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Ultrasonographic Measurement Of The Femoral Cartilage Thickness In Patients With Behcet'S Disease
(Univ West Indies Faculty Medical Sciences, 2014)
Objective: To evaluate femoral cartilage thickness in patients with Behcet's disease (BD) by using ultrasonography. Methods: Thirty-one patients with BD (18 M, 13 F; mean age: 32.87 +/- 8.5 years) and 31 age-, gender- and ...
Importance Of Inhaler Device Use Status In The Control Of Asthma In Adults: The Asthma Inhaler Treatment Study
(Daedalus Enterprises Inc, 2014)
BACKGROUND: Proper education and training in correct inhalation technique has been reported to have a substantial role in the achievement of optimal therapeutic benefit and asthma control. The present study was designed ...
Mefv Mutation Frequency And Effect On Disease Severity In Ankylosing Spondylitis
(Tubitak Scientific & Technical Research Council Turkey, 2014)
Background/aim: To define the frequency of familial Mediterranean fever gene (MEFV) mutations in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and describe different clinical aspects of MEFV mutation carrier and noncarrier AS patients. ...
Effect of Locally Applied Transforming Growth Factor Beta3 on Wound Healing and Stenosis Development in Tracheal Surgery
(Daedalus Enterprises Inc, 2014)
BACKGROUND: Tracheal stenosis constitutes one of the most frequently seen problems in thoracic surgery. Although many treatment modalities to prevent fibroblast proliferation, angiogenesis, or inflammation that causes ...
Somatic Mutations In Cerebral Cortical Malformations
(Massachusetts Medical Soc, 2014)
BACKGROUND Although there is increasing recognition of the role of somatic mutations in genetic disorders, the prevalence of somatic mutations in neurodevelopmental disease and the optimal techniques to detect somatic ...
Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase Activators Increase The Expression Of Tolerance To Morphine Analgesic Effect
(Comenius Univ, 2014)
Objectives: It is aimed to investigate the effects of guanylyl cyclase activation and inhibition on acute morphine antinociception and the development of tolerance to its effect. Background: Nitric oxide-soluble guanylyl ...
Diagnostic Clues For Spondylitis In Acute Brucellosis
(Saudi Med J, 2014)
Objectives: To determine the diagnostic factors for brucellar spondylitis. Methods: This retrospective study included 227 consecutive brucellosis patients admitted to the Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology clinics ...
Antibiotherapy with and without Bone Debridement in Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis: A Retrospective Cohort Study
(Professional Medical Publications, 2014)
Background and Objective: The treatment of diabetic foot osteomyelitis (DFO) is a controversial issue, with disagreement regarding whether the best treatment is surgical or conservative. The purpose of this study was to ...
Evaluation Of Diagnostic Tests Using Information Theory For Multi-Class Diagnostic Problems And Its Application For The Detection Of Occlusal Caries Lesions
(Galenos Yayıncılık, 2014)
Background: Several methods are available to evaluate the performance of the tests when the purpose of the diagnostic test is to discriminate between two possible disease states. However multi-class diagnostic problems ...