OBJECTIVES To evaluate the possible role of silodosin (a highly selective α1A-adrenoceptor antagonist) in facilitating the passage of distal ureteric stones (DUS) in children, as the role of α-blockers as medical expulsive therapy is well known in adults. PATIENTS AND METHODS In all, 40 paediatric patients (27 boys and 13 girls) diagnosed with unilateral, single, radiopaque DUS of <10 mm were...

Background: In endovenous laser ablation (EVLA), the great saphenous vein (GSV) is usually ablated from the knee to the groin, with no treatment of the below-knee segment regardless of its reflux status. However, persistent below-knee GSV reflux appears to be responsible for residual varicosities and symptoms of venous disease. Objectives: To evaluate clinical and duplex ultrasound (DUS) outcom...

BACKGROUND Carotid angioplasty with stenting is a relatively new, increasingly used, less-invasive treatment for the treatment of symptomatic carotid artery stenosis. It is being evaluated in ongoing and nearly finished randomized trials. An important factor in the evaluation of stents is the occurrence of in-stent restenosis. An un-stented carotid artery is likely to have a more elastic vessel...

OBJECTIVES Data on the extent of drug use and associated HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B infection in West Africa are lacking. The objectives of ANRS12244 UDSEN study were to estimate the size of the heroin and/or cocaine drug user (DU) population living in the Dakar area (Senegal), and assess the prevalence and risk factors of HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV), includin...

ABSTRACT Background: In recent years, the endovenous laser therapy (EVLT) has been proposed to treat the incompetent greater saphenous veins (GSV) to increase patient comfort,and to reduce cost as well as risk. EVLT causes vein wall thickening, luminal contraction and vein fibrosis. The purpose of this article, as the first report from Iran, is to review our experience and ...

Device-to-device (D2D) communication with direct terminal connection is a promising candidate for 5G communication, which increases the capacity of cellular networks and spectral efficiency. Introducing D2D to users (CUs) will increase system capacity, CUs provide reusable channel resources (DUs). However, sharing between DUs lead cofrequency interference affect quality user terminals. As means...

In this paper, we study a resource allocation problem in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)-based Device-to-Device (D2D) communications. To end, propose multi-objective optimization (MOOP) framework, which jointly maximizes the sum rate of D2D users (DUs) and cellular (CUs) uplink communications minimizes total transmit power. The proposed formulation takes into account minim...

The present investigation was executed under field conditions that favour normal growth and expression for all descriptors. A collection of 40 mungbean genotypes were characterised 21 agro-morphological traits during the summer 2021 2022. experimental material &nbsp;evaluated in three replications RCBD observations recorded as per DUS guidelines. The&nbsp; phenotypic assessment showed polymorph...

5 Cader MZ, Filer A, Hazlehurst J et al. Performance of the 2010 ACR/EULAR criteria for rheumatoid arthritis: comparison with 1987 ACR criteria in a very early syno-vitis cohort. Efficacy of ambrisentan in the treatment of digital ulcers in patients with systemic sclerosis: a preliminary study SIR, SSc is characterized by fibrotic thickening of the skin and internal organs and widespread vascul...

OBJECTIVE Digital ulcers (DUs) are often a primary end point in systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) clinical trials, although the reliability of rheumatologists grading DUs is poor to moderate at best. DU assessment in recent trials has been based upon visual inspection alone, which potentially misses "real-world" clinical contextual information. Our aim was to investigate whether this clinic...