35 articles in this issue
Agung Putra, Dannis Pertiwi, Meidona Nurul Milla, Ulfah Dian Indrayani, Durotul Jannah, Menik Sahariyani, Setyo Trisnadi, Joko Wahyu Wibowo (Author)
BACKGROUND: Acute renal failure (ARF) is a serious disease characterised by a rapid loss of renal functions due to nephrotoxic drug or ischemic insult. The clinical treatment approach such as dialysis techniques and continuous renal enhancement have grown... see more
Arshad Husain Rahmani, Ahmad Almatroudi, Ali Yousif Babikr, Amjad Ali Khan, Mohammed A. Alsahli (Author)
AIM: The present study was undertaken to evaluate the possible protective role of thymoquinone on CCl4-induced hepatotoxicity.METHODS: The activities of liver function enzymes and antioxidant enzymes were measured. Haematoxylin-Eosin staining was performe... see more
Mariana Penkova, Nadezhda Ivanova (Author)
BACKGROUND: In healthy persons, iron acquisition, trafficking and storage are strictly regulated processes due to the lack of a physiological pathway for the excretion of excess iron from the body. The liver, the duodenum and the bone marrow are involved ... see more
Inas R. El-Alameey, Fatma Alzaree, Manal A. Shehata, Mones M. Abu Shady, Mohamed Abdel Atti, Mohamed I. El-Khonezy (Author)
BACKGROUND: Repeated blood transfusions and hemolysis in ß-Thalassemia major children lead to iron overload in various organs, including the brain which may cause neurodegeneration.AIM: To evaluate intelligence quotient in children with ß-thalassemia majo... see more
Erdogan Sökmen, Haci Mehmet Çaliskan, Mustafa Çelik, Serkan Sivri, Yalçin Boduroglu, Sinan Cemgil Özbek (Author)
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular modulation following meal consumption has been known. Little and conflicting data is present regarding electrocardiographic QT and QTc intervals after a meal, and status of ventricular repolarization following meal is not known ... see more
Tatjana Georgievska-Jancheska (Author)
BACKGROUND: Speech sound appears first in the child’s speech development and is the primary means of expression. Articulation disorders can hinder the comprehensibility of children’s speech. The speech, in turn, can limit the child’s inclusion in the soci... see more
Svetlan Dermendjiev, Vesela Slavcheva Blagoeva (Author)
BACKGROUND: Angioedema (AE) is acute oedema of the skin and mucous surfaces, involving the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts. AE could be a life-threatening medical condition. Regardless of its growing clinical importance, many aspects of its aetiol... see more
Faisal Boker, Abdullah Alzahrani, Abdulaziz Alsaeed, Meshari Alzhrani, Rawia Albar (Author)
BACKGROUND: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that results from complex interactions between multiple environmental and genetic influences. In recent years, studies have observed an increase in caesarean section rates, and have sugge... see more
BACKGROUND: Cleft palate, due to damage of the soft palate, leads to dysfunction, i.e., inappropriate closure of the velopharynx during speech production, thus resulting in velopharyngeal insufficiency which characterises with hypernasal speech and nasal ... see more
Ida Bagus Aditya Nugraha, Made Ratna Saraswati, Ketut Suastika (Author)
BACKGROUND: Prevalence of obesity increased sharply recently; it was associated with an increased prevalence of several cardiometabolic diseases. Reduced glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) secretion is observed among obese subjects in many studies, and it ma... see more
Thomas Eko Purwata, Dedy Andaka, AABN Nuartha, Candra Wiratni, Ketut Sumada (Author)
BACKGROUND: Stroke is a serious health condition and the leading cause of disability, including erectile dysfunction (ED). The mechanisms and factors that predict ED in stroke are not fully elucidated. Several studies have shown a relationship between the... see more
Svetlan Dermendzhiev, Atanaska Petrova, Tihomir Dermendzhiev (Author)
