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Tattooing is associated with a variety of complications, with pseudolymphoma confined to the tattoo area being rare and difficult to treat . We report a case of tattoo - induced pseudolymphoma treated sequentially with ablative fractional resurfacing (afr) followed by q - switched (qs) nd: yag 532 nm laser . Interestin... |
Enterococcus faecalis plays a major role in the etiology of persistent periradicular lesions after root canal treatment . It is frequently found in high percentage of root canal failures and is able to survive in the root canal as single organism or as a major component of the mixed flora . E. faecalis mode of growth i... |
This reflects its paradoxically high mortality compared with other western european countries . In the past 30 years scotland has seen, to a greater extent than other parts of the uk and the rest of europe, increases in alcohol - related deaths, violent deaths and suicide . This has added to already high levels of prem... |
Obesity is a major public health concern.1 more than one third of adults in the united states are classified as obese.2 the prevalence and severity of obesity continues to increase.3 obesity increases the risk for many chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke, d... |
Endometriosis associated with massive ascites is sufficiently rare with less than 20 cases being reported since 1954 . Most cases of hemorrhagic ascites are found in patients with underlying malignancies, such as hepatoma or ovarian carcinoma, in tuberculosis, or with a perforated duodenal ulcer . A 43-year - old hispa... |
Primary choroidal lymphoma (cl) is a rare condition, and the diagnosis can be challenging since presentation can mimic many other ophthalmic diseases including diffuse or amelanotic uveal melanoma, uveal metastases, various uveitis (such as sarcoidosis and birdshot chorioretinopathy), posterior scleritis, and uveal eff... |
Tuberculosis has infected one third of the world's population according to the world health organisation, with 1% of new cases occurring each year . Left untreated, it can become a life - threatening disease . Nevertheless, tuberculosis is preventable and more importantly, treatable . Gastrointestinal tuberculosis can ... |
Although pancreatic cancer has an incidence of only about 10 cases/100,000 persons, it is the fourth to fifth leading cause of cancer - related deaths in the western world . . The 5-year survival rate of these patients is less than 1% [2 - 4] and the median survival time is approximately 56 months after tumor detection... |
On december 7, 2005, a previously healthy 17-year - old boy with no history of recent travel became ill; symptoms were headache, rhinorrhea, low back pain, and cough without fever . He had received inactivated influenza vaccine administered intramuscularly on november 11, 2005 . During an outpatient clinic visit on dec... |
Coronary artery disease (cad) is the most common cause of death in western countries 1 . Inflammatory processes play a pivotal role in all stages of the development of both acute and chronic atherosclerosis from the initial induction of endothelial dysfunction and plaque formation to plaque destabilization and disrupti... |
Failures of osseointegrated implants have been associated with many factors, such as poor bone quality, lack of initial instability, overloading and fractures of implants and abutment screws10 . Fracture of these elements may be related with a poor fit of the framework, which leads to material fatigue, occlusal overloa... |
Branch retinal vein occlusion (brvo) is one form of retinal vascular disease and is the second leading cause of loss of vision after diabetic retinopathy.1 according to klein population study (beaver dam study), the incidence of brvo was approximately 1.8% and the prevalence of brvo was 0.3%1.1%.2,3 according to blue m... |
A juxtarenal aortic abdominal aneurysm (jraaa) is an infrarenal aortic aneurysm extending to the renal arteries without involving them and its incidence has been estimated as approximately 16% of infrarenal aortic aneurysm (1). Open surgery (os) is a well - established gold - standard jraaa treatment for low - surgical... |
Although a number of tumors may arise from the adrenal gland, surgical intervention is always warranted in the setting of functional tumors and in the likelihood of malignancy . Many criteria have been established that guide our approach to the adrenal incidentaloma . The association between acquired immunodeficiency s... |
Specially designed intramedullary (i m) nails, and plates and screws for every bone and even parts of bones have helped increase treatment efficacy and union rates . Titanium alloys and stainless steel are generally employed for the manufacture of orthopedic implants.1 after fracture union, the implant loses its purpos... |
Most are located in the midline of the cerebellum and are commonly seen in the pediatric age group12). However, the tumor can be rarely situated extra - axially . Previously, 33 cases of medulloblastomas located extra - axially have been reported7), but most extra - axial medulloblastomas occurred at the cerebelloponti... |
