periodontitis as a manifestation of systemic diseases

... growth as esophageal polyps may also be present as in case two [5,11] Esophageal carcinoma is part of the differential diagnosis as was the case for both our patients Diagnosis is usually made by ... months of rifampicin and isoniazid No further esophageal dilatations were required and our patient has no gastrointestinal complaints Case two The second patient was a Portuguese Caucasian man, ... reactivation [8] Case one was clearly a case of secondary esophageal tuberculosis, as there was proven pulmonary tuberculosis by sputum mycobacteriological examination However, in case two there was...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... such as headache, anorexia, myalgia or abdominal pain [9] The most typical manifestation of CSD is Parinaud’s oculoglandular syndrome, consisting of unilateral preauricular lymphadenopathy and ... 14:866869 Ganesan K, Mizen K: Cat-scratch disease an unusual cause of facial palsy and partial ptosis: case report J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2005, 63:869-872 Ridder GJ, Richter B, Laszing R: A farmer ... non-tender papule after to 10 days [6] Bartonella henselae is a proteobacteria that can cause bacteremia, endocarditis, bacillary angiomatosis, peliosis hepatis and CSD The diagnosis of CSD is usually...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... regression analyses as independent variables and resistin as a dependent variable A forward stepwise method was used ESR and S-creatinine were defined as normal or pathological according to standard laboratory ... variables Analyses were also performed with z score total hip and radius as dependent variables using a cutoff value as -1 SD for normal or reduced bone mass Resistin was significantly associated ... Lett 2001, 507:105-108 24 Osawa H, Tabara Y, Kawamoto R, Ohashi J, Ochi M, Onuma H, Nishida W, Yamada K, Nakura J, Kohara K, Miki T, Makino H: Plasma resistin, associated with single nucleotide...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... hypoproteinemia (50 g/L protein), hypoalbuminemia (23 g/L albumin), elevated serum aspartate transaminase (AST) (129 U/L), and elevated alanine transaminase (ALT) (159 U/L) A coagulation screening profile ... Walkowiak J, Blask-Osipa A, Lisowska A, Oralewska B, Pogorzelski A, Cichy W, Sapiejka E, Kowalska M, Korzon M, Szaflarska-Popławska A: Cystic fibrosis is a risk factor for celiac disease Acta ... doi:10.1186/1752-1947-5-116 Cite this article as: Kostovski and Zdraveska: Coagulopathy as initial manifestation of concomitant celiac disease and cystic fibrosis: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... removal of the introducer, the patient’s cardiac index was elevated and the systemic vascular resistance was low These parameters normalized during the next days MAP, mean arterial pressure cardiac ... bubbles that disrupt microvascular flow, resulting in platelet aggregation and the release of plasminogenactivator inhibitor [13] This mechanism has been implicated as a trigger to the cascade of cytokines ... hours after the episode of air embolism the patient’s hemodynamic and clinical condition (elevated cardiac output, decreased systemic vascular resistance, tachypnea, fever and diffuse intravascular...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:24

... is in their emphasis It is my belief that in giving the L2 student both as much input and practice as they can reasonably manage, and a strong metalinguistic awareness, we, as teachers give the ... Ireland and Britain One of the most important initial tasks for any teacher is the task of knowing his clients The notion of needs analysis is absolutely central Even with as few details as we ... different constraints, at many different levels, on each occasion that they are called upon, they encourage a unique emphasis on particular combinations of strategies on each occasion In reading, the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 10:10

