BACKGROUND The relatives of intensive care unit (ICU) patients must cope with both the severity of illness of their loved one and the unfamiliar and stressful ICU environment. This hardship may lead to post-intensive care syndrome. French guidelines provide recommendations on welcoming and informing families of ICU patients. We questioned whether and how they are applied 5 years after their pub...

1 Dr K Shilpa, MBBS,MD (DVL), Assistant Professor 2 Dr B Leelavathy, MBBS, MD(DVL), Professor and Head 3 Dr K Kavya, MD, Junior Resident 4 Dr DV Lakshmi, DVD, Junior Resident 5 Dr G Divya, MBBS,MD(DVL), Senior Resident Department of Dermatology, Venereology, Leprology, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bangalore. KR Market, Bengaluru-560002, Karnataka, India Corresponding author...

CONTENTS Review Breast-Conserving Surgery for Invasive Cancer: A Principle Based on Segmental Anatomy. N. Ohuchi Regular Contributions Effect of Mandibular Advancement Splint on Psycho-Intellectual Derangements in Patients with Sleep Apnea Syndrome. Y. Nambu, Y. Nagasaka, E. Fujita, S. Hamada and M. Fukuoka Creatinine at the Evaluation of Urinary 1-Methyladenosine and Pseudouridine Excretion. I...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical characteristics and assess other factors associated with geographic tongue in Thailand. One hundred and eighty-eight Thais with geographic tongue and 188 controls were interviewed regarding their medical history, symptoms, and the nature and migratory pattern of their lesions. Variations in the clinical appearance, lesion location, and a...

Objective: Rhenium is one of the most valuable elements for internal radiotherapy because Re and Re have favorable physical characteristics. However, there are problems when proteins such as antibodies are used as carriers of Re. Labeling methods that use bifunctional chelating agents such as MAG3 require the conjugation of the Re complex to protein after radiolabeling with the bifunctional che...

Introduction: Previously, 186Re and 188Re radioisotopes have been produced through appropriate activities, and each of them has been used for therapeutic applications. The 186Re and 188Re have unique properties, which make them proper for the treatment of  tumors in different sizes. The long-range 188Re, is suitabl...

Acinetobacter baumannii are Gram-negative bacilli that pose a constant threat to susceptible patients because of increased resistance to multiple antibiotics and persistence in the hospital environment. After genome analysis, we discovered that A. baumannii harbors genes that share homology to an enzymatic pathway that elongates long-chain fatty acids (LCFA) in fungi. Previously, 1,2,4-triazoli...

AIM The present study investigates synergistic effect of combination treatment of lycopene, quercetin and poloxamer188 in 3-nitropropionic acid (3-NP)-induced Huntington's disease (HD). MATERIALS AND METHODS Anxiety and depression were induced in male Wistar rat by intra-peritoneal administration of 3-NP (10 mg/kg) for 14 days. Body weight was assessed on day 1, 7 and 14, whereas locomotion, ...