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, we will discuss the experience of diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cyst in infants at 3 months . The approval for the study was obtained from the institutional review board of the hospital of wuhan medical and health center for women and children . A retrospective analysis of 20 infants who suffered from ovarian cy...
Nitrous oxide (n2o) is the thirdmostimportant, longlived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide and methane [myhre et al ., these topthree greenhouse gases have a mixture of natural and anthropogenic sources, and the challenge has always been to quantify the human perturbation to their budgets [prather et al ., 2012; cia...
Approximately 15 - 20% of the population will have urticaria at least once during their lifetime . This is referred to as chronic idiopathic urticaria or more recently, as chronic spontaneous urticaria (csu). In recent years, 30 - 50% of patients with csu have been shown to have an autoimmune basis . This autoimmune su...
Lung cancer is one of the leading cancers worldwide, with an estimated 1.8 million new cases recorded in 2012 . According to the world health organization (who), lung cancer accounted for approximately 1.59 million cases of the 8.2 million cancer - related deaths reported in 2012; as such, lung cancer is one of the mos...
Cation diffusion facilitator ca - sensitive cross - complementer 1 inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate receptor vacuolar iron transporter vacuolar transporter chaperone acidocalcisomes were first identified in trypanosomes and later found from bacteria to human cells . Although originally described in bacteria as metachroma...
Transpedicular screw fixation has been the treatment of choice for stabilizing segmental instability and in cases which wide decompression is required . However, the use of pedicle screw is not suitable for all cases of degenerative spine disease . There are some disadvantages such as postoperative back pain resulted f...
Triad studied a random sample of adults with diabetes enrolled in 10 health plans in eight states (hawaii, california, texas, indiana, michigan, new york, new jersey, and pennsylvania) that served 180,000 patients with diabetes . Patients were eligible to participate if they were at least 18 years old, lived in the com...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2 dm) is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by hyperglycemia and, resulting from insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion . Clinical management of t2 dm consists of nutrition therapy, pharmacological therapy, and exercise1 . The american college of sports medicine (acsm) and a...
The most frequent metastasis sites of synovial sarcoma are the lungs, lymph nodes, and bone . Pancreatic metastasis is quite rare; only 3 cases have been reported worldwide to date . A 32-year - old man underwent extended excision of synovial sarcoma in the left pelvis and femur in 2009 . In 2013, follow - up contrast ...
Oral cancers became an important part of oro - maxilo - facial pathology because of its increased frequency, the low rate of survival, as well as the resulted functional or physiognomical defects . Multiple mechanisms are acting at a molecular level and induce the neoplazic transformation of the squamous cells . At the...
The lh / hcg (luteinizing hormone / human chorionic gonadotropin) receptor (lhr) expressed in the gonads regulates the ovarian and testicular function123 . Although gonadal tissues are the primary sites of its expression, it is now well - established that lhr is also expressed in many non - gonadal tissues4 . Lhr along...
Microbial cells may outnumber our own cells in the body, presenting an example of nature's intricate evolutionary scheme of host microbe symbiosis (frank and pace 2008; ley et al . This unique setup of human microbe interactions and its resilience is of paramount importance for health . Starting from birth, various fac...
In 2000, davison was the first to focus on a relatively common problem after uncomplicated cataract surgery, which was called negative dysphotopsia (nd). This side effect of cataract surgery typically vanishes after a couple of weeks or months and rarely persists for longer periods of time . In most cases it does not h...
Meniscal repairs are likely to have better long - term outcomes than meniscal resections, patients report better functional outcome, and it is assumed that repair is superior to resection in preventing osteoarthritis, even if the healing is not complete . Arthroscopic all - inside techniques are often used in preferenc...
Lack of suspicion, non - specific clinicoradiological presentation (often mimicking tuberculosis and fungal infections), diagnostic intricacies, and lack of systematic reporting are the probable reasons that have hindered the true estimation of its incidence, worldwide . We present a case series of three patients of pu...
This was an analytical cross - sectional study of 45 treatment - nave patients with leprosy and 45 patients with other skin diseases as the control group . Both groups attended the foundation of tropical dermatology and venereology alfredo da matta (fuam), which is a tertiary reference centre for leprosy treatment and ...
