1Surender Kumar, 2Saurav Banerjee, 2Hemlata Dwivedi, 3Tapas Gupta, 4Ardhendu Banerjee 1Postgraduate Trainee, Department of Prosthodontics, Dr R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 2Postgraduate Student, Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Dr R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 3Professor, Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Dr R Ahmed Dent...

This paper explores the relationship between feminism, women and marginalization in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and related laws and policies. Globally women comprise of approximately 50% of all HIV infections. 1 The status of marginalized women in the context of HIV is determined by a host of social, economic, and legal factors that make a person more marginalized and therefore more v...

Stroke affects around 20 million people around the world every year. Clinically, stroke is a result of brain damage due to the shortage of oxygen delivered to the nerve cells. To minimize suffering and costs related to the disease, extensive research is performed on different levels. The focus of our research is to achieve fundamental understanding on how the lack of oxygen in brain tissue acti...

The Idiocerinae of Pakistan are reviewed and a new species, Tasnimocerus sindhensis sp. nov. (Pakistan: Tandojam), is described and illustrated from Pakistan. Two new junior synonyms of Idioscopus nitidulus (Walker) are recognized: Idioscopus karachiensis Ahmed, Naheed & Ahmed syn. nov. and I. freytagi Ahmed, Naheed & Ahmed syn. nov. Idioscopus nagpurensis (Pruthi) is newly recorded from Pakist...

PURPOSE Long-term intraocular pressure reduction by glaucoma drainage devices (GDDs) is often limited by the fibrotic capsule that forms around them. Prior work demonstrates that modifying a GDD with a porous membrane promotes a vascularized and more permeable capsule. This work examines the in vitro fluid dynamics of the Ahmed valve after enclosing the outflow tract with a porous membrane of e...

Activation of Nrf2 by Ischemic Preconditioning and Sulforaphane in Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury: A Comparative Experimental Study By Ahmed A. Shokeir*, Nashwa Barakat*, Abdelaziz M. Hussein†, Amira Awadalla*, Ahmed Harraz*, Shery Khater*, Kamel Hemmaid $ , Ahmed I. Kamal* From *Urology and Nephrology Center, †Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura, University, $ Faculty of Sc...

Abdi Ahmed Bonahy, Houssam Sabbah, Ahmed Haiba Med Vadell, Nacer Eddine Med Baba Département Mère et Enfant, Faculté de Médicine de Nouakchott, Mauritanie, Maternité du Centre Hospitalier National (CHN) de Nouakchott, Mauritanie, Service d’Anatomopathologie du Centre Hospitalier National (CHN) de Nouakchott, Mauritanie Corresponding author: Abdi Ahmed Bonahy, Département Mère et Enfant, Faculté...

The purpose of this paper is to study common fixed point theorems for a setvalued and single-valued mappings in a metric spaces. Generalizations and extensions of known results are thereby obtained. In particular, the theorems by Ahmed [1], Ahmed [2], Rashwan and Ahmed [13], Skof [16], Rhoades, Tiwary and Singh [14] and Kiventidis [10] are improved.

PURPOSE To compare the surgical results of trabeculectomy and Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation after a previous failed trabeculectomy. METHODS A retrospective comparative case series review was performed on 31 eye surgeries in 20 patients with primary congenital glaucoma who underwent trabeculectomy or Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation after a previous failed trabeculectomy with mitomycin C....