Electroencephalogram (eeg) is the recording of the brain s spontaneous electrical activity captured non - invasively by placing electrodes on the scalp . Eeg has been utilized in many medical diagnosis, prognosis and therapies including epilepsy, sleep disorder, coma, encephalopathy and brain deaths . Eeg signals are o... |
The risk of infection is of great concern with deep burn wounds, and is likely due to the combination of impaired local immunity with the presence of dead tissue and impaired systemic immunity with such extensive injury.1,2 development of a wound infection depends on a complex interplay of many factors . If the integri... |
Chinese medicines have played an important role in clinical therapy in china, korea, and japan attributed to high pharmacological activity and few complications . As a classic medicinal plant, the dry rhizome of acorus tatarinowii schott is officially listed in the chinese pharmacopoeia and widely used for fighting ail... |
To determine if the use of a sex specific standard to define small for gestational age (sga) will improve prediction of stillbirth . We performed a retrospective cohort study of singleton pregnancies excluding anomalies, aneuploidy, undocumented fetal sex or birthweight . Sga was defined as birthweight <10 percentile b... |
This study included seven taiwanese patients, treated at the national taiwan university hospital from march 8 to may 3, 2003, whose illness met the recent centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) and world health organization (who) case definition for probable cases of sars (11,12). Of the seven patients, four ... |
Obstructive sleep apnea (osa) is a disorder characterized by periodic complete or partial collapse of the upper airway during sleep, resulting in snoring, recurrent oxygen desaturations, increased arousals from sleep, and excessive daytime sleepiness . Patients with untreated osa are at increased risk for hypertension,... |
Administration of nd for six months could increase hemoglobin and hematocrit in anemic men (3). Chronic aas administration may alter the melanocortin system activity and appetite and food intake in rats (4). Studies showed that chronic administration of nd induces deep changes to mental health in rats (5) and causes dn... |
Lennox - gastaut syndrome (lgs) is an epileptic encephalopathy, characterized by intractable, multiple seizure types and an interictal electroencephalogram (eeg) showing bursts of slow spike - and - wave complexes, generalized paroxysmal fast activity, and a slow background (1,2). When these patients become adults, mos... |
The work is self - sponsored by the first author who conceptualized and designed and wrote the manuscript . The second author assisted in the surgery provided some literature review and made necessary correction which lead to the final manuscript . The ethical committee of imo state university teaching hospital orlu wh... |
This somehow affects the quality and effectiveness of professional performance and, therefore, performance and productivity both at the individual and at the organizational level (2). Several studies report a significant association between the presence of burnout and those working in the public service, healthcare or ... |
Cutaneous toxicities with kinase inhibitors are common, but our knowledge regarding these is scanty and primarily based on western literature . Sunitinib belongs to a group of novel multitargeted kinase inhibitors (mkis) affecting tumor cell angiogenesis and proliferation . The drug has been recently developed and appr... |
In order to conduct this study four different types of american orthodontics bracket system were selected . They are: group 1: stainless steelgroup 2: composite bracketgroup 3: ceramic bracketgroup 4: slb . Group 1: stainless steel group 2: composite bracket group 3: ceramic bracket in this study, five maxillary bracke... |
An 18-year - old woman patient was admitted to hospital with complaints of abdominal distension, and the patient had experienced intermittent mild abdominal pain since birth . The abdominal girth had slowly increased in diameter over the previous 18 years, and the patient's general condition of health was poor, present... |
During recent decades the concept of surgical treatment of malignant bone and soft tissue sarcomas has progressively evolved, and the preservation of the uninvolved parts of the extremities and the achievement of an acceptable limb function have become a major goal of oncological and reconstructive surgery . The foot i... |
Cancer is among the three leading causes of death in developing countries and the disease incidence is quickly increasing over time in those countries.1 once thought of as a western disease, cancer is an impending public health problem across the continent of africa.2 a globalization of unhealthy lifestyles, particular... |
Glaucoma, a neurodegenerative disease, is characterized by gradual loss of retinal ganglion cells (rgcs) and optic nerve atrophy.1 multiple factors are related to glaucoma, such as high intraocular pressure (iop)2 and low cerebral spinal fluid pressure.3 mller cells are the major type of glial cells in the mammalian re... |
Freeze drying is one of the popular methods of scaffold formation in tissue engineering . This is a method of choice especially for the preparation of natural polymeric scaffold like gelatin, chitosan, collagen, and so forth [13]. Freeze - drying method involves the formation of ice crystals inside polymer solution dur... |
