BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder of epidemic proportion, projected to become the major cause of morbidity and mortality in the world in future. Despite extensive research in understanding this disease at molecular level, and the discovery of new drugs, diabetes and its complications remain largely untreated. Many of the late diabetic complications are associated with the gly...

Pese a que muchas personas han sufrido a causa del sida, al erse afectadas tanto físicamente (cánceres, efectos secundarios el tratamiento, trastornos neurológicos y dermatológicos) como n los ámbitos emocional (miedo, depresión) y social (marginaión, rechazo), en España algunas áreas de la salud pública se han isto positivamente influenciadas, como las ciencias del comportaiento. El sida mostr...

El VIH induce un proceso progresivo y crónico, con espectro enorme de manifestaciones complicaciones, que va desde la infección primaria hasta infecciones oportunistas, tumores desgaste. Aquellos pacientes llegan a una etapa avanzada el (SIDA) bajo recuento células TCD4+, corren mayores riesgos nos les falla su sistema inmune desarrollar oportunistas del nervioso central. Las éste, entiéndase n...

The majority of the plant materials used in herbal medicine is procured from the markets in the form of dried or powdered plant parts. It is essential to use authentic plant materials to derive the benefits of herbal medicine. However, establishing the identity of these plant materials by conventional taxonomy is extremely difficult. Here we report a case study in which the species identificati...

PURPOSE To determine the effect of each of independent acid base variables on the anion gap (AG) value in cardiac surgical patients. METHODS This retrospective study involved 128 cardiac surgical patients admitted for postoperative care. The variation of AG (AGvar) between the day of admission and the first postoperative day was correlated via a multiple linear regression model with the respe...

Dans cet ouvrage issu de sa these doctorat, Lukas Engelmann s’interroge sur la production et l’evolution des images visant a caracteriser le sida dans domaine medical. A croisee l’histoire medecine visuelle, l’auteur fonde son etude une source particuliere, originale : les atlas du sida, edites entre 1986 et 2008 monde anglophone. Le corpus se compose ainsi trois series d’atlas reedites success...