A 17-year-old black African female from Saint Thomas and Prince with growth failure and a 5-year history of frothy urine and periorbitary oedema was referred to our department for evaluation of renal insufficiency. At admission, the patient was hypertensive and malnourished, and presented with jugular engorgement, pulmonary rales, liver enlarged to 9 cm below the right costal margin and lower l...

Zinc oxide (ZnO) and samarium (Sm) doped ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesised by solution combustion approach using citric acid as fuel. The formation of hexagonal wurtzite structure pure Sm powder was prepared confirmed x-ray diffraction (XRD). formation, morphological elemental analysis analysed XRD, Raman spectra, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) xray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF). r...

chest tube (ct) or tube thoracostomy placement is often indicated following traumatic injuries. premature movement of the chest tube leads to increased hospital complications and costs for patients. placement of a chest tube is indicated in drainage of blood, bile, pus, drain air, and other fluids. although there is a general agreement for the placement of a chest tube, there is little consensu...

Primary bone lymphoma is a distinct disease. It represents only 3% of all malignant bone tumours and less than 1% of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It is essential to differentiate it from other tumours because of its good prognosis. We report a case of 45 years old male who presented one year ago with a painful left arm. His symptoms started after minimal trauma. The pain persisted for 6 months and b...

however there are few articles in describing the radiographic appearance of this entity. So we evaluated chest xray of 24 cases with radiologically proved round pneumonia in our hospital in a period of 12 years. Age, sex, clinical and radiological findings of location, number of lesion are evaluated. According to this study mean age of patients was 4 years old(1 month -11 years). 10 cases (42%)...

A outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was first recognized in Singapore on March 12, 2003. The index patient was hospitalized at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, which has since become the country’s designated SARS hospital. The patient infected 20 other people (including patients and healthcare workers), who subsequently became the sources for secondary spread of the infection (1). As ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a global health problem driven by poverty, HIV infection, etc. In Europe, the problem of multidrug resistance (i.e., resistance to at least rifampin and isoniazid) (MR) develops. The cases come essentially from the former U.S.S.R. In Belgium, the incidence of tuberculosis continues to decline to 9.4/100,000 inhabitants in 2008. The percentage of MR germs is 2.8%. The distri...

BACKGROUND Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a multi-systemic disease resulting from mutations in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator (CFTR) gene and has major manifestations in the sino-pulmonary, and gastro-intestinal tracts. Clinical phenotypes were generated using 26 common clinical variables to generate classes that overlapped quantiles of lung function and were based on multiple aspects of ...

Crystal distortions modify the propagation of x-rays in single crystal materials, and xray topography can be used to record these modifications on a film thus providing images of the distributions and nature of defects, dislocations, strains, precipitates, etc. in semiconductors. Small variations of contrast, which often need to be analysed can be rendered invisible. Furthermore, artefacts in t...