BACKGROUND In the Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) classification, intermittent and persistent rhinitis were proposed to replace seasonal and perennial allergic rhinitis (AR). AIM To better understand the ARIA classification of rhinitis. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out in 591 patients consulting ENT or allergy specialists for AR and 502 control subjects. The...

Background: Multiple autoimmune syndrome (MAS) is a rare entity, defined by the association of three diseases in same patient. MAS can be classified into groups. Objectives: The objective this work was to describe profile An Internal Medicine Department. Methods: We report retrospective analysis including 14 cases seen Department at Taher Sfar Hospital, Mahdia, TUNISIA over period 10 years. Res...

Ti-4Al-5Mo-5V-5Cr-1Nb (wt.%) is a new type of high-strength (~1300 MPa) titanium (Ti) alloy developed for aerospace applications. Until now, the research on its welding and subsequent heat treatment barren. Herein, we employed electron beam (EBW) to solutionized with phase constituent α + β investigated microstructure mechanical properties in both as-welded (AW) post-weld aging treated (PWAT) c...

Introduction Post-traumatic stress disorder, following of a particular intensity, is often related to the perception childbirth as traumatic event requiring optimization follow-up and interest early detection. Objectives To determine factors associated with post-traumatic disorder childbirth. Methods This longitudinal prospective analytical study carried out in obstetrics gynecology department ...

INTRODUCTION Administrative coding of medical diagnoses in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is mandatory in order to create databases for use in epidemiological and economic studies. We assessed the reliability of coding between different ICU physicians. METHOD One hundred medical records selected randomly from 29,393 cases collected between 1998 and 2004 in the French multicenter Outcomere...

withdrawn EP4258 Cerebral vasculitis: a report of 17 cases Y. Cherif1, S. Younes1, H. Haj Kacem1, O. Berriche1, H. Hamza2, S. Jerbi2, M.H. Sfar1 1Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, 2Radiology, Tahar Sfar University Hospital, Mahdia, Tunisia Introduction: Cerebral vasculitis (CV) is rare. They may be primary or related to systemic, infectious or neoplastic diseases. Methods: Retrospective stud...

Background: Behcet’s disease (BD) is a systemic vasculitis that affects young adults aged between 20 and 30 years old. It rare in childhood. Objectives: This work aims to analyze the clinical features of this form by comparing it with adult BD. Methods: Through retrospective study including 192 cases BD seen The Internal Medicine Department at Tahar Sfar Hospital Mahdia TUNISA, we report 8 juve...

Abstract Background and Aims The estimate of the hydration state in chronic hemodialysis patient is a key point his care. Currently, there no Gold Standard feasable daily routine despite increasingly numerous tools such as impedancemetry pulmonary cardiac ultrasound. objective our study to compare results clinical estimation dry weight with ultrasound results. Method This transverse dialysis un...

Providing banking services, especially online banking and electronic payment systems, has always been associated with high concerns about security risks. In this paper, customer authentication for their transactions in electronic banking has been discussed, and a more appropriate way of using biometric fingerprint data, as well as encrypting those data in a different way, has been suggest...