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Renal infarction (ri) is caused by sudden disruption of blood flow in the renal arteries, and rapid diagnosis and treatment is critical to prevent permanent loss of renal function . However, clinical diagnosis of ri is often difficult and frequently missed or delayed because of its low prevalence and nonspecific sympto...
Nasal and pharyngeal swab specimens were collected from the dogs, and swab eluate extracts were prepared . Pooled extracts were added to monolayer cultures of canine a72 cells (american type culture collection, crl-1542). After 3 passages in culture, cells in some of the flasks showed subtle cytopathic changes . After ...
It is well known that the clinical features of graves' hyperthyroidism (gh) tend to improve during pregnancy, and smaller doses of antithyroid medication are needed to maintain euthyroidism, in parallel with fall in serum titres of thyroid peroxidase (tpo), thyroglobulin (tg), and tsh receptor (tshr) antibodies; the an...
Respiratory distress syndrome (rds) is defined as respiratory failure due to lack of pulmonary surfactant (ps). It is the most common pulmonary disease and is a major cause of death in premature infants . In 1980, (1) by mixing bovine ps extracts with artificial phospholipids; clinical trial in 10 premature infants sho...
Intravitreal antivascular endothelial growth factor (anti - vegf) agents are the treatment of choice for wet age - related macular degeneration (amd). Multicentre studies such as the minimally classic / occult trial of the anti - vegf antibody ranibizumab in the treatment of neovascular amd (marina) and anti - vegf ant...
Intrinsic abnormalities of the upj are the most common cause of obstruction and may result in loss of a functioning renal unit . The occurrence of extrinsic compression may also be associated with intrinsic abnormalities of the upj . Traditional therapy, in children and adults, is an open surgical reconstruction of the...
During aging, defects in stem cell function contribute to a decline in renewal and repair of adult tissues (behrens et al ., 2014). It has long been postulated that the accumulation of somatic mutations might contribute to cellular aging (failla, 1958, szilard, 1959). In support of this notion, induced dna damage or mu...
Gene therapy offers promising prospects for the treatment of acquired cardiovascular diseases and hereditary disorders afflicting the heart . Long - term expression and sustained therapeutic effects have been reported in animal models and the first clinical trial results targeting heart failure are encouraging . Nevert...
Traumatic abdominal wall hernia (tawh) associated with blunt injury mechanism is very rare, with an approximate prevalence of 0.21% in major reported series. [14] abdominal evisceration (ae) associated with tawh is even less common, with one study reporting an incidence of approximately 1 in 40,000 trauma admissions . ...
The main objective of endodontic therapy is to clean and shape root canals; however, the procedure is more difficult in severely curved root canals . In addition to the anatomy of curved root canals, their preparation is limited as it is difficult to control the instrument inside the endodontic space . Due to their cur...
Relationship between inflammation and cancer has been suggested for a long time . Since marshall and warren, who discovered helicobacter pylori and reported its infection closely associated with gastric cancer development, won the nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 2005, there have been an increasing number of re...
Eleven patients of both sexes aged between 35 and 60 years and diagnosed as chronic periodontitis were selected for the study . Patients chosen for the study had pocket depth> 5 mm that bled on probing, in each of the quadrants selected for the study . A split - mouth study design was used so that each patient acted as...
The development of a more complete understanding of polymorphism is an important goal for the solid - state chemist or process engineer, and is especially relevant to pharmaceuticals since each polymorphic form of a given compound can lead to different bioavailabilities . Characterization of polymorphs is often difficu...
The assessment of drug utilization is important for clinical, educational and economic purposes (2). Prescribing patterns need to be evaluated periodically to increase the therapeutic efficacy, decrease adverse effects and provide feedback to prescribers (3,4). Drug utilization reviews are useful for obtaining informat...
Cutaneous lupus erythematosus (cle) remains an ill - defined set of disorders, often grouped together based on common clinical features, histopathological findings, laboratory abnormalities, association with underlying systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) or combinations thereof . In 1981, dr james gilliam and dr richard...
Retrieval of tropospheric ozone (o3) concentrations from satellites can be challenging given optical interferences such as clouds, aerosols and the stratospheric o3 layer . State - of - the - art spectrometers and interferometers on board current satellites ranging from the microwave to the ultraviolet bands of the ele...
