The role of cardiac imaging in assessing the cardiac involvement of type 1 Gaucher disease: a case report with review of literature.

Background: Gaucher disease (GD) is a lysosomal storage disease that leads to the accumulation of glucocerebroside within reticuloendothelial cells, haematological, neurological, skeletal and abdominal organs. These clinical manifestations are common to all types of GD, but categorization depends on the absence of neurological involvement (type I) or its presence (type II and III). Cardiac involvement is rare and only reported in few cases, where valvular and aortic calcifications were associated with type IIIc.

Adult urolithiasis in Western Algeria: a study of 1104 cases.

Introduction: Urolithiasis is a health problem that is increasing all over the world as in Algeria, but with scarce local data.

Aim: To determine, for the first time, the epidemiological characteristics of urolithiasis in western Algeria.

Methods: We determined the socio-demographic parameters, the clinical data, and those related to stones of 1104 adult stone formers (2012-2019).

NEPHROPROTECTIVE AND DIURETIC EFFECT OF L SEEDS OIL ON LITHIASIC WISTAR RATS.

Background And Objective: The purpose of the current investigation was to study the influences, preventive and diuretic, of L. seeds oil () on calcium oxalate (CaOx) urolithiasis induced in Wistar male rats.

Methodology: Seeds of L.

Removal of methylene blue dye from water by a spent bleaching earth biosorbent.

This work is about the valorization of spent bleaching earth (SBE) at low cost from the AFIA oil refinery in Algeria's western region. The biowaste has been burned to eliminate the oil traces, then it has been valorized in two ways: (i) chemically, using phosphoric acid to obtain SBEC and (ii) thermally at 750 °C to create SBEH. The obtained materials were used for the first time as biosorbents in the wastewater treatment field.

Conception of a novel spray tower plasma-reactor in a spatial post-discharge configuration: Pollutants remote treatment.

This paper describes a novel gliding Arc discharge reactor producing a non-thermal plasma at atmospheric pressure in humid air. The ionized gas is generated in a spray-tower absorber for the treatment of organic pollutants. The reactor configuration enables the plasma-degradation of micro-droplets effluents in the spatial post-discharge mode.

Plasmacatalytic removal of lead acetate assisted by precipitation.

The Gliding Arc Discharge (GAD) is an efficient non-thermal plasma technique able to degrade organic compounds dispersed in water at atmospheric pressure. The degradation of the organometallic lead acetate (PbAc) in aqueous solution was performed by two distinct plasmageneous processes: GAD and GAD/TiO2. The global oxidation of the organic matter was followed by Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and the mineralization was determined by the Total Organic Carbon (TOC).

TiO2-assisted degradation of a perfluorinated surfactant in aqueous solutions treated by gliding arc discharge.

The plasma-chemical degradation of Forafac 1110, a perfluorinated non-ionic surfactant, in aqueous solutions was investigated using TiO2 catalysts. The considered plasma was the gliding arc in humid air, which results from an electric discharge at atmospheric pressure and quasi-ambient temperature. Two titanium dioxide powders were used and their synergistic effects on the Forafac degradation were compared.

Filtration performance of microporous ceramic supports.

The use of inorganic membranes in pollution treatment is actually limited by the cost of such membranes. Advantages of inorganic membranes are their chemical, thermal and pH properties. The purpose of this work was the development of microporous ceramic materials based on clay for liquid waste processing.

[Urinary stones in Western Algeria: study of the composition of 1,354 urinary stones in relation to their anatomical site and the age and gender of the patients].

Introduction: The prevalence of urinary stones runs parallel with the socioeconomic and health level of populations. Few data are currently available concerning the characteristics of urinary stones in Algeria. Based on our recruitment of stones derived from the main teaching hospital urology departments of Western Algeria, we defined the stone profile in this region of North Africa and its changes in relation to previous data.