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Prevalence of both type-1 and type-2 diabetes in children and adolescents is rapidly increasing worldwide . Type-2 diabetes is often asymptomatic in its early stages and, thus, it remains unidentified . The risk of such a condition is the same or higher than the previously diagnosed ones . The individuals with impaired... |
Gbm diffusely infiltrates the surrounding brain tissue, but does not typically invade blood vessels and rarely spreads outside the central nervous system (cns). Metastasis to the outside of the cns was accounted for in only 0.2% cases4). The most common site of extraneural metastasis of the gbm is pleura and the lung10... |
The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) remains a matter of high concern in critically ill - patients . Mortality of the syndrome in the intensive care unit (icu) and in - hospital still fluctuates around 40% . Treatment of ards involves adequate control of the underlying disease, mechanical ventilation with app... |
Pancreaticoduodenectomy is a technically difficult procedure, and the incidence of postsurgical complications is high . Particularly, pancreaticojejunostomy leakage is a very serious complication, and it has been shown that the most prevalent cause of death after pancreaticoduodenectomy is pancreatic juice leakage due ... |
Tuberculosis is one of the leading infectious causes of death in the world . According to the who estimates some patients with tuberculosis may also have other coexisting diseases like hiv, diabetes, osteoarthritis, hypertension which will also require drug therapy for a sustained period . The standard treatment for tu... |
Nitric oxide (no) is a highly reactive molecule with a range of physiological functions [1, 2]. This messenger plays an important role in the modulation of vascular tone, neurotransmission [4, 5], and immune system [68]. In addition to the constitutive forms of the enzyme (endothelial (enos or nos3) and neuronal (nnos ... |
Diabetes mellitus refers to a group of common metabolic disorders that share the phenotype of hyperglycemia . It is estimated that there are currently 285 million people with diabetes worldwide and this number is set to increase to 438 million by the year 2030 . Epidemiological data indicate that all nations, rich and ... |
Sudden infant death syndrome (sids) is a diagnosis of exclusion defined as " the sudden death of an infant under one year of age that remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including performance of a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene and review of the clinical history " (1). Although th... |
Chloroplasts were isolated from the pea leaves of 1012-d - old plants and purified on silica sol gradients (waegemann and soll, 1991). A standard import assay contained chloroplasts equivalent to 30 g chl in 100 l import mix (330 mm sorbitol, 50 mm hepes - koh, ph 7.6, 3 mm mgso4, 10 mm methionine, 10 mm cysteine, 20 m... |
Despite considerable public health efforts to curtail obesity, the epidemic has progressed over the past three decades in the united states (us). Epidemiological data from the most recent national health and examination survey (nhanes 2009 - 2010) indicated that 68.8% of american adults are overweight or obese (body ma... |
These tumors are rarely associated with clinical manifestations; therefore, they are usually discovered incidentally at the time of surgery, frequently in association with acute appendicitis . Its clinical significance lies in the possible rupture and consequent spillage of mucin into the peritoneal cavity, leading to ... |
A prospective observational cohort study of patients presenting for home carealmost 1/5 of patients with advanced cancers suffer from pressure ulcersnone of the patients enrolled had a new pressure ulcer during home carepressure ulcer resolved completely with care in 40% of the patientsthis care could be provided at a ... |
The spherical aberration of the cornea is positive and that of the lens is negative in the young, healthy eye, and these differences have a compensatory relationship [1, 2]. Decreased optical quality occurs in the aging eye as the spherical aberration of the lens becomes gradually positive and thus loses its ability to... |
Chronic kidney disease (ckd) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in mexico . It has been estimated that 8% of the mexican population has an estimated glomerular filtration rate (egfr) <60/ml / min per 1.73 m. data from the mexican national health survey 2000 indicate that risk factors for ckd are disproportiona... |
Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mtle) is the most common focal epilepsy affecting adults, and is often associated with pharmacological resistance . Temporal lobe resection is, thus, an accepted treatment option for the management of drugresistant mtle . The ideal candidates for surgical resection are those with unilater... |
Ischemic stroke is a heterogeneous disease with various cardiac, arterial, hemodynamic, rheological, and other systemic abnormalities . Categorizing patients into classes congruent with their pathophysiology is the key to understanding stroke, providing appropriate treatment, and preventing recurrence . Various classif... |
