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In spite of the vast advances made by medical science in cancer treatment, infections remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients diagnosed with cancer . The cancer patient is immunocompromised because of the nature of the disease itself and also due to interventions in the form of chemotherapy etc ., i...
Fibrous dysplasia is not hereditary in nature and it caused by mutation in the gnas1 (guanine nucleotide binding protein, alpha stimulating activity polypeptide) gene (20q13.2) and this gene encodes a g - protein which results in overproduction of camp in the affected tissues . Furthermore, there is increased the proli...
A 65-year - old woman was referred to our department because of a recently diagnosed left atrial (la) mass . She presented with a five - month history of fever, malaise, and myalgia and had been diagnosed with ventricular septal defect (vsd) two years earlier . On physical examination, two - dimensional transthoracic e...
Between june 2000 and may 2008, 69 cases of an open reduction and internal fixation with a plate were performed for clavicle midshaft fractures . Of them, 41 patients, who could have been followed until bony union was achieved, were reviewed retrospectively . The operative indications were fractures involving 20 mm dis...
Many diseases of high public health importance, such as type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome, are profoundly influenced by obesity status (1). However, individuals with a similar body mass index (bmi) can exhibit substantially different metabolic profiles for glucose tolerance, lipids, and blood pressure . In the nha...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is a disease characterized by airflow limitation that is not fully reversible (1). Copd is a major health problem worldwide, with a high rate of occurrence, and high costs with its management . It is the fourth leading cause of death in the world and the economic burdens ass...
1 . Digital photography is a fundamental art in the day to day practice of a dermatologist . The main issue in most of the clinical photographs is the lack of good, reproducible and consistent digital images . Digital photography is a fundamental art in the day to day practice of a dermatologist . But the main issue in...
Human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) affects 22.4 million to 28 million people and is responsible for the deaths of 1.4 million in the sub - saharan african countries alone.1 ethiopia is home to approximately 800,000 patients with hiv / aids, and the prevalence of hiv / aids in ...
Various operative techniques are available for treating lscs, and minimally invasive surgery has recently been proposed including microscopic surgery and endoscopic surgery . In this report, we describe the surgical technique for minimally invasive space shuttle laminotomy (missl) using a microscope, for which surgeons...
Fibromyalgia (fm) is a chronic pain syndrome with symptoms that include widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disruption, and cognitive impairment . Fm is estimated to affect 2%8% of the population13 and is often comorbid with related conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) and chronic fatigue syndrome . It is comm...
The open window theory implies that there is altered immunity following an acute bout of exercise, which lasts from three to 72 hours after exercise depending on the parameter measured . According to the theory, there is an increased risk of contracting infectious diseases after physical exercise . The j means that ind...
To date, only one study has investigated the association between aging and cancer by an extensive examination of the expression profiling of aging - related genes in various human tumor types . I have identified 3,359 human aging - related genes on the basis of 10 relevant publications; these genes are involved in the ...
Alpha-1-antitrypsin (aat) deficiency, an autosomal recessive disorder, is caused by inheritance of two severe deficient alleles of serpin 1 (located on chromosome 14q31 - 32) encoding aat . The reactive loop site in the -sheet contains the neutrophil elastase binding site with a methionine residue . The protease inhibi...
Microencapsulation is a useful method for prolonging drug release from dosage form and reducing adverse effect . Recently, dosage forms that can precisely control the release rates and target drugs specific body site have made an enormous impact in the formulation and development of novel drug delivery system . Microsp...
The multiple - dose pharmacokinetics of fe 999049 have been described, accounting for endogenous follicle - stimulating hormone (fsh) levels.exposure to fe 999049 was influenced by body weight, which may be a potential factor for individualised dosing recommendations.endogenous fsh levels were influenced by progesteron...
Prognosis of advanced or metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma is poor, with a median overall survival between 6.8 and 11 months for all histological types . Herein we report a case of a patient treated by the combination of gemcitabine plus oxaliplatin (gemox regimen) with a complete radiological response . A 50-year -...
Children afflicted with nephrotic syndrome lose proteins to urine, resulting in hypoproteinemia and generalized edema . Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome occurs in two or more children out of 100,000 and is the most common chronic glomerular disease in children . Many patients have minimal change nephrotic syndrome, and mo...
