Objective: The purpose of this study is to find propotion fractured orbital walls in the maxillofacial trauma cases and its associated fracture treated Oral Maxillofacial Clinic ward operation theatre Hospital USM Kelantan, Malaysia. Materials methods: From July 2013 June 2018, records patients who sustained fractures presented them Accident Emergency Department, Clinic, were reviewed, recorded...

The aim of the study was to detect changes of the QT dispersion (QTd) due to cardiotoxicity of tricyclic antidepressant dosulepin. Electrocardiographic and body surface potential mapping (BSPM) recordings were obtained using Cardiag 112.2 diagnostic system from 27 psychiatric outpatients treated with prophylactic doses of dosulepin and compared to those obtained from 37 healthy volunteers. From...

PURPOSE To determine whether the best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) is significantly correlated with the retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (RNFLT) in the different peripapillary areas in eyes with open-angle glaucoma (OAG). PATIENTS AND METHODS Two hundred twenty-nine eyes of 159 patients with OAG were studied. The overall RNFLT and the RNFLT in the superior (S), temporal (T), inferior (I)...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the suggestion that osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip joint is often caused by subclinical acetabular dysplasia among elderly British women. METHODS We examined 393 hip joints from the radiographs of a sample of women aged 60-75 years undergoing intravenous urography. Acetabular dysplasia was assessed using measurements of the centre-edge (CE) angle and acetabular depth ...

BACKGROUND Simple screening tools to identify intake of fruit, vegetables and fat are necessary to design effective public health intervention strategies in order to increase intake of fruit and vegetable and to reduce fat intake. METHODS 108 men recorded their food intake for 14 days and filled in a 27-item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) 1.5-2 months later. Estimates of fruit, vegetables...

conclusions some results of the correlation coefficients are not the same with visualization. the reason may be due to the small number of data. materials and methods in the foundation-application study, we constructed two-way gene networks using nonparametric methods, such as spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and blomqvist’s measure, and compared them with pearson’s correlation coefficie...

determining landslide size could be a difficult and expensive task. in this research, size parameters of 142 landslides recognized in tajan river basin, northern iran, have been assessed. the dataset was prepared through the extensive field surveys and using the satellite imagery available via google earth. dependence between landslides area (a-m2), volume (v-m3), and depth (d-m) was appointed ...

STUDY DESIGN Psychometric assessment. OBJECTIVES To determine test-retest reliability and concurrent validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) in patients after total hip arthroplasty or total knee arthroplasty. BACKGROUND Despite recognized benefits of regular physical activity, little is known about the physical activity level of patients after total hip arthrop...

Background The aims of the study were: 1) to compare the fecal calprotectin (fCal) assay results with Calprolab™ ELISA (HRP) (Calpro AS) versus our routine method, Elia™ fluoroenzymoimmunoassay (Thermo Fisher), and 2) to determine whether the fCal assay results do not vary following storage of the extract at room temperature for 4 days with the Calpro AS buffer, this being the estimated shipmen...