a 2-year-old male mynah (acridotheres tristis) was referred with history of abdominal hernia surgery, depression, cachexia, lethargy and swelling of foot joints. hematological and biochemical findings consisted of leukocytosis, heterophilia, monocytosis, elevation of liver enzymes activity, hyperproteinemia and hyperglobulinemia. fine needle aspiration (fna) was performed from foot joints, asep...

BACKGROUND Valid detection of inflamed joints is essential for correct classification, therapeutic decisions, prognosis and assessment of treatment efficacy in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Fluorescence optical imaging (FOI) enables visualization of inflammation in arthritis of finger and hand joints and might be used for monitoring. METHODS A 24-week observational study in polyarticul...

in spite of the fact that cementitious and concrete materials are mainly used on a large scale and inhuge quantities for roads, dams, bridges and building constructions, the mechanical behavior of thesematerials depends to a great extend on structural elements and phenomena which are effective on amicro and nanoscale. although this is well known by researchers, material producers and engineersf...

Plastic joints for orthoses have more advantages than metal joints. They are lightweight, noiseless comfortable to use, rust proof, corrosion free, and radiolucent. Two types of plastic joints were developed by the authors, one for the ankle joint and the other for the knee joint, elbow joint or hip joint. Polypropylene was chosen as the joint material because of its appropriate flexibility and...

A paralyzed hand with some power in the wrist can he made functional by stabilizing the proximal and distal interphalangeal joints of the index and long fingers and the joints of the thumb in the position of function so that the fingers, when flexed at their metacarpophalangeal joints, meet the abducted and partially opposed thumb. The fingers, of course, must be

● Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Juvenile RA (JRA) joints; less commonly lung, skin ● Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) skin, joints, kidneys, heart, brain, red blood cells, other ● Scleroderma skin, intestine, less commonly lung ● Sjogren's syndrome salivary glands, tear glands, joints ● Goodpasture's syndrome lungs, kidneys ● Wegener's granulomatosis blood vessels, sinuses, lungs, kidneys ●...

● Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Juvenile RA (JRA) joints; less commonly lung, skin ● Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) skin, joints, kidneys, heart, brain, red blood cells, other ● Scleroderma skin, intestine, less commonly lung ● Sjogren's syndrome salivary glands, tear glands, joints ● Goodpasture's syndrome lungs, kidneys ● Wegener's granulomatosis blood vessels, sinuses, lungs, kidneys ●...

OBJECTIVES (a) To determine the topographical variations in cartilage thickness over the entire surfaces of cadaveric lower limb joints, and (b) to examine the correlations between: cartilage thickness and its site specific modulus; cartilage thickness and donor age, weight, height, and body mass index. METHODS The cartilage thickness of 11 sets of cadaveric human joints each comprising an an...