Bipolar disorder is estimated to affect 3%7% of population (angst 1998; kessler et al 2005). Numerous us fda - approved treatment options exist for the treatment of manic phase of bipolar disorder, including lithium, valproic acid and all 5 atypical antipsychotics olanzapine, risperidone, quetiapine, ziprasidone and ar...
Although several techniques have been proposed to achieve consistent and predictable root coverage, by some estimates, the average percentage of covered root surfaces resulting from different procedures performed under varying clinical conditions varies from 56% to 97.8%. [36] thus, treatment of buccal recession remain...
Chemical synthesis remains a cornerstone of the enterprise of preparing small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredients (apis). Advances in the field of chemical synthesis continue to be benchmarked by the methods and strategies for the preparation of complex natural products, which, more effectively than any other ex...
There is a strong inverse relationship between plasma high density lipoprotein (hdl) level and the risk of developing coronary artery disease (cad). The major role of hdl is the reverse cholesterol transport, which leads to cholesterol movement from peripheral tissue and vessel wall to the liver . Anti - inflammatory, ...
Tissue perfusion measurement from iodinated contrast agent enhancement on ct scans was first proposed by axel in 1980; this was based on earlier developments by meier and zierler for measuring blood flow and blood volume . At that time, the ct - based measurements were strictly limited to research because of the low sp...
Fake drugs and active pharmaceutical ingredients most often originate in evolving industrial economies especially developing countries before entering the global market . Trafficking in counterfeit drugs has become one of the fastest growing immoral businesses . Improved technological capabilities have enabled counterf...
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (oscc) accounts for more than 90% of all oral cancers and is the sixth most common type of cancer in the world . The 5-year survival rate of oscc has not improved much over the past 2 decades . In china, evidence has shown that the risk of morbidity for oscc patients is still high and that ...
To report the case of a patient with a damaged haptic of an acrylic intraocular lens (iol) after transscleral iol fixation . He had undergone phacoemulsification / aspiration and iol implantation 3 years previously and iol repositioning with transscleral fixation 2 years before the initial visit . His visual acuity was...
Ocular trauma has been a common reason of visual morbidity, which causes heavy psychological and economic burden to victims and society [13]. In the united states, there are approximately 2.5 million cases of eye trauma every year . Ocular trauma includes mechanical eye injury (open globe injury and closed globe injury...
Epstein barr virus (ebv) is a gamma - herpesvirus with a 172-kb dna genome, which infects more than 90% of world population . Ebv is a successful virus that utilizes normal b cell biology to infect, persist, and replicate in b cells (thorley - lawson, 2001; thorley - lawson and gross, 2004). Ebv predominantly infects r...
Non - diabetic kidney disease in patients with diabetes is identified in biopsy - based studies with frequencies ranging 1060% [13]. Indications for kidney biopsy in patients with diabetes are the presence of features atypical for diabetic nephropathy (dn); glomerular haematuria, acute kidney deterioration or severe pr...
Dna fragments were cleaned - up, end - repaired, a - tailed, and ligated with methylated paired - end adapters (purchased from atdbio). See supplementary information for details . In house generated wgbs libraries were aligned using maq in bisulfite mode to the hg19/grch37 reference assembly . Subsequently, cpg methyla...
A thorough medline - based search was performed with mesh words, such as nephrogenic systemic fibrosis / nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy, gadolinium, renal failure . A relationship between exposure to gadolinium - based contrast agents and nsf was suggested in 2006 . Clinically, nsf mimics scleromyxedema, but tends to...
The neural adaptations to training that contribute to performance improvements depend on the type and duration of training . For example, learning to juggle daily for six weeks leads to structural changes in white matter density that persist for four weeks following cessation of training . Shorter periods of training (...
Cachexia is a wasting syndrome for which descriptions may be found as far as 2000 years ago, and is a consequence of cancer and other diseases, such as chronic obstructive lung disease, multiple sclerosis, congestive heart failure, tuberculosis, and aids, among others, with a high impact on quality of life . In this re...
-aminobutyric acid (gaba) is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system (cns), playing a key role in the balance between inhibitory and excitatory circuits [1, 2]. Therefore, it is not surprising that dysfunctions in the gabaergic system lead to pathological conditions including hypokinetic dis...
