BACKGROUND It is well known that many diseases may be associated with obesity resulting from an energy-rich diet, and that a westernized diet may increase the incidence of urinary stone formation. To evaluate degree of obesity, we investigated body mass index (BMI) in patients with calcium containing upper urinary stones and examined their blood with regard to lipid metabolism. METHODS Betwee...

conclusions when evaluating flank pain in patients, it is important to remember that cbc parameters may support urinary stone disease, and considering cbc results may be useful in the diagnosis of urinary stone disease. patients and methods this study was a retrospective observational study of 3,099 patients who were admitted to the urology outpatient clinic or diagnosed with urinary stone dise...

Purpose: The objective of this study was to find the correlation distance between pterygomaxillary notches and combined width maxillary anterior teeth.Material &Methods:One hundred twenty-six dentulous impressions were made (18-50 years old) using metallic stock tray irreversible hydrocolloid impression material, then poured in dental stone. Pterygomaxillary mesiodistal six teeth measured b...

INTRODUCTION Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a condition of social dimension which generally pertains to women of various age. The only effective treatments of SUI are surgical procedures. The use of tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) ensures low invasiveness but also carries the risk of complications. One of the complications may be migration of the tape into the urinary bladder creating con...

Analogues of stepping–stone models are considered where the site– space is continuous, the migration process is a general Markov process, and the type–space is infinite. Such processes were defined in previous work of the second author by specifying a Feller transition semigroup in terms of expectations of suitable functionals for systems of coalescing Markov processes. An alternative represent...

Analogues of stepping-stone models are considered where the sitespace is continuous, the migration process is a general Markov process, and the type-space is infinite. Such processes were defined in previous work of the second author by specifying a Feller transition semigroup in terms of expectations of suitable functionals for systems of coalescing Markov processes. An alternative representat...

BACKGROUND Formation of struvite stones is associated with urinary tract infection by urease-producing bacteria. Biogenic crystal growth in natural and synthetic materials is regulated by the action of inhibitors, ranging from small ions, molecules to large macromolecules. MATERIALS AND METHODS We report the dynamics of in vitro crystallization of struvite in presence of vitamin C in syntheti...