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Symptomatic vulvovaginal candidiasis (vvc) is caused by a number of species belonging to the genus candida which are commensal fungi of the gastrointestinal tract and vagina . Candida albicans has been reported as the cause of symptomatic vvc in 85%95% of cases, whilst c. glabrata represents the most common cause of no... |
Cells were isolated from healthy donors with authorization of a local ethics committee and informed consent by the donor . Lecs were isolated from human foreskins via podoplanin selection and immortalized by stable integration of human telomerase as described . They were maintained in egm-2 with 5% fetal calf serum (fc... |
Since its first published report in humans in 2002,1) its efficacy in the treatment of various arrhythmias has been demonstrated.2 - 4) it may also reduce radiation exposure and physical stress to the operator and could thus theoretically enhance the safety and efficacy of the procedure due to the unrestricted and more... |
Sensory neuropathy has been reported in patients treated with other antibiotics e.g. Penicillin or a semisynthetic derivate, chloramphenicol, and metronidazole . Nitrofurantoin treatment has caused sensory - motor neuropathy and dapsone treatment has caused motor neuropathy . A topical tetracycline induced neuritis has... |
Male wistar rats (200 - 250 g) obtained from the animal room of the kerman university of medical sciences . They were kept in a temperature - controlled environment on a 12:12 h light / dark cycle with free access to food and water . The procedures were in accordance with the guidelines for the care and use of laborato... |
Hypercalcemia is observed in 10 - 15% of malignant tumor cases and is the most common malignancy - associated endocrine disorder . Tumors causing hypercalcemia are most likely squamous cell carcinomas of the lung, which, together with breast cancer and myeloma, cause the condition in more than 50% of cases and are foll... |
Primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus (pmme) is one of the extremely rare tumor and the prognosis is very poor . This tumor has usually been reported as a pedunculated, polypoid lesion in the middle and lower third of the esophagus . According to the reports, hematogenic and lymphogenic metastases are common for ... |
The global prevalence of end - stage renal disease is increasing and predicted to reach 1200 cases per million population by 2020 . Iran is no exception, since the incidence of new cases of the disease increases at an annual rate of 22.6% with 4000 new cases reporting every year . In an individual with end - stage rena... |
In contemporary dentin adhesives, hydrophilic resin monomers are often dissolved in evaporable solvents, such as acetone, ethanol, water and combinations . Acetone is frequently used as one of the solvents since it can efficiently remove water from the substrate . However, if acetone is used over a dry dentin cannot pr... |
Functional remission is increasingly being realized as one of the important goals of management in the treatment of schizophrenia . The period following an acute episode is an important phase in the course of the illness, which can determine the outcome . One of the variables looking into a social outcome is a general ... |
The interaction of these components, as well as the components themselves, are not fully understood . This paper will discuss the three main regulatory paradigms involved in the regulation of cerebral blood flow: cerebral autoregulation, flow - metabolism coupling, and neurogenic regulation . In addition, there are two... |
Regulation of cytokine gene expression in human lymphocyte cell subpopulations is tightly controlled by a dynamic interaction between harmonic and antagonistic signaling pathways [13]. The dissection of these molecular networks that are often dysregulated in autoimmune diseases is a major target of ongoing research [48... |
Systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is associated with significant cerebrovascular and neuropsychiatric diseases for which multiple pathogeneses have been proposed1 . Involvement of the central nervous system (cns) is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in sle patients2 . Although the underlying mechanism... |
Many patients with lung cancer are at advanced stages of the disease at the time of diagnosis . Previous investigators have reported the mean length of survival for patients with stage iv lung cancer, including distant metastasis, to be approximately 6 months . The mean survival period for patients with lung cancer wit... |
Workplace health and wellbeing is becoming a major public health issue for employers and at all levels of government initiatives . Multidisciplinary strategies to improve health and wellbeing at work have been acknowledged to be very effective in addressing both individual risk and the broader organizational and enviro... |
Congestive heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, with high costs to society; its consequences are even worse when associated with diabetes mellitus . Heart failure incidence in patients with diabetes mellitus is much higher than in the general population and is related to lower survival and lower r... |
