background and aims: post exercise proteinuria and increased urinary gamma-glutamyl transferase (ggt) levels can be indicative of exercise-induced renal damage. the aim of this investigation was to study the effect of one session of intensive training on renal tubular injury markers and compare their values to those 6 hours after training, for evaluating tubular damage after intensive training....

Although liver function test abnormality is frequently noted in children, there is no report about the distribution of the etiology and natural recovery time of the abnormal liver function. From March 2005 to February 2014, clinical information was retrospectively collected from 559 children who had abnormal liver function and were hospitalized or visited the outpatient clinic at the Jeju Natio...

It is unclear whether patients with chronic liver disease have impaired pancreatic exocrine function. This study was designed to answer this question. Pancreatic exocrine function was evaluated with pancreatic function diagnostic (PFD) test in 16 patients with chronic hepatitis, 32 patients with liver cirrhosis, and 26 patients with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and in 26 control...

thyroid hormones regulate the metabolisms of all cells including hepatocytes, and hence, modulate hepatic function. hyperthyroidism is one of the most common endocrine disorders characterized by increased secretion of thyroid hormones t3 and/or t4. this study investigated frequency of abnormal liver function tests in the patients with hyperthyroidism that referred to imam reza hospital of kerma...

The quantitative measurement of liver function remains a Holy Grail of medicine. The absence of a reliable and readily available function test for the liver is in sharp contrast to organs such as the kidney (1) and lung (2), for which such tests exist and are used in a wide variety of applications including prognostication and determination of the need for solid organ transplantation. It is eas...

PURPOSE The prevalence of liver disease and frequency of consultations to a Hepatology Consultation service for patients with liver enzyme/function abnormalities admitted to a clinical teaching unit at an urban tertiary care hospital have not been previously described. To document these data, a retrospective chart review of adult patients admitted for non-hepatobiliary problems to a general Int...

conclusions it seems that hp eradication per se might not affect lfc, lft, lipid profile, and insulin resistance in dyspeptic nafld patients. results one hundred (49 males) patients with the mean age of 43.46 (± 11.52) were studied. repeated measure anova showed a significant reduction in lfc, anthropometric measurements, and laboratory parameters (except for hdl) in the both groups during the ...

welding is one of the key components of numerous manufacturing industries, which has potential physical and chemical health hazards. many components of welding fumes can potentially affect the lung function. this study investigates the effects of welding fumes on lung function and respiratory symptoms among welders of an automobile manufacturing plant in iran. this historical cohort study asses...

a neural network is developed for the determination of leaky confined aquifer parameters. leakage into the aquifer takes place from the storage in the confining aquitard. the network is trained for the well function of leaky confined aquifers by the back propagation technique and adopting the levenberg–marquardt optimization algorithm. by applying the principal component analysis (pca) on the a...

background: pulmonary function tests (pfts) are used in assessing physiological to clinical status of the respiratory system, which is expressed as a percentage of predicted values. predicted pfts values are varies in different ethnics. predicted pfts values were studied in a sample of iranian children. materials and methods: prediction equations for pfts were derived from urban children in the...