background in the past few decades, chronic kidney disease (ckd) - a disease with progressive decline in renal function - has become an important problem of global public health, not only in developed countries, but also in developing countries with less economic power. objectives in this study, ckd progression to death or end stage renal disease (esrd) in elderly iranian patients was compared ...

lar complications including thromboses of the portal venous system and the formation of a pseudoaneurysm. Pseudoaneurysms occur in approximately 3.5-10.0% of patients with pancreatitis (1). The arteries most commonly affected by pseudoaneurysms are (in decreasing percent occurrence), the splenic (40%), gastroduodenal (30%), pancreaticoduodenal (20%), gastric (5%), hepatic (2%), and others (supe...

Lymphocele formation in the kidney transplant bed is most common postoperative complication after transplantation. The article presents observation of a clinically significant lymphocele bed. Materials and methods . Allogeneic heterotopic transplantation from post-mortem donor was performed 28-year-old patient with clinical diagnosis stage 5 chronic disease as result congenital anomaly developm...

Abstract To explore the role of chronic liver disease (CLD) in COVID-19. A total 1439 consecutively hospitalized patients with COVID-19 from one large medical center United States March 16, 2020 to April 23, were retrospectively identified. Clinical characteristics and outcomes compared between without CLD. Postmortem examination 8 critically ill was performed. There no significant difference i...

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 56-year-old man was referred to our clinic to investigate the chronic diarrhoea and weight loss. He was healthy until 3 months before admission. He gradually developed chronic small bowel-type diarrhoea. He was a retired man with no history of illness in the past. He never smoked. On physical examination, he was ill and wasted. There were pallor and a brown-pigmented, 5×3 c...

BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease with not well understood etiology. Recently, a possible association of MS with compromised venous outflow from the brain and spinal cord has been studied (chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency - CCSVI). Angioplasties of internal jugular veins (IJV) and azygous vein (AV) have given promising results, with improvements in patients' clin...

Idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension (INCPH) is a rare disease characterized of intrahepatic portal hypertension in the absence of cirrhosis or other causes of liver disease and splanchnic venous thrombosis. The etiology of INCPH can be classified in five categories: 1) immunological disorders (i.e. association with common variable immunodeficiency syndrome, connective tissue diseases, ...

results no significant difference was observed between the two groups in terms of chronic low back pain; frequency of low back pain in clinical staff was 18% (18 individuals) and in office staff this was 17% (17 individuals) (p < 0.05). chronic low back pain in the clinical group might be related to flexion and extension, twisting, pulling or pushing, carrying, handling of patients, and sitting...

overlap syndrome, which is known as the coexistence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) and obstructive sleep apnea (osa), was first defined by flenley. although it can refer to concomitant occurrence of any of the pulmonary diseases and osa, overlap syndrome is commonly considered as the coexistence of osa and copd. this disease has unique adverse health consequences distinct from ...