There has been an increasing trend in the prevalence of candidiasis during the last two to three decades . Long stays at hospitals, antibacterial therapy, immunocompromised disease, instrument therapy, corticosteroid therapy and organ transplantation have been considered as important factors for invasive candidiasis . ...
Ventricular assist devices (vads) have become an important modality in the treatment of congestive heart failure . The most common application of vads is as a bridge to transplantation in patients with end - stage heart failure . Less commonly, vads can serve as a bridge to recovery in patients with potentially reversi...
Thrombocytosis refers to platelet count> 4,00,000/l in the peripheral blood . With the widespread use of electronic cell counters and the subsequent availability of a platelet count as part of a routine blood count thus, an elevated platelet count has become an important clinical problem for differential diagnosis of v...
Stress pathway dysregulation, in which there can be either a heightened or a blunted sensitivity to stress, is the most common symptom across neuropsychiatry diseases, yet we understand little about the sensitive periods during which environmental perturbations may epigenetically program neurodevelopmental changes . Ep...
The wnt signaling network is a major regulator of mammalian development through control of cellular functions such as proliferation and differentiation . Binding of wnt ligands, a family of secreted glycosylated proteins, to the frizzled and lrp families of cell surface receptors initiates a series of signaling events ...
During the spread of pandemic (h1n1) 2009, unex cases were reported to the minnesota and oregon health departments by physicians, infection preventionists, and hospital pathologists (figure 1). New mexico detected cases through the new mexico office of the medical investigator and its med - x system . Medical examiners...
Bronchobiliary fistula (bbf), an uncommon complication of radiofrequency ablation (rfa), is due to abnormal communications between the biliary tract and bronchial trees . In addition, it may be presented as a complication of either hepatic abscess, hydatid disease of the liver, hepatic malignancy, trauma, or liver surg...
Fossa navicularis strictures following radical prostatectomy are rare . Unlike other anterior urethral strictures, fossa strictures are usually inflammatory or procedure - induced, arising from urethral trauma caused by endoscopic procedures, catheterizations, or subsequent infections . In the literature we describe it...
Understanding of the solidification of a liquid is significant for the preparation, design, and processing of crystalline materials . The microscopic details of this transition, however, had been concealed before the development of computer simulations and experimental setups considering colloidal particles permitted a...
Cancer metastases to the oral cavity are extremely rare, with a reported prevalence of only 12% of all oral malignant tumors . Meanwhile, recent reports have shown that the primary cancers of oral and oropharyngeal metastatic tumors can be found in various organs . Therefore, the workup for detecting the primary is con...
This was a prospective, open - label, randomized, controlled trial at multiple sites in new zealand and australia . Mig compared the use of metformin with insulin treatment for the control of gdm in 733 women diagnosed with gdm, who were unable to achieve adequate glucose control after lifestyle intervention . Women we...
Uveitis is inflammation of the iris, ciliary body, and choroid.1 it can lead to secondary complications especially if left untreated such as cataracts, glaucoma, macular scaring, and optic atrophy.2 further, patients become legally blind in 20% of cases.3 worldwide, anterior uveitis (au) is the most common type of uvei...
The japanese traditional herbal medicine, kampo, is a form of pharmacological therapy that originated in medieval china and was developed further in japan . Treatment with kampo means a possibility for combination therapy with modern western and traditional asian medical practices . Most such traditional medicines incl...
Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency in children and adolescents (1 - 10). Despite its frequency, the diagnosis of appendicitis is sometimes difficult (1, 5, 11 - 15). Prompt diagnosis prevents complication by reducing the risk of perforation (5, 7, 14, 15). The most effective and practical diagnost...
Dyke davidoff masson syndrome refers to the loss of volume of one cerebral hemisphere which is the end result of a variety of insults which can occur in utero or early childhood (acquired cases). Crossed cerebellar diaschisis refers to contralateral cerebellar dysfunction due to lesion in the contralateral cerebral hem...
Axon initial segments, nodes of ranvier, and postsynaptic folds of the neuromuscular junction contain high densities of voltage - gated sodium channels crucial for generating sufficient local current to initiate a self - regenerating action potential . The mechanism for targeting and restricting sodium channels to thes...
Anabolic androgenic steroids are indicated for wasting syndromes and also misused by athletes to enhance physical performance . Tuberculosis is a debilitating disease presenting with symptoms of fever, loss of appetite, and weakness . Various comorbidities like hiv infection, alcoholism, renal failure, diabetes mellitu...
