Disproportionately worse COVID-19 clinical outcomes in people from ethnic minority groups have been a concern since early the pandemic.1Pareek M. Bangash M.N. Pareek N. et al.Ethnicity and COVID-19: an urgent public health research priority.Lancet. 2020; 395: 1421-1422Summary Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (277) Google Scholar Now as time progresses, it may be useful to look back at evolving evide...

background : wilson disease (wd) is an autosomal recessive progressive degeneration of hepatolenticular tissue that causes the increase of copper deposition in the liver and other organs, with resultant hepatic, neurologic and psychological manifestations. wd is fatal if left untreated. the aim of the current study was to evaluate the clinical and para-clinical findings in children with wd in s...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The Gleason grading system provides important information for guiding prostate cancer patients' management and prognostication. The grading system underwent significant modifications over the past decade. In 2005 and more recently in 2014, the International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) held two consensus conferences to update prostate cancer grading. Recently, five p...

INTRODUCTION: The economic impact of patients with chronic conditions is of paramount value, 10% of patients spend 70% of health resources. Since the 60's the pharmaceutical expenditure has been increasing due, among other reasons, the aging population and the consequent increase in chronic conditions. The current economic situation and this scenario make it a priority to open and develop innov...

Within the ESBL family the most common genes are temoneira (blaTEM) and sulfhydryl variable (blaSHV) with increasing reports of cefotaximase (blaCTX-M) [4]. The blaSHV and the blaTEM subgroups arise from mutational changes due to point mutations in the genes resulting in subtypes. Examples include blaSHV which differs from blaSHV-1 due to a single mutation of an amino acid from glycine to serin...

BACKGROUND It has been proposed that gains would be made in the validity of the psychiatric classification system if many of the present 'neurotic' or personality disorders were subsumed into two over-arching groups, externalising and emotional disorders. If diagnostic sub-categories from the first digit coding structures within ICD-10 do, in fact, share clinical phenomenology that align with t...

OBJECTIVES The study was undertaken to correlate the blood groups and clinical presentations in malaria patients and to understand the differential host susceptibility in malaria. METHODS From October 2007 to September 2008, malaria positive patients' samples were evaluated in this study. Hemoglobin, total leukocyte count, and platelet count of each patient were done on an automated cell coun...