PURPOSE To evaluate the link between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and female sexual functioning. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 32 women with RA and 20 healthy age matched controls were enrolled in this study. The participations are asked to complete Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), The Short form 36 (SF-36) Health Survey and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)questionnaires. RESULTS The grou...

Study Design Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data. Objectives Few studies have investigated the role of preoperative anemia on postoperative outcomes of posterior cervical fusion. This study looked to investigate the potential relationship between preoperative anemia and postoperative outcomes following posterior cervical spine fusion. Methods Data from patients undergoing...

Behçet's disease (BD) is an autoinflammatory, chronic relapsing/remitting disease of unknown aetiology with both innate and acquired immune cells implicated in disease pathogenesis. Peripheral blood natural killer (NK) cells and their CD56Dim /CD56Bright subsets were surface phenotyped using CD27 and CD16 surface markers in 60 BD patients compared to 60 healthy controls (HCs). Functional potent...

Homozygous deletion of MTAP causes intracellular arginine accumulation enabling anti-tumor effects MTA2/PRMT5 inhibitors via a synthetic lethality mechanism. 7,301 cases MBC underwent hybrid-capture based comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP). Tumor mutational burden (TMB) was determined on up to 1.1 Mb sequenced DNA and MSI status 114 loci. cell PD-L1 expression by IHC (Dako 22C3). 208 (2.84%)...

OBJECTIVE To determine if there are significant clinical differences between self-ligating brackets (SLB) and conventional brackets (CB) during orthodontic treatment, as perceived by orthodontists. MATERIALS AND METHODS A survey was developed and distributed to evaluate how SLB compare to CB in terms of orthodontists' perceptions (n  =  430). RESULTS SLB were preferred during the initial st...

UNLABELLED Overactive Bladder Syndrome (OAB) is defined by the ICS (International Continence Society) as urinary urgency, with or without urgency incontinence and frequently associated with increase of frequency and nocturia. PURPOSE The aim of the study was to establish a correlation between OAB symptoms and Age in women aged 20-45. MATERIALS AND METHODS We interviewed 1050 women aged 20-4...

This study evaluates the impact of coverage in ALL Kids, the Alabama Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP), by examining asthma-related utilization and outcomes among children continuously enrolled for 3 years (N = 1954)with persistent asthma at enrollment. Outcomes and costs were compared for the first, second, and third years of enrollment using repeated measures analysis of variance and cont...