Approximately 240 million people globally are chronically infected with hbv (1). The spectrum of the symptomatology of hbv infection varies in both acute and chronic phases . During the acute phase, manifestations range from subclinical or anicteric hepatitis to icteric hepatitis and in some cases fulminant hepatitis ....
Sixteen visually normal adults (9 females and 7 males; age range: 2130 years; mean 1 sd = 24 2.16 years) participated in the study after providing written informed consent that was duly approved by the local institutional review board, l v prasad eye institute, hyderabad . This error was discovered after the experiment...
One of the important clinical aspects of internal carotid artery stenosis at its origin is the influence on the flow dynamics of the ocular circulation . The blood supply to the eye is mostly provided by branches of the ophthalmic artery (ophar), which is a branch of the internal carotid artery . This is why many patie...
48,xxyy syndrome is considered to be a subtype of klinefelter s syndrome, and it rarely occurs, with an incidence of one in 25,00050,000 persons, in contrast to the incidence of klinefelter s syndrome with the xxy karyotype of one in 1,000 (1, 2). The tendency of a tall stature in patients with 48,xxyy syndrome compare...
Caused by emissions of particulate matter, chemical, and biological materials, air pollution seriously threatens the health status of the residents of these regions and causes a variety of acute and chronic diseases (1, 2). The amount of air pollution in some cities of regions such as china, italy, canada, and japan ha...
We used a static spreadsheet model (microsoft excel 2000, microsoft corporation, redmond, wa, usa) to estimate the effect of pandemic influenza on the israeli population . We defined 3 separate strategies for the use of antiviral drugs during a pandemic, analyzed the effect of these strategies on pandemic outcomes, and...
Campomelic dysplasia (cd; omim #114290) is a sporadic autosomal dominant disorder that results in skeletal and developmental abnormalities (1, 2). Its reported incidence is about 0.05 - 0.09 per 10,000 live births (3). Spranger and maroteaux et al . (4) first described it fully and originally in 1971 . Cd is a frequent...
The condition was first described by fabricius hildanus in 1598 but derives its name from a german anatomist johann friedrich meckel who described the embryological and pathological features (1). The majority of cases are asymptomatic while the symptomatic cases mimic common abdominal conditions such as appendicitis, c...
Gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) is a state of carbohydrate intolerance detected for the first time during pregnancy . Its prevalence rate varies between 1% and 14% . Besides the well - known impact of gdm on the fetus, its long - term effects on maternal health have also been acknowledged . This metabolic abnormali...
Nimenrix is a registered trademark of the gsk group of companies, licensed to pfizer . Ciconfidence intervalgcpgood clinical practice guidelinesgmtgeometric mean antibody titermenacwy - ttquadrivalent meningococcal serogroups a, c, w and y vaccine conjugated to tetanus toxoidmen - psquadrivalent meningococcal serogroup...
Bacterial adherence to the epithelium in the upper airways has long been considered to be an important phenomenon . It is agreed that bacteria, to be infectious, have to first adhere to the mucosal epithelium and then invade the tissue [1 - 8]. Also, bacterial adherence is considered to be a normal physiological phenom...
Approximately 8% of girls and 2% of boys will have had a urinary tract infection (uti) by the age of 8 . It is important to appropriately diagnose and actively manage utis because of the potential long - term morbidity [25]. As the risk for renal scarring is highest in children under 4 years of age, it is important to ...
The function of the scf e3 ligase is to facilitate the transfer of ubiquitin from e2 ubiquitin conjugating enzymes to protein substrates . Although structurally diverse, they all contain an f - box motif consisting of approximately 4550 amino acids . In addition to the f - box motif, all f - box proteins have a protein...
More than one billion people have no access to any type of safe source of water, and as a direct consequence, 1.6 million people die every year from waterborne diarrheal diseases . This mortality rate is greater than that from all forms of violence combined including war, and children younger than five years of age are...
Commonly, cilioretinal arteries extend to the macula from the optic disc . In rare instances, they extend to the superotemporal and superonasal regions.1 clinically evident cilioretinal artery occlusions, thought to be quite rare, appear to comprise about 5.3%7.1% of all retinal artery occlusions.2,3 to our knowledge, ...
