Psoriasis: Presentation, Imitators, and Treatment Psoriasis is a disfiguring and often painful skin condition that affects an estimated 125 million people worldwide. Know the facts about this ...

Optimization of Settings Biventricular pacing has two primary (electrical) effects on the heart; the first effect is the change in atrioventricular (A-V) interval, which influences the timing of ...

Fast Five Quiz: Ovarian Cancer Overview Worldwide, more than 200,000 women are estimated to develop ovarian cancer, and about 100,000 die of the disease every year. Do you know key components of ...

One year after presentation in the US, the patient entered into an observational study to evaluate risk factors associated with the development of subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with SLE. At ...

In most patients, IgG antibodies can be detected three weeks after infection. IgG titers increase between days 7 and 21 in patients with acute infection. Clinicians should be aware that false-positive ...

Conclusions This article provides a significant contribution to the literature regarding levels of vitamin D in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis. With our findings, and considering that ...

In the past, neuropathic pain has been considered refractory to opioids, but more recently, the potential of these agents in the treatment of neuropathic pain has been confirmed. [3] Tramadol is an ...

Conclusion Although GERD is less prevalent in Asia, it is now recognized as an emerging digestive disease that creates an increasing burden on health-care services because of its chronic nature. There ...

Upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) refers to malignant changes of the transitional epithelial cells lining the urinary tract from the renal calyces to the ureteral orifice. Although ...

EPHA3 as an Eph receptor: Expression & Function EPHA3 RTK was originally isolated from a pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cell line (LK63) over 2 decades ago. [15] EPHA3 follows the structure ...

Discussion In our descriptive analysis, a break in health care coverage in the past year was associated with the use of urgent or emergent care for asthma. In addition to the burden of asthma on ...

Infiltrates eventually dissipate. In general, 50% of patients with pneumococcal pneumonia have radiographic clearing at 5 weeks, the majority clearing in 2 to 3 months. [44] Bacteremia identifies a ...