Methods Two groups of patients with triple-vessel coronary disease were evaluated. Each group consisted of 15 patients,aged between 40 and 70, 70% being males and 30% females.The patients in both groups had similar systolic left ventricular function and some degree of diastolic dysfunction. Group I patients had standard postoperative medical treatment, and in Group II supplemental therapy with ...

OBJECTIVES To develop and test the psychometric properties of an Arabic version of Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS-Ar) that can be used to measure fatigue in Arabic patients with disorders where fatigue is a major symptom.  METHODS Forward and backward translations of FSS were undertaken to develop an Arabic version. The validity and reliability of the FSS-Ar was then tested on 28 patients with s...

BACKGROUND Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the commonest acquired heart disease in children worldwide but in Uganda, data is scarce regarding its morbidity and mortality. The disease has a progressive course and patients usually require valve repair/replacement in the future. OBJECTIVES To describe the frequency of echocardiographic valvular dysfunction in children with RHD To explore the re...

The IGSTK (Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit) library is a free and open toolkit for the development of prototype surgical navigation applications. IGSTK contains all necessary modules required for surgical 2D and 3D visualization, DICOM data import, various 3D-tracking systems and handling of live-video input directly or over a network. IGSTK was added a new component for real-time, interactive aug...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, incurable disease of the central nervous system that also one most common causes disability among young adults. Despite available pharmacological treatments, patients often require ongoing, supervised rehabilitation. Thus, therapists are constantly searching for new, effective ways improving functional performance and quality life without frequently visitin...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa epilepsy is more common in patients with multiple sclerosis (ms) than in the general population, occurring in 2%–3% of patients. convulsions may be either tonic–clonic in nature or partial complex. in these individuals, seizures most likely result from lesions present in the cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter. a jacksonian seizure is a typ...

Abstract Background Association of cardiac amyloidosis (CA) with aortic stenosis (AS) is well known. There limited data on the association CA other valvular heart diseases like regurgitation (AR), mitral (MS), (MR), tricuspid (TS), (TR), pulmonary (PS) and (PR). Purpose To assess associations between amyloidosis. Methods This a retrospective observational study from hospitalizations January 1, ...

The purpose of this work was to analyse published data on rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and multiple sclerosis (MS) SARS-CoV-2 infection: susceptibility, post-infection autoimmune disease (AD) exacerbation, immunosuppressive therapies long COVID. Supported by PICO strategy, two independent reviewers conducted the research in PubMed/Medline database from January 2...

Many users have shown increased postural instability while using Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) as HMDs block their real-world vision. People with balance impairments are especially more affected by this they depend on visual cues to maintain balance. In addition, is a good indication of cybersickness according theory. research, we investigated how use additional improve stability. Through conduc...