Published in SN comprehensive clinical medicine
The pandemic of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by the Severe Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) creates an immense menace to public health worldwide. Currently, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized the novel coronavirus as the main cause of global pandemic. Patients infected with this virus generally show fev...
Published in Surgery Today
PurposeConfirmation of bile excretion into the gastrointestinal tract is important to exclude biliary atresia (BA). We compared the duodenal tube test (DTT) with hepatobiliary scintigraphy (HS) for their efficiency in detecting bile secretion.MethodsThe subjects of this retrospective study were 47 infants who underwent both DTT and HS to diagnose o...
Published in Case Reports in Oncology
Since the cost of molecular biological methods for Spitzoid neoplasms is expensive, the number of institutes that employ these methods might be limited. Preferentially expressed antigen in melanoma (PRAME) is a tumor-associated antigen that is useful to distinguish melanoma from other melanocytic disorders, including pediatric Spitzoid tumors that ...
Published in BMC Cancer
BackgroundThe treatment of choice for advanced non–small cell lung cancer is selected according to the presence of specific alterations. Patients should undergo molecular testing for relevant modifications and the mutational status of EGFR and translocation of ALK and ROS1 are commonly tested to offer the best intervention. In addition, the tests c...
Published in Scandinavian journal of primary health care
To describe early experience of replacing PSA with Stockholm3 for detection of prostate cancer in primary care. Longitudinal observations, comparing outcome measures before and after the implementation of Stockholm3. Stavanger region in Norway with about 370,000 inhabitants, 304 general practitioners (GPs) in 97 primary care clinics, and one hospit...
In this work, we report on the development of a catheter-based sensor designed for measuring the concentration of histamine in the human duodenum. Certain gut disorders, such as the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), are associated with elevated levels of intestinal histamine due to chronic immune activation. As it is still impossible to determine his...
Published in Infectious Diseases and Therapy
Introduction We aim to report on results and challenges of different methods used for hepatitis C (HCV) genotyping in a Cambodian HCV/HIV coinfection project. Methods Samples of 106 patients were available. HCV genotyping was initially (63 samples) done by the LightPower Taqman real-time PCR method (Viet A Corp.) and quality controlled using the Ve...
Published in Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
Pneumocystis jirovecii (PCP) remains a significant cause of mortality and morbidity in patients with respiratory infections. Accurate diagnosis of PCP is still a diagnostic challenge. Hence, the main objectives were to study the incidence of Pneumocystis Jirovecii pneumonia infection among respiratory problems patients and to compare the real-time ...
Published in Malawi Medical Journal
Introduction Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is the most common systemic fungal infection in patients with HIV infection. Rapid diagnosis and timely initiation of antifungal therapy are key to reducing mortality rate associated with CM. This study aims to evaluate the ability of four different diagnostic tests (Gram stain, India ink, and two types of ...
The aim was to create and validate a community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) diagnostic algorithm to facilitate diagnosis and guide chest computed tomography (CT) scan indication in patients with CAP suspicion in Emergency Departments (ED). We performed an analysis of CAP suspected patients enrolled in the ESCAPED study who had undergone chest CT scan a...
