OBJECTIVE Little is known about the magnitude and consequences of violence against children for those living outside family care. We sought to estimate the frequency of childhood abuse and examine its association with lifetime pregnancy involvement (LPI) and past year suicide ideation among orphaned youth. METHODS We analyzed data collected via cross-sectional interviewer-administered surveys...

RATIONALE Laser peripheral iridotomy (LPI) is commonly performed as a primary treatment for acute primary angle closure glaucoma after administration of anti-glaucoma medications or for prevention of this condition. Minor complications may occur following LPI and most of them do not have deleterious consequences. We report a rare case of lens subluxation that has a possible relationship with LP...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate short-term respiratory outcomes in late preterm infants (LPI) compared with those of term infants (TI). METHODS A retrospective study conducted in a single third level Italian centre (2005-2009) to analyse the incidence and risk factors of composite respiratory morbidity (CRM), the need for adjunctive therapies (surfactant therapy, inhaled nitric oxide, pleural drainage)...

GPR55 was recently identified as a putative receptor for certain cannabinoids, and lysophosphatidylinositol (LPI). Recently, the role of cannabinoids as GPR55 agonists has been disputed by a number of reports, in part, because studies investigating GPR55 often utilized overexpression systems, such as the GPR55-overexpressing HEK293 cells, which make it difficult to deduce the physiological role...

PURPOSE To evaluate, by anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT), the changes in the anterior chamber angle during the short-term postoperative period after diode laser peripheral iridoplasty (LPI). METHODS Retrospective, observational study of consecutive primary angle closure suspect, primary angle closure, or primary angle closure glaucoma patients who underwent LPI. These pa...

AMINO ACIDS are efficiently absorbed in intestine and kidney by epithelial cells endowed with transporters for specific groups of amino acids. Inherited renal aminoacidurias arise as a result of mutations inactivating apical or basolateral transport systems. Although aminoacidurias are diagnosed by urine amino acid analysis, most of the disorders affect both intestinal and renal transport. In t...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought huge impact on Chinese economy and society, including the development country’s logistics industry. This paper focuses analyzing whether China Logistics Prosperity Index (LPI) a relationship with cases cumulative vaccination rate respectively. Correlation tests are conducted in IBM SPSS Statistics 23 to analyze between monthly new LPI, additional doses per 1...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare disease characterised by accumulation of lipoproteinaceous material within alveoli, occurring in three clinically distinct forms: congenital, acquired and secondary. Among the latter, lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) is a rare genetic disorder caused by defective transport of cationic amino acids. Whole Lung Lavage (WLL) is currently ...

Lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) is a rare inherited metabolic disease, caused by defective transport of dibasic amino acids. Failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly, hematological abnormalities, and hyperammonemic crisis are major clinical features. However, there has been no reported Korean patient with LPI as of yet. We recently encountered a 3.7-yr-old Korean girl with LPI and the diagnosi...