BACKGROUND: Angioneurotic oedema (AE) is an unpredictable and dangerous disease directly threatening the patient's life due to a sudden onset of upper respiratory tract obstruction. The disease is associated with various causes and triggering factors, but... see more
Sedighe Bakhtiari, Soheila Mani Far, Zahra Alibakhshi, Mohammad Shirkhoda, Fahimeh Anbari (Author)
BACKGROUND: Head and neck cancers include malignancies of the scalp and neck skin, nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, oral cavity, salivary glands, pharynx and larynx. The term ABO secretor refers to people who secrete blood group antigens in their body flu... see more
Vitarani DA Ningrum, Rochmy Istikharah, Rheza Firmansyah (Author)
BACKGROUND: Genetic variation in the genes that encode metformin transporters has been proven to cause pharmacokinetic variability and various glycemic response to metformin. Organic Cation Transporter (OCT) 1 protein encoded by the SLC22A1 gene is primar... see more
Deva Petrova, Slavica Kraleva, Lilijana Muratovska, Biljana Crcareva (Author)
BACKGROUND: Primary mediastinal seminomas most commonly occur in young men, and they are localised in the anterior mediastinum.CASE PRESENTATION: The presented study is a case report of a 34-year-old man suffering from a mediastinal tumour in size of 19 c... see more
Smilja Tudzarova-Gjorgova, Sandra Gjorgova-Gjeorgjievski, Boro Ilievski (Author)
BACKGROUND: In 1882, the German pathologist Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen described a series of patients with a combination of cutaneous lesions and tumours of the peripheral and central nervous system. Succeeding this paper, all of the patients wit... see more
Ivka Djakovic, Tanja Lenicek, Relja Beck, Zdenko Kraljevic, Krunoslav Kuna, Dražan Butorac (Author)
BACKGROUND: Number of reported cases of human dirofilariasis in the last couple of decades has been increasing. Dogs are the main reservoir hosts, while various mosquito species represent/serve as vectors. Human infections are caused by two different para... see more
Alvin Oliver Payus, Rathika Rajah, Dayang Corieza Febriany, Norlaila Mustafa (Author)
BACKGROUND: De novo pulmonary embolism (DNPE) is a term used when pulmonary embolism (PE) occur in the absence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Most DNPE cases occur in a patient who had a recent injury to the chest.CASE PRESENTATION: However, here we repor... see more
Georgi Tchernev, Ivanka Temelkova (Author)
BACKGROUND: Acne inversa as a chronic inflammatory disorder can be divided into three stages according to Hurley's classification. It affects the axillary and anogenital region predominantly, and its chronic course of development is associated with a majo... see more
Aleksandar Gjoreski, Filip Risteski, Gjorgji Damjanoski (Author)
BACKGROUND: Visceral artery aneurysms are rare conditions. The incidence of hepatic artery aneurysm (HAA) accounts for approximately 20% of all splanchnic aneurysms. HAA can become a life-threatening situation because there is a great risk of rupture when... see more
Hoda El-sayed, Yousra Aly, Hanaa Elgamily, Mohamed M. Nagy (Author)
AIM: The present study aimed to investigate the inhibitory effect of Lactobacillus rhamnosus (B-445) as a probiotics irrigant on the growth of Enterococcus faecalis.METHODS: Forty-two extracted single human canal anterior teeth were prepared with rotary i... see more
Aya Ehab Elkattan, Mostafa Gheith, Mona Salah Fayed, M. Abo El Yazeed, Abdel-Razik H. Farrag, Wagdy K. B. Khalil (Author)
AIM: Recent studies have demonstrated that low-level laser therapy (LLLT) can accelerate orthodontic tooth movement. However, there is still controversy about the optimum parameters that can cause acceleration. The present study was designed to examine tw... see more
Seyyed Mehdi Mirsharifa, Bahram Mirzaian, Yarali Dousti (Author)
BACKGROUND: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common functional gastrointestinal disorders, worldwide. Psychological disorders are common among patients with IBS.AIM: This study aims to investigate the efficacy of acceptance and commitment... see more
Mirjana Dimovska, Renata Mladenovska (Author)