Hemiplegia is the main symptom of stroke, which results in diverse sensory, motor, perception, recognition, and language problems1 ., it causes a decrease in the activities of the lateral trunk muscles, and an increase in the asymmetry between the left and the right side, as well as paralysis of the trunk muscles . Add... |
Population - based infectious diseases surveillance is essential for epidemiological investigation, disease tracking, and public health planning . Current sources of data include voluntary physician reporting through syndromic surveillance programs, mandatory reporting through local and state health departments, and se... |
A 52-year - old woman presented at the clinic with pelvic pain and floating of three months duration . There was no history of comorbidities or regular medication use (gravidity: 1, parity: 0, abortion: 1). Serum tumor markers were normal (human chorionic gonadotropin [hcg]: <1 miu / ml, cancer antigen [ca]-125: 12 u /... |
Protein kinases comprise a large group of molecules with diverse roles in cellular signaling networks . Because protein kinases are often mutated, amplified, or otherwise deregulated in cancer, there has been significant effort geared toward the identification of kinase inhibitors for therapeutic use . The identificati... |
Male lower urinary tract symptoms (luts) are common and bothersome . Until the 1970s, the only option was invasive surgery by open or endoscopic removal of the enlarged central prostatic tissue that was presumed to be the cause of the obstruction that in turn led to the symptoms . Many men were naturally anxious to avo... |
From our neurointerventional patient database, we extracted a total of 20 patients who had undergone stent - assisted revascularization of vaos or proximal va stenosis from december 2003 to april 2008 . All patients were men whose average age was 64.3 years, with a range of 47 to 74 years . Among these patients, nine p... |
Developmental trauma refers to a type of stressful event that occurs repeatedly and cumulatively, usually over a period of time, and within specific relationships and contexts (courtois, 2004). Childhood abuse (sexual, emotional, and physical) and neglect (physical and emotional) constitute typical forms of chronic tra... |
Membranous nephropathy (mn) is one of the most common causes of nephrotic syndrome (ns) in adults [1, 2]. Most cases are considered idiopathic (imn), where auto - antibodies react with one or more podocyte antigens (e.g., the m - type phospholipase a2 receptor) to form the subepithelial deposits characteristic of all t... |
Liver abscess are associated with mortality of up to 20% and are categorized into various types based on etiology, of which amoebic (ala) and pyogenic (pla) liver abscess are major types . Pla result from ascending biliary tract infection, hematogenous spread through portal venous system, septicemia with involvement of... |
Our fmri - adaptation paradigm used a modified version of a recent behavioral experiment, which showed that adapting to a series of faces gazing left caused subjects to misidentify leftward gaze as direct; similarly, rightward gaze adaptation produced a corresponding pattern . The experiment comprised five distinct pha... |
Angiosarcoma is a rare malignant neoplasm representing less than 2% of all soft tissue sarcomas . The spleen and liver are the most commonly involved sites, and only a few reports of gastrointestinal tract involvement have been published . Definitive diagnosis of angiosarcoma has only been possible by exploratory lapar... |
During a 2-year period (november 2004november 2006), 44 adult (> 16 years of age) patients at 2 regional hospitals in hong kong special administrative region with acute gastroenteritis were shown to be infected with norovirus genogroup gii.4 . Clinical records were reviewed and baseline characteristics, clinical featur... |
The main points in favor are the short time required for the treatment and the fact that it does not need patient compliance . Its effects are dental, including a posterior displacement of the upper dental arch and anterior displacement of the lower dental arch, and skeletal, such as a reduced sagittal growth of the ma... |
The importance of ovarian cancer stems not from the fact that it is the sixth most common cancer in women worldwide, but from the fact that it is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy in western europe and north america, killing more women than uterine and cervical cancer combined . It is predominantly a disease of po... |
The power tower is placed on a rectangular piece of plywood that is clamped to a table . A 4.5 rpm gear motor from grainger rests on top of four 2"x6 " boards and one inch plywood board . The motor, an ac / dc speed control, a fuse, and an on / off switch are wired together into a juncture box . To cool the motor, a ho... |
The wnt family of signalling proteins participates definitively in diverse developmental and physiological processes, including cell - fate determination, tissue patterning, cell proliferation / differentiation and stem cell regulation . The mouse wnt gene, formerly called int-1, was originally identified by nusse and ... |
