19 The aim of the study was to correlate the clinical severity of pectus excavatum with its type 20 and degree based on objective radiographic evaluation. Twelve brachycephalic dogs were 21 included. Grading of the clinical severity was done based on a 6-point grading score. 22 Thoracic radiographs were used to calculate the frontosagittal and vertebral indices at the 23 tenth thoracic vertebra...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The coverage of the official statistics is poor in motorcycle and moped accidents. The aim of this study was to analyze the severity of motorcycle and moped crashes, and to define the degree of under-reporting in official statistics. MATERIAL AND METHODS All first attendances due to an acute motorcyclist or moped driver injury registered in the emergency department between...

background: to identify and analyze factors that influence the grading and zoning management model of emergency triage as a first step in the improvement of the system. methods: questionnaires were used to extract data from clinical histories of 286 patients who attended the emergency department of binzhou central hospital (binzhou city, shandong province, china) from september to november of 2...

asthma is now recognized as a common cause of disability of great economic cost and preventable deaths. in this study we aimed to test our hypothesis based on the relationship between body mass index and bronchial asthma .among the patients with acute asthma admitted to the emergency ward and pulmonology clinic, we sought to determine the prevalence of obesity, as well as the effect of body mas...

three hundred cattle from 12 dairy farms in shiraz area were chosen randomly for population to be studied. after restraining, the jugular vein was examined for distention and on the base of severity, first, second and third degree distention was recorded. then the cattle were checked for jugular pulsation. the data were analyzed by using chi square, fisher exact test and t-test. p

OBJECTIVE Age, hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes are common cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) that contribute to the development of atherosclerosis in cardiovascular system including carotid artery disease. However, the impact of these risk factors on the increased carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) and degree of carotid severity remains to be further clarified. This study aims to ev...

Research on children with Joubert syndrome has focused on brain structural abnormalities and associated clinical symptoms. The degree of developmental delay has not been objectively reported. We investigated the neurobehavioral development of children with Joubert syndrome through neurobehavioral assessment in the largest sample to date. Thirty-two parents of children with Joubert syndrome comp...

background: the clinical course of multiple sclerosis (ms) evolves over many years. its prognosis is highly variable among affected individuals, i.e. while some suffer from early severe disabilities, others remain ambulatory and functional for many years. we used multiple sclerosis severity score (msss) and the new classification for ms severity herbert et al. introduced in 2006 according to ms...