Article: The Effect of abdominal visceral fat, circulating inflammatory cytokines, and leptin levels on reflux esophagitis CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided th...

A fractured nutcracker was examined for determining the root cause/s for premature fracture/failure. This is one of the common tools used typically for cracking hard nuts. In this study, metallurgical failure analysis techniques namely, visual inspection, optical microscopy, SEM, and hardness tests were used in investigating the broken product. From the metallurgical analysis, it was determined...

El Síndrome de Nutcracker producido por compresión aorto-mesenterica la vena renal izquierda puede tratarse con transposición quirúrgica. Se realizó revisión dicho tratamiento realizado en el Instituto Previsión Social. identificaron dos mujeres 15 y 26 años, que presentaron dolor lumbar hematuria. Egresaron al cuarto quinto día postoperatorio. Las pacientes no síntomas a los cinco nueve meses ...

â  â  background esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (escc) is usually detected in advanced stages resulting in a very poor prognosis. early diagnoâ­sis needs identification of clinically relevant precancerous lesions which could become the target of screening and early treatment. our aim was to check whether esophagitis could serve as a relevant histological precursor of escc in northern iran. ...

BACKGROUND Although patients may present with typical chest pain and exhibit ischemic changes on the cardiac stress test, they are frequently found to have a normal coronary angiogram. Thus, we wanted to determine which procedures should be performed in order to make an adequate diagnosis of the cause of chest pain. METHODS 121 patients (males: 42, 34.7%) who had a normal coronary angiogram w...

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Nutcracker syndrome (NCS) is the most common term for compression of the left renal vein between the superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta. The development of NCS is associated with the formation of the left renal vein (LRV) from the aortic collar during the sixth to eighth week of gestation and abnormal angulation of the superior mesenteric artery from the aorta. Collateralization...