introduction: screening of newborns with seizure, who have curable pathologic brain findings, might be able to improve their final outcome by accelerating treatment intervention. the present study aimed to evaluate the brain ultrasonography findings of newborns hospitalized with complaint of seizure. methods: the present cross-sectional study designed to evaluate brain ultrasonography findings ...

Chronic inflammatory bone diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, periodontal disease and aseptic periprosthetic osteolysis, are characterized by bone loss around affected joints and teeth caused by increased osteoclastic bone resorption. This resorption is mediated largely by the increased local production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFa). These cytokin...

We read with interest the article titled “Endovascular transcatheter aortic valve implantation: An evolving standard” published by Sfeir PM et al. In view of the greying of the population and the higher age of patients, severe aortic stenosis patients who undergo transcatheter aortic valve implantation are more likely to have Lambl’s excrescences than 10 years ago. Lambl’s excrescences are smal...

There has long been a pressing clinical need to identify prognostic and predictive factors for patients with breast cancer. Although numerous candidate biological and molecular markers have been identified during the last two decades, traditional factors such as lymph node status, tumor size, histologic type, histologic grade, and hormone receptor status remain the most useful indicators of pro...

OBJECTIVE To describe peripapillary detachment in pathologic myopia (PDPM), a newly recognized fundus lesion. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review. METHODS We evaluated a series of myopic eyes that had a yellow-orange elevation of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium at the inferior border of the myopic conus. RESULTS Twenty eyes of 15 patients were identified during a 17-year ...

PURPOSE This study was designed to investigate the long-term oncologic outcomes for locally advanced rectal cancer patients after treatment with preoperative concurrent chemoradiotherapy followed by total mesorectal excision, and to identify prognostic factors that affect survival and pathologic response. MATERIALS AND METHODS From June 1996 to June 2009, 135 patients with locally advanced re...