We considered patients to be eligible if they met the following criteria: age between 40 and 80 years, have t2 dm, and use insulin therapy with regular human insulin . The exclusion criteria included pregnancy or planned pregnancy in the next year, eating disorders, bmi <25 kg / m, severe and enduring mental health pro... |
Stool samples from a total of 10 patients with serologically confirmed acute hepatitis e were tested (online appendix table, www.cdc.gov/eid/content/17/5/917-appt.htm). Informed consent was obtained from all patients involved in this study (ethics committee, university hospital bulovka; irb00002721). Two hundred and fi... |
Fourteen infants and children with ane that was diagnosed in six korean institutions over the past 10 years were the study subjects . The ages of the 14 patients ranged from 5 months to 12 years with a median age of 26 months, and there were 8 boys and 6 girls . The clinical findings during their hospital admission are... |
Islet transplantation is a minimally invasive therapy recommended for patients with brittle diabetes . Over the last fifteen years, the outcome of this therapy has improved, with a 3-year graft survival rate of 44% as well as a decreased insulin requirement even after partial loss of the graft [26]. However, the main a... |
Caring is a fundamental issue in the treatment for personswith severe mental disorder (pwsmd). The onset of a mental illness in any family is often, and understandably, a time of turmoil . Most families are ill - prepared to deal with the initial onset of severe mental disorder in their family member . Families general... |
In vivo dosimetry is an essential process during total body irradiation (tbi) to accurately determine the dose delivered to various parts of the body in an attempt to allow a uniform dose delivery to all regions . Su et al ., used gafchromic ebt film for analysis and found that agreement within 4.1% could be achieved c... |
Inflammatory malignant fibrous histiocytoma (imfh), also known as undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (ups) inflammatory variant, was initially identified as a separate category by kyriakos and kempson in 1976 . Its name is derived from its distinct histological pattern; an intense inflammatory infiltrate that may be ... |
A 63-year - old woman was admitted to our intensive care unit (icu) four hours after ingesting 7000 mg of amitriptyline as a suicide attempt . She had no history of diabetes, heart disease or other illness, except for a major depressive syndrome, treated with amitriptyline and clomipramine . She was found at home comat... |
Postoperative endophthalmitis is a rare but disastrous complication of ocular surgery, with reported incidence rates of 0.04% to 0.41% in cataract surgery, 0.19% in trabeculectomy, and 0.05% in pars plana vitrectomy . Naggle and cooper reported that about 10% patients under general anesthesia (ga) had nasopharyngeal se... |
Infection with human cytomegalovirus (cmv), a member of the herpesvirida family, is very common world - wide with seropositivity rates ranging from 40% in developed countries up to 100% in developing countries . Severe scenarios occur when the immunocompetent host is critically ill and also in immunocompromised hosts .... |
Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter and neuromodulator in the cns that has a salient role in cognition (hasselmo and sarter, 2011; picciotto et al ., 2012). These are likely to be instrumental in mediating hippocampal neural network activity, such as theta - rhythm oscillations that are necessary for memory acquisition... |
In the past, patients with clinical presentation of choroidal neovascularization (cnv) were usually diagnosed as having age - related macular degeneration (amd). With the advent of indocyanine green angiography (icga) and optical coherence tomography (oct), idiopathic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (ipcv) has been r... |
Stroke is a common, serious, and disabling health - care problem throughout the world1 . Intensive rehabilitation therapy in the subacute phase of stroke recovery is essential for recovery of functional ability2 . In korea, most patients want to receive intensive conventional rehabilitation therapy, based on neurodevel... |
Extradural hematoma (edh) occurs in approximately 2% of all patients with head injuries and 515% of patients with fatal head injuries . Bilateral edhs accounts for 210% of all acute edhs in adults but are exceedingly rare in children . Posterior fossa edhs occurs in 5% of all cases of edhs . In cases of edh of nonarter... |
Walking speed is calculated by multiplying the step length by cadence, for which infinite combinations exist at a certain speed . However, a single ratio of step length and cadence is selected based on the minimal cost of transfer1 . This walk ratio2 remains constant within a certain range of speeds, including the pref... |
These scars are generally atrophic and may be associated with other complications such as hyperpigmentation and hypopigmentation . Patients with facial scars suffer from considerable mental and emotional trauma, impairment of social life and deterioration of life quality . There are not enough references in the literat... |
Odontogenic myxoma (om) of the jaw was first described by thoma and goldman in 1947 . It is a benign, locally invasive and aggressive, non - metastasizing neoplasm of the jaws . The origin of om is believed to be the mesenchyme of a developing tooth or the periodontal ligament . It is the second most common odontogenic... |