Depression is a common mental health problem in older adults, not only affecting mood but also leading to functional decline in those affected . It reduces quality of life and well - being, and increases the risk of disability, suicide, and mortality . Moreover, it has a significant impact on families and health care o...
The mutans streptococci group (msg) belong to the viridans group streptococci (vgs) and form an important part of the normal oral flora [1, 2]. Although the vgs are generally nonpathogenic, they have attracted attention due to their ability to act as reservoirs for antibiotic resistance genes and to transfer these trou...
Intestinal motor alterations are associated with clinical symptoms such as diarrhea, constipation, and abdominal pain . Studies demonstrated that visceral hypersensitivity and persistently altered intestinal muscle dysfunction existed in mice infected with trichinella spiralis [1, 2]. In fact, the adaptive response to ...
A mylab 30 gold (esaote, genova, italy) and a linear probe (la435: 6 - 18 mhz, esaote, genova, italy) were used as the ultrasonographic equipment . Performed in the intensive care unit (icu), a blanket was placed under the calf of the patient in order to maintain dorsosacral position . A pad was placed beneath the shou...
Worldwide, the estimated number of persons living with the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) in 2007 was 33.2 million.1 sub - saharan africa remains the most affected by the global acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) pandemic; more than two - thirds (68%) of all people living with hiv are in this region . Also, ...
In the last few years, numerous new dental restorative materials have been introduced in response to an increasing demand for esthetic and biocompatible materials . The high - strength all - ceramic materials that are currently used in dentistry consist of alumina, zirconia, pressed, castable or machinable glass cerami...
Hepatocellular cancer is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and is the fifth leading cause of cancer death in males in the usa . Although cancer incidence in the usa is generally decreasing, hcc is one of a few cancers that is increasing in incidence and death rate [1, 2]. The best treatment for long - term disease...
In the last two decades, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) has become an indispensable tool used to diagnose, treat and monitor gynecological cancers [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]. The increasing access to mri in radiation oncology departments, and its superior soft tissue contrast have favored it ...
Most commonly, they present with genital ambiguity . However, the phenotype may vary from normal female to normal male appearance . Here, we are describing a case of 46 xy ovotesticular dsd who presented as primary amenorrhea . The index case, a 21-year - old female came to gynecology opd with complaint of primary amen...
Nowadays it is obvious that the disease can be divided into two groups by its pathogenesis and clinical features: the nodular lymphocyte predominant (nlp) and the classic subtypes . Due to the development of diagnostics and the prognosis - based risk - adopted treatment strategies, the exact etiology of the disease is ...
Inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) comprises of two major disease entities: crohn's disease (cd) and ulcerative colitis . Therefore, determination of inflammatory state is crucial for the assessment of disease activity and for the optimized therapy . However, no simple diagnostic tool for monitoring intestinal inflammati...
Up to 35% of patients do not respond to currently available antidepressants, with high nonremission rates, and residual symptoms commonly persist.4 a better understanding of the mechanisms associated with psd is needed to direct the search for additional or adjunctive therapies . A relationship between elevations in pe...
Arginine metabolism to nitric oxide (no) via nitric oxide synthase or to ornithine via arginase is an important biological pathway (see fig . No has many important functions, including regulating vascular tone and facilitating cell - mediated cytotoxicity, and ornithine is the immediate precursor of polyamines, which a...
Neurocardiogenic syncope has a peak incidence in subjects in their late teens and early twenties . The positive rate of ttt with or without a history of syncope ranges from 23.8 to 74% [3 - 6]. Many researchers have studied treatments of neurocardiogenic syncope including salt intake, physical maneuvers, beta - blocker...
Mast cells have a wide variety of functions, which not only encompass regulation of immune responses, but also autoimmunity, tolerance to graft rejection, promotion of or protection from cancer, wound healing, angiogenesis, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, obesity, and other significant diseases . In the pre...
The migration of an encircling silicone band through a rectus muscle is a rare postoperative complication associated with the scleral buckling procedure . However, both kreis et al . And tan et al . Have reported cases of this rare complication . Here, we describe what we believe to be the first reported case of a scle...
