Balneotherapy or Spa therapy is used in neurological, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, dermatological and gynecological diseases, in infertility as well as in metabolic disturbances. Beneficial effects of balneotherapy at the metabolic level is not fully understood. Authors have documented enhancement of antioxidants concentrations (coenzyme Q10- CoQ(10-OX) and alpha-tocopherol) of women with g...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Inflammatory innate and adaptive immune cell responses to commensal bacteria underlie the pathogenesis of human chronic inflammatory diseases. Intestinal dysbiosis has been described in patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) and seems to be correlated with histologic and immunologic alterations. Purpose of this review is to discuss the relationship occurring between intestinal ...

Wellness and spa tourism has recently become a marketing strategy to attract tourists. It plays an important role in hotel industry, resorts and tourist destinations. Wellness and spa services are being required by local and international tourists. The interrelationship among motivations, satisfaction, and revisit intentions remain largely unexplored. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to ...

Sclerosing polycyctic adenosis (SPA) is a rare lesion of unknown etiology morphologically resembling fibrocystic changes of the breast. To date, approximately 41 cases of SPA have been reported. Most cases of SPA have originated in the parotid and submandibular glands, with a few cases of intra-oral minor salivary gland origin. This is the first reported case of sclerosing polycystic adenosis o...

Staphylococcal protein A (SpA) is a key virulence factor that enables Staphylococcus aureus to evade host innate and adaptive immune responses. The immunomodulatory properties of SpA have led to a hypothesis that it may have pharmacological applications as a treatment for autoimmune disease. Clinical trials are underway to test whether ultrapure SpA can be used to treat immune thrombocytopenia ...

Association of oxidative stress and serum prolidase activity (SPA) has been reported in many chronic diseases. The study was aimed at evaluating the correlation of glucose and creatinine to SPA and oxidative stress in patients with diabetic nephropathy (DN) and end stage renal disease (ESRD) concerned with T2DM. 50 healthy volunteers, 50 patients with T2DM, 86 patients with DN, and 43 patients ...

The Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society (ASAS) group has recently developed criteria to classify patients with axial SpA with or without radiographic sacroiliitis, and criteria to classify patients with peripheral SpA. The ASAS axial criteria consist of 2 arms and can be applied in patients with back pain (>3 months almost every day). In one arm, imaging (radiographs and magne...

introduction: epistaxis is one of the most common medical emergencies, making the management of posterior epistaxis a challenging problem for the ear, nose, and throat (ent) surgeon. in the cases of conservative management failure, ligation of the major arteries or percutaneous embolization of the maxillary artery is performed routinely in most units, but rates of failure and complications are ...

introduction social physique anxiety (spa) and obsessive-compulsive disorders (ocd) are highly correlated and have been considered to be important in understanding eating problems. howeverspa and ocd have not been directly studied with respect to eating problems. thus, the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between spa and ocd and measures of eating problems.materials and methods...