This condition is not rare, but until recently has been almost invariably fatal. The condition is now curable, but early diagnosis is essential, and surgical correction of the abnormality must be performed within the first two or three days of birth. The diagnosis should always be suspected if the following signs are present: frothy mucus about the nose and mouth; cyanosis during feeds, and reg...

fails to respond to the action of carcinogenic hy drocarbons when administered from within the lumen (see reviews 1, 6, 7, 12). Such carcinogens are known to induce tumors of glandular mucosa when injected into the submucosa (4, 5, 11) but induce only tumors of the squamous epithelium of the forestomach when administered by mouth (2, 8, 10). On the assumption that the "mucus barrier" (6) might ...

Chest physiotherapy is a set of techniques used to help the draining mucus from lung in pathological situations. The choice and their adjustment patients or pathologies remain as today largely empirical. High-frequency chest wall oscillation (HFCWO) one these techniques, performed with device that applies oscillating pressures on chest. However, there no clear understanding how HFCWO devices in...

A 76-year-old female patient was admitted at hospital with diarrhea, weight loss, fatigue and abdominal pain. Her physical examination and laboratory test were normal; however, the radiological images showed an atrophic pancreas with cystic dilatation of the main pancreatic duct. Severe dilatation of the main pancreatic duct was confirmed on EUS, with the presence of round images of mucinous ag...

BACKGROUND Intubation and mechanical ventilation can impair mucociliary clearance and cause secretion retention, airway occlusion, atelectasis, and pneumonia. Animal and laboratory work has demonstrated that mechanical ventilator settings can generate a flow bias (inspiratory or expiratory) that may result in mucus movement either away from the ventilator (deeper into the lungs) or toward the ...

By LAL MOHAN BANIK, Assistant Medical Officer, Teok Tea Estate, Assam A woman, aged 60 years, was admitted into hospital complaining of abdominal discomfort and passage of loose stools containing blood and mucus. The *tool on naked-eye examination was semi-formed, clay-coloured and contained blood and mucus. Under the low power of the microscope a, number (about 50 per field) of oval-shaped mob...

This study provides a quantitative analysis to investigate the effects of cough intensity and initial mucus thickness on transport clearance in mouth-to-trachea airway geometry using an experimentally validated Volume Fluid (VOF) based multiphase model. In addition, accuracy simplifying as Newtonian fluid is also quantified by comparisons efficiencies with simulations realistic shear-thinning n...

Oral sub mucous fibrosis is a crippling disease of mouth with high malignant potential that has high prevalence rate in India and South East Asia. The treatment of patients with oral submucous fibrosis depends on the degree of clinical involvement. If the disease is detected at a very early stage, cessation of the habit is sufficient. Medical treatment is symptomatic and predominantly aimed at ...

background: childhood masturbation (cm) is considered a variant of normal sexual behavior; however, it is commonly misdiagnosed as epilepsy and movement disorders. as the first study from iran, we analyzed a large population of infants and children with cm in a case-control study and evaluated the value of mucus in urine analysis as an alternative diagnostic tool for cm. methods: a total of 623...