Primary Aldosteronism (PA) is a common form of secondary hypertension, often undiagnosed, untreated, and overlooked leading to excess cardiovascular morbidity mortality. Until recently it being recognized as binary disease. Recent evidence suggests PA disease spanning continuum from subclinical stages more florid manifesting Conn’s syndrome. Timely diagnosis appropriate surgical intervention ca...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To chart the incidence and course of three types of arm morbidity (lymphedema, pain, and range of motion [ROM] restrictions) in women with breast cancer 6-12 months after surgery and the relationship between arm morbidity and disability. DESIGN Longitudinal mixed methods approach. SETTING Four sites across Canada. SAMPLE 347 patients with breast cancer 6-12 months after...

Cholangitis, with a clinical spectrum between acute ascending cholangitis and acute fulminant cholangitis, the mildest and the most severe forms, respectively, is the infection of bile ducts with a potential of serious mortality and morbidity. Obstruction of the bile ducts followed by infection, with E. coli being the most commonly isolated agent, is common to all forms of cholangitis. Biliary ...

Managing exotic invasive pests like emerald ash borer can strain budgets and the capacity of cities to protect their urban forest. Area-wide management approaches, SLAM (SL.ow A.sh M.ortality), potentially trees at a greatly reduced cost. We tested this strategy in three forests Indiana by treating 40 % with insecticides. While approach overall mortality untreated trees, survivorship varied con...

objectives: the purpose of this multi-center study was to investigate the probable predictive factors of mortality and morbidity in elderlypopulation. methods & materials: the descriptive prospective study was conducted based on the data gathered from trauma cases older than 65 years admitted to sina, shohada and fayaz-bakhsh trauma centers during years 1997-98. a pre-prepared questionnaire inc...

traumatic brain injury (tbi) is a significant public health concern in our country, because of placing in top three most common causes of death and substantial direct and indirect costs to society. the incidence of tbi in our country is 1.7 times of international incidence. traumatic brain injury induced by primary and secondary mechanisms that give rise to death and neurologic morbidity in pat...

BACKGROUND Clinical evolution of HIV-infected children who have not yet initiated antiretroviral treatment (ART) is poorly understood in Africa. We describe severe morbidity and mortality of untreated HIV-infected children. METHODS All HIV-infected children enrolled from 2004-2009 in a prospective HIV programme in two health facilities in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, were eligible from their time ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The morbidity from spontaneous hemorrhage of untreated brain arteriovenous malformations (AVM) is not well described. METHODS The 241 consecutive AVM patients (mean age 37+/-16 years, 52% women) from the prospective Columbia AVM Databank initially presenting with hemorrhage were evaluated using the Rankin Scale (RS) and the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIH...