Emtricitabine FTC is a cytosine analogue, recently introduced in clinical practice for the treatment of HIV patients. In order to evaluate the safety and efficacy of antiretroviral regimen containing emtricitabine in the clinical practice, we performed an observational study on all patients starting a regimens containing emtricitabine in a clinical unit. Data were collected from clinical charts...

Tenofovir (TFV) disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and emtricitabine (FTC), two nucleos(t)ide analogs (NA), are coformulated as an anti-HIV combination tablet for treatment and preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). TDF/FTC may have effects on the deoxynucleoside triphosphate (dNTP) pool due to their similar structures and similar metabolic pathways. We carried out a comprehensive clinical study to characteriz...

BACKGROUND Evidence on the biological behavior and clinical courses of minimally invasive and widely invasive follicular thyroid carcinoma (MI-FTC, WI-FTC) is still debatable. The current study was conducted to identify differences between MI and WI tumors and those prognostic parameters influencing late outcome such as local recurrence and survival. METHODS From January 1998 to October 2013,...

OBJECTIVE Permanent visual impairment has been reported to occur in up to 19% of GCA patients. The aim of this study was to examine whether implementation of a fast-track approach could reduce the rate of permanent visual impairment and inpatient days of care in GCA patients. METHODS A fast-track outpatient GCA clinic (FTC) was implemented in the Department of Rheumatology, Hospital of Southe...

BACKGROUND Testicular cancer, while rare compared with other adult solid tumors, is the most common cancer in young men in northern Europe and North America. Risk factors include white race, positive family history, contralateral testicular cancer, cryptorchidism, infertility and testicular microlithiasis. As the genetic causes of familial clusters (Familial Testicular Cancer or FTC) are being ...

Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is the second most common cancer, following papillary carcinoma. Metastasis to orbital rim from FTC very rare. We recently experienced a case of with metastasis in 74-year-old woman, who initially presented huge mass and an asymptomatic solitary lesion. The lesion was suspected be separate disease entity such as lymphoma preoperative imaging, but bone finally ...

Letter e The article by Bulteel et al., published in the September issue of the journal, has investigated the rate of M184V emergence in patients receiving HAART combinations containing efavirenz (EFV), tenofovir (TDF) and lamivudine (3 TC) or emtricitabine (FTC) within the UK Collaborative HIV Cohort. By analyzing 304 genotypic resistance tests, the authors asserted that, although patients rec...

A Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC) methodology has been presented for nonlinear processes being imposed by control input constraints. The proposed methodology uses a combination of Feedback Linearization and Model Predictive Control (FLMPC) schemes. The resulting constraints in the transformed process will be dependent on the actual evolving states, making their incorporation in the de...

INTRODUCTION Management of persistently non-adherent youth living with HIV (YLHIV) with virologic failure (VF) on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) remains challenging. One strategy has been using 3TC/ FTC monotherapy (3TC/FTC), which in the presence of the M184V resistance mutation, does not suppress viral replication nor select for additional drug resistance mutations, and reduces vir...

A moving object is perceived to lie beyond a static object presented at the same time at the same retinal location (flash-lag effect or FLE). Some studies report that if the moving stimulus stops moving (flash-terminated condition or FTC) the instant the flash occurs, a FLE does not occur. Other studies, using different stimuli, report that the FLE does, in fact, occur in the FTC. The FTC is th...