A 50-year-old woman was seen in the emergency department at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), affiliated with this hospital, because of pain and decreased hearing in the left ear. The patient had been in her usual state of health until 6 weeks earlier, when she noted decreased hearing, discomfort, and a sensation of blockage in her left ear. She saw an otolaryngologist at another hosp...

Peptides, proteins, and amino acids are often mislabeled and the terms applied as if they were interchangeable, yet they are different in their characteristics, uses, biological activities, and cosmetic potential. After defining peptides and proteins, the first part of the chapter discusses the specificities of these molecules and their physiologic, biological function, particularly in the skin...

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of probing surgery in patients with congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (CNLDO) according to application time and age groups.
 Materials Methods: In this retrospective study, CNLDO who were followed up at Cukurova University Faculty Medicine between 2012 2022 evaluated. One hundred thirteen eyes 90 included study. The fluorescein dye disappearanc...

BACKGROUND To assess health- related quality of life (HRQOL) with SF-12 and SF-36 and compare their abilities to predict mortality in chronic dialysis patients, after adjusting for traditional risk factors. METHODS The Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) with the embedded SF-12 was applied in 301 dialysis patients cross-sectionally. Physical and mental component summary (PCS-36, MCS-36, PCS-12, ...

Dr. Konstantina M. Stankovic: A 27-year-old woman was seen in an outpatient otolaryngology clinic of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, which is affiliated with this hospital, because of a pruritic lesion of the left ear canal, with recurrent bleeding. One year before this presentation, a ballooning lesion had developed in the patient’s left ear canal that partially occluded the lumen and...

The human oro-gastrointestinal (GI) tract is a complex system, consisting of oral cavity, pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum and anus, which all together with the accessory digestive organs constitute the digestive system. The function of the digestive system is to break down dietary constituents into small molecules and then absorb these for subsequent distr...

1Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Damascus, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic. 2Public Health Department, Ministry of Health, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic. ABSTRACT Leishmaniasis causes significant morbidity and mortality in areas where it is endemic. A seroprevalence survey was conducted in 2 endemic villages in Daraa, Syrian Arab Republic, where 80 out of 345 children (...

Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is a multiple-purpose crop which has been consumed as either food or feed and recently, industrially cultivated for liquid sugar and ethanol production. Biomass and carbohydrate composition of sweet sorghum are considered as important factors for industrial productions. Thus, in this study fresh stalk yield, total sugars, sucrose content and invert su...