It has been suggested that enlarged values of morphological measurements manifesting obesity intensify the risk of sleep disturbances. The main goal of this work was to find a set of predictor morphometric variables that best distinguish between the mutually exclusive groups of interest, the well and the ill – i.e., those who suffer from obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) syndrome, and healthy pati...

This study attempts to look into the energetic status of demersal fish species with their maturity stages and evaluate their energetic condition. Demersal fish species from wild were captured, total length and weight of each fish were measured and gonads were observed, weighted and collected with fish flesh. Gonadosomatic index, water content of gonad and flesh and gonadal and somatic caloric v...

BACKGROUND Treatment of a number of complications that occur after abdominal surgeries may require that Urgent Relaparotomy (UR), the life-saving and obligatory operations, are performed. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the reasons for performing URs, their outcomes and factors that affect mortality. METHODS Observational, Prospective Study. The study included all the patients w...

AIMS The primary aim was to assess whether there were differences in symptoms, laboratory data, and oesophageal pH-metry between infants with primary gastro-oesophageal reflux and those with reflux secondary to cows' milk protein allergy (CMPA). PATIENTS AND METHODS 96 infants (mean(SD) age 7.8(2.0) months) with either primary gastro-oesophageal reflux, reflux with CMPA, CMPA only, or none of...

Participants Les sociétés savantes et associations professionnelles suivantes ont été sollicitées pour l’élaboration de ces recommandations : Association française pour l’étude du foie ; Club de réflexion des cabinets et groupes d’hépato-gastroentérologue ; Collège national des généralistes enseignants ; Groupe francophone d’hépatologie gastro-entérologie et nutrition pédiatriques ; Société fra...

conclusions a significant number of patients would benefit from surgical therapy to treat their gerd symptoms, but some incorrect beliefs still misguide the indications for the surgical procedure. results our review showed that: (a) the mortality rate of the surgical procedure is negligible and ppi therapy is also accompanied with mortality; (b) there is a 5% chance of severe dysphagia after an...

In vivo molecular imaging techniques is increasingly used in the management of oncological patients, allowing different aspects of oncological pathologies to be assessed (e.g. metabolism, hypoxia) non invasively. The possibility to extract indexes of disease from in vivo biomedical images and to associate them with their biological drivers opens new prospective on the role of in vivo molecular ...

Allelic deletion of multiple regions on the short arm of chromosome 3 (3p) implies the presence of multiple important tumor suppressor genes in human carcinogenesis The FHIT gene, identified recently in chromosome 3p14-2, shows frequent allelic deletion and aberrant transcripts in gastro intestinal tumors. After determining the intron sequences flanking each of the coding exons of the FHIT gene...