... (accepting) accepting and negative and neutral expresssions: activation accompanied by in amygdala, evaluation of: hippocampus, Task performance: parahippocampal recognition of gyrus, medial type of emotion ... circuit (amygdala, hippocampus, insula, temporal lobe as well as anterior cingulate, medial, orbito, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices) of social phobic patients are greater than those of controls ... physical signs with imbalances in autonomic neurotransmission In this formulation, the physical complaints typical of social phobia, are associated with rapid release of catecholamines (noradrenaline,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... way as if through the eyes of an observer Again, it is difficult to grasp the meaningfulness of this finding, let alone as evidence of a bias However that may be, this putative ‘‘bias’’ is assigned ... treated as if originating in a scale of equal intervals This violates the basic postulates of the analysis of variance The relevant data should have been properly treated through some form of ... instance of a ‘‘category mistake.’’ According to Ryle (1949) this logical fallacy consists of treating the label for a class of events as if it were a member of that class From this vantage point...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... definitions aside, I shall now consider how the construct of social skills has been assessed in research Assessment of Social Skills of Social Phobic Individuals As the assessment of social skills had ... value of matching treatment with patients’ patterns of fear Based on extreme responses to a role-play and a ‘‘rationality’’ test, 39 patients were classified as either predominantly behavioral ... consider social phobia not as a breakdown in social ability but as emerging out of a pattern of meaningful actions that constitute a means to an end Although not necessarily abnormal in themselves,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... (shy, anxious) behavior by the teacher as well as peer assessment of social behavior (popularity, aggression, and isolation) at school At the age of no association was found between shy and anxious ... appeasement and avoidance of conflict typical of social phobic individuals Parental Alcoholism David et al (1995) found an association between parental alcoholism and phobia (both social and agoraphobia); ... variables such as maternal anxiety and an array of variables indexing temperament Nonetheless, it must be borne in mind that an even greater proportion of infants classified as anxiously attached...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... (mean age 12) on a social phobia and anxiety inventory for children (SPAI-C) and on a behavioral assessment task This included an interaction with a peer as well as reading aloud in front of an ... the validity of the measures devised to ascertain and quantify social anxiety, as this is most relevant to social phobia Examination of the validity both of the construct and of the methods assessing ... the Nature of Social Phobia? The Measurement of Social Anxiety As we have seen earlier, a variety of meanings are attached to the term anxiety (and fear) This implies that there could be substantive...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... test was within fifteen minutes During the test, the teacher worked as a cassette player and examiner The marking was done with the same way of assessment and then was analyzed in turn The class ... for this task must have quite easy language and sung at a low speed such as ‘ whatever will be will be’ To carry out this task, teacher can omit some passage of the song word and then ask students ... years; teachers and researchers believe that motivation plays an important part in the process of acquiring an additional language because motivated students are usually those who participate actively...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:33

... some of the factors accepted by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as determinants of health (PHAC, 2003) PHAC has adopted a conceptual model of health determinants that includes: income and ... maternal race, age, adequacy of prenatal care and medical risks, and congenital malformations, birthweight, gestational age, and small-for-gestational age The study by Gaudino et al (1999) offers ... involvement, in addition to measures of the impacts of father’s absence, has been a necessary step towards a program of research that will uncover the effects of varying qualities and amounts of father’s...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 11:20

... but at least acknowledge it as a potential outcome of sexual assault: • An online publication by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs lists fistula as one of the physical ... sexually assaulted, which often results in social stigmatization As victims of violent sexual assault, women with traumatic fistula may have sustained additional physical injuries They also face ... socially undesirable status as a victim of sexual assault Stories of brutal rape of women and girls have emerged from a number of African nations where political conflicts have led to the systematic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20

... phonology of languages Universal alphabets Logical relations of the parts of speech The vocabulary and the grammar of languages Distinctions between languages and dialects Mixed languages and jargons ... Subdivisions of Races Theories of monogenism and polygenism Doctrine of “geographical provinces” or “areas of characterization.” The continental areas at the date of man’s appearance on the earth Eurafrica, ... Eurafrica, Austafrica, Asia, America, Oceanica Causes and consequences of the migrations of races and nations a The Eurafrican Race.—Types of the white race Its first home Early migrations The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 05:20

... that in writing of the Man of Letters as a Man of The Man of Letters as a Man of Business, by Business, I shall attract far more readers than I should in writing of him as an Artist Besides, as ... knows that there is always a danger that the reigning favorite may fail to please; that at any rate, in the order of things, he is passing away, and that if the magazine is not to pass away with ... much of a business man after all He must still have a low rank among practical people; and he will be regarded by the great mass of Americans as perhaps a little off, a little funny, a little soft!...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... science of the “beautiful” in a work of art The aesthetic appeal of a work of art is defined by the visual Social, ethical moral, and contemporary standards of a society armature A structure of wood ... Compare the "god-like" qualities of a particular character (such as Diana, goddess of the hunt) to a modern character (such as Mia Hamm, huntress of a soccer goal) The Huntington Library, Art ... in a kiln it is called bisque ware At this stage, the clay has changed composition and can no longer have water added to it and turned back into useable material bronze An alloy of copper and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 10:20

... mutase–prephenate dehydratase were deleted Monofunctional versions of the dehydratase and the dehydrogenase are provided by plasmid pKIMP-UAUC Random gene libraries are introduced into this strain ... strain and the ability of a cell harboring an individual library member to form a colony on minimal agar media lacking added phenylalanine and tyrosine reports on the chorismate mutase activity of ... interactions may be an easy way to increase enzyme stability This hexameric variant, however, suffered a 200-fold decrease in catalytic efficiency In contrast, the unstable monomeric variants had near wild...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... for a phage l integrase mutant was set as 100% In each case, data were collected from six separate transfection assays, each employing two wells containing about  105 cells (C) Normalized b-Gal ... electroporation b-Galactosidase (b-gal) assays, Southern blotting and PCR b-Gal assays and Southern blotting were performed as described previously [10,17] The 32 P-labelled probe was generated by ... 114-bp targets was significantly impaired in chromatin This impediment was not affected by the transcriptional status of chromatin nor by inhibitors of histone deacetylases and topoisomerases E...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20