Although this reported prevalence is true in referral centres, it is probably much lower in the primary care outpatient setting . The importance of secondary hypertension lies in the fact that the hypertension may be remediable on treatment of the underlying cause . There are many conditions that can result in an eleva...
Herbal medicine continues to infuse new ideas and treatments into modern medicine for the benefit of our patients . According to the 2006 american association of poison control center (aapcc) data, there were a total of 972,073 exposures to pharmaceutical products resulting in adverse events, of which there were 6,809 ...
Alzheimer's disease (ad) and parkinson's disease (pd) are progressive neurodegenerative disorders for which we do not have a cure . The current drug treatments are more designed to keep the symptoms at bay, but do not repair or prevent further degeneration . There is a clear need for novel treatments, and the industry ...
Voltage - gated potassium channels of the kv1.3 type are widely expressed in many types of cells, both normal and cancer (felipe et al . Activity of kv1.3 channels plays an important role e.g. In setting the resting membrane potential, cell proliferation, apoptosis and volume regulation (cahalan and chandy 2009; gulbin...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is the fifth - most prevalent malignancy worldwide and the second leading cause of cancer - related deaths . More than 700,000 newly diagnosed cases occur every year; unfortunately, about 7580% of these cases occur in the asian pacific region, and especially in china . Hcc is one of the m...
Isolated and unilateral granuloma annulare occurring in clusters on the finger of an adult is rare . It is frequently misdiagnosed as a rheumatoid nodule due to its clinical and histopathological resemblance . A 53-year - old female presented with multiple asymptomatic skin - colored nodules over the right ring finger ...
Intrinsically disordered proteins (idps) lack a well - defined three - dimensional structure under physiological conditions of ph and salinity and in the absence of a partner or ligand . Some idps however fold, partially or completely, into ordered conformations upon binding to specific interactors . The extreme struct...
Retinitis pigmentosa (rp) is a hereditary degenerative disorder characterized by progressive loss of photoreceptor and visual function . The visual field constricts as the disease progresses, eventually leading to severe visual loss in the advanced stage . Although visual field testing is used as a standard method to a...
Blue shield plan physician participation agreements serve both as a marketing device to attract subscribers and as a short - run cost - containment strategy . In most blue shield plans a participating physician agrees to accept the plan's allowance for a procedure as payment in full . In return, the physician may be re...
They alter the surrounding extracellular matrix and modify normal cell behavior to facilitate tumor cell growth, invasion, immune evasion, and angiogenesis . Most of these effects are mediated by the release of small vesicles from the tumor cells into the extracellular medium . Shed vesicles are known to facilitate tum...
Neuroeconomics is a general framework for studying the neural basis of economic decision making . At first glance, one may wonder how this discipline can be relevant to the sort of issues that neurologists and psychiatrists are concerned with, beyond identifying the causes of pathological gambling or compulsive spendin...
Su was involved in the care of the patient, performed literature search and drafted the manuscript.
Occidental diet is characterized by high caloric intake, mainly saturated fatty acids and glucose consumption, contributing to the development of obesity and insulin resistance . In the past 15 years, obesity has been associated to chronic inflammation in several tissues and cells, such as liver, adipose tissue, skelet...
Hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection is a common disease that can induce a chronic carrier state and is associated with the risk of progressive disease and hepatocellular carcinoma.1 interferon (ifn) and several nucleoside / nucleotide analogs (nas), such as lamivudine (lam), adefovir dipivoxil (adv), entecavir (etv), and...
Methanol is a colorless and highly toxic organic solvent and is commonly used in industry . Subsequently, it is metabolized to formaldehyde by alcohol dehydrogenase, which is in turn converted into formic acid by aldehyde dehydrogenase . It has been reported that formaldehyde stays too transitory to be detected by anal...
Campylobacter concisus is a gram - negative bacterium that is commonly present in the human oral cavity [1, 2]. In some individuals, c. concisus may colonize the intestinal tract and was found to be associated with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) due to its significantly higher prevalence in the intestinal tract of pa...
Participation in exercise and regular physical activity can provide numerous physiological, cognitive, and psychological health benefits in the aging population . Impairments in fitness components such as muscle strength and balance influence the development of disability . In addition to muscle strength and balance, a...