Radiation is known to cause neuronal cell death in the developing brain (1), and it reduces neurogenesis (2 - 4). However, low dose radiation (ldr) is known to show a protection effect in most mammalian cells (5). Olivieri et al . Showed that lymphocytes exposed to ldr developed a high resistance to the subsequent radi...
Plants and other natural means have been used in traditional dental medicine for several millennia in the balkan countries, as well as other ways of treatment . In the balkan countries ethnodentistry (etd), part of the ethnomedicine has been developed simultaneously by ethnopharmacy and ethnoveterinary medicine, presen...
In children, the response to the stress of an acute illness can present as abnormal blood glucose [16]. Found that 3.8% of children and adolescents presenting to the emergency room in norfolk (va) had hyperglycaemia . Hyperglycaemia was not associated with a specific diagnosis category but reflected a greater severity ...
The tumors that induced aiha are usually hematologic neoplasms such as malignant lymphoma (1, 2). There have been a few reports of aiha associated with ovarian tumors worldwide, and most of them were ovarian dermoid cysts (3 - 6). However the only effective treatment for hemolysis is tumor removal (3 - 6), so it is imp...
Pharmacoeconomics refers to the scientific discipline that compares the value of 1 pharmaceutical drug or drug therapy to another . Ideally, these studies should follow evaluation criteria commonly accepted by researchers in this field . Several studies have examined trends in pharmacoeconomic publications from china i...
Stigmatization is the state of being isolated, marginalized, and ignored by the general population because of a disease or degrading sign the person has . Hair diseases act as a stigma when they cause notable changes in the physical appearance . Therefore, stigmatization becomes an important psychological issue in pati...
A jehovah s witness belongs to the religious group that does not accept blood transfusion in any form, while a sickle cell disease patient has abnormal haemoglobins that do not last in circulation predisposing one to anaemia and other systemic complications . Performing a major surgery in a jehovah s witness who has th...
The success rates of endodontic treatment are an important part of evidence - based practice; periapical status outcome of an endodontically treated tooth determines whether the ultimate goal of endodontics has been reached or not . Therefore, the presence of the newly formed or persistent apical periodontitis lesion i...
Although open reduction and internal fixation of fibular fractures is a relatively straightforward procedure, this operation is not without risks or complications [1, 9, 20]. Complications such as nonunion, malunion, posttraumatic osteoarthritis, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, infection, bleeding, and thromboembolic com...
Many dysfunctions are increasing in modern society due to excessive sedentary hours, which are a result of advancements of industrial society, and a lack of exercise . Excessively sedentary lifestyles cause weakening of the abdominal muscles and poor posture, as well as physical imbalance . Spinal deformity due to thes...
The instance of a patient already in hospital wishing to leave against clinicians advice is referred to as self - discharge or discharge against medical advice (dama). Dama is a relatively common problem of health care systems, accounting for as many as 2% of all hospital discharges.1, 2 because lengths of stay (los) a...
Osteoporotic vertebral fracture can make severe problem, such as severe, debilitating back pain, decreased physical function and deformity10). There are many options of nonoperative treatment of vertebral fracture: bed rest, orthotics, and analgesic medication . The patients who have persistent pain and decreased verte...
Obesity is a growing public health problem worldwide . In addition to the well - known negative health consequences, recent studies have found that obesity is associated with poorer labor market outcomes among adults, including longer spells of unemployment and lower wages [26]. It is possible that these labor market e...
Cryptosporidiosis is an emerging parasitic infection caused by cryptosporidium spp ., and is one of the most common causes of diarrhea in humans of all age groups in china (an et al ., 2011, feng et al ., 2012, liu et al ., 2014, yao et al ., 2014) and worldwide (yoder et al ., 2012, insulander et al ., 2013) the 1993 ...
From the perspective of parasitology, increases both in population density and the filth might have led to the soil contamination by parasite eggs in permanent settlements [14]. Indeed, parasite infections must have been common among the concentrated populations of more sedentary agricultural societies . However, corro...
They rarely have a fistulous communication with the respiratory or gastrointestinal tract, and thus cystic overinflation and infection are unlikely . To our knowledge, this is the first report of infradiaphragmatic retroperitoneal els complicated with infection . A 34-yr - old male who presented with a 3-week history o...
A 30-year - old, previously healthy woman was referred to our facility after being diagnosed with atrial septal defect (asd), moderate mitral regurgitation, and severe tricuspid regurgitation . Her heart rate was regular at 60 beats / min, and blood pressure was 110/50 mmhg . Heart and lung auscultation were normal exc...