A well - constructed removable partial denture (rpd) can be an adequate treatment option for the partially edentulous patient [1, 2]. The prosthesis is supported by the framework via teeth contact and by the distal extension base . The loading of the kennedy class i is complicated by the mismatch of tissue resiliency a... |
Oral complications after high doses of chemotherapy and radiation therapy during the hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) cause high morbidity and could affect transplant outcome . Oral mucositis (om) leave one of the worst impressions on medical and economic success of hsct . The rupture of oral cavity's epi... |
Ever since the study of magnesium sulfate in clinical anesthesia beginning in 1996, magnesium has drawn attention in the field of anesthesia and pain medicine . Recently, numerous clinical studies, review articles and meta - analyses have been published worldwide [2 - 8]. In this review article, the efficacy of magnesi... |
Triple a syndrome is a very rare inherited autosomal recessive disease with a typical triad including adrenal insufficiency, reduced or absent tearing (alacrima) and achalasia (1). Patients suffer from a wide range of clinical manifestations due to multi organ involvement (24). Prominent manifestations can vary in diff... |
The species of cryptococcus genus have been identified from different environmental sources such as air, water, soil, wood, and pigeon excreta . Cr . This kind of yeast was reported from soil of tabriz in iran as well, . Cr . Friedmannii and some of the yeast species were isolated from the atacama desert, with high dai... |
The aims and objectives of our study includes: to find out the efficacy of u - v light in causing decrease in colony count of c. albicans.to find out the efficacy of direct current glow discharge in causing decrease in the colony count of c. albicans.to find out the relative efficacy of u - v light exposure on c. albic... |
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (dmii) is the most common form of diabetes which accounts for about 90 - 95% of those with diabetes . Chronic exposure to hyperglycemia can result in dysfunction and failure of various organs especially the eyes, kidneys, nerves, and heart and blood vessels . The long - term micro- and macro - ... |
An increasing number of new active pharmaceutical ingredients are macromolecules, eg, proteins, peptides, and polysaccharides, which not only suffer from low bioavailability after oral administration, but also have short half - lives after parenteral administration,1 thus requiring repeated administration . In this con... |
Protein - losing gastroenteropathy was first reported by kimbel et al . In 1956 . This syndrome is associated with excessive loss of plasma protein into the gastrointestinal tract, which can be complicated by edema, ascites, pleural and pericardial effusion and malnutrition . Gastric cancer with protein - losing gastro... |
Neuroendocrine tumors (nets) are heterogeneous, and arise from the diffuse neuroendocrine system; they are primarily found in the gastrointestinal and respiratory systems . Rectal nets arise from l - cells, and they are showing an increasing incidence worldwide.1,2,3 recent increases in the use of screening colonoscopy... |
Between january 2000 and march 2008, 52 patients were treated with a free or local flap following a traumatic open fracture of the lower leg . Data was gathered by reviewing patient charts, operative reports, and electronic patient record . In our study, patients were divided into two groups . In the first group, patie... |
A large variety of shapes can be recognized when displayed as brief simultaneous flashes from leds that mark the major contours, especially the outside boundaries (greene & ogden, 2012, 2013). Figure 1 provides examples from the inventory of shape patterns that were used in these studies . With flash durations as brief... |
There is a sex differential in mortality in favor of women all over the world and most pronounced in western world countries [1, 2]. With economic development and improved living conditions for females, the sex gap in mortality favoring women has been increasing through the first three quarters of the twentieth century... |
An 88-year - old male (weight 45 kg, height 165 cm) was admitted in our hospital for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy . He had a history of frequent right hypochondrial pain with ultrasonography - documented multiple small calculi in the gallbladder . The patient was a known case of chronic obstructive pulmonary d... |
Superior mesenteric artery syndrome (smas) is a rare gastrovascular disorder resulting in proximal intestinal obstruction . Affected patients are characterized by a decreased angle between the overlaying superior mesenteric artery and underlying abdominal aorta, resulting in compression of the third portion of the duod... |
Memory consolidation has been suggested to occur in two subsequent steps: while initial encoding depends on the integrity of the medial temporal lobe (mtl) (e.g., [1, 2]) and is linked to the formation of transient assemblies via fast synaptic plasticity in the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus, subsequent consolidatio... |
Pomegranate is an ancient fruit of five to 12 cm in diameter with a rounded hexagonal shape, and has thick reddish skin, native to iran, afghanistan, china, indian subcontinent . In malaysia, pomegranate peels (pericalps) are characterized by interior network of membrane comprising of 26 - 30% of fruit weight . Their p... |