In the olden days, chumash saw the spirit, mind and body as inseparable entities that could not be treated separately in disease . The first steps in healing were more spiritual, which opens the mind and body to healing . The next steps in healing may have been directed more to the mind and body . In current society, d...
Studies on quality of life (qol) of a population have substantially[112] focused on the elderly[1325]. Research in the caribbean in particular has primarily examined qol of the elderly[141626] and outside of that studies have also examined a population's wellbeing[2728], qol of sickle cell patients and qol of jamaican ...
Over the last few decades, a significant decline in cancer - related mortality of colorectal cancer (crc) has been observed due to the considerable progress in the diagnosis and treatment, but crc still remains a major public health problem throughout the world . Colorectal cancer is ranked second within cancer - relat...
The temporomandibular joint (tmj) is the most regularly used joint in the human body . It opens and closes about 1500 to 2000 times a day and is instrumental in several functional movements such as chewing, breathing and pronunciation.1 because the tmj is a very regularly used joint, its bone, muscle or cartilage may d...
Ovarian cancer is one of the most common and deadliest gynecologic cancers . In 2010, 21880 new cases were diagnosed, and such cancer caused nearly 13850 deaths in the united states alone . Ovarian cancer usually has poor prognosis, and most patients were diagnosed at advanced stages . The five - year survival rate for...
Chronic kidney disease (ckd) is defined as the presence of kidney damage, or a decreased level of kidney function, for longer than 3 months5,13). Ckd is known to be associated with an increased risk of bleeding following coronary intervention and the use of anticoagulants1,12,14,21). The high risk of bleeding in ckd pa...
Alzheimer's disease (ad) is the most prevalent form of dementia, which affects more than 37 million people worldwide, with an estimated cost of $422 billion in 2009 [1, 2]. Moreover, the incidence of the illness and the prospect of an aging population will result in rising social and economic demands . Ad is characteri...
Taiwan and the offshore island of penghu came under the japanese rule in 1895 under the treaty of shimonoseki, when the ching government of china ceded the islands to the japanese government . In 1911, however, japanese ruled taiwan until the end of the second world war in 1945 . Then, the nationalist government of chi...
Ameloblastoma is one of the most common types of odontogenic tumor, however, it accounts for only 1% of all oral tumors . It is a benign tumor whose importance lies in its potential to grow to enormous size resulting in bone deformity . The origin of the tumor is thought to be from sources that include residual epithel...
Wandering spleen is a known but rare entity . It may present as an acute abdominal emergency if the vascular support to the spleen is obstructed due to torsion we report a case of a wandering spleen in a 14-year - old girl with recurrent abdominal pain due to venous outflow obstruction resulting in developing splenoren...
Arsenic is a known carcinogen, and increasing evidence also suggests a possible role of chronic arsenic exposure in the development of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases . Cardiovascular diseases associated with high levels of arsenic in the drinking water include atherosclerosis, hypertension, cerebro...
Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis (rpc) was first recognized as a distinct clinical entity in the 1930s by digby . He recognized that intrahepatic biliary calculus occurred more frequently in hong kong chinese as compared to europeans . In the 1950s, cook proposed the subsequent term recurrent pyogenic cholangitis to desc...
, poor wound healing may retard return to work or daily activities.5 during the early period after hemorrhoidectomy, patients usually need analgesics medication to relieve postoperative pain and discomfort.6 sitz bath with warm water was well accepted as a safe postoperative care after anal surgery and routinely utiliz...
Human societies form a dynamic and complex system, which requires frequent interaction between individuals . According to the social brain hypothesis (dunbar, 1998; adolphs, 2003) parts of the human neo - cortex have evolved to improve survival in dynamic groups and therefore to process social information . This enable...
Perceptual systems adjust rapidly to changes in the environment, with neural and behavioral responses dynamically changing to mirror changes in the input (sharpee et al ., 2006; gutinsky and dragoi, 2008). Such adaptive codes provide efficient representations because they direct computational resources toward uncommon ...
Dental implants have been proven to be a reliable long - term therapy against edentulism [13]. However, the reported high success figures of implant therapy have been based on implants inserted using two - stage surgical protocol and conventional loading . The increased demand on implant performance and the broadened t...