Neurocardiogenic syncope is the most common cause of syncope, which occurs in response to various stimuli such as prolonged standing, fear, pain and others ., exaggerated myocardial contraction of left ventricle activates myocardial mechanoreceptors and vagal afferent nerve fibers that lead to sympathetic inhibition an...
In the world s population it is possible to observe many variations of cephalometric patterns within homogeneous ethnic groups . The 2000 brazilian demographic census showed that 53.74% of the national population was caucasian, 6.21% was composed by african subjects and 38.45% were afro - caucasian subjects . The inter...
Cardiopulmonary bypass (cpb) technology represents one of the most striking examples of progress in biomedical engineering . Procedures in cardiac surgery that rely on cpb can nowadays be regarded as safe, that is, they are associated with a low incidence of mortality [13]. These developments resulted, to a significant...
Voltage - gated potassium (kv) channels control excitability and discharge behavior of nerve and muscle cells (hille, 2001). Kv channel activation may occur in response to strong membrane depolarization, which occurs when action potentials are generated . In this case, the voltage - dependent activation of a potassium ...
A pilot study supported by allergan inc, irvine, ca, usa of 10 female volunteers aged between 45 and 65 years with moderately photodamaged skin, used a randomized double - blind within patient comparison to compare the effects of tazarotene 0.1% gel applied to one photodamaged forearm versus placebo to the opposite arm...
Since buonocore introduced the acid etch bonding technique in 1955, the concept of bonding various resins to enamel surface led to the direct bonding of orthodontic brackets with composite resin . This approach has several advantages such as elimination of pretreatment seperation, decreased gingival irritation, easier ...
Intraocular pressure (iop) is the main risk factor for glaucoma development and progression [15]. However, accurate evaluation of iop measurements and profile are subject to different confounding variables, such as daytime fluctuation [68] and corneal biomechanical properties [912]. The role of iop fluctuation in glauc...
Hepatitis a virus (hav) is a nonenveloped positive - strand rna virus member of the picornavirus family, hepatovirus genus . It was first described in 1973 by steven m. feinstone [1, 2]. Hav has an icosahedral shape and its size is 2728 nm . The human is the only reservoir of hav . Hepatitis a is an acute, self - limit...
Fifty - nine type 2 diabetic patients and 18 healthy control subjects participated in this two - center study, which was approved by the medical ethics review committees of both centers and performed in compliance with the declaration of helsinki . All subjects signed informed consent prior to inclusion . Patients and ...
Around 25 million people worldwide have dementia, and the number of people with dementia is predicted to exceed 80 million by 2040 . In indian context prevalence of dementia varied from 1.4% to 4.4% . A rough estimate at average 3% prevalence revealed that at present about 3.7 million elderly are suffering from dementi...
Graft - versus - host disease (gvhd) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (hct). It is caused by mature donor t lymphocytes, which recognize the tissues of the recipient as foreign, causing a severe inflammatory disease most often characterized by rash, d...
Estrogen functions as a transcriptional regulator by activating estrogen receptors, which then translocate to the nucleus, where they bind to estrogen response elements in gene promoters . Pauklin et al . Found functional binding sites for estrogen receptors in the promoter region of the aid gene, based on electromobil...
Nucleotide excision repair (ner) is a versatile dna repair system that removes a wide range of structurally unrelated lesions, including ultraviolet (uv) photoproducts . Ner operates through two sub - pathways, depending on whether the damage is located anywhere in the genome (global genome repair, gg - ner) or in an a...
In douala, cameroon, 2 sporadic cases of a denguelike syndrome were recorded in french soldiers (patients 1 and 2) on april 3 and may 22, 2006, respectively (table). From the end of may through the end of july 2006, more cases of denguelike syndrome, which included fever, asthenia, maculopapular rashes, and arthralgia,...
Readers of published medical research should be provided with all the necessary information in order to be able to understand what statistical analyses were used, why they were chosen that way, while results should carry enough information to make what was observed clearly understandable . This way a knowledgeable read...
Total elbow arthroplasty (tea) has been successfully used for treating complex distal humeral fractures . The prevalence of tea in the usa is surging, with a 248% increase in primary arthroplasty and a 500% increase in revision arthroplasty during the past few years . In addition, the annual rate for revision surgery i...