Chloroplasts were isolated from pea leaves of 1012-d - old plants by standard procedures and purified further on silica - sol gradients (waegemann and soll, 1991). Standard import assays contained chloroplasts equivalent to 30 g chl in 100 l import buffer (330 mm sorbitol, 50 mm hepes - koh, ph 7.6, 3 mm mgcl2, 10 mm m... |
A 29-month - old boy presented with acute onset of esodeviation and limitation of ocular movement in his right eye . Six weeks earlier, he had right otitis media, but no improvement was achieved . Five days before onset of esodeviation, he had a high fever (over 39), otorrhea, and cough . Laboratory evaluation revealed... |
There is a wide array of etiologies, associated syndromes, and variable manifestations of the deformities involved in the process that pose many problems with early treatment.1 the main goal of treating any deformity in the growing skeleton is to allow for the skeleton to continue growing unimpeded . Spinal growth is i... |
With increasing the number of laparoscopic roux - en - y gastric bypass we may increasingly face with its complications . The etiologies of bowel obstruction are adhesions, internal hernia, incarcerated port site hernia, stenosis of anastomosis, intussuception, superior mesenteric artery syndrome and rarely blood bezoa... |
Delayed - cerebral ischemia (dci) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the setting of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (asah). Early diagnosis and effective treatment of cerebral vasospasm neurologists, neurosurgeons, and intensivists utilize multiple advanced diagnostic imaging techniques and examine a bro... |
Solid tumors, when metastatic, are incurable . Exceptions such as testicular tumors and gestational trophoblastic disease do exist, but this is, unfortunately, true for the vast majority of cases . This leads to caution on the part of medical oncologists who prefer minimal therapy striving for good quality of life over... |
Alzheimer's disease (ad) is the most common cause of dementia and accounts for 5080% of dementia cases . Currently, an estimated 5.3 million americans have ad, the seventh leading cause of death in the united states . The hallmark abnormalities of ad are deposits of the protein fragment amyloid (plaques) and twisted st... |
A 70-year - old male presented with a foul smelling and discharging ulcer around the right eye of seven days duration . He refused therapy, but came back after four months of alternative medicine treatment . In view of widespread metastasis then, he underwent chemotherapy . During the chemo, he developed painful swelli... |
Hypoparathyroidism (hypopt) is rare disease characterized by hypocalcemia with inappropriate low serum levels of parathyroid hormone (pth). Recent studies from europe and the usa have estimated that the prevalence of hypopt is 25 per 100,000 individuals . Most cases occur as a complication to thyroid or parathyroid sur... |
This case of tension pneumothorax mimicking a spontaneous rupture of the diaphragm highlights the clinical and radiographic similarities between these two conditions and the potential difficulty in making the correct clinical diagnosis . A forty year old gentleman was admitted to the intensive care unit via the emergen... |
Between february 2003 and february 2008, a port - catheter system was implanted percutaneously by interventional radiologists in 122 consecutive patients who had unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) with portal vein invasion . Indications for hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy were as follows: 1) unresectabl... |
Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in the population, and hypertension is the most important treatable risk factor.1 the risk of cardiovascular disease is the lowest at a blood pressure (bp) of ~115/75 mmhg, and above this, each increment in the systolic blood pressure (sbp) or diastolic blood pre... |
Diabetes has high morbidity, mortality, and economic burden on society, the increase in cost is due to its complications and complexity of care . Type 2 diabetes occurs in genetically susceptible persons who are exposed to a number of environmental factors . Vitamin d deficiency might be an environmental risk factor si... |
Nosocomial infection has been recognized for over a century as both a critical problem affecting the quality of health care and a leading cause of morbidity, mortality and increased health care cost.1 stethoscopes are essential tools of the medical profession and because of their universal use might be a source of micr... |
In recent years, capillary electrophoresis (ce) has gained attention of the international scientific community, as an alternative powerful technique for the separation and analysis of compounds of industrial, pharmaceutical, clinical, and environmental interest [13]. Some of the features that make the ce an analytical ... |
Drug - induced hepatic toxicity is one of the most common causes of liver injury, accounting for almost one - half of all the liver failure and mimics all forms of liver disease . Approximately> 1000 medications have been reported to cause liver disease at least one time . However, majority of these liver diseases subs... |