Endodontically treated teeth with extensive coronal hard tissue defects usually present a higher risk of biomechanical failure than vital teeth, due to the loss of structural integrity . 12345 the conventional method for restoring these teeth is to fabricate post - core supported crowns.6 this was believed to provide b... |
Forearm rotation occurs around an axis connecting the center of the radial head and the fovea of the distal ulna . Various treatments for malunion have been reported, but the optimal method for reduction remains controversial . We planned this study to determine numerical values indicative of healing treatment during d... |
Although tnf itself was not discovered until the 1970s, a physician named william coley first noted the phenomenon of tumor necrosis at the turn of the 20th century . The tumors of some of his cancer patients shrank after they had acquired streptococcal infections (1). But the inherent dangers of injecting humans with ... |
As explained in more detail in our previous report, in the course of a screening campaign of new chemical entities against infectious agents, compounds 1 and 2 were found active on our whole cell measles virus replication assay (figure 1). An initial structure activity study led to confirmation of the potential of this... |
Significant evidence ties gestational weight gain (gwg) to short- and long - term maternal and infant outcomes . To optimize maternal and child health, the institute of medicine (iom) provides guidelines for gwg based on prepregnancy body mass index (bmi). Greater gwg is recommended for women with prepregnancy bmis in ... |
Wireless capsule endoscope (wce) was invented at the beginning of this century.1 from the day on which it was applied in a clinical test, a great potential was unfolded before our eyes in the diagnosis of small intestinal diseases thanks to its comfortable, painless, and less - invasive exploration of gastrointestinal ... |
Normal pericardium is a double - walled sac that contains the heart and the roots of the great vessels . The pericardium is composed of two different layers; an outer fibrous parietal pericardium and an inner visceral pericardium.1) the inner visceral pericardium is a serous - type membrane and is located immediately o... |
The reported constituents in the cigarette smoke are nicotine, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pah), nitrated pah, ben zo[a]pyrene, thiocynate, nitro - lactones, fluoranthene, pyrene, benzo[a]anthracene, chrysene, benzo(g, h, i) perylene, dibenz(a, h)anthracene; aromatic amines . Most of these constituents are toxic,... |
Gaucher disease (gd) is the most common lysosomal storage disorder and is caused by a deficiency in the enzyme glucocerebrosidase (gcase). It is an autosomal recessive disorder that primarily affects the mononuclear phagocyte system by lipid accumulation (tayebi et al . Patients typically manifest hepatosplenomegaly, h... |
The maintenance of gut immune homeostasis depends on mechanisms regulating the interaction between the intestinal microbiota and host epithelial, stromal, and immune cells (hooper et al . The intestinal epithelium forms a physical and biochemical barrier between luminal bacteria and mucosal immune cells . It actively i... |
We present spontaneous retrobulbar hemorrhage in a 52-year - old woman with history of breast cancer and tamoxifen intake which was first thought to be an orbital metastasis . A 52-year - old woman with history of breast cancer and tamoxifen intake was referred due to severe proptosis and visual loss . After exploratio... |
Autologous transplantation of periodontal fibroblasts and stem cells may be a promising technique to induce tissue regeneration in the treatment of periodontal disease [14]. Spheroid culture is a form of three - dimensional cell culture that promotes cell - matrix interaction and cellular differentiation without recour... |
First, the onset of mental disorder is correlated with the adoption of a series of behaviors that are implicated in an increased risk for such diseases, including smoking, inadequate diet, and sedentarism.2,3 those behaviors both aggravate and lead to other clinical conditions also prevalent among patients with schizop... |
Soybean meal is an ingredient of choice to supply energy and proteins to layers and broilers . Because of that, costs and availability of soybean meal are strongly correlated with the price of agricultural commodities on the world market [1, 2]. The trypsin inhibitors of soybean grain are well characterized and are an ... |
In the effort to attain the millennium development goals (mdgs) 4 and 5, which are to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health, respectively,1 the department of health (doh) of the philippines mandated the implementation of the essential intrapartum and newborn care (einc) protocol in both public and private ... |
One of the most important indicators for the mphe is the number of foreign students . In the analyzed period, the minimum number of foreign students in the higher education system, including medicine and pharmacy was recorded in 1975, while the maximum number of foreign students in mphe was reached in 1982, when 8177 s... |
Computed tomographic angiography (cta) is a non - invasive mean of investigating isolated third nerve palsy to exclude intracranial aneurysm . However, third nerve palsy can be also associated with dural carotid cavernous fistulae (ccf) with anterograde inferior petrosal sinus drainage, which may occur without cta feat... |
