Wenjuan Xing,* Youyou Li,* Haifeng Zhang,* Chunjuan Mi, Zuoxu Hou, Michael J. Quon, and Feng Gao Department of Physiology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China; Experiment Teaching Center, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China; Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; and Department of Card...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study is to evaluate the characteristics of acute poisoning cases admitted to emergency department over a one year period. The demographic, clinical and psycho-social aspects of the patients were analysed. MATERIALS AND METHODS A hospital based study was carried out in the emergency department, Kathmandu University Teaching Hospital/ Dhulikhel Hospital, ...

aDepartment of Medical Microbiology/Parasitology, Faculty of Clinical Medicine, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki; bDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ebonyi State University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki; cDepartment of Morbid Anatomy, dDepartment of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Clinical Medicine, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki; eDepartment of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences,...

BACKGROUND Hospital environment represents a congenial situation where microorganisms and susceptible patients are indoors together. Thus, the objective of this study is to provide fundamental data related to the microbial quality of indoor air of Jimma University Specialized Hospital wards, to estimate the health hazard and to create standards for indoor air quality control. METHODS The micr...

a Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Madrid , Spain; b Department of Oncology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen , Norway; c Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif , and d Oncologie Médicale, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Nord Val de Seine, Paris , France; e Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berl...

BACKGROUND Renal transplantation is a regular service at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and complications have been known to occur after it. This study was conducted to assess complications after transplantation. OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence of urological complications after living related renal transplantation at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital. METHODS A clinical s...

Background: The purpose of this study was to identify differences and similarities in teachers' and students’ viewpoints about the factors affecting this evaluation.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 70 teachers and 148 students (34.86 % females and 65.13 males) of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences were selected by convenience sampling. Data were...

a University of Sao Paulo (USP), Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology. São Paulo, SP, Brazil. b Medical University of Graz, Institute for Medical Informatics/Statistics, Holzinger Group. Graz, Austria. c Medical University of Graz, Institute of Pathology. Graz, Austria. d University of de Sao Paulo (USP), Institute of Advanced Studies. São Paulo, SP, Brazil. e Wirral University Teaching...