The pre and postoperative symptoms and outcome after surgery in patients with symptomatic gall stone disease were evaluated by a detailed self administered postal questionnaire. The survey was conducted in two groups: 80 patients treated by laparoscopic cholecystectomy and an age matched cohort of patients who had conventional open cholecystectomy. The overall response rate on which the data we...

STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study by non-probability consecutive sampling. PURPOSE The objective of this study was to assess body mass index (BMI) and investigate vitamin D levels in patients with low back pain (LBP) and study a possible relationship with myopathy-related symptoms and Modic changes. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE LBP is a multifactorial problem and the search for its patho-anatomi...

Background: Disease manifestations and outcomes of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) seem to differ between sexes. Gaining knowledge about the underlying mechanisms these differences men women is important optimize treatment strategies, especially given that less often reach low disease activity (LDA) targets 1,2 . Objectives: To assess sex in parameters health-related quality life PsA, whether determi...

Nursing workers represent a significant proportion of the hospital workforce. In recent times, focus is puton increasing efficacy with reducing concurrent risks in this population. Many researches imply onincluding workplace modifications and various exercises to reduce number absenteeism heightenthe quality work. As low back ache most prevalent, study targets on determining effects ofworkstati...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence and associated factors of musculoskeletal (MS) pain among the dental personnel. In addition, impacts and treatment of MS pain were reported. MATERIAL AND METHOD Random sampling of 390 participants from the name lists of dental personnel working in each department. Self-administered questionnaires were equally distributed to three groups of dental personnel na...

MRI workers are occupationally exposed to static and time-varying gradient magnetic fields.  While the 24-hour time-averaged exposure to static magnetic fields is about a few mT, the maximum static field strength can be as high as 500 mT during patient setup. Over the past several years, our laboratory has performed extensive experiments on the health effects of exposure of animal models and h...

BACKGROUND Epidemiologically-based rheumatology healthcare needs assessment requires an understanding of the incidence and prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in the community, of the reasons why people consult in primary care, and of the proportion of people who would benefit from referral to secondary care and paramedical services. This paper reports the first phase of such a needs assess...

Background Spondylodiscitis (SD) is an infection of the vertebral body or disc and may also extend to epidural space, posterior elements, paraspinal soft tissues. It a cause morbidity mortality. However, diagnosis often delayed because non-specific clinical features. Objectives In this study, we aimed describe diagnostic features infectious SD Methods We conducted retrospective study including ...

mri workers are occupationally exposed to static and time-varying gradient magnetic fields.  while the 24-hour time-averaged exposure to static magnetic fields is about a few mt, the maximum static field strength can be as high as 500 mt during patient set up. over the past several years, our lab has performed extensive experiments on the health effects of exposure of animal models and humans t...