torsion of the gallbladder is a relatively rare surgical disease which mimics acute cholecystitis' symptoms that usually would not be respondable to medical therapies. the torsion would mostly be diagnosed intra-operatively. cholecystectomy is the treatment of choice. in general in our centre, general surgery department, imam reza hospital, mashhad, iran, since 1986 over 14000 cholecystect...

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a new coronavirus first discovered in 2019. The infection has spread rapidly throughout the world and affects people of all ages. Thus, 12.7% SARS-CoV-2 patients are children. Purpose - to establish clinical paraclinical manifestations course children, depending on age predict severity disease’s manifestation. Materials methods. 60 children aged from ...

BACKGROUND We aimed to compare the clinical judgments of a reference panel of emergency medicine academic physicians against evidence-based likelihood ratios (LRs) regarding the diagnostic value of selected clinical and paraclinical findings in the context of a script concordance test (SCT). FINDINGS A SCT with six scenarios and five questions per scenario was developed. Subsequently, 15 emer...

Plaque vulnerability due to inflammation has been shown to be a participating factor in the degenerative process in the arterial wall that contributes to stenosis and embolism. This is believed to have an important role to play also in the genesis of stroke or cerebrovascular diseases. In order to appropriately screen patients for treatment, there is an absolute need to directly or indirectly v...

The clinical symptoms and MRI characteristics of transverse myelopathy (TM) due to non-compressive causes are reviewed, with special emphasis on the differential diagnosis between inflammatory demyelinating lesions, and metabolic and vascular myelopathies. Inflammatory transverse myelopathies are the commonest and most difficult ones to identify. The differentiation between clinically isolated ...

Methods We performed an observational, retrospective study (01 January 2009 – 31 December 2011) on 387 HIV-infected patients in evidence at the HIV/AIDS Craiova Regional Center. We analyzed the epidemiological, clinical and paraclinical data (smears and cultures for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, immunovirological evaluation) for patients who presented at least 2 times per year at the regional cen...