195 a Assistant Professor, Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Orthodontics, Trabzon, Turkey. b Assistant Professor, Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Oral Surgery, Trabzon, Turkey. Corresponding author: Mehmet Bayram. Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Orthodontics, Trabzon, Black Sea 61080, Turkey. +90 462 3774724; e-mail, [email protected]. Received Ja...

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BACKGROUND A statistical audit of adenosine deaminase (ADA) in pleural effusions was undertaken. METHODS ADA analysis, cytological and microbiological examinations, and differential cell counts were performed on 462 pleural fluid samples. RESULTS ADA activity in tuberculous effusions was higher than in any other diagnostic group. At a level of 50 U/l the sensitivity and specificity for the ...

Result: Five hundred were included in the study, 242 (48%) were males and 258 (52%) were females. The mean age was 55±14 years and the mean BMI was 35±9. Type I DM was present in 38 (8%) patients compared to 462 (92%) type II DM. Three hundred thirty-one (66%) patients had medical complications; the most common was DPN 186 (37%) followed by vascular insufficiency 141 (28%). Sixty (12%) DPN pati...

Benjamin H. Rotstein,†,‡ Serge Zaretsky,† Vishal Rai,†,§ and Andrei K. Yudin*,† †Davenport Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 3H6 ‡Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts 021...

How to cite this article: Groenewald AJ, Walsh CM, Van Wyk HJ, Van Zyl S, Van der Merwe LJ. Staging and haematological abnormalities of HIV-infected persons in Mangaung in the Free State Province, South Africa. Afr J Prm Health Care Fam Med. 2012;4(1), Art. #462, 5 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ phcfm.v4i1.462 Background: The prevalence of HIV in specific areas of South Africa and its impact...

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EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA); Scientific Opinion Part II on the substantiation of health claims related to various food(s)/food constituent(s) not supported by pertinent human data (ID 406, 462, 472, 543, 659, 678, 696, 858, 1381, 1403, 1437, 1438, 1513, 1536, 1537, 1538, 1539, 1540, 1543, 1613, 1627, 1855, 1860, 1981, 2126, 2514, 3127, 4038, 4501, 4672, 4712, ...

A study by Pauli and colleagues in this issue of Cancer Discovery describes the creation of a precision cancer platform for patients with advanced disease, integrating DNA sequencing of patient tumors with the generation of patient-derived organoids and xenografts. They propose the use of this platform for drug testing to nominate therapeutic options for individual patients and for therape...

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