The data for these cross - sectional analyses were collected in the period 20042006 from australian adults aged 2636 years as part of the childhood determinants of adult health (cdah) study, a longitudinal study of cardiovascular risk factors in the general australian population . In 2004 this study successfully traced... |
In general, large variations exist in the cancer profile among different geographical regions, between countries even within the country depending on environmental and genetic factors, dietary and addiction habits, infection load and different socio- economic factors . Patterns observed in a referral cancer institution... |
Ion channels play essential roles in neuronal signal transduction, neuronal cell excitement, electrolyte transportation, and muscle contraction . The patch clamp technique, which is considered a gold standard in ion channel research, has been employed by various laboratories to characterize the ion channel properties o... |
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (npc) is a malignant epithelial disease, characterized by its distinctive racial and geographic distribution . It is rare in most parts of the world, but endemic in southern china with an incidence rate of 20/100,000 . The major etiological factors include genetic susceptibility, environment fa... |
A 50yearold man presented to the emergency department (ed) with hematemesis and epigastric pain . This was on a background of a 1week history of progressive chest and upper abdominal pain and he had been taking regular ibuprofen for analgesia . Seven months previously, he had been diagnosed with a lower esophageal aden... |
At the time of diagnosis, the majority of patients with lung cancer are already in an advanced state [1 - 3], and 50% to 80% of locally advanced lung cancer patients relapse after surgical treatment and/or chemotherapy . When the pulmonary mass progresses so that it obstructs the airway, lung cancer patients often expe... |
Micrornas (mirnas), small interfering rnas (sirnas) and trans - acting sirnas (ta - sirnas) are small rnas (smrnas) of 1924 nt that act as important negative regulators of genes and other nucleotide sequences [for recent reviews, see (14)]. Both mirnas and ta - sirnas sirnas are important suppressors of transposons and... |
Adrenocortical carcinomas (accs) are rare malignant tumors with an estimated incidence of 0.050.2% of all malignancies . Accs often have a poor prognosis . Because of the juxtaposition of the adrenal gland to the kidney, it is not uncommon for acc to involve the renal parenchyma . Occasionally renal cell carcinoma (rcc... |
A 60yearold male patient referred to the clinic presented with painful swelling of both great toes . He was diagnosed as having gout four years ago, and was suffering from waxing and waning symptoms in spite of treatment with allopurinol ., the lesions became markedly swollen, which were not subsided by conservative ma... |
The prevalence of overweight and obesity in the kingdom of saudi arabia (ksa) has increased in recent decades, with females (7588%) generally having a higher prevalence rate than males (7085%). While the health consequences of obesity in young adulthood are well recognized, body image (bi) problems are also much more c... |
Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (pttm) is a clinicopathologic disease entity formally described in 1990 by von herbay et al . The pathophysiology starts with the embolization of tumor cells to pulmonary vasculature, followed by a series of maladaptive reactions including the activation of coagulation and ves... |
During august 2010june 2011, outbreaks of disease consistent with phfd were investigated on 4 pig farms located in geographically separate regions of thailand (table 1). The outbreak was initially observed in the breeding herd and lasted for 1 month; most deaths occurred in the third week . In those 3 herds, the initia... |
Data were drawn from the whitehall ii cohort, established in 1985 as a longitudinal study among 10,308 (6,895 male and 3,413 female) u.k . All civil servants aged 3555 years in 20 london - based departments were invited to participate by letter; 73% agreed . The baseline examination (phase 1) took place from 1985 to 19... |
Surveillance according to the world health organization (who) is to watch over with great attention, authority, and often with suspicion.1 disease surveillance is defined as the ongoing systematic collection, collation, analysis, and interpretation of health - care data, essential to the planning, implementation, and e... |
Wear debris - induced osteolysis is one of the principal causes of implant failure and consequent revision surgery in total joint arthroplasty [1, 2]. The osteolytic process is believed to start with the activation of macrophages and foreign - body giant cells and with phagocytosis of particulate wear debris . This app... |
Enterococcus faecalis (e. faecalis) are normally found in the human intestine, but may temporarily be found in the oral cavity, where they have been associated with pathogenic oral manifestations such as mucosal lesions in immunocompromised patients,1 as superinfecting organisms in periodontitis2 and, most importantly,... |
