We report a case of advanced grades of bleeding hemorrhoids in a 10-yrs-old boy, who had a history of bleeding per rectum since he was 5 year of age. The diagnosis was made on anoscopic examination after ruling out other colorectal pathologies by a full-length colonoscopy. There was no evidence of portal hypertension. He was successfully treated with radiofrequency ablation and plication of hem...

Salivary duct obstruction secondary to calculi is a common disorder of the submandibular gland and often manifesting as painful episodic swelling of the gland during meals. Complications may arise in unresolved obstruction leading to infections, abscess formation and a hypofunctioning gland. Treatment of this disorder has evolved from the traditional sialadenectomy to organ preserving procedure...

In 1948 Ellman and Ball drew attention to the pulmonary manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis.' Nevertheless, until recently little attention has been paid to the possibility of pulmonary dysfunction in an appreciable proportion of patients, despite a normal chest x-ray result.2 The reported incidence of pulmonary involvement in rheumatoid arthritis shows considerable variation, ranging from 1...

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a slowly progressive neuropsychiatric illness, principally characterized by memory deficits, has become the fourth leading cause of death in developed nations. Since the patients with AD suffer from marked reduction of cholinergic neuronal function resulting in a deficiency in acetylcholine (ACh) concentration in the brain, and these reductions are associated with impa...

Senior Medical Coordinator, Worker Health and Safety Branch, Department of Pesticide Regulation, 2 Sacramento, California Staff Toxicologist, Worker Health and Safety Branch, Department of Pesticide Regulation, Sacramento, 3 California Associate Toxicologist, Worker Health and Safety Branch, Department of Pesticide Regulation, Sacramento, 4 California Professor of Avian Sciences, Department of ...

PURPOSE Lingual suspension (LS) and tongue base radio frequency volume reduction (RFVR) have been proposed as means of correcting the obstruction caused by the collapse or hypertrophy of the tongue base in patients having sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare long-term results (6 months and 2 years) in a population of 24 patients having mild obstruc...

OBJECTIVES To develop a novel and automated assay determining plasma thiol/disulphide homeostasis, which consists of thiol-disulphide exchanges. DESIGN AND METHODS Native thiol and total thiol concentrations were synchronously measured as a paired test. In the first vessel, the amount of native thiol groups was measured by a modified Ellman reagent. At the parallel run, first, dynamic disulph...

Alzheimer hastalığı (AH) öncelikli olarak yaşlı popülasyonda görülen, klinik bellek ve bilişsel bozukluklar ile karakterize, ilerleyici nörodejeneratif bir hastalıktır. 
 Hastalığın etiyolojisinin henüz tam belirlenememiş olması, hasta popülasyonunun yıllar geçtikçe artması, radikal tedavinin olmayışı, tedavi bakım maliyetinin oldukça yüksek hastaların yaşam kalitesini düşürmesi gibi sebep...

BACKGROUND Lyme borreliosis is a tick-transmitted, chronic, zoogenous disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi spirochete. The clinical picture of Lyme disease is characterized by the variety of tissue and organ involvement and differing severity of symptoms. One of the pathogenic symptoms of early Lyme disease is a skin lesion called erythema migrans. MATERIAL AND METHODS The purpose of our re...

This work presents the effects of an anatoxin-a(s) containing extract on a cockroach semi-isolated heart preparation and the results supporting the extract’s biological activity on acetylcholinesterase (purifi ed from eel). The presence of the toxin in cyanobacterial strains Anabaena spiroides (ITEP-024, ITEP-025 and ITEP-026) isolated from the Tapacurá reservoir in Pernambuco, Brazil, was conf...