... participation in the
study.
Members of the research team will attend meetings of
each AOT in the intervention group and discuss again the
practice of offering financial incentives and the nature of
the ... a financial incentive. There is no reliable data on
the exact size of that group of patients. One may estimate
that between 1000 and a maximum of 5000 pa...
... partially blunting the influenza-induced rise in
plasma and lung PAI-1 levels and partially preserving
plasma and lung fibrinolytic activity. The capacity of APC
to attenuate systemic coagulation ... and macrophage inflammatory protein
(MIP)-2 (all R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA) were
measured by ELISA. Plasminogen activator activity
(PAA) was determined by an amidolytic assay...
... with aortic cannulation of the arch and venous
cannulation using a two-stage cannula placed into the
right atrium cardiopulmonary bypass was started. The
ascending aort a was distally crossclamped ... excavatum and an annuloaortic ectasia in a 37
Figure 1 Initial CT-scan showing the pectus excavatum.
Figure 2 X-ray at r eadmission. Red Arrows indicating the crack
and dislo...
... and calcification of the tri-
cuspid valve.
Consent
Written informed consent was obtained from the patient
for publicatio n of this case report and any accompany-
ing images. A copy of the written ... MI and SS analyzed and
interpreted our patient data. TY analyzed cardiac enhanced multislice CT. SI,
YM and KS were responsible for manuscript editing and advice on the
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... as part of primary disease follow-up. This case is unusual
because of the diagnosis of bone metastasis secondary to prostate cancer.
Case presentation: We present the case of a 70-year-old Caucasian ... report the case of a 70-year-old Caucasian man, with
no significa nt clinical back ground, who presented to our
casualty department with a three-week history of...
... difficult, and removal does not
always lead to pain relief and an increase of function. One of the challenges ahead is to discover why certain cases
have poor outcomes.
Case presentation: The technical ... devel-
opmental dysplasia of the hip).
Two types of FAI are recognized: the cam type and
the pincer type. When ossifications of the acetabular
rim causes overcontain...
... Kagawa
2
Address:
1
Departments of Urology, Alexandria School of Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt and
2
Tokushima School of Medicine, Tokushima City, Japan
Email: Nader Salama* - nadersalama58@yahoo.com; ... may have been sufficient to break up the biofilm gen-
erated by the offending organism; at least partially, with
Appearance of the penis on initial examination in Case 1Fig...
... neurotrans-
mitters in the central nervous system, gamma-
aminobutyric acid (GABA), is regulated by GAD. A
decrease in function of the GAD enzyme can lead to less
available GABA and, subsequently, heightened ... for
review by the Editor -in- Chief of this journal.
Abbreviations
ANA: anti-nuclear antibody; CT: computed tomography; DNA: deoxyribonu-
cleic acid; EMG: electromyogr...
... infiltration of ovarian
carcinoma in the vagina is rare.
It was unexpected that the tumor had its origin in the
appendix. Appendiceal carcinoma is very rare; it has an
incidence of 0.12 cases ... mucinous cystadenocarcinomas and
adenocarcinomas. Primary adenocarcinomas of the
appendix are approximately 10 times less common than
appendiceal carcinoids [8].
Mostly app...