Aim of the study: Portal vein congestion index has shown promise in detecting early portal venous hemodynamic changes chronic liver disease. The aim this study was to compare adult patients with disease that healthy controls, and evaluate differences index, if any, between common etiologies (chronic viral hepatitis, alcoholic disease, non-alcoholic fatty disease). Method materials: Eighty parti...

case presentation the current report presented an eight-year-old girl with microscopic hematuria and chronic abdominal pain along with short review of anatomy, pathophysiology, clinical significance and management of this syndrome. conclusions the nutcracker syndrome should be differentiated from unexplained chronic abdominal pain. introduction renal vein entrapment, named nutcracker phenomenon...

To cite: Nana GR, Basra M, Maudgil DD, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013202237 DESCRIPTION A 70-year-old man with a history of chronic liver disease presented with increasing scrotal pain and swelling. There was an associated dull left loin pain. His general practitioner had started antibiotics after an ultrasound scan revealed hypervascu...

BACKGROUND Iliac vein stenting technology is rapidly emerging as a minimally invasive alternative to traditional open venovenous bypass procedures for iliac vein stenoses and chronic total occlusions. METHODS Peer-reviewed publications meeting eligibility criteria were retrieved and reviewed from public domain databases. RESULTS Reviewed reports encompass ∼1500 patients. Evidence quality wa...

Abstract Hop stunt viroid (HSVd) and Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) are the causal agents of most important diseases of citrus. Previously we reported a novel variant of HSVd that constantly associated with the yellow corky vein disease. Here, 19 individual citrus leaves with yellow corky vein symptoms were sampled for CTV by ELISA. In this study, most symptomatic samples were found to be inf...

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a chronic and progressive disease, and if uncontrolled results in permanent remodeling of the myocardium. Reverse remodeling of the left atrium (LA) after the successful pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) in recurrent/chronic AF may occur, however, mitral regurgitation (MR) recovery after the successful PVI has not been demonstrated but would be an important f...

chronic liver diseases in children is the result of many different diseases including: metabolic, genetic, infectious, toxic and idiopathic causes. this was a case series study on 133 infants and children with age range 6 month to 12 years old, who presented clinically with manifestation of chronic liver disease and were admitted to children hospital medical center from year 1999 to 2000. in th...

background and purpose: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) has been recognized as a risk factor for invasive aspergillosis. airway colonization by aspergillus species is a common feature of chronic pulmonary diseases. nowadays, the incidence of copd has increased in critically ill patients. the aim of the present study was to isolate and identify aspergillus colonies in the respirator...

ramadan is a sacred month for muslims all around the world. during this lunar-based month, healthy adult muslims are obligated to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking, or using oral medications from predawn to sunset. followers will typically eat just after sunset and again before dawn (1). the islamic lunar hijri calendar is 11 days shorter than the gregorian solar calendar, and therefore, t...

conclusions we found statistical differences in pct levels that would differentiate cap from acute exacerbation of copd in the ed setting. further studies are required to verify this finding. methods this cross-sectional prospective descriptive study was performed in the emergency department (ed) on patients with cap and acute exacerbation of copd. a total of 53 patients were included in this s...