Production of blue colored ceramic in glaze industry is of important concern for structuring of floors and walls . This is because cobalt has mobile 3d electrons in its atomic structure (1). The main component, such as silica, present in ceramic are similar to glass, causing both favorite melting point and color (2, 3)...
The nuclear spins of xenon and other noble gases can be hyperpolarized (hp) to order unity by the process of spin - exchange optical pumping (seop). In this two - step process, the electron spins of an alkali metal vapor such as rubidium are first polarized by the absorption of angular momentum from circularly polarize...
Rat 42 and mouse (1)21 ion channels were expressed in xenopus laevis oocytes . For 42 receptors, subunit stoichiometry was controlled by varying the 4:2 subunit ratio and verified by voltage jump experiments . Dose - response measurements for these channels were performed with a holding potential of 60 mv . Unnatural a...
Localized amyloidosis, also referred to as amyloidoma, is a rare type of amyloidosis in which the amyloid deposition is focal . In soft tissues, various localizations including the breasts, the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract, and the central nervous system have been reported.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 in contrast,...
Polycythemia is clinically defined as elevated red blood cell mass (hemoglobin> 18.5 g / dl in men, 16.5 g / dl in women or other evidence of increased red cell volume or hemoglobin or hematocrit greater than 99th percentile of method - specific reference range for age, sex, altitude of residence or hemoglobin greater ...
Sex cord - stromal tumors of ovary account for approximately 5 - 8% of all ovarian tumors (15). They are composed of granulosa cells, theca cells, sertoli cells, leydig cells and fibroblasts singly or in various combinations (2, 6). Leydig stromal tumor is a rare member of this group that accounts for less than 0.1% of...
Proteins are essential components of all organisms, carrying out tasks defined by the information encoded within genes, for example catalyzing biochemical reactions, mediating cell signaling, or providing structural rigidity . Simulations range from elucidation of enzymatic reaction mechanisms, to the study of folding ...
Operating room (ors) fires related to anaesthesia ventilator mishaps are extremely rare events, but when they do occur, result in serious and sometimes mortal consequences . Cardiac arrest associated with ventilator fire has not been reported in the published english literature . We report a near - fatal incident of ca...
Moreover, there are no blood markers for the early detection of lung cancer (unlike for cancers such as prostate, colorectal, and gynecological cancers) (1). In the past, non - specific cytotoxic agents were the first choice of treatment for patients with stage iv non - small - cell lung cancer (nsclc; either adenocarc...
A 32-year - old, 173 cm, 79 kg male patient was admitted to the emergency room (er) for the treatment of facial pain due to an automobile accident . On arrival, he was fully conscious with an glasgow coma scale score of 15/15 and stable vital signs: blood pressure (bp) 115/76 mmhg, heart rate (hr) 58 beats / min, and b...
A metal block of dimension 3 mm 3 mm 3 mm was fabricated using auto - cad wire cut iridium technology (electronic, electra, mektron, maxicut 734) for standardizing the dimensions of the zirconia blocks . The metal block was scanned using a software for cad / cam machine (intelli denta, dental smart products, italy). Th...
Tall cell variant papillary thyroid carcinoma (tcv) was first described in 1976 by hawk and hazard as an aggressive histological variant of papillary thyroid cancer . Tcv is defined as tall papillary epithelial cells with a height at least twice the width and basement membrane oriented nuclei comprising at least 30% of...
During october 12, 2014march 28, 2015, samples collected from 1,058 persons in liberia with suspected ebov infection were submitted to the cdc nih elwa laboratory . The samples used for this research were collected for public health surveillance and not human subjects research, so institutional review board review and ...
Managing financial resources is one of the main functions of a healthcare system (1). Different methods are used to collect revenue in healthcare systems, such as public taxes, compulsory contributions for social health insurance (usually based on one s wages with little or no consideration of risks), voluntary partici...
The synthesis and maturation of rnas are tightly controlled, and they shape complex gene expression networks that ultimately drive biological processes . These networks need to be robust as well as highly plastic in order to allow rapid adaptation to environmental or genetic perturbations . An in - depth understanding ...
The prevalence of overweight and obesity is high in most parts of the world, and this is particularly alarming not only for the increasing risk of multiple comorbidities, but also due to the tendency of childhood overweight and obesity to track into adulthood . The metabolic syndrome (mets), a cluster of several cardio...
