Evaluation of Depression and Anxiety in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients During COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity, associated comorbidities, and therapy-related side effects impair the physical, social, and emotional dimensions of the patient's health. Presently, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with a broad range of psychosocial disorders in various populations. Patients with RA are especially vulnerable to such effects.

Post-COVID-19 depression and anxiety in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate depression and anxiety in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the post-coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) period and their potential association with the disease activity and related organ damage.

Patients And Methods: This is a case-control study including 120 adult Egyptian patients with SLE: sixty patients with SLE who were proven previously to be positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and recovered during the 3 months prior to the study were included in the case group and an equal number of age- and sex-matched patients with SLE and no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection were included in the control group. Patients' clinical history was collected, and they underwent clinical evaluation, including SLE disease activity, damage assessment, and psychological assessment.

Horizontal Ridge Augmentation of the Atrophic Maxilla Using Pericardium Membrane Versus Titanium Mesh: A Clinical and Histologic Randomized Comparative Study.

Purpose: To compare the outcomes of maxillary horizontal alveolar ridge augmentation in the esthetic area, using either pericardium membrane or titanium mesh, clinically, radiographically, and histologically.

Materials And Methods: A randomized clinical study was performed on 20 patients with insufficient edentulous ridge width. Subjects were equally allocated into two groups.

Nail Folds Capillaries Abnormalities Associated With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Progression and Correlation With Diabetic Retinopathy.

Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an important microvascular consequence of long-term type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and it can lead to blindness if not properly diagnosed and managed. Nailfold video capillaroscopy (NVC) is a non-invasive technique for observing capillary microvasculature.

Aim: We aimed to evaluate the nail folds capillaroscopic alterations in patients with T2DM by NVC and correlated the results to DR, and their relation to disease duration and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c).

The impact of anthelminthic therapeutics on serological and tissues apoptotic changes induced by experimental trichinosis.

Trichinosis is a sharable parasitic disease caused by spp., the disease occurred on eating inappropriate cooked pork infected by the parasite encysted larvae. This study aimed to evaluate experimentally the impact of treatment by thiabendazole, praziquantel (PZQ) and prednisone on induced parasitological, serological and apoptotic changes.