Pets, especially domestic dogs, provide significant benefits to individuals and to society, since they can contribute to physical, social, and emotional development of children and the wellbeing of their owners; however, hygiene and dietary habits of the animals make them particularly prone to having a range of infecti...
The purity and concentrations of the dna in all cases were measured . After verifying the dna quality, 219 patients were selected and were included in clonality analyses of ig and tcr gene rearrangements, as shown in table 1 . The b cell lymphomas (78 cases) were comprised of 49 diffuse large b cell lymphomas (dlbcls),...
In the pancreas, the cholecystokonin-2 receptor (cck-2r), formerly the cck - b receptor, has been located exclusively on the somatostatin - delta cells of six different species, including man . To date, nothing is known about the role of this cck receptor subtype on the physiology of these delta cells . It has been rep...
Parkinson s disease (pd) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease behind alzheimer s disease (ad). An essay on the shaking palsy . The cardinal motor signs of pd (bradykinesia, resting tremor, cogwheel rigidity, postural instability) are emphasized in making the diagnosis and in tracking progression of the d...
The year 2011 was a banner year for oral health reports; the institute of medicine published two key reports entitled advancing oral health in america which outlined the seriousness of poor oral health and lack of access in the oral health care system in america . The second report was entitled improving access to oral...
The word autophagy is derived from the greek language auto (self) and phagy (eating) (self - eating) and generally refers to the cell catabolic and recycling processes in which cytoplasm non - essential and old or damaged components are transported to lysosomes for lysosome - mediated degradation and turnover process ....
, extensions of the key functions are replaced by updating the level set function based on an artificial image that is composed of the diffused image and the original image . The low convergence problem of the classical algorithm is efficiently solved in the proposed approach.
Methicillin - resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) is frequently resistant to the majority of commonly used antimicrobial agents, including beta - lactam antibiotics, aminoglycosides, macrolides, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, and fluoroquinolones . The prevalence of methicillin resistance is known to be more than ~6...
The workshop leaders will present a panoramic view of the community mental health care in holland: some figures of psychiatric disorders, organizational features of mental health care, treatment of depression and anxiety disorders in primary health care, treatment and care of the severe mentally ill and public mental h...
The zebrafish has become an attractive model for human disease modeling as there are a large number of orthologous genes in the zebrafish genome, and the encoded proteins exhibit similar functions to those expressed in humans . The methods that are available to manipulate zebrafish gene expression are limited, but prin...
Many enzymes are activated by specific binding of one or more monovalent cations (mvcs); these either contribute directly to the catalysis at the active site or indirectly modulate the activity by binding to an allosteric site . Potassium and sodium ions are the most common activating mvcs, with a strong correlation be...
Dyadic contests for limited resources are common in animals (huntingford and turner 1987; hardy and briffa 2013). In these contests, asymmetrical fighting ability and/or resource holding potential (rhp; parker 1974) are among the most important factors that determine outcomes . Since rhp is often determined by body or ...
A 63-year - old male patient was submitted to cbct (i - cat, imaging sciences international, hatfield, pa, usa) of the mandible for the planning of rehabilitating treatment with dental implants . 1), sequential parasagittal sections obtained every 1 mm in the distomesial direction (fig . 3) revealed the presence of two...
Based on numerous studies, sex ratio at birth (srb, male proportion) varies with many variables (james 1987; ansari - lari et al ., 2004; saadat 2005, 2008; james 2006, 2009; masoudi and saadat 2007; saadat and khalili 2009). The subject of changing in srb during or shortly after wars was investigated by several resear...
Several key reactions in a cell involve proteins interacting with the phosphate moiety, either as an isolated phosphate ion or as part of a phosphorylated ligand . The phosphate group has been observed to interact with more than half of the known proteins (1). Moreover many phosphate binding proteins are involved in pa...
Developmental dyslexia (dd), also known as reading disability, is characterized by unexpected difficulties in reading and spelling without apparent intellectual and neurological impairment . Notably, it was more prevalent among children with nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (nscl / p), a common birth...
Recently, a large number of cardiovascular risk factors have been detected, but the role of new risk factors added to traditional ones in predicting or preventing cardiovascular diseases and mortality is still unknown . Homocysteine and lipoprotein a are two new risk factors of heart diseases and may cause plaque forma...
