Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an increasingly common gastroenterological disease. Most cases are mild and self-limiting, although 10-20% of patients suffer a more severe disease course, associated with organ failure and complications. It is not fully elucidated, why and in which patients, severe AP develops, or what factors impact the natural history of AP. The aims of the papers included in this ...

AIM To evaluate the real incidence of contact dermatitis, to identify the most common allergens, the favoring factors, to establish the prophylaxis methods, the key for a correct management of the patient with contact dermatitis. METHOD A retrospective study, on the patients that refers to the Dermatology Clinic, "St. Spiridon" Emergency Hospital Iasi, between 01.01.2006 and 31.12. 2009, base...

We read with interest the letter of QUANJER et al. [1] persuading the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) committee to abandon the fixed ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1)/forced vital capacity (FVC) ,0.70 in favour of the lower limit of normal (LLN). We feel that, in the current debate, some basic epidemiological principles have been overlooked. We will b...

Sir Dugald Baird sketches the history of abortion legislation in Great Britain from the beginning of the century. In his views the 1967 Abortion Act has been one of the most important and beneficial pieces of social legislation enacted in Britain in the last 100 years. It has, however, brought problems both of administration in the hospitals and to individual doctors and nurses, particularly wh...

ENWEndNote BIBJabRef, Mendeley RISPapers, Reference Manager, RefWorks, Zotero AMA Gill G. EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRENDS OF ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT NEISSERIA GONORRHEA IN THE EU/EEA/EUROPEAN REGION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. Health Problems of Civilization. 2023. doi:10.5114/hpc.2023.124085. APA Gill, (2023). https://doi.org/10.5114/hpc.2023.124085 Chicago Gurkeerat. "EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REVIEW". Harvard MLA REVIE...

Leptospires are ubiquitous spirochetes. While the butchers, laboratory personnel who handle laboratory animals saprophytic species is a usual contaminant of surface waters, etc. are at high risk for contracting leptospirosis by direct the primary habitat of the pathogenic species is the distal transmission. When the immediate source of infection is tubules of the kidneys of rodents, the reservo...

1College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan Province, China 2Computational Medicine Research Group, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu and Biocenter Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, 90014 University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 3NMRMetabonomics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, University of Eastern Finland, 70211 Kuop...

background: epidemiological characteristics of diabetic foot infection in our region are not clear. the purpose of this study was to determine the epidemiological features of diabetic foot infection in babol, north of iran. methods: from march, 2005 to april, 2010, the epidemiological features of 450 cases of diabetic foot infection treated in two main teaching hospitals of babol medical univer...

The induction of host protective immunity is an important factor in the immunization against potentially fatal disease and emerging illnesses in the U.S. and global populations especially among immunologically susceptible naïve hosts. Vaccination programs need to be evaluated as regards their health and economic population benefit among indigenous at risk populations taking into account emergin...

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