Objective. To estimate the level of recognition of Alzheimer disease (AD) and awareness about its causes, medical help and its efficacy in general population. Material and methods. Authors questioned 1043 Chuvashia residents (391 men and 652 women), aged from 18 to 81 years (mean age - 41.5±16.3 years ), using vignettes (a clinical "picture" of disease). A vignette describes the stages of AD (s...

Lymphatic filariasis causes disfiguring and disabling lymphoedema, which is commonly frequently exacerbated by acute dermatolymphangioadenitis (ADLA). Affected people require long-term care monitoring but health workers lack objective assessment tools. We examine the use of an infrared thermal imaging camera as a novel non-invasive point-of-care tool for filarial lower-limb lymphoedema in 153 a...

M icroalbuminuria (MA), the presence of low but abnormal levels of albumin in the urine, is the earliest clinical sign of diabetic nephropathy and for hypertensive patients it is also a marker for greatly increased cardiovascular risk, regardless of the presence of diabetes. The association of MA with elevated blood pressure (BP) is consistent and independent, and increased urinary albumin excr...

Epidemics of chronic kidney disease are now recognized in Central America, Mexico, India and Sri Lanka, and there is also some evidence that similar epidemics may be occurring in the USA, Thailand and elsewhere. A common denominator for each location is manually working outside in extremely hot environments. Here we review the evidence that the primary etiology may be heat stress related to rep...

We carried out electroneuromyography of 78 patients with degenerative-dystrophic cervical and lumbar spine disorders, which were treated at the neurosurgical department Irkutsk Scientific Centre Surgery Traumatology. The results study late ENMG phenomena such as H-reflex, F-waves A-reflex obtained different stages disease using “Neuromyan” neuromyoanalyzer. predictable changes in answers proces...

strongyloides stercoralis (ss) is a unique nematode with an auto infective cycle, so that it completes its life cycle within the human host and can live there for many years. in immunocompromised patients, infection can cause strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome (s.h.s) that is associated with serious morbidity and mortality. as vari-ous infections are one of the leading causes of membranoprol...

backgrounds: thyroid hormones play an important physiological role in human metabolism. erythrocyte abnormalities are frequently associated with thyroid disorder. however, they are rarely investigated and related to the subclinical and primary hypothyroidism in kashmiri patients. in this study an attempt was made to study hematological parameters in untreated and treated subclinical hypothyroid...