INTRODUCTION: The urban air pollution will deteriorate globally, by 2050 outdoor particulate air pollution and ground-level ozone is projected to become the top cause of environmentally related deaths worldwide.AIM: To assess the burden of diseases due to... see more
Osama Al Wutayd, Abdullah AlRehaili, Khaled AlSafrani AlSafrani, Abdulrahman Abalkhail, Sulaiman Mohammed AlEidi (Author)
BACKGROUND: Medical students are exposed to occupational health hazards in hospitals during their studies and lack sufficient education about infection control measures. Injury to medical students is a substantial problem and students have an increased ri... see more
Shirali Kheramin, Ali Sahebi, Yasaman Ghafaryan Shirazi, Mohammad Malekzadeh, Shila Mohseni, Hamid Reza Ghafarian Shirazi (Author)
BACKGROUND: Choice theory, as a psychopathological model, postulated five basics, genetically and universally, needs. Accordingly, the rate of everybody happiness and quality of life is depended on the number of his needs fulfilling. Although some scales ... see more
Arvin Barzanji, Armin Zareiyan, Maryam Nezamzadeh, Marjan Seyed Mazhari (Author)
BACKGROUND: Over 70% of patients hospitalised in an intensive care unit (ICU) often experience moderate to severe pain due to pre-existing diseases, trauma, surgery, aggressive procedures, and routine ICU care. Many patients hospitalised in ICU are not ab... see more
Magdalena Baymakova, Georgi T. Popov, Roman Pepovich, Ilia Tsachev (Author)
BACKGROUND: Over the past two decades, more thorough investigations for hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection have been done in the world. Reports from Southeast European countries have increased.AIM: The current article presents a critical analysis of all st... see more
Yu Fei, Rui Fei, Jing Zhang, Yaoyao Sun, Qiong Yu (Author)
BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common types of arrhythmia diagnosed in clinical practice. Due to its negative effects on people's physical and mental health, it is necessary to prevent and treat AF. Recently, scholars have found t... see more
Nouran Fouad Seif-Eldin, Sherif Aly Elkordy, Mona Salah Fayed, Amr Ragab Elbeialy, Faten Hussein Eid (Author)
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this systematic review was to assess the transverse skeletal effects of rapid maxillary expansion (RME) in pre and post-pubertal subjects.MATERIAL AND METHODS: Five databases were searched till May 2018; Pubmed, Cochrane, Scopus, Lil... see more
Myriam Abboud, Dimitrios Papandreou (Author)
The gut microbiome is now considered as a large organ that has a direct effect on gastrointestinal tract, immune and endocrine system. There is no evidence that gut microbiota regulates the immune system and is responsible for bone formation and destructi... see more
Jafar Bazyar, Mehrdad Farrokhi, Hamidreza Khankeh (Author)
BACKGROUND: Injuries caused by emergencies and accidents are increasing in the world. To prioritise patients to provide them with proper services and to optimally use the resources and facilities of the medical centres during accidents, the use of triage ... see more
Desmawati Desmawati, Delmi Sulastri (Author)
Phytoestrogens have structures that are very similar to endogen estradiol derived from plants. Phytoestrogens sources are widespread in Asian regions including in Indonesia. Its have health benefits including reproductive health, heart health, a role in w... see more
Luigi Santacroce, Ioannis Alexandros Charitos, Skender Topi, Lucrezia Bottalico (Author)
Among the first physicians and physiologists at the pre-Hippocratic medicine with contradictions and oscillating doctrines was Alcmaeon from Croton in the 6th century BC. For many, he shared as the father of scientific medicine. Unfortunately, we have onl... see more
One step melanoma surgery (OSMS) is applicable to all patients with clear clinical and dermatoscopic criteria for thin cutaneous melanomas or melanoma in situ lesions, even without the need for preoperative tumour thickness measurement. Amelanotic melanom... see more