Employment in cotton processing industry is associated with exposure to broken cotton fibers, bracts, and pericarps as well as to bacteria and fungi that may grow on cotton products . The classical occupational lung disease associated with cotton industry is byssinosis, an acute and reversible response to cotton dust c...
The disease symptoms include increased bone density, short stature, hypoplasia of the mandible, an obtuse mandibular angle, dysplasia of the skull bones with unossified fontanels and separated cranial sutures, partial aplasia of the terminal phalanges, stubby hands and feet with dystrophic nails, spondylolysis of the l...
It is well known that the content of sea hare digestive glands is derived from the diet that this animal ingests [14]. A large number of cognate compounds have been isolated from both the red alga of the genus laurencia and the sea hare that preys on the red alga . Metabolites isolated from sea hares exhibit various bi...
Hypertension has been acknowledged as one of the greatest and established risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (cvd) (heart diseases and stroke) [14]. Particularly in east asian countries, where the mortality and morbidity of stroke have been higher than in western countries, measures against hypertension hypertens...
Technika przezcewnikowej wymiany zastawki aortalnej zostaa opracowana jako alternatywa dla pacjentw o wysokim ryzyku operacyjnym lub nieoperacyjnych z cik objawow stenoz aortaln . Celem niniejszej pracy bya ocena wynikw pacjentw poddawanych przezkoniuszkowej wymianie zastawki aortalnej jako jedynej opcji terapeutycznej...
Sedentary behavior, particularly television (tv) watching, presents unique risks for obesity and related negative health outcomes in addition to risks from inactivity [1, 2]; even individuals who are very active show increased metabolic risk with higher amounts of tv watching . Sedentary video gaming has also been impl...
Regulated spatial and temporal control of gene transcription is a fundamental process for all metazoans . Critical to this process is the interaction of transcription factors (tfs) with specific cis - regulatory dna sequences . These regulatory sequences for instance, enhancers and promoters are organized in a modular ...
Diabetes, osteoporosis, chronic liver disease, and coronary artery disease are just some of the common metabolic conditions that affect millions of people, especially later in life . Unfortunately, for those infected with hiv, these conditions tend to occur more frequently and at an earlier age compared with the genera...
In adults, routine injections of botulinum toxin are the treatment of choice for the management of essential blepharospasm [1, 2]. The clinical picture is characterized by recurrent involuntary spasms in the region of the orbicularis oculi muscle . Typically, at the time of the first manifestation, the patients are in ...
Conventional phenolics are cross - linked products of low molecular weight precursors, typically formed through a condensation reaction . The versatility of their structures and the fact that they display desirable properties such as good heat resistance, flame - retardant properties, low dielectric constants, and the ...
The international diabetes federation estimated the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in spain to be approximately 10.4%, with around 3.6 million adults diagnosed with diabetes and 1.3 million undiagnosed in 2015 . The disease is a considerable burden on spanish patients and, in 2015, diabetes mellitus was ranked eighth ...
Non - communicable diseases (ncd) killed 38 million people globally in 2012, accounting for 68% of total annual death; and cardiovascular diseases alone were responsible for 17.5 million deaths in the year . The global prevalence of high blood pressure in adults is approximately 22%, and high blood pressure is estimate...
Serum calcium concentrations are maintained in the normal range until very late in chronic kidney disease (ckd) when it decreases slightly (1,2). Gastrointestinal (gi) calcium absorption has been shown to be lower in ckd subjects on normal calcium intake than in controls yet remains dependent on calcium intake (3). It ...
It poses an important public health challenge to both economically developing and developed countries, including asia . The prevalence and rate of diagnosis of hypertension in children and adolescents appears to be increasing . Hypertension confers the highest attributable risk to deaths from cardiovascular disease and...
There are 30 cases reported in the literature between 1982 and 2010 on brain - dead pregnant women whose somatic non - neurological functions were maintained successfully to facilitate fetal maturation in the uterus . However, of the cases reported, 12 viable infants were born and survived the neonatal period . Based o...
A 45 year - old male patient came to the hospital to receive tympanoplasty for chronic otitis media . The patient was 66.6 kg and 164 cm tall, and all physical and general examination results were normal other than the ventricular bradycardia of 58 beats per minute in the ecg . Glycopyrrate (0.2 mg) was i m injected as...
