The need for proper nutrition and diet is fundamental in every stage of chronic kidney disease. principle nutritional therapy slowing the progression disease, delaying patients with CKD (chronic disease) from getting replacement therapy. In patients, there a disturbance protein homeostasis, metabolism protein, acid-base disorders, hormonal dysfunctions. As increases, nitrogen-containing product...

introduction: to evaluate the efficacy and safety of carboplatin plus paclitaxel in patients with advanced locoregional recurrence and metastatic endometrial cancer. patient and method: 32 eligible patients (median age 62, range 41-72) with measurable endometrial cancer were treated with carboplatin (auc= 6) and paclitaxel (175 mg/m 3 ) every 4 weeks for 6 cycles, or, until disease progression ...

alzheimer’s disease (ad), the leading cause of dementia worldwide, is an irreversible progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive impairment and functional disability 1-3. devastating nature of ad leads to serious social and economic impacts on the healthcare systems which implies the necessity of its proper management 1-3. it has been demonstrated that patients’ quality o...

there is a continuing need to identify new agents that are active in ovarian cancer. etoposide is a derivative of the plant alkaloid epipodophyllotoxin. the availability of etoposide in oral preparation allows prolonged administration by the oral route. in this study, activity and toxicity of etoposide in women with recurrent ovarian cancer are described from a case series of women with recurre...

context the aim of this review was to examine evidences for the association between smoking and periodontal disease, to discuss possible biological mechanisms whereby smoking may adversely affect the periodontium, and to consider the effect of smoking on periodontal treatment. evidence acquisition a web-based search in pubmed and google scholar was performed to identify publications regarding t...

keratoconus is a non-inflammatory, progressive thinning process of the cornea. it is a relatively common disorder of unknown etiology that can involve each layer of the cornea and often leads to high myopia and astigmatism. computer- assisted corneal topography devices are valuable diagnostic tools for the diagnosis of subclinical keratoconus and for tracking the progression of the disease. the...