Objective: The use of endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) for the treatment of hydrocephalus in the setting of aqueductal stenosis has been well established. There have been many demonstrated complications of this procedure, but epidural hematomas have rarely been reported in the literature. Case description: The authors report a case of a 16-year-old female with aqueductal stenosis, who und...

ABSTRACT Identifying long-period eclipsing binaries with space-based photometry is still a challenge even in the century of space telescopes due to relatively short observation sequences and lifetime these missions. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) telescope an appropriate tool supplement previous observations. In this paper, we report first results eclipse timing variation (ETV...

ABSTRACT The post-common envelope binary V471 Tauri has been an object of interest for decades. Tau shows various phenomena due to its evolutionary state and unique properties, e.g. magnetic accretion eclipse timing variation (ETV). Previous authors explained the ETVs by different sometimes contradictory theories. In this paper, we present analyse variability star. We observed over last 10 yr c...

INTRODUCTION Entecavir (ETV) is a potent inhibitor of hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication. In patients adherent to treatment, virologic remission rates of > 95 % can be maintained with entecavir at 3-5 years. AIM AND METHODS A cohort study was performed, including all subjects who received ETV for chronic hepatitis B, in the South- Eastern Romania. We assessed viral response, HBeAg loss and s...

A substantial proportion of patients with lamivudine-resistant hepatitis B virus (HBV) show suboptimal virologic response during rescue combination treatment with lamivudine plus adefovir. In this randomized active-control trial, 90 patients with serum HBV DNA levels of >2,000 IU/ml after at least 24 weeks of treatment with lamivudine-plus-adefovir therapy for lamivudine-resistant HBV were rand...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major problem for public health; timely antiviral treatment can significantly prevent the progression of liver damage from HBV by slowing down or stopping the virus from reproducing. In the study we applied Bayesian approach to cost-effectiveness analysis, using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation methods for the relevant evidence input i...

AIMS We sought to compare the effects of FIB-4 index and aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index (APRI) on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) incidence in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients undergoing entecavir (ETV) therapy. PATIENT AND METHODS A total of 338 nucleosides analogue therapy naïve CHB patients initially treated with ETV were analyzed. The optimal cutoff points in each con...

Background: Entecavir (ETV) has been shown to be effective in randomized controlled trials in highly selected patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of ETV in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients in the real-world setting. Methods: A total of 233 treatment-naïve, CHB patients who received at least 12 months of ETV treatment were included in th...