Alcohol dehydrogenase (adh; ec 1.1.1.1) in the liver is generally accepted to be the primary enzyme responsible for ethanol metabolism . This is supported by evidence that the level of liver adh activity is closely correlated with the rate of ethanol metabolism [13] and that the metabolism in vivo is markedly depressed... |
Pro - inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor- (tnf-) plays various roles in the different physiological and pathological processes . Tnf- is involved in autoimmune disease, chronic inflammation, acute inflammation, and cancer - related inflammation (1). Binding of tnf- to its specific receptors tnfr1 and tnfr2, ac... |
Subcellular localization of proteins in appropriate compartments is vital for the internal structure of the cell itself and for its functional integrity . Determination of the subcellular localization by experimental means is not practical for all proteins owing to time and cost constraints . Alternatively, several com... |
South asians, especially indians, are group of communities bearing genetically diverse ethnic characteristics and are passing through epidemic health shift due to urbanization . This leads to a marked increase in the incidence of noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases (cvds), which are subjected to ra... |
Combined resection of the superior vena cava (svc) is sometimes required during surgical treatment of mediastinal tumors and lymph node metastasis from lung cancer, and several reconstructive methods of the svc have been described . We herein propose a novel and simple technique for repair of svc wall defects using a l... |
Chlorhexidine, a cationic bisguanide antiseptic and disinfectant, is active against a broad spectrum of bacteria, mycobacteria, some viruses, and some fungi . In a medical setting, it is used as an acetate or gluconate salt, and is commonly used with other antiseptics or local anesthetics . In addition, it is also used... |
The seedlings were transplanted to pots (21.5 cm dia .) After two weeks . Each pot contained mixture of a 100 ml of autoclaved soil and 1,900 ml of autoclaved sands . Before the transplants, the spores of each am fungi were inoculated to the roots of the seedlings . The spores of three am fungal species, glomus sp.1 (g... |
According to the world health organization, there are currently 1 billion people in the world living with disabilities, many of whom do not have equal access to medical care, education, and employment . Lack of resources in developing countries prohibits the disabled from participating to the fullest extent in society ... |
For many frail older adults, the need for medical and ltc services are intertwined . The very factors that prompt the need for medical care often drive the need for supportive ltc services . Adequately addressing both requires care coordination that crosses health care providers and settings . Over time, chronic disabi... |
For many years biological function of interleukin-6 (il-6), historically known as interferon beta-2 (ifn-2) or b cell stimulatory factor-2, was limited to stimulation of b cell proliferation . Protein molecular structure analysis and gene expression studies led to the detailed assessment of il-6 expression and localiza... |
Many older adults have to deal with disabilities in mobility, activities of daily living (adl), or instrumental adl . Among other impairments, decrease in grip strength may be related to these aging - related disabilities . Grip strength is often used as an indicator of general muscle strength and is a good estimate of... |
Perilunate fracture dislocations display a continuum of severity, but trans - scaphoid, trans - styloid, trans - triquetral perilunate fracture dislocations are rarely reported in the literature . A 19-year - old student presented with pain and swelling of the wrist, 4 h after crashing his bicycle . Radiographs reveale... |
In the previous issue of critical care, shorr and coworkers provided new data on the morbidity and cost burden attributable to methicillin - resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa)-associated early - onset pneumonia (eop). Based on the data recorded by 42 us hospitals, those investigators found methicillin resistance to... |
The millennium declaration, adopted by the united nations in 2000, set a series of millennium development goals (mdgs); among them was the aim to reduce maternal mortality by three - quarters by 2015.1 there is growing consensus that a primary bottleneck in achieving mdgs is a health system that is too fragile and frag... |
Subdural hematoma (sdh) in the late subacute or chronic stage is an abnormal collection of viscous liquid or liquefied blood degradation underneath the dura matter2). Sdh is one of the most common pathologies associated with intracranial hemorrhage and may result in brain tissue compression and neurological sequelae231... |
Intracranial meningiomas are the second most common tumor of the central nervous system, accounting for 1520% of all primary brain tumors in adults . Meningiomas are histopathologically classified as grade i, ii, or iii according to the 2000 world health organization (who) classification system . Evidence in the litera... |
An efficient immune response against pathogens and other challenges requires efficient coordination between different cell types, making cell - cell interaction a key step [1, 2]. To this end, the immune system uses different types of cellular communication, being the autocrine and paracrine signaling mediated by cytok... |
