Children and adolescents are more susceptible than adults to developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Pediatric PTSD is characterized by functional alterations in brain fear circuitry, but little known about the underlying microstructural changes; previous work has mainly focused on corpus callosum. This study aimed at investigating brain-wide abnormalities pediatric PTSD, their relatio...

Introduction Severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depressive are common worldwide often have a chronic course. Due to psychiatric ( for example : substance use disorders ) somatic obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes comorbidities, mortality is higher in these patients than the general population.Viral diseases are, addition metabolic alterations, among most ...

 Leydig stromal cell tumor is a rare ovarian tumor that belongs to the group of sex-cord stromal tumors. They produce testosterone leading to hyperandrogenism. We present a 41yr old woman with symptoms of virilization and a mass of right adenex via ultra Sonography, and a rise of total and free serum testosterone. An ovarian source of androgen was suspected and a surgery performed. A diagnosis ...

CONTEXT Adolescent pregnancy prevention is difficult because adolescent sex is intermittent. Understanding why sexually experienced adolescents have sex after a period of abstinence will help clinicians to tailor counseling. METHODS For up to 4.5 years between 1999 and 2006, a sample of 354 adolescent women recruited at urban primary care clinics were interviewed and tested for STDs every thr...

OBJECTIVE To examine demographic and clinical determinants of seeking help for mental or emotional problems. To determine the proportion of those people with a disorder who sought help. To determine what categories of professionals are sought by those who get care. METHOD A 2-stage random sample of 3956 adult residents of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada was interviewed by trained lay interviewers u...

• Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is the technique of choice to sex embryos. FISH provides a very robust test with a low risk of misdiagnosis; however, testing that only determines the sex of the embryos cannot discriminate between normal and affected male embryos or between normal and carrier female embryos, which is wasteful of male embryos and accepts a level of risk that carrier f...

Abstract Introduction We determined the impact of deprivation and frailty at time diagnosis hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) on likelihood receiving total hip/knee arthroplasty (THA/TKA). Method used routinely collected primary care data (Clinical Practice Research Datalink), linked to Hospital Episode Statistics. Frailty was assessed OA using electronic index categorised as fit, mild, moderate,...

46,XY Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) has wide variations of clinical manifestations ranging from complete female, genitalia ambiguity, to complete male. Therefore the inviduals with this disorder can be reared as boys or girls. Most of Indonesian DSD cases are facing with budget constraint, because they require series of costly examinations and treatment. We aimed to know the distribution o...

urinary tract infection (uti) is a common disease in childhood specially in female. in this study 50 patients with stablished diagnosis of uti were evaluated by both renal scan with tc-99m dmsa and renal sonography. the study revealed that most urinary tract infections are in children, female sex between 5-9 years of age. therefore the most important complications (renal scarring) are also comm...