To assess the changes in estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and Ki-67 expression in breast cancer patients after various neoadjuvant chemotherapies. Data from 138 locally advanced breast cancer patients with histological diagnoses were reviewed. Seventy patients (group 1) were given 4 cycles of 500 mg/m(2) cyclophosphamide and 50 ...

Results The number of operative cases of brachial plexus injury increase each year. Fifty nine percent of cases were managed in public hospitals and 41% in private hospitals. Most of the patients were males (86%) and the rest were females (14%). Brachial plexus injury was most prevalent between 21-30 years of age (37%). Motor vehicle accident was the most frequent mode of injury (90%). The righ...

1 Interest of active posturography to detect age-related and early Parkinson’s disease 1 related impairments in mediolateral postural control 2 Cédrick T. Bonnet, Arnaud Delval, and Luc Defebvre 3 Dr. Cédrick T. Bonnet is member of: Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles et 4 Pathologies, CNRS, Université Lille, France (e-mail: [email protected]; tel: 03 20 5 44 62 81; fax: 03 2...

BACKGROUND Recurrent bleeding can complicate the treatment of thrombosis patients with vitamin K antagonists (VKA), even at a well-regulated level of anticoagulation. In this proof-of-principle study, we investigated whether alterations in platelet function or von Willebrand factor (vWf) contribute to a bleeding phenotype in these patients. METHODS In this case-control study 33 well-regulated...

Introduction 2 1. Preliminaries 6 1.1. Algebraic modular forms 6 1.2. Modular forms over C 9 1.3. p-adic modular forms 11 1.4. Elliptic curves with complex multiplication 12 1.5. Values of modular forms at CM points 14 2. Generalised Heegner cycles 15 2.1. Kuga-Sato varieties 15 2.2. The variety Xr and its cohomology 18 2.3. Definition of the cycles 19 2.4. Relation with Heegner cycles and L-se...

We combined diffusion-weighted (DWI) and short TI inversion recovery (STIR) imaging to evaluate the diagnostic capability of non-contrast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to detect breast cancer. Seventy women patients underwent mammography and MR imaging with combined DWI (b factor: 1000) and STIR that revealed malignancy, and postoperative pathological examination confirmed breast cancer. Inte...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background A large proportion premature deaths are related to metabolic diseases in the young adult population. We examined global trends and mortality using estimates from Global Burden Diseases, Injuries Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 individuals aged below 40 years. Methods From 2000-2019, prevalence, deaths, disability-adjusted...

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Some 67 journal articles that described and evaluated health education programmes in developing countries were read by two independent reviewers who examined the methodology used in the studies. Of the articles 47% provided a sufficiently detailed description of the educational intervention to allow replication and 40% described the educational level of the intended audience. Only 21% were cont...