The study was conducted at the department of ophthalmology of a medical college in north - east india between september 2012 and june 2014 . Approval from the institute's ethical committee was obtained, and the study was carried out in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 declaration of helsinki . The incl... |
The occurrence of two unprovoked seizures more than 24 hours apart could indicate the presence of an epileptic disorder . Most cases of epilepsy are managed efficiently by medication, and afflicted children have normal iq and are expected to have a normal life . However, these children need to be carefully monitored fo... |
The lack of practical criteria to manage the optimal degree of wetness on dentin substrate complicates the wet bonding for clinicians . As a result, it is applied differently among operators and in instructions of the manufacturer so that over - wetting or over - drying may occur instead of ideal moisture on the dentin... |
Skydiving, sport parachuting from aircraft, engages more than 800,000 participants in over one hundred countries who make more than 6 million jumps per year . Skydiving can be viewed as an extreme sport, by being associated with a risk of death or serious injury . Skydiving activities are dependent on rules and regulat... |
There is a longstanding discourse on whether self - reported health is a good measure of objective health . Objective health indexes include mortality, life expectancy and diagnosed morbidity, which provide a great degree of precision in the measurement of health . Those measures have been used for centuries by mathema... |
Array - comparative genomic hybridization (a - cgh) assay has made the genome - wide screening of genomic copy - number variations (cnvs) possible, enabling to assign genetic diagnoses to phenotypes, which could not be accounted for in the past . Microcephaly, disproportionate pontine and cerebellar hypoplasia (micpch)... |
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (crt) is an effective and well - established therapy for patients suffering with heart failure (hf), left ventricular (lv) systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction 35%) and electrical dyssynchrony, demonstrated by a surface qrs duration of 120 ms . Patients undergoing treatment with crt... |
A 22-year - old, stuporous, but previously healthy man, 182 cm in height and 70 kg in weight, was admitted to the emergency room with an accidental injury from a fall . An emergent brain ct demonstrated acute traumatic subdural hematoma, thus an emergent decompressive craniectomy and hematoma removal was performed unde... |
Hysterectomy remains the most common major gynecological operation and may be carried out by 3 different routes: vaginal, abdominal, and laparoscopic . Clearly, indications for these 3 routes should differ, but they can also overlap . Although the abdominal route is unanimously considered the most morbid hysterectomy p... |
Oesophageal perforations are associated with high morbidity and mortality, predominantly as a result of a mediastinal leakage frequently leading to septic shock . We report a patient on warfarin therapy presenting an intramural, intrathoracic eosophageal haematoma prior to oesophagus perforation; a condition that to ou... |
The incidence of intertrochanteric fractures has been increasing significantly due to the rising age of modern human populations . Generally, intramedullary fixation and extramedullary fixation are the 2 primary options for treatment of such fractures . The dynamic hip screw (dhs), commonly used in extramedullary fixat... |
Maternal immunological tolerance is essential for successfully establishing and maintaining pregnancy [1, 2]. In early pregnancy decidua, type 1 inflammatory t - cells significantly decrease, whereas both type 2 cells and cd56 cd16 cytokine - secreting uterine natural killer (unk) cells significantly increase compared ... |
Chronic subdural hematoma (csdh) is a common disease in modern neurosurgery practice especially for the elderly patients . In contrast, non - traumatic subdural hematoma (sdh) caused by intracranial arteriovenous fistula (avf) is extremely rare, and there are only a few cases described in the literature.8)13) furthermo... |
Chronic renal failure (crf) is defined as a progressive decline in renal function associated with a reduced glomerular filtration rate . The most common causes are diabetes mellitus, glomerulonephritis, polycystic kidney disease, pyelonephritis and chronic hypertension . Worldwide, the number of cases of cfg is increas... |
Inflammation of the pericardium due to infection or non - infectious etiology is known as pericarditis . The most common forms are idiopathic and viral which are usually self - limiting and benign conditions . Predisposing factors include renal disease, previous cardiac and thoracic surgery, endoscopic oesophageal vari... |
Inadequate bone quantity in the posterior maxilla secondary to pneumatization of the maxillary sinus and/or postextraction alveolar ridge resorption can compromise dental implant placement, therefore requiring site grafting prior to implant placement using techniques such as maxillary sinus floor elevation . The ideal ... |
Perhaps because of ingrained cultural beliefs about the infallibility of computation, people show a level of trust in computed outputs that is completely at odds with the reality that nearly zero provably error - free computer programs have ever been written 2, 3 . It has been estimated that the industry average rate o... |
