White hemithorax in children
Gender Influences Cerebral Oxyg ...
Background Important differences with respect to gender exist in the prognosis and mortality of traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. The objective ...
Open-Label Randomized Trial of ...
Background Conivaptan is an arginine-vasopressinreceptor antagonist approved for the treatment of hyponatremia. We hypothesized that administration ...
Anatomical variation of the ver ...
Cranial nerve palsy, most commonly trigeminal, abducens, or facial, caused by compression of an ectatic or elongated intracranial artery is a well-k ...
Thalamus lesions in chronic and ...
Introduction Transient signal changes in the pulvinar have been described following status epilepticus. However, we observed persistent thalamus cha ...
A Survey of Dumping Symptomatol ...
Background Lesser omental transection during gastric bypass for morbid obesity may be associated with postoperative dumping. A survey of postoperati ...
Expression Profile in Omental a ...
The adipose tissue is a highly regulated endocrine and paracrine organ that secretes a wide variety of biologically active molecules involved in the ...
Role of Thrombolestagrophy in M ...
Background Thromboelastography is a technique that surveys the properties of viscoelastic blood clot. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the ...
CT imaging in bisphosphonate-as ...
Osteonecrosis of the jaw is a severe bone disease that occurs as a result of reduced local blood supply. Bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of ...
Implementation of osteoporosis ...
Summary Implementation of case findings according to guidelines for osteoporosis in fracture patients presenting at a Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) ...
Calcium and vitamin-D supplemen ...
Summary A randomised controlled trial was used in assessing the impact of 6 months of daily calcium and vitamin-D supplementation on trabecular and ...
Epidemiology and seasonal varia ...
Summary The purpose of this study was to assess changes in epidemiology and reasons for wintertime excess of distal radius fractures in Oulu, Finlan ...
Premenopausal women with idiopa ...
Introduction In men, idiopathic osteoporosis (IOP) is often associated with low serum insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) and reduced bone formation. ...
Effect of green tea and Tai Chi ...
Summary Postmenopausal women with osteopenia received green tea polyphenols (GTP) supplement and/or Tai Chi exercise for 6 months. Bone turnover bio ...
Relationship of Brain Natriuret ...
B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a biomarker of cardiovascular disease that is common in adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, in ch ...
Akt2: A Critical Regulator of C ...
Akt proteins are serine/threonine protein kinases that participate in several important intracellular signal transduction cascades. Akt1 and Akt2 ar ...
Primary Repair of Aortopulmonar ...
The aortopulmonary window concomitant with an interrupted aortic arch is a rare occurrence. We successfully performed an emergency one-stage surgica ...
Surgical Management of Congenit ...
Planning and budgeting for congenital heart surgery depend primarily on how closely reimbursement matches costs and on the number and complexity of ...
Clinical outcomes in children w ...
Henoch.Schonlein purpura (HSP) is one of the most common causes of systemic vasculitis in children. The incidence of HSP nephritis (HSPN) among HSP ...
Elevated systolic blood pressur ...
Preterm, very-low-birth-weight neonates (.1500 gm, VLBW) exhibit elevated systolic blood pressures (SBP) in adolescence and adulthood; however, the ...
Glomerular filtration rate and ...
Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was evaluated in 32 Wilms’ tumour survivors (WTs) in a cross-sectional study using 99 Tc-diethylene triamine pentaa ...
Eculizumab induces long-term re ...
A 15-year-old male patient developed atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) at 16 months of age leading to end-stage renal disease. The family hi ...
Ibandronate affects bone growth ...
Bisphosphonates have been shown to attenuate ectopic calcification in experimental uremia. While they are known to reduce bone turnover, the effects ...
Development of uveitis during s ...
Sirs, We read with interest the article of Jahnukainen and colleagues [1] who presented 26 patients with tubulointerstitial nephritis. Twelve patie ...
Rhabdomyolysis: pathogenesis of ...
Rhabdomyolysis refers to the breakdown of skeletal muscle due to either a physical, biological, or toxic injury that leads to leakage of muscle cont ...
White hemithorax in children
The aim of this pictorial review is to introduce the radiologist to the differential diagnosis of a white hemithorax in children, to provide signifi ...