Understanding the aetiology and characteristics of patients with bronchiectasis is vital for developing strategies to reduce burden disease; however, geographical variations in these characteristics, which may have important implications diagnosis treatment,1, 2 make it difficult formulate a uniform strategy investigation. Here, we describe illness treatment among Korean compare results those f...

TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Severe Gestational Hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition, which can lead to devastating complications, including acute pancreatitis (AP), hyperviscosity syndrome, preeclampsia, maternal & fetal morbidity mortality. CASE PRESENTATION: A 33-year-old female G3P1+1 at 37-week ges...

Background Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by immune system dysregulation, endothelial dysfunction and fibrosis of skin internal organs. Interstitial lung (ILD) common in SSc about 80% patients will develop ILD during the course [1]. Although most have a stable or slowly progressive disease, showing slow decline function minimal increase extent pulmonary high res...

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women today (After lung cancer) and is the most common cancer among women, excluding non-invasive non-melanoma skin cancers. Worldwide, breast cancer comprises 22.9% of invasive cancers in women and 16% of all female cancers.1 Mammography has been the basic imaging method in breast diagnostics, and the only tool suitable for screenin...

Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) of the paretic wrist and finger extensors is routinely used in stroke rehabilitation to promote recovery of muscle strength and upper extremity function. A recent review of 31 randomized controlled trials concluded that there is strong evidence that NMES applied in the context of task practice improves upper extremity function in subacute and chronic ...

BACKGROUND Triangulation of data from multiple sources such as clinical cohort and surveillance data can help improve our ability to describe care patterns, service utilization, comorbidities, and ultimately measure and monitor clinical outcomes among persons living with HIV infection. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to determine whether linkage of clinical cohort data and routinel...

We demonstrate highly germania doped fibers for mid-infrared supercontinuum generation. Experiments ensure a highest output power of 1.44 W for a broadest spectrum from 700 nm to 3200 nm and 6.4 W for 800 nm to 2700 nm from these fibers, while being pumped by a broadband Erbium-Ytterbium doped fiber based master oscillator power amplifier. The effect of repetition frequency of pump source and l...

Variable number of tandem repeat polymorphisms (VNTRs) are widely dispersed throughout the genome. They consist of repeats of stereotypic DNA sequences and are generally found in non-coding regions of DNA. For many VNTRs the number of repeat units display large inter-individual variation, which has made them useful tools in forensic medicine and gene mapping studies. In the majority of cases, t...