The hippocampus, including strictly speaking subfields ca1ca4, and the hippocampal formation, including also dentate gyrus, fimbria, subiculum, and parasubiculum, is a highly sophisticated structure . Stimuli coming from the entorhinal cortex are processed by the dentate gyrus, subfields ca4 and ca3, before being proje...
The incidence of overweight and obese individuals in the united states has dramatically increased over the last twenty years and now includes nearly two - thirds of adults . This results in significant morbidity and mortality often related to heart disease, stroke, type ii diabetes, and even some cancers . The current ...
Dendritic spines form the postsynaptic element of most excitatory synapses in the mammalian cortex and hippocampus and their differing sizes and morphologies are directly related to synaptic strength . The strength of spine synapses is highly plastic which is important for homeostatic protection from excitotoxicity but...
Hypertension, one of the most common diseases worldwide, is estimated to affect one quarter of all adults, and has been identified as the leading cause of mortality and the third cause of disability - adjusted life years worldwide.1 according to a report by kearney et al the total number of adults with hypertension in ...
Determining the relative effects of single- and double - row suture anchor repairs of the rotator cuff will allow physicians to be better equipped to treat patients with rotator cuff disease . The prevalence of full and partial thickness defects increases linearly with age after 50 years, and by the age of 80 years, th...
There is abundant evidence that emotional events can be preserved in memory, even in patients with memory deficits . For example, amnesic patients could remember details of the terrorist attack of 9/11, 2001, while already suffering from profound anterograde amnesia at the time of the event . Several experiments have s...
Ankylosing spondylitis (as) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the axial skeleton and peripheral joints . Hip replacement surgery helps in restoring the functional capabilities of patients to a large extent . As has always been a challenge to the anaesthesiologist due to either a difficult airway or a seemingly impos...
Globally, all professionals have recognized the phenomenon of continuing professional education (cpe) as a primary method to enhance basic professional education regularly . Globalization, technological advances, consumerism and climate changes have challenged the health care environment to ensure practice and services...
A choledochocele is a cystic dilation of the distal common bile duct (cbd). It corresponds to a type 3 choledochal cyst in the classification by todani et al1 and is extremely rare.2 the diagnosis is challenging and rarely made before surgery, as the presenting symptoms vary wildly and are nonspecific . Besides, the ra...
Patients with type 2 diabetes have a complex phenotype with impaired insulin secretion, insulin resistance both in the liver and peripheral tissues, and increased hepatic glucose production, all of which contribute to the development of overt hyperglycemia . Genetic dissection of type 2 diabetes in humans is difficult ...
Influenza viruses were identified through the new zealand national influenza surveillance system as part of the world health organization global program for influenza surveillance previously reported (2). Pandemic (h1n1) 2009 virus dramatically increased demand for influenza subtyping (2), necessitating a change in the...
All animal studies followed the guidelines established by the arvo statement for the use of animals in ophthalmic and visual research as well as those set by the northwestern university institutional animal care and use committee (chicago, il, usa). Twenty - five adult mice aged 4 to 8 weeks of mixed background were us...
Obesity affects approximately one - third of adults in the united states, and weight loss surgery has proven to be an effective and durable treatment of morbid and severe obesity . Whereas most individuals undergoing bariatric surgery have excellent weight loss and improvement of comorbidities, a subset of patients hav...
Unaltered intra - abdominal fat is manifested by a broad echogenicity range, which makes the identification of its nature difficult . The signs that can aid the interpretation include: smooth outlines, homogeneous structure, no infiltration of adjacent tissues, relatively high elasticity and no vascularization . The de...
Pregnancy could be regarded as the period of well - being and a joyful phase in a female's life . Anxiety and depression are common disorders in pregnancy and postpartum, and the psychological changes negatively influence both mother and fetus . The severity of depression increases during the third trimester and can co...
Written statements granting permission of publication for the following cases were obtained from the parents or caregivers of the patients in nursing homes . A 12-year - old boy (height 125 cm, weight 18.8 kg) with duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd) cobb's angle was 100. preoperative evaluation revealed that he was acce...
Tumors fall into two categories: papillary lesions that tend to recur and invasive cancer . Although transurethral resection (tur) is often performed as a primary therapy for papillary lesions, 50%75% of patients will yet recur in five years and 10%20% progress to invasive disease.1 for invasive bladder cancer, radical...