the biological activity of soluble b lymphocyte stimulator, a...
Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma (bscc) is an uncommon variant of squamous cell carcinoma . Bscc is included as a distinct entity in the revised classification of tumors of head and neck by who in 1991 . Generally, it has a predilection for head and neck region, particularly the upper aerodigestive tract, i.e. Larynx h...
While adrenal adenomas are quite frequent in the general population, adrenal cortical carcinomas (accs) are rare malignancies affecting only 2 per million per year in the world population . A bimodal age distribution has been recognized, with first peak in childhood (<5 years of age) and second peak in 4 - 5 t decade o...
A 27-year - old man was admitted to our hospital with a 10-day history of headache and vomiting . He was born with multiple pigmented areas on his skin; specifically, there were multiple confluent hairy nevi on his extremities, back and most of the anterior trunk . The nonenhanced ct scanning showed multiple intracrani...
This commentary discusses the findings of udy and colleagues about the augmented renal clearance in septic and traumatized patients . Antibiotic therapy is a key element of the treatment of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock, and success of antibiotic therapy is determined by multiple factors . Susceptibility...
Kidney transplantation is the optimum replacement therapy for patients with established renal failure (erf), as it offers better quality of life and improved survival . The demand for renal transplantation has increased due to the growing prevalence of erf and extension of the criteria for accepting patients onto the w...
In middle age people, total cholesterol levels have been established as a risk factor for a cardiovascular disease (cvd) risk marker . In finland data have been shown that mortality rate from cvd among people high plasma total cholesterol level people (> 300 mg / dl) is fivefold higher than other factors and reducing p...
Hair transplantation is an accepted technique of restoring hairs on bald scalp in pattern baldness, by different techniques such as follicular unit transplantation, follicular unit extraction (fue), etc ., however, one of the limiting factors in achieving successful outcome is the limited donor hair on occipital scalp,...
It was first described in 1959 by bernstein and lichtenstein as a distinct variant of chs . This affects females more frequently than it does males (f / m = 1.4/1). These neoplasms are characterized by sheets or clusters of highly undifferentiated, small, ovoid cells that alternate with small zones of neoplastic cartil...
Compared with traditional laparotomy, laparoscopic choledochotomy with t - tube drainage has dramatically decreased surgical trauma for patients . In this case, the problems caused by placing a t - tube for example, the inconvenience to the patient caused by the t tube and drainage bag, bile - induced peritonitis after...
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ercp) is a common interventional procedure used for more than 40 years in diagnosis and management of pancreaticobiliary pathologies . By using a specialized side - viewing duodenoscope, the procedure involves injection of radio - opaque contrast into the biliary ducts al...
The toxicity of these preservatives against ocular surface cells, namely the cornea and conjunctiva, has been investigated extensively110 because epithelial disorders are of particular concern postoperatively, as well as in patients using eye drops over the longer term, and those with dry eye . In the present study, we...
A 63 year - old female patient was admitted to our hospital for laparoscopic splenectomy . Her diagnosis was ovarian cancer with splenic metastasis and there were no specific findings in the laboratory data and physical examination . At admission, blood pressure and heart rate were 100/63 mmhg and 74 beats / min, respe...
Adult athletes competing primarily in aerobic modalities are characterized by higher levels of maximum cardiac output and aerobic power when compared with non - athletes or those who participate in predominantly anaerobic modalities.1 - 3 as the heart rate (hr) accelerates during exercise, there is a reduction in the d...
The definitive implantation of a permanent impulse generator (interstim 3023, medtronic) months after was performed after a temporary trial period of stimulation . She had regained weight, defecations continued with a good daily rhythm withouth straining or abdominal pain . The patient declared to be fully satisfied by...
Malnutrition is a frequent problem in cancer patients, whose prevalence and degree mainly depend on tumor stage and site 1 . Its negative consequences are prolonged hospitalization, a higher degree of treatment - related toxicity, reduced response to cancer treatment, lower activity level, impaired quality of life and ...
Diabetic retinopathy, a vision - threatening disease, is classically regarded as microvasculopathy . However, recent evidence suggests that diabetic retinopathy is a progressive neurodegenerative disease in which visual dysfunction is initiated early after the onset of diabetes and progresses independently of the vascu...
Invasive gas infections have increased worldwide during the past decade despite organism remaining sensitive to penicillin and other commonly used beta - lactam antibiotics . Gas have been described frequently as an emerging cause of severe invasive infections in population - based surveillance studies, whereas the des...
Mitochondria are organelles present in every cell of the body (except red blood cells) and generate almost all of the energy needed by the cells to grow and sustain life . In addition to adenosine triphosphate (atp) generation, mitochondria are involved in a large number of specialized functions in major cellular pathw...
In recent years, astrocytes have attracted great interest for their capacity to release neuroactive molecules, among which are neurotransmitters like glutamate, because these molecules could modulate neural activity and lead to a possible role for astrocytes in neural information processing [13]. Indeed, astrocyte - de...
Balance impairment greatly affects activities of daily living and other essential activities in stroke patients . The assessment of balance is therefore extremely important in clinical practice for managing stroke patients . Currently available assessment tools for balance in stroke patients include the functional reac...
Pancreatic cancer represents the fourth leading cause of cancer - related death in the western world and still has a poor prognosis, in spite of the progresses achieved in cancer treatment over the last decades . Surgical resection is considered the only curative treatment for localized pancreatic adenocarcinoma, altho...
Spindle epithelial tumor with thymus - like differentiation (settle) is a malignant tumor of the thyroid gland, which shows thymic or related branchial pouch differentiation . This tumor is believed to be derived from the third or fourth branchial pouch and thymic remnants . Settle is regarded as a low - grade malignan...
The human bone marrow is often evaluated in patients with various hematological disorders, including anemia, thrombocytopenia, pancytopenia, leukemia and other hematological malignancies . Multiple bone marrow procedures (bmp) are often required in patients with hematological malignancies to guide their treatment . The...
Noncommunicable diseases (ncds) pose a significant global burden in both developed and developing countries . Hypertension (htn) is a significant cardiovascular disorder in sub - saharan africa and is raising epidemic representing a major public health concern . Although hypertension is a growing health concern in ugan...
Application of amplazer occluder has become an effective and conventional way in percutaneous treatment of congenital heart disease such as ventricular septal defect (vsd). There are rare complications reported, although sometimes cardiac conduction abnormalities, for example, may occur . We met a case of congenital he...
Anthrax is a rare, potentially fatal zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium bacillus anthracis, which can infect both animals and humans . Infection via inhalation of bacillus anthracis spores can result in a mortality rate of up to 96% . Major routes of exposure and subsequent infection have been confirmed through s...
Cancer cell lines are extensively used as models to investigate the genetics and behaviour of specific tumours . More generally, they are an important resource for basic research on diverse aspects of cellular biology, differentiation and pathology . The widely studied sh - sy5y human neuroblastoma cell line provides a...