The aim of the study was to assess diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity and specificity) of Fenyö-Lindberg and Teicher scores for distinguishing patients that need immediate surgical treatment from the others, in a female population from an urban setting. The study prospectively included 130 female patients admitted to the emergency department with abdominal pain indicating acute appendicitis. The ...

Mumps is a vaccine-preventable disease candidate for elimination. Positive predictive value (PPV) of clinical case definition was assessed. During 2007, 410 suspected cases were reported in Catalonia: 348 fulfilled clinical case definition and 159 were laboratory confirmed. Incidence rate was 4.8 per 100,000 for cases that fulfilled the clinical definition, and 2.2 for laboratory confirmed case...

Background MNSI is widely used for evaluation of distal symmetric peripheral polyneuropathy (PPN) in individuals with diabetes. In the DCCT/EDIC study, the MNSI was validated for screening of signs and symptoms of PPN, presenting, for a cutoff of ≥2.5, sensitivity of 61%, specificity of 79%, positive predictive value (PPV) of 55% and negative (NPV) of 83%, when compared to neurological examinat...

Introduction: Scoliosis is a lateral spinal deformity of 10 degrees or more, resulting in a C-shaped or S-shaped curve of the spine. Information about adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) prevalence rate is important not only for paediatric health care planning strategy but also for parent's awareness. This study aims to find the suitable inclination cut-off angle and the prevalence rate of AI...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a serious complication to interstitial lung disease (ILD) and has a poor prognosis. PH is often diagnosed by screening with echocardiography followed by right heart catheterisation. A previous study has shown that a value of NT-pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) <95 ng/l could be used to rule out PH in patients with ILD. AIM To evaluate this ru...

Introduction: Typhoid fever the common cause of morbidity and mortality especially in the developing countries where Widal test is routinely used as diagnostic tool to rule out the disease. The diagnostic ability of Widal test is debatable as the test method has a low sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value (PPV). Therefore, reviewing articles across the world regarding the diagn...

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of E6/E7 mRNA in discriminating patients who were high-risk human papilloma virus-positive associated with cytology-negative and Atypical Squamous Cells of Undetermined Significance (ASCUS). This study comprised of 380 women (age: >30 years) who were associated with high risk of cervical virus infection and they underwent simultaneous examinatio...

Introduction FINDRISC (Finnish Diabetes Risk Score) is a risk assessment tool widely used for the prediction of the development of type 2 diabetes (T2DM), combining a questionnaire with simple anthropometric measurements to identify patients at risk of developing diabetes, with increasing score (0-26) signifying increased risk. A cut off score of 9 has previously been proposed (with drug-treate...

Validation of a PCR test to detect hilA gene sequences of Salmonella spp. was performed in blood and faeces samples from typhoid fever and salmonellosis patients. Sensitivity (S), specificity (SP), positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of the PCR in blood samples were performed by testing: 37 patients with clinical diagnosis of typhoid fever, 34 of them confirmed b...

The amplitude integrated EEG (aEEG) is reputed to be one of the best predictors of neurological outcome following hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy in term newborns and was used to select infants into trials of neuroprotection with hypothermia, but its predictive value and the effect of moderate hypothermia on the aEEG have not previously been examined in a randomised study. The positive predict...