Pain as a frequent occurrence after dental procedures concerns patients and has an adverse impact on patient satisfaction . Third molar post extraction pain (pep) is one of the most common models successfully used in recent years for assessing the analgesic efficacy of pain - killing drugs . Pain is a subjective experi... |
Since the seminal work of ostwald in the late 19th century, crystal nucleation and growth have remained of constant, if not even increasing, interest . Today, applications of crystal engineering range from quantum dots and nanomaterials to biomimetic composites and pharmaceutical formulation . In parallel to pushing th... |
Prostate cancer is the most common solid tumor in men and is the second leading cause of death among cancers . Diagnosis is performed through fragments obtained by ultrasound - guided transrectal prostate biopsy, which is usually performed on an outpatient basis . Many patients consider the procedure uncomfortable and ... |
A 30-year - old female patient reported to the outpatient department of vasantdada patil dental college and hospital, sangli with a chief complaint of gingival swelling on the right maxillary posterior region . The patient noticed a painless swelling 6 months ago, which was small in size initially, started growing grad... |
Opioid narcotics are the cornerstone drugs for managing severe cancer pain, with or without adjuvant drugs . Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid - agonist that primarily interacts with the mu - opioid receptor . Transdermal fentanyl patches are designed to deliver fentanyl at a constant rate from a reservoir . There have be... |
The decline in respiratory function of stroke patients is caused by reduced physical activity . The decline in cardiopulmonary function is related to reduced oxygen transport ability caused by extended bed rest after hospitalization1 . This condition can cause stroke patients who require intensive rehabilitation to tir... |
Aseptic meningitis is a central nervous system infection that encompasses all types of leptomeninges inflammation of the brain, characterized by fever and meningeal symptoms with moderate, predominantly lymphocytic cerebrospinal fluid (csf) pleocytosis and with bacteriologically sterile cultures.1,2 aseptic meningitis ... |
Trauma accompanied by fracture of anterior teeth is an unpleasant experience for the patient who requires attention not only because of damage to the dentition, but also due to the psychologic effect of trauma . The majority of dental injuries involve the anterior teeth, especially the maxillary central incisors . A nu... |
Anterior crossbite is a major esthetic and functional anomaly which has to be corrected at the onset in primary as well as mixed dentition to allow the normal development of occlusion . It is the lingual positioning of the maxillary anterior teeth in relation to the mandibular anterior teeth or lingo - occlusion of upp... |
Cancer is the third main cause of death in iran only after cardiovascular diseases and accidents (1). Local reports also indicate that cancers is on the rise in iran (2). For example, a recent estimation indicated that lung, stomach, breast and prostate cancer increased between 2001 and 2015 in isfahan provenience in t... |
Although anatomical liver resection is the standard of care for treatment of neoplastic hepatic disease (either primary or secondary), non - anatomical liver resections can still be useful in some situations . It is a low - morbidity technique that can be timely used for tumors near the hepatic surface . It also has be... |
The trauma of passing a large dialysis catheter through the vein wall is an important initiating stimulus for the fibrin sheath and subsequent fibrosis in the central vein (1). Respirations, cardiac motion, and positional changes tend to move the indwelling catheter within the vein, and can probably damage the wall as ... |
Hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is the fifth most common cancer worldwide with increasing annual incidence worldwide . Although the incidence of hcc increases in recent years due to hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection, alcohol - related cirrhosis and possibly nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in western countries, more tha... |
Infertility is a major health challenge that has caused 15% of couples around the world (1) and 22% of couples in iran (2) to face mental, social (3), and financial consequences; therefore, it is considered a general health issue . The desire to have children is one of the basic human instincts; because in most of the ... |
The eeg is recommended as a part of the neurodiagnostic evaluation of the child with an apparent first unprovoked seizure . The role of neuroimaging in children presenting with new - onset afebrile seizures / unprovoked seizure is not well defined . Insufficient evidence is available to make a standard recommendation o... |
Paratesticular tumors are infrequent tumors that have a high incidence of malignancy; they are either soft - tissue tumors or mesothelial neoplasms . Paratesticular liposarcomas include all liposarcomas arising in the structures around the testis, including the lower end of the cord . It is felt to arise from the extra... |
