BACKGROUND Mitochondrial myopathies (MM) are a heterogeneous group of inherited conditions resulting from a primary defect in the mitochondrial respiratory chain with consecutively impaired cellular energy metabolism. Small sized studies using mainly electrocardiography (ECG) and echocardiography have revealed cardiac abnormalities ranging from conduction abnormalities and arrhythmias to hypert...

Despite colonial echoes, settlement schemes represent a major element in ‘nation-building’ endeavours Tanzania's history. Their evolution through the 1960s was circuitous and haphazard. This article explores origins of one earliest linked to Julius Nyerere TANU: Kilombero Settlement Scheme (KSS). It traces its from 1959 ragged progress over subsequent decade before eventual transmutation under ...

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a most common rheumatological disorder that causes functional limitation and disability. The problem in knee OA are joint pain stiffness. It will lead to decreased quality of life it have serious economic burden on any country due effect disability treatment.</p><p class="abstract"><str...

We describe a case of recurrent Kawasaki disease (KD) in a non-Asian 6-year-old boy who had been diagnosed with typical KD without cardiac involvement at age 3 years. He was admitted to the PICU 3 years later for heart failure, hypotension, and deterioration of his general condition. Ultrasonography revealed left ventricular dysfunction with a 44% ejection fraction and grade I mitral valve fail...

Purpose: The purpose is to study whether pain and inflammation in knee joint osteoarthritis (OA) are associated with local synovial neuronal changes. Methods: Synovial biopsies were harvested from the medial and lateral knee compartments from OA patients undergoing total joint replacement surgery. All patients had predominant pain at the medial joint compartment. Pain and knee joint function we...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the outcomes of static versus articular spacers in two-stage reimplantation for the treatment of infected total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS The literature regarding the articulating and static spacers for treating infected TKA were searched in PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database of CNKI, and Wanfang datab...