Diabetes mellitus is a leading cause of mortality and increased disability - adjusted life years (dalys) worldwide . In 2010, an estimated 1.3 million diabetes - related deaths occurred worldwide, which was twice as many as occurred in 1990 . Furthermore, the dalys from diabetes increased by 30% during this same period...
Regional myocutaneous pedicle flaps (rmf) are known to be relevant in the reconstruction of major head and neck oncologic defects with pectoralis major myocutaneous pedicle flap (pmmc) being the best - known rmf . For over three decades, since first described by ariyan in 1979, pmmc has continually been used in the rec...
The abo blood group, which was discovered at the beginning of the 20 century by karl landsteiner remains the most important blood group clinically (13). In 1924, this blood group was classified into four antigens (a, b, o and ab) and six genotypes (aa, ao, bb, bo, oo and ab). It is one of the conventional blood group p...
Postoperative morbidity and mortality, especially in cancer patients, have been reviewed in a number of studies in the field of gynecology . Morbidity after gynaecological surgery ranges from approximately 10% to 20%, whereas mortality is extremely rare . Clinical guidelines and recommendations based on the unusual eve...
Stressful situations are not uncommon in everyday life, experienced for example by a doctor in the emergency room, a police officer in action, or a financial trader on a london trading floor . Individuals sometimes need to make important decisions when the stakes are high and when not enough information or cognitive re...
Note: in order to minimize pcr carryover contamination, it is important to keep several important key steps in the pcr physically - separate from one another: 1) template (dna) preparation, 2) pcr setup, and 3) gel electrophoresis . It is also recommended to use barrier tips in order to prevent culture or reagent conta...
A systematic literature search was conducted in september 2013 . To find all articles describing experimental huts, the following databases were searched: pubmed (national center for biotechnology information, national library of medicine, national institutes of health), the armed forces pest management board literatur...
We have previously found that multistep renal carcinogenesis occurs in eker rats8 and reported that erc, a rat renal carcinoma gene, is highly expressed in renal cancer.9 rat erc is a homolog of the human mesothelin gene10, 11 that is localized to chromosome 16p13.3.12 mesothelin is expressed in normal mesothelial cell...
Gattii species complex, which is composed of two separate species, c. neoformans and c. deneoformans, and five species within c. gattii . The most clinically relevant complex species were recently revised based on phenotypic and genotypic diversity, supported by the presence of distinct and consistent lines, and it pro...
Gastrointestinal (gi) bleeding is a common emergency and bleeding from the upper gi tract and small intestine account for 75% and 210% of all gi bleeds, respectively . We describe a 29-year - old man who presented with obscure anemia due to small intestine bleeding . Vascular abnormalities account for 7080%, followed b...
Various methods, such as allografting [1, 2], pasteurized autografting, and bone elongation, have recently been employed for the reconstruction of limbs affected by malignant bone tumors . Tumor prosthesis use is advantageous in that it facilitates stable function of the affected limb and an early return to social acti...
Secondary organic aerosol (soa), formed in situ from the conversion of gas - phase volatile organic compounds (vocs) to oxidized products that partition preferentially to the particle phase, is an important source of aerosol mass both regionally and globally . It is estimated that approximately 70% of total global orga...
The term " idc - p " was first used in 1973 and later defined as a heterogeneous group of tumors, including urothelial carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and prostatic ductal and acinar carcinomas, extending into normal prostatic ducts and acini.8,9 kovi et al.10 were the first group to intensively study intraductal s...
Modern science through improved sanitation, vaccination, antibiotics and medical attention has eliminated the threat of death from most infectious diseases . But now, too many people are dying relatively young from noncommunicable diseases like heart diseases and cancer . The main contributing factor for this epidemiol...
Functional obstruction and bowel dilatation proximal to the affected segment, first described by harald hirschsprung in 1888, is a complex disorder resulting from absence of ganglion cells in the bowel wall leading to functional obstruction and bowel dilatation proximal to the affected segment [1, 2, 3]. It is usually ...
Malignant tumors, most often originating in the lung and breast, occasionally metastasize to intraocular structures . Most intraocular metastases occur in the uveal tract (iris, ciliary body, and choroid). In a study of 520 eyes with uveal metastases, only 8% occurred in the iris among 950 metastatic lesions . In 1 stu...
