Rituximab: A Boot to Protect the Foot

Rituximab: a boot to protect the foot.

Given the shortage of organs available for transplantation and the rising prevalence of ESRD,1 new avenues including xeno-kidney transplantation need to be explored. Despite tremendous advances in achieving immunologic hyporesponsiveness in xeno-kidney transplantation, long-term organ survival remains amajor challenge.2 Although dramatic improvements have recently been achieved by genetic delet...

Water ski boot to hold foot on bicycle pedal.

Use of the "Scotchcast boot" in treating diabetic foot ulcers.

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Modified cotton socks--possibility to protect from diabetic foot infection.

Diabetes has become a major public health problem and grows rapidly in the most developed countries of the world. Beside genetic and environmental factors, lifestyle habits play an important role in the development and progression of diabetes mellitus. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) about 15% of diabetic patients develop a foot ulcer in need of medical care. Infection is a ser...