The ventricular pacemaker lead could pass the signal from the pacemaker to the pacing site and active the local muscle . Then the cardiac excitation spreads to the right and left ventricular and makes the whole heart contract . That's the way the pacemaker achieves its function for the patients . By connecting to the m... |
Retinal vein occlusions (rvos) are the second most common visually disabling disease affecting the retina, after diabetic retinopathy . Obstruction of retinal venous flow leads to damage of the vasculature, hemorrhage, and tissue ischemia . Occlusions affecting the central retinal vein, or central retinal vein occlusio... |
About 75%80% of cutaneous melanomas originate on healthy skin, therefore only 20%25% of melanomas are thought to develop on a cutaneous lesion that we can identify as a clinical precursor . It remains to be established whether or not the so - called precursors are to be considered as precancerous lesions or, rather, me... |
In the previous issue of critical care hadian and colleagues compare the performances of the three best known examples of pulse contour systems - lidco plus, picco plus and flotrac - against thermodilution . An experimental design was used based on cardiac surgery patients in the first 4 hours after surgery, in which c... |
It must be reasons significant enough for me to argue for such a fundamental renovation (table 1). Let me first very briefly review the minimal functionality of the dna code . For simplicity, i use a, u, g, and c for adenosine, uridine, guanine, and cytosine, respectively . The code of a dna sequence for producing prot... |
True radial artery aneurysms are extremely rare, with no documented prevalence in the medical literature . In 1966, the first recognition of this condition was introduced by thorrens, and since then some reports have been published . This paper describes a case of true radial artery aneurysm in a 65-year - old woman, a... |
Monocondylar tibia plateau fractures with non - comminuted fragments can be treated using percutaneous screws . Currently indirect methods of reduction are used and thus the technique is limited to fragments with less than 5 mm depression . The first author has designed a device for direct elevation and reduction of th... |
Microbial communities of acidic wetlands are responsible for emissions of the potent greenhouse gases methane (ch4), and nitrous oxide (n2o; conrad, 1996; whalen, 2005; denman et al ., 2007). The largest single global source of atmospheric ch4 (100237 gt year) are acidic wetlands, such as peat bogs and fens that cover ... |
Both anomalous origin of the right coronary artery (rca) from the left coronary cusp or congenital long qt syndrome (lqts) are an important cause of sudden cardiac death, especially in young and healthy individuals . However, sudden cardiac death in a patient with these two disease entities has not yet been reported . ... |
Recent studies of marine organisms have focused on their potential applications, particularly in the treatment of human diseases . Several marine natural products are currently in pre - clinical and clinical evaluation, others show promising biological activities . One of them, sarcophytol a (1), an oxygenated cembrane... |
Mice, including nod / lt mice for tail - tip fibroblasts isolation, were maintained in a specific pathogen - free animal facility under monash university approved ethics (mmca2007/34). An 1.5 cm length of tail - tip from 8-week - old male nod mice was washed with 70% ethanol and pbs, the superficial dermis was peeled a... |
In 1994, the metropolitan area environmental health service (health service) began a gastroenteritis outbreak surveillance program in the centers . This study was to determine the role of hucvs as a cause of gastroenteritis outbreaks from june 1, 2000, to january 30, 2003, in santiago, chile, by using recently improved... |
The primary risk factor for both alzheimer s disease (ad) and vascular dementia (vad) is age . The extension of life expectancy results in a rising number of patients with dementia and associated symptoms . The core syndrome of dementia, which serves as a key diagnostic feature, is cognitive impairment, but neuropsychi... |
Polymethyl methacrylate (pmma) as denture base material has many advantages including adequate mechanical strength, esthetics, low toxicity, easiness of repair, and can be cured by simple procedures, therefore, pmma has been the most commonly used for fabricating denture base since it was developed in the mid-1945.12 h... |
Each year, 13 million or nearly one quarter of all deaths worldwide result from preventable environ - mental causes relating mainly to water, sanitation and hygiene; indoor and outdoor pollution; harmful use of chemicals such as pesticides; and climate change16 . These risk factors, which are both avoidable and prevent... |
It is now well recognized that obesity and asthma are epidemiologically linked [14]. Such a relationship is also seen between asthma and other markers of the metabolic syndrome such as insulin resistance and hypertension that cannot be accounted for by increased body mass alone [47]. While both obesity and asthma are i... |
The effect of cw laser light on the production of s and cl was studied . The s current was reduced by one order of magnitude with 100 mw of laser power . The sensitivity of accelerator mass spectrometry (ams) for a rare nuclide is limited by the ability to distinguish it from abundant neighboring masses and from atomic... |