Methylmalonic acidemia (mma) is an inborn error of metabolism caused by deficiency of the mitochondrial enzyme, methylmalonyl - coa mutase (mut). This vitamin b12 dependent enzyme catalyzes the isomerization of l - methylmalonyl - coa into succinyl - coa at the terminal step of propionyl - coa oxidation . Isolated mma ...
It is usually manifested by neurological syndromes such as tetraparesis, paraparesis or brown - sequard syndrome . Sceh presenting with pure motor hemiparesis is extremely rare, and may be mistaken for cerebrovascular stroke . Although magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is generally considered to be the most reliable dia...
Variable (v), diversity (d) and joining (j) (v(d)j) recombination of antigen receptor (agr) loci is the first step in generating the diverse agr repertoires that enable the adaptive immune system to respond to a vast array of pathogens and regulate tissue homeostasis and surveillance . This process, which occurs at the...
It is estimated that in 2015 the number of new cancer cases and deaths due to cancer will be 15 million and 9 million per year, respectively . Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide . The primary cause of this cancer is infection with human papill...
Visualization of protein domain architecture and highlighting the presence of protein domains conserved in molecular evolution have become de facto standards in protein sequence analysis and are routinely provided by protein information resources . A conserved domain footprint may reveal aspects of a protein's molecula...
Recently, transcriptomic data from dna microarrays have allowed researchers to analyze gene expression and explore the molecular basis of disease . Analysis of the transcriptome allows researchers in oncology to study the regulatory mechanisms and biochemical pathways involved in cell transformation and tumor progressi...
Infectious diseases are the second - leading cause of death worldwide and cause significant morbidity . A factor contributing to the prevalence of infectious disease has been the development and spread of resistance to current antibiotics (1). Despite this alarming trend, research into traditionally, antibiotics have b...
Psychopathy is a personality disorder in which some of the defining features include being manipulative, callous, and impulsive . Despite an abundance of research, the disorder is costly to society, as individuals with psychopathy continuously rotate through the criminal justice system (hare, 1999). Individuals with ps...
A new method for treating dental caries that involves no drill, running water or electricity was presented at the headquarters of the world health organization on world health day in 199412 . This approach, called " atraumatic restorative treatment " (art) consists of manually cleaning dental cavities with hand instrum...
Among 178 (out of 195) countries that responded to a recent global low vision services survey, low vision services were reported to be present in 115 (64%) countries . However, presence of services does not necessarily equate to good coverage of services . Of the 115 countries with low vision services, 39 countries (34...
Antenatal care (anc) is a careful, systematic assessment and follow - up of pregnant women, that includes education, counseling, screening, and treatment to assure the best possible health of the mother and her fetus.1 the anc program was designed in europe in the first decades of the 20th century and was first directe...
Thirty - three diverse oral drugs were tested for colloid formation in biochemical buffers (figure 1). We chose low solubility drugs with high clogp values, as they are more prone to aggregation than high solubility drugs. (15) we also tested methylene blue, a dye used in several clinical indications and now in clinica...
The brain processes information from the external world and creates neuronal representations of the environment that change in response to sensory experience . The extent to which environmental stimuli modify brain structure and function has been extensively studied in the visual system . Visual cortical circuitries ar...
Nineteen of 63 patients, operated in a high - volume cataract surgery setting at a nearby hospital were referred to us with acute onset of redness and decreased vision . At admission, all patients underwent slit - lamp examination, applanation tonometry, dilated fundus evaluation and b - scan ultrasonography . Our coho...
Fibro - osseous lesions (fol) of the jaws constitute a group of conditions which are remarkable for their clinico - pathological similarities . They differ, with the exception of fibrous dysplasia, from those found in the rest of the skeleton . Fols of the face and jaws include ossifying fibroma, fibrous dysplasia, cem...
We assigned 1,791 veterans at 20 va medical centers who had a suboptimal response to therapy for type 2 diabetes to receive either intensive or standard glucose control . The primary outcome was the time from random assignment to the first occurrence of a major cardiovascular event . Strict control of blood pressure an...
Airway management is a core skill in emergency medicine, anesthesiology, and critical care . Ensuring an unobstructed airway and adequate oxygenation are first priorities in the resuscitation of the patient . Unlike the elective surgical patient, the trauma and critically ill patients present with many challenges . Acc...