The innate immune system provides the first line of defense for the detection of and response to microbial invasion . One of the key contributors to innate immunity is a family of small (25 kda), cysteine - rich host - defense peptides called defensins . These biomolecules are typically described as antimicrobial pepti... |
Alzheimer described the long - term study of the female patient auguste d., whom he had observed and investigated at the frankfurt psychiatric hospital in november 1901, when he was a senior assistant, there . Alzheimer had been interested in the symptomatology, progression, and course of the illness of auguste d. from... |
Transgenic mice were used that expressed a modified yellow fluorescent protein (yfp - venus) under the control of the preproglucagon promoter (15). Two founder strains, mglu - v23 - 124 and mglu - v50 - 144, created using mouse bacterial artificial chromosomes (bacs), were used interchangeably, since we observed no dif... |
Capecitabine (xeloda) is an oral fluoropyrimidine antimetabolite, which is converted by thymidine phosphorylase to 5-fluorouracil (5-fu). This enzyme is preferentially expressed by tumor cells rendering capecitabine highly selective for sensitive tumor cells . It is enlisted in the who list of essential medicines and i... |
Within the central nervous system (cns), astrocytes are the most abundant cells . Their main task is to maintain the physiological homeostasis of neurons by providing a stable microenvironment and growth factors . Astrocytes form multicellular syncytia in vivo that ensure neuronal homeostasis by taking up excess neurot... |
Persistent fifth aortic arch (pfaa) is an exceedingly rare congenital anomaly of the aortic arch, frequently associated with other cardiovascular anomalies, such as tetralogy of fallot, transposition of the great arteries, truncus arteriosus, and aortic arch coarctation or interruption . Pfaa originates from the distal... |
Emergency medical service (ems) systems annually encounter about 275 000 out - of - hospital cardiac arrest (ohca) patients in europe 1 . Early recognition and ems activation by the dispatch centre is the first link in the chain of survival 24 . When processing emergency telephone calls, the emergency medical dispatche... |
Cellular turnover of damaged and misfolded proteins is mediated by two main degradation pathways; macroautophagy (hereafter referred to as autophagy) and the ubiquitin proteasome system (ups). Proteins targeted for degradation are covalently modified by the small, highly conserved, ubiquitously expressed protein ubiqui... |
Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality world - wide, accounting for about 250 million clinical cases and nearly one million deaths annually . Malaria vaccines targeting pre - erythrocytic and blood stage antigens have had mixed success, with only a few vaccines showing efficacy in malaria endemic areas .... |
Hepatitis e virus (hev) is a small rna virus responsible for hepatitis e. hev is a spherical, non - enveloped, single stranded, positive - sense 5-capped rna of 7.2 kb . It consists of short 5 and 3 untranslated regions (utrs) and three partially overlapping open reading frames (orf) called orf1, orf2, and orf3.1 there... |
A 23-year - old japanese female presented with a pigmented skin lesion on the left lower leg . Physical examination revealed a reddish - brown dome - shaped hyperkeratotic nodule of 11 10 mm with a sharply demarcated, symmetrical border (fig . Dermoscopic examination demonstrated prominent whitish scaly areas of ring -... |
We performed a retrospective study of 50 eyes from 50 patients with acute csc who were treated at the kangwon national university hospital between january 2009 and december 2011 . Inclusion criteria included the following: 1) csc with srf involving the fovea demonstrated by clinical examination and spectral - domain op... |
Oral lichen planus (olp) is a chronic mucocutaneous disease with a possible auto - immune - related etiology . In contrast, oral lichenoid lesions (olls) comprise a group of lesions with different etiologies such as systemic medication, dental restorative materials, food, or flavoring agents . Interestingly lesions of ... |
. However, the rate of digestion and absorption of carbohydrates varies with the chemical components of the food source, the processing and storage conditions it was subjected to and the other foods that were consumed in conjunction to the carbohydrate - rich food . As shown previously, even through a constant amount o... |
Nonsteroidal anti - inflammatory drugs (nsaids) are among the most commonly prescribed medications worldwide . Their indications for reduction of pain, inflammation, and fever extend to a wide variety of musculoskeletal and inflammatory disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis . Despite their therap... |
Accidental catheter removal (acr) in critically ill patients can be associated with potentially life - threatening complications due to interruption of vital drug therapy such as inotropes / vasopressors or anti - epileptic medications . Establishing new intravenous access in such patients is an emergency procedure, bu... |
Tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis (tinu) syndrome is a clinical entity characterized by a combination of acute interstitial nephritis (ain) and uveitis.1 ocular findings may either precede or concurrently develop with the onset of ain, although there is often a substantial time interval between the two diseases,... |
Pediatric cancers represent 1% of all cancers and comprise cancer cases diagnosed in children younger than 14 years and adolescents and young adults aged 1519 years . More than 250,000 cases are diagnosed worldwide each year among children and adolescents younger than 20 years (http://www.childhoodcancerinternational.o... |
Lung masses are usually suspected to represent a malignant process, especially if larger in size than 3 cm . Positron emission tomography (pet) or integrated computed tomography and pet (pet / ct), when available, is often considered in the evaluation of lung nodules and masses . However, a positive pet scan can also b... |
There are about 30 different types of muscular dystrophies caused by alterations in diverse genes, which are characterized by the progressive loss of muscle in accordance with age of onset, severity, and the group of muscles affected . The altered protein in most of these dystrophies is located in muscle fiber and is l... |
The co - existence of two or more histologically distinct neoplasms arising from different cell lines resulting in a single cutaneous lesion, so - called collision or combined lesion, is relatively rare but well - described in the literature . In a review of 40,000 cutaneous lesions, boyd and rapini found only 69 colli... |
In many plants and animals, hybrid inviability (lethality) or hybrid sterility act as postfertilization barriers to hybridization . These incompatibilities can be explained by negative genetic interactions between two or more loci under the dobzhansky - muller model of hybrid incompatibility [2, 3]. The dobzhansky - mu... |
The proven role of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography / computed tomography (f-18 fdg pet / ct) in a variety of cancers has changed the practice of oncology . It has been seen to perform much better than the conventional imaging modalities in the initial staging of a variety of fdg avid cancers . The utili... |
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (imt) of the liver is a very rare lesion, benign in nature . Differential diagnosis of imt from malignant lesions of the liver is very important because surgical resection is not mandatory for imt and the prognosis is very good by conservative treatment . But, preoperative diagnosis i... |
For all participants, we obtained measurements of triglycerides, hdl, and blood glucose from blood tests in the overnight fasting state . Measurements of blood pressure, height, body weight, and abdominal circumference were recorded for all participants during the screening sessions . Blood pressure was determined with... |
Lacosamide (lcm) is a novel antiepileptic drug (aed) approved by the u.s . Food and drug administration (fda) for the adjunct treatment of partial epilepsy with and without secondary generalization . Lacosamide selectively modulates voltage - gated sodium channels by enhancing slow inactivation without affecting fast i... |
The major syndrome complex anomalies associated with anterior abdominal wall defect includes omphalocele, exstrophy of cloaca, imperforate anus and spinal defect (oeis) syndrome, limb body wall complex (lbwc) and pentalogy of cantrell . Oeis complex which includes a constellation of malformations represents the most se... |
Diabetes mellitus (dm) is characterized by endocrine - induced metabolic disorders with complex etiology . The major pathophysiological issue for dm patients is insufficient insulin (ins) secretion associated with the destruction of pancreatic islet -cells and insulin resistance (ir), ultimately resulting in complicati... |
Supplementary material is available for this article at 10.1007/s13659 - 012 - 0017 - 0 and is accessible for authorized users. |
Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasite trypanosoma cruzi, is a well - known opportunistic infection in people living with hiv / aids [16]. Reactivation of chronic indeterminate chagas disease in patients with hiv infection represents a serious event with high case fatality rates [1, 3, 4]. New aspects of the ... |
Standard methods were used for is6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) analysis of m. tuberculosis isolates (3). A cluster was defined as a group of two or more cases with a matching dna fingerprint pattern (+ /-1 band). Spoligotyping (secondary typing) was performed on all clustered strains having six o... |
These results will help clinicians understand the mechanical behavior of cement - retained implant - supported crowns during crown retrieval . However, implant has some complications; problems with implants and the superstructures are common.1 many complications such as aesthetic problems (ruptures, fractures, abrasion... |
Spondylolisthesis (greek spondulos, vertebra + olisthsis, dislocation, slipping [from olisthanein to slip])1 refers to the slipping or moving of one vertebra forward or backward compared to the vertebrae above and below it . They could be caused by a variety of reasons such as degeneration, trauma, isthmic, pathologica... |
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