...Medha Goyal; Dwayne Mascarenhas; Prashanth RR; Anitha Haribalakrishna Objective: Sepsis often prompts clinicians to start empirical antibiotics in suspected neonates while awaiting diagnosis. The next-generation testing with point-of-care (POC) techniques offers a lead-time advantage that could...

... anemia (IDA) are common in the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The unique genetic and lifestyle factors of the patient population in the region have necessitated the development of recommendations to help educate health-care professionals on appropriate diagnosis and management of ID...

... such as ultrasound biomicroscopy are critical for the accurate diagnosis and classification of CCO and to provide guidance on therapeutic choices. [email protected] 9 12 2018 27 06 2019 28 6 2019 © 2019 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel 2019 Open Access License...

...Zi-Ke Sheng; Jin Ye; Jun-Jie Li; Kui Zhao; Ji-Fang Sheng Objective: To assess the efficacy of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography ( 18 F-FDG PET)/computed tomography (CT) in the diagnosis of patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO), who were finally diagnosed as lymphoma...

... antigens and peptides encoded by these RDs could be useful for diagnosis and the development of new vaccines against tuberculosis. The analysis of RD proteins and peptides by in silico methods (using computational programs to predict major and HLA-promiscuous antigenic proteins and peptides...

... in a Turkish research hospital. Materials and Methods: Between 1996 and 2008, 231 patients were diagnosed with brucellosis and treated in our clinic. Medical records of 189 of the 231 patients with at least one demonstrable complication of the disease were reviewed for anamnesis, diagnosis, complications...

...Lancelot M. Pinto; Jasmine Grenier; Samuel G. Schumacher; Claudia M. Denkinger; Karen R. Steingart; Madhukar Pai Undiagnosed and mismanaged tuberculosis (TB) continues to fuel the global TB epidemic. Rapid, accurate and early diagnosis of TB is therefore a priority to improve TB case detection...

...Anthony Goncalves; François Bertucci Breast cancer is one of the most frequent and deadly cancers in industrialized countries. The identification of accurate biomarkers that improve the screening, diagnosis, prognostication and prediction of therapeutic response or toxicity, and the identification...

.... Gelastic epilepsy Diagnosis Video-EEG Treatment Case Report Med Princ Pract 2010;19:153 158 DOI: 10.1159/000273080 Received: February 4, 2009 Revised: May 4, 2009 Cryptogenic Gelastic Epilepsy Originating from the Right Temporal Lobe Yaohui Chai Bola Adamolekun Department of Neurology, University...

... diagnosis was made by barium enema and CT scan. The patient underwent laparotomy, revealing a perforated giant sigmoid diverticulum that was excised using Hartmann’s procedure. The perforation could have been precipitated by the barium enema study. The histopathology of the resected specimen revealed giant...

...Charles M. Poser The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) still rests on the time-honored twin criteria of dissemination in time and space. The disease shows a predilection for certain parts of the central nervous system: the optic nerves and chiasm, the brain stem and cerebellum, as well...

..., and batch-to-batch variations may occur with respect to the amount of active components in different batches, the use of defined antigens of M. tuberculosis in ELISA may be a better alternative in the early and specific diagnosis of tuberculosis. 23 06 1996 17 9 2008 © 1997 S. Karger AG...

...) patients referred to the PFT laboratory followed by a complete PFT test. The results of the patients’ tests were analyzed in terms of the diagnosis before the test, its relation to symptoms, and the rate of concordance between the diagnoses before and after the test. Results: The most referrals were from...

...A.S. Pacsa; A. El-Shazly; R.K. Gupta; K.V. Johny; M.R.N. Nampoory; S. Tarek; N. Gadalla; S. Essa Objective: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a frequent complication of kidney transplantation contributing substantially to morbidity and mortality. Early diagnosis of the infection is essential...