OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between birth weight and abdominal adiposity in adolescents. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 284 adolescents (49.3% of whom were female) aged 14.9 +/- 1.2 years were included in the study. Birth weight and gestational age were obtained from parental records. Abdominal adiposity (in three regions: R1, R2, and R3) and trunk and total body fat mass we...

A 13-year-old, obese girl presented with acute abdominal pain with abdominal distension for a year. The physical examination revealed marked abdominal distension with a large well-circumscribed mass sized 13×20 cm. Her body mass index (BMI) was 37.8 kg/m2. An abdominal CT scan revealed a huge multiloculated cystic mass and a left adnexal mass. She had an abnormal fasting plasma glucose and low ...

Case Description- A 4-year-old male homer pigeon (Columba livia) with anorexia, lethargy, emaciation, and abdominal distention was referred to Veterinary Teaching Hospital of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Clinical Findings- Palpation revealed a solid mass in the caudal coelomic region. Radiographic and ultrasonographic examinations showed caudal coelo...

Aggressive angiomyxoma is a rare mesenchymal neoplasm of the soft parts of the pelvis. It is a benign lesion with a high incidence of recurrence that presents mainly in women in the third or fourth decades of life, and particularly affects the pelvis and perineum.1 The cell of origin is the myofibroblast.2 We describe a 38-year-old woman with a tumor of this type and a mass in the right cardiac...

Objective(s): Weight gain and metabolic disturbances such as dyslipidemia, are frequent side effects of second-generation antipsychotics, including olanzapine. This study examined the metabolic effects of chronic olanzapine exposure. In addition, we investigated the hepatic fatty acid effects of olanzapine in female C57BL/6J mice fed a normal diet.Materials and Methods: Female C57BL/6J mice ora...

A 69-year-old obese man (body mass index, 30.3) presented with acute left abdominal pain after severe coughing. He had no history of direct abdominal trauma. He was not receiving anticoagulant therapy. A physical examination showed a smooth painful mass on his left abdominal wall. The laboratory findings were a platelet count of 196,000/ mm and a normal range of coagulability. Ultrasonography r...

The influence of excess total and abdominal adiposity on cardiovagal baroreflex gain remains unclear. We tested the hypotheses that cardiovagal baroreflex gain would be reduced in men with 1) higher [higher fat (HF), mass >20 kg, n = 11] compared with lower [lower fat (LF), mass <20 kg, n = 10] levels of total body and abdominal fat and 2) higher abdominal visceral fat (HAVF; n = 10) compared w...

BACKGROUND Anterior abdominal wall fibroid are uncommon and could be a cause of pain and discomfort. Very few cases have been reported in the literature but none in our region. CASE PRESENTATION We present an uncommon case of a 31 year old para 2+2 trader from the Itsekiri tribe of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria who presented with a one year history of a periumbilcal mass, had surgical rem...