Bilateral Loss of Vision after Spinal Anaesthesia on a Dwarf Patient.

Kassa MW, Shifa JZ, Bekele NA,Opondo PR

Achondroplasia is the most common form of dwarfism. Achondroplasia poses multiple anaesthetic challenges ranging from securing intravenous line, monitoring and drug dose calcula..Veja mais»

Is There A Relationship Between Visfatin Level and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus In Obese And Non Obese Patients?

Eid M El-Shafey, Gamal F El-Naggar, Mohamed M Al-Bedewy and Hesham El-Sorogy

Background: Visfatin is a newly discovered cytokine that is highly expressed in visceral fat with a direct relationship to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The present study was..Veja mais»

Increased Abdominal Adiposity Exacerbates Ex-Vivo Cardiac Reperfusion Injury through Augmented Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress

Damien Vitiello, Evangelia Mourmoura, Karine Couturier, Patrick Faure, Herve Dubouchaud, Corinne Malpuech-Brugere, Kasra Azarnoush and Luc Demaison

Compared to the lean Lou/C rat, the Wistar rat develops increased

body weight

and abdominal adiposity (IAA). The aim of this study was to compare the functio..Veja mais»

Open Versus Laparoscopy in Management of Urgent Colectomy for Severe Ischemic Colitis Using a Propensity Score Matched in Comparison

Mohamed E Eraki*, Hassan A Saad, Huda Said Md, Said Negm, Mohamed Abozaid, Ahmed M Yehia, Ibrahim H Awad, Hassan Ashour

Ischemic colitis is rarely treated by laparoscopy. The point of this review using of propensity score matched study to compare preoperative with intraoperative character and sho..Veja mais»

Low Template DNA: Tad, Touch and Traces

Jack Evans and Sibte Hadi

Small amounts of DNA, typically less than 100 pg, termed Low Template (LT) DNA which is extremely useful in forensic casework. The current advancement of highly sensitive multip..Veja mais»

A Novel Val286Ala Polymorphism in the NPXXY Motif of the Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor S1PR2 Associates with the Incidence and Age of Onset of Diabetes

Detlef H. Kozian, Andreas Evers, Matthias Schäfer, Winfried März, Bernhard O. Böhm, Bernhard J. Winkelmann, Sandrine Macé and Jean-Francois Deleuze

Aim: S1PR2 is one of five known sphingosine-1-phosphate receptors and has recently been discussed to be implicated in the development or progression of diabetes. Our aim was to ..Veja mais»