Although thyroid problems are among the most common medical conditions, because their symptoms often appear gradually, they are commonly misdiagnosed . The three most common thyroid problems are the underactive thyroid, the overactive thyroid, and thyroid nodules . Based on these problems, the disorders of the thyroid ... |
The invention and development of mri as a diagnostic tool itself is considered by many one of the greatest medical achievements of the past decades . In retrospect is hard to understand the enthusiasm of the early days given the quality of the initial mr images published . Those were 9 mm slices of the brain with an in... |
Uterine disease of dairy cattle postpartum (p.p .) Influences reproductive performance and causes important financial losses . There is growing evidence that not all of the clinical signs of chronic clinical endometritis (cce) have the same effect on the reproductive parameters used in farms . For instance, leblanc et ... |
Cigarette smoking causes various types of cancers, including in certain organs not directly in contact with the toxic materials of smoke.1 tobacco smoking contains a large number of toxic carcinogens that may bind to dna, causing genetic damage to normal tissue . Tobacco use has been closely linked to increased risk fo... |
Alcohol is linked to an extensively documented j - shaped dose - effect curve, with light to moderate consumption reducing cardiovascular and overall mortality, whereas excessive drinking has the opposite effect [13]. Moreover, drinking pattern (heavy episodic or binge drinking versus a steady pattern of consumption [4... |
Great effort has been expended to explore self - assembled supramolecular complexes due to their intriguing network topologies and potential applications in molecular recognition, magnetic materials, medicine, nonlinear optical devices and catalysts [19]. The study of metal organic coordination polymers has currently p... |
Individuals and families were originally classified as possibly having a diagnosis of hmps on the basis of early - onset, multiple colorectal polyps (including some of serrated or mixed morphology), coupled with no obvious excess of the extra - colonic tumours typical of other mendelian crc syndromes . Germline mutatio... |
Co - infection with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and hepatitis c virus (hcv) is one of the significant public health problems around the world.123 hiv and hcv share the same routes of transmission . Both viruses can be transmitted through exposure to contaminated blood, sexual intercourse, and from mother to chil... |
Common mental disorders (cmds) impose suffering on and reduce quality of life of the individuals . They also place economic burdens on society, primarily due to indirect costs in regards to sickness absence, early retirement, and early death [1, 2]. In addition, depressive disorders significantly influence the outcome ... |
The three - dimensional structural models of intracellular kinase domain of vegfr1 and vegfr2 proteins were deducted from rcsb protein data bank (http://www.rcsb.org). Cleaning and optimizing the protein model geometry was carried out by the removal of miscellaneous ligands and other hetero - atoms such as water and io... |
As medical advances increase the survival of critically ill neonates, the need for neonatal intensive care units (nicus) increases concomitantly . This growth is occurring within a health - care environment that is increasingly competitive and consumer driven . Responding to these pressures, neonatal intensive care is ... |
Coital injuries involving the penis usually affect sexually active young men . Among penile coital injuries, fracture of the penis is the most commonly reported and discussed compared to superficial dorsal vein injuries . We have observed a sign that may be helpful in making the diagnosis of the latter . A 39-year - ol... |
Enhancing weight loss maintenance is an imperative in obesity treatment, and social networks are poised to be important facilitators of this process . A growing body of research suggests that romantic partnerships exert an influence on obesity and therefore may be an important network to intervene upon [14]. Married pe... |
Reconstruction of composite oromandibular defects (comd) is a challenging task as it involves different tissues, needs large size flap for both lining and cover, and requires tridimensional inset of flap to maintain contour and function . The extensive composite or en bloc defects as described by daniel et al . The bon... |
Epicardial pacing wires (epws) are commonly employed for diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmia in the acute phase after cardiac surgery . A 49-year - old woman presented to our emergency department with clinical signs of impending cardiac tamponade . She had undergone ventricular septal defect repair 7 years before thi... |
The " oxidative hypothesis " of atherosclerosis proposes that oxidative modification of lipids in low - density lipoproteins (ldl) contributes to atherogenesis . Antioxidants that are effective against lipid peroxidation should therefore reduce atherosclerosis and hence afford protection from cardiovascular diseases (c... |
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