In japan, it is estimated that there are 43 million (23 million men and 20 million women) hypertensive patients 1 . Hypertension (ht) has been reported to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (cvd), including heart disease and stroke 2, 3, 4, 5 . The stroke morbidity and mortality rates have been reported to be ... |
An inescapable fate of growing old is the gradual slowing of the cognitive and mental capacities . Subjective complains start in the fifth or sixth decade of life, indicating the possibility that dementia comes in 2030 years earlier . Even before the stage of sci, by 3 decade of life our cognitive function starts decli... |
However, it often results in collateral damage to the surrounding of the primary tumor site . The most frequent complication after radiotherapy treatment for prostate cancer is radiation proctitis with incidence rates ranging from 2% to 39% . Acute radiation proctitis occurs immediately or up to 3 months after the init... |
Cardiovascular disease (cvd) is known to be the leading cause of mortality worldwide resulting in 17.1 million deaths, with 13 million deaths attributed to coronary heart disease and stroke alone; of these, more than 80% of deaths has occurred in low- to middle - income countries . It is projected that by the year 2030... |
End stage renal disease (esrd), the stage 5 of chronic kidney disease, normally requires dialysis or transplantation for survival . The burden of esrd in children is lesser as compared with adults; however, if esrd occurs in children, consequences can be catastrophic . It should be pointed out that children on dialysis... |
Adipose tissue dysfunction relies on many and heterogeneous factors, including impaired secretory function, insulin resistance, and lipolysis, which are believed to be caused by the activation of inflammatory mechanisms . In turn, inflammation is activated as a consequence of excessive lipid uptake, adipocyte hypertrop... |
Audiology is a field of study dealing with assessment, diagnoses, treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention of hearing and balance disorders . It is generally accepted that one of the main purposes of audiology is to improve human communication by providing audiology services and establishing an effective multi - secto... |
The leachate has to be treated in a downstream waste water treatment plant, and it is necessary to identify toxicity causative chemicals for the effective treatment . Accordingly, methods were developed to assist in identifying effluent toxicants, and these methods are well known as a toxicity identification evaluation... |
The index hpai - h5n1 was confirmed in nigeria at a commercial poultry farm in kaduna state, and, by the end of the initial outbreak, over 46,000 poultry [1, 2] had been destroyed . This outbreak brought the asian strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (hpai) h5n1 into africa for the first time in the beginning of... |
Although typically thought to occur in older individuals, a hooked acromion causing shoulder impingement symptoms in younger populations is less recognized . This report illustrates a case of type iii acromial impingement in a younger athlete and the importance of early imaging in refining diagnosis . A 31-year - old r... |
Sexual dysfunctions (sds) frequently affect the elderly and can lead to dissatisfaction with interpersonal relationships and have an adverse impact on overall well - being and mood . Sds include erectile dysfunction, orgasmic dysfunction, lack of sexual desire, dissatisfaction with intercourse, etc . . Among these, the... |
Abuse of anabolic - androgenic steroids (aas) by the members of fitness centers and others has reached alarming dimensions . Today, it is estimated that one to three million people has abused aas in the united states (1 - 3). They induce the protein synthesis in cellular tissues, which results in the buildup of cellula... |
His planned chemotherapy for myelodysplastic syndrome had been stopped a month before due to fungal infection of the orbit . The initial absolute neutrophil count was only 130/mm, and antibiotic therapy was initiated under the possibility of pneumonia or aggravation of orbital infection . Even after 7 days of antibioti... |
A stroke is often accompanied by secondary complications such as nutritional and metabolic disorders, endocrine dysfunction, mental problems, and cardiopulmonary disorders owing to neurological system and musculoskeletal system deficits associated with brain damage1 . Among these complications, pulmonary disorders are ... |
Congenital anomalies of the urachal remnant range from a diverticulum to a sinus or a patent urachal remnant extended from the bladder up to the umbilical fossa . The latter anomaly often induces inflammation along the tract and/or urine leakage from the umbilicus . The principal treatment of an urachal remnant is the ... |
A harmony between the soft and hard tissues of the chin is necessary for an attracttive lower one - third and overall facial beauty . Contemporary orthodontics aims to restore facial esthetics; which is influenced by the facial hard and soft tissues . It has been reported that soft tissue profile is related to the unde... |
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