CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Prostate cancer is a major public health issue. Its incidence is rising, especially in Nigeria. Prompt diagnosis is necessary by histology. Transperineal and transrectal approaches to prostate biopsy are well-documented. Both methods are fraught with complications though, most times minor. Studies carried out to compare both methods were carried out mainly on Caucasians, g...

The long-term clinical outcomes of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) recipients across New Zealand are unknown. This study provides a detailed analysis ICD in over the past decade. All patients with an implant between 2010 and 2019 were identified using National Minimum Dataset, which collects all public hospital admissions International Statistical Classification Diseases Related He...

Background: Urinary bladder carcinoma (UBC) is one of the most common malignancies in Egypt and all over world. TGFB levels plasma urine were proved to connote predictive prognostic attributes UBC patients. Furthermore, Cancer associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are now recognized as a key player carcinogenesis. Yet, TGFΒ1 expression CAFs had not been elucidated. Moreover, TGFB1 targeted therapy emer...

Clinical results of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery were retrospectively reviewed, and two different surgical approaches were compared in this study. Between 1997 and 2004, a total of 86 patients with mitral valve disease underwent minimally invasive surgery at the Yonsei University Cardiovascular Center. Age of patients averaged 41.6 +/- 14.0 years and 69 patients were female. Surgical...

We study finite dimensional vector spaces over fields of elliptic functions equipped with two commuting aotomorphisms \sigma and \tau induced by isogenies relatively prime orders. give a structure theorem for such objects, that reveals connection to the classification bundles on curves Atiyah. As an application we prove analogue conjecture Loxton van der Poorten which has been recently proved A...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to detect and enumerate T cells secreting type 1 and 2 cytokines in the peripheral blood of patients with oral lichen planus (OLP) and in healthy controls. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study group consisted of 80 OLP patients and 80 healthy individuals. Cytokine secreting T cells were detected using ELISPOT assay. RESULTS There was a statistically signifi...

conclusions the lack of difference between adma levels in patients with pa and eh suggests that endothelial dysfunction is more likely related to hypertension per se than to the specific etiology of elevated blood pressure. results patients with pa had significantly higher concentrations of adma than healthy controls (0.488 ± 0.085 vs. 0.433 ± 0.053 μmol/l, p = 0.027). no difference was found i...

Prior investigations have shown measurable performance impairments on continuous physical performance tasks when preceded by a cognitively fatiguing task. However, the effect of cognitive fatigue on bodyweight resistance training exercise task performance is unknown. In the current investigation 18 amateur athletes completed a full body exercise task preceded by either a cognitive fatiguing or ...