OBJECTIVES To compare the clinico-pathological features of collapsing glomerulopathy (CG) at a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia with the world literature. Methods: In a retrospective study, all biopsy-diagnosed cases of CG between 2004-2015 were identified and analyzed, at King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh. The clinico-pathological findings along with prognosis were...

Bananas are cultivated in more than 120 countries and on the five continents in tropical and subtropical areas [7]. Bananas production is the fourth most significant of the world in terms of tonnage, after rice, wheat and maize. In 2013, world production was estimated at more than 106 million tons, of which 2 million produced in Caribbean [8]. However, only a small part is produced for commerci...

Cervical cancer is the most common cause of death due to cancer in women, worldwide(1). Each year there are about 500,000 new cases and 275,000 deaths due to cervical cancer globally. The burden of cervical cancer is disproportionately high (>80%) in the developing world(2). One fourth of affected patient population is from India. Current estimates suggest that 132,082 women are diagnosed with ...

• A threat to socio-economic development: The World Economic Forum(3), surveying the landscape of global risks for 2009, ranked noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) as the third most likely risk to come true and the fourth most severe in its impact. NCDs were seen as a threat to global well-being, exceeded only by asset price collapse, spikes in oil and gas prices, and the slowing of the Chinese eco...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one of the most important epidemic diseases in the world this century, and accounts for 90% of cases of diabetes globally. Brazil is one of the most important examples of the alarming picture of T2DM in emergent societies, being the country with the fourth largest number of people with diabetes. The aim of this paper is to review the literature on diabetes in ...

In 1988, the World Health Assembly resolved to interrupt wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission worldwide. By 2006, the annual number of WPV cases had decreased by more than 99%, and only four remaining countries had never interrupted WPV transmission: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan (1). The last confirmed WPV case in India occurred in January 2011 (2), leading the World Health Organizat...

The floor of the fourth ventricle in the mouse was studied by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. 1. The fourth ventricular floor is covered by a simple layer of ependymal cells, the cytoplasm of which is characterized by numerous filaments and scanty ribosomes. 2. The ventricular surface of the ependyma is studded with numerous cilia and abundant microvilli. In the medial part of th...