hydatid disease has a worldwide spreading. the most common site of the disease is the liver, lungs, kidney, bones, and brain. splenic hydatid disease has been reported to constitute 2% to 6% of patients with abdominal hydatid disease. because of the rarity of splenic hydatid disease, the probable concomitance of the liver and splenic hydatid cysts should be taken into consideration by clinician...

introduction and objective: liver is an important body organ without which life is impossible. cyclophosphamide is an alkylating agent widely used as an anti-cancer (“antineoplastic” or “cytotoxic”) chemotherapy drug. the present study aimed to find a suitable antioxidant and examine the effect of vitamin e and selenium on reducing the side effects of cyclophosphamide on liver as a vital organ....

Renewable energy sources (RES), especially wind power plants, have high priority of promotion in the energy policies worldwide. An increasing share of RES and distributed generation (DG), should, as has been assumed, provide improvement in reliability of electricity delivery to the customers. Paper presented here concentrates on electricity storage systems technologies and applications pinpoint...

BACKGROUND There are almost no prospective, controlled and randomized clinical trials comparing different approaches towards hepatic assist. In order to create a basis for comparing the value of the existing different hepatic assist methods this article offers a systematic review of the world experience with allogeneic or xenogeneic extracorporeal liver perfusion (ECLP). METHODS An Internet-a...

one of the strong points of islamic banking, compared to conventional banking system, is the bank's sharing of both profits and losses of  funded activities in the framework of collaborative agreements. the proper implementation of partnership facilities requires respecting religious as well as financial and economic codes. as shown by the evidence, the objections made against the activiti...

Introduction Cirrhosis is the 12th leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for almost 30 thousand deaths per year (Starr 2011). !e leading causes of cirrhosis include chronic alcohol abuse and viral hepatitis; however cirrhosis is the common end pathway of several types of liver injury, including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), autoimmune hepatic or biliary disease, a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate if clinical and laboratory parameters could assist in the differential diagnosis of intra and extra-hepatic neonatal cholestasis (NC). METHODS Retrospective study of NC patients admitted at the Pediatric Hepatology Outpatient Clinic of the teaching hospital of Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, between December 1980 and March 2005. The approac...

OBJECTIVE To determine factors associated with hepatic fibrosis development in people with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. METHODS As a requirement for access to interferon therapy through the S100 scheme in Australia, individual pretreatment demographic and clinical information was collected on 2986 patients from 61 hospital-based liver clinics from 1 October 1994 through 31 Decem...

background: the research to date does not present an articulated approach to ensure nutrition and food systems education is systematically implemented within schools. this paper aimed to investigate food experts’ views of the best strategies to improve school‑leavers’ knowledge of nutrition and food systems. methods: in this qualitative study, 28 iranian food and nutrition experts from four maj...