Heat transfer is the transition of thermal energy or simply heat from a hotter object to a cooler object . When an object is at a different temperature than its surroundings or another object, heat transfer occurs in such a way that the body and the surroundings reach thermal equilibrium . Heat transfer always occurs f...
Microbial keratitis (mk), epithelial loss from the cornea with underlying stromal infiltration by white blood cells and disintegration of the stroma, occurs when one of the protective mechanisms of the ocular surface is disrupted . It is a vision - threatening condition that requires rapid and appropriate management an...
Obesity is associated with increased morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease, all of which have been clearly linked to a chronic, low - grade inflammatory status . Multiorgan involvement of obesity - induced inflammation (liver and adipose tissue), sex differences i...
Peripheral neuropathy is a common, but a debilitating adverse effect of several classes of chemotherapeutic agents including vinca alkaloids, taxanes, and antitubulins . The incidence of chemotherapy - induced peripheral neuropathy (cipn) can vary from 3% to 7% with a single agent and rise up to 38% in patients who are...
Despite enormous efforts to search for cure, diabetes mellitus (often simply referred to as diabetes) still remains as a formidable challenge for public health . As of 2000 at least 171 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes or 2.8% of the population, and the prevalence of diabetes will rise to 11.4% in 2030 . T...
Hearing aid validation using aided speech evoked auditory evoked potentials is of research and clinical interest . Such measurements involve elicitation of an evoked potential using a speech stimulus that has been processed through a hearing aid . Hearing aids, being mostly nonlinear, may have implications for the natu...
Hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a ribonucleic acid (rna) virus that causes chronic hepatitis and liver failure, worldwide.1,2 it consists of six different genotypes that are differentially distributed geographically.3,4 success of treatment varies greatly depending on the genotype.4,5 the genome contains cis - acting replic...
A 63-year - old male presented with complaints of gradually progressive painless diminution of vision in the left eye since last 1 year . The patient had undergone left eye optical penetrating keratoplasty 10 years back for leucomatous corneal opacity post corneal ulcer, managed medically . The patient presented to us ...
Clathrin - independent endocytosis includes the constitutive pinocytotic pathway as well as endocytosis mediated by caveolae and glycolipid rafts . Glycolipid rafts are detergent - insoluble, low - density membrane fractions that are rich in cholesterol and sphingolipids; caveolae are cholesterol- and sphingolipid - ri...
Organisms' adaptation to environmental stress has become a subject of great interest over the last decades [15]. Like other organisms, budding yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae has developed several strategies to survive stressful changes in their environment . Clearly, yeast cells respond rapidly and modify their interna...
Lateral closed wedge high tibial osteotomy (hto) described by jackson and waugh and coventry is an established technique to treat osteoarthritis of the medial compartment and varus deformity . The advantages of a medial opening wedge osteotomy compared with a lateral closing wedge osteotomy include easier technique, ac...
Degenerative cervical spondylolisthesis (dcs) is a pathological condition defined by anterolisthesis or anterior slippage of the cervical spine (c - spine) vertebrae . Underlying causes of this slippage include application of a shear force on the vertebra, disc degeneration, and/or hypertrophic arthropathy of the facet...
The strains that were the subject of this study and their source collections are listed in table1 . The nutrient utilization data presented in table1 are sorted in the same order as the 16s plastid rdna tree . The names in the authority column conform to the convention given in algaebase.org (guiry and guiry 2014). The...
During recent years, infection of acinetobacter baumanii showed a rapid growth in hospitals and community . Baumanii infection mainly occurs in the lung and blood, the notable feature being that multi - drug resistant strains cause outbreaks in hospitals . Large outbreaks of a. baumanii infection have been reported in ...
A 56-year - old male visited our hospital with new york heart association functional class iv dyspnea and pitting edema in his lower extremities . The patient had been diagnosed with tricuspid valve regurgitation and atrial fibrillation at an outside institution 10 years ago . However, the patient had refused surgical ...
Ninety - percent of head and neck cancers are squamous cell carcinomas (scchn) involving the mucosal surfaces of the oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx . The overall relative 5-year survival rates for cancers of the oral cavity / pharynx and larynx are estimated to be 58.3% and 64.5%, respectively . Morbidities associate...