Diagnosis of alcohol misuse and alcoholic liver disease among patients in the medical emergency admission service of a large urban hospital in Subsaharan Africa ; a cross sectional study

Christopher Kenneth Opio, Emmanuel Seremba, Ponsiano Ocama, Lalitha Rejani, Magid Kagimu, William Martens Lee

Uganda is among the top ten consumers of alcohol worldwide though there is little data on alcohol related liver disease. We describe alcohol use, alcohol misuse, and alcoholic liver disease among adults at the emergency admission service of a large urban hospital in Uganda. All adults who consente ...

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Dissociative experiences and their relationship to mood problems among Arab mothers of disabled children

Muwafak Al-Eithan, Hathab Al Juban, Asirvatham Alwin Robert

To examine the presence of dissociation among Arab mothers with disabled children in Saudi Arabia, and to explore if this is linked to their mood difficulties, in addition to certain other demographic variables. We conducted a prospective study during the period of June 2011 to February 2012, on ...

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Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus and the polio eradication endgame

Robert Davis, Peter F Wright - 20 August 2012

The world is now in the 24th year of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Halfway through that initiative in 2000, the island of Hispaniola saw an outbreak of vaccine derived poliovirus. The implications of this outbreak and multiple subsequent isolations of Sabin strains that are estimated to have circulated in communities for a year or more are now causing a reconsideration of the optimal way to achieve polio eradication. These circulating vaccine derived polio viruses, cVDPV, in many cases have regained the virulence and capacity to cause paralytic disease that we associate with wild-type poliovirus (WPV) strains. They, with the prolonged poliovirus vaccine virus shedding seen in some immunodeficient children, iVDPV, have uncovered a serious risk to polio eradication using OPV as our sole weapon.

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Adénocarcinome vaginal primitif de type intestinal: cas clinique et revue de la littérature

Said Ait Laalim, Imane Tourghai, Karim Ibnmejdoub, Khalid Mazaz, Sanaa Raghy, Leila Chbani, El Mazghi Abderahman, Fatim Zahra Hijri

L'adénocarcinome vaginal de type intestinal est une tumeur rare. Il pose un problème d'étiopathogénie, de diagnostic différentiel (avec un ADK rectal ou métas..

Only the 200 first characters of this abstract are displayed here - 21 May 2013

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