Objective: To present the experience of laparoscopic nephrectomies and kidney resections in children.
Material And Methods: There were 28 minimally invasive surgeries for renal tumors between July 2015 and March 2023 (92 months). There were 16 (57%) boys and 12 (43%) girls who underwent 22 nephrectomies and 6 kidney resections.
HIV infection is one of the most acute problems of our time, characterized by slow development, prolonged course, and numerous clinical manifestations. Currently, there is a large number of drugs acting on different processes of human immunodeficiency virus replication, which constitute the group of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). This article shows a theoretical review of modern HAART and analyzes the prescribed treatment regimens for patients with HIV infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the modern world, anyone is susceptible to the effects of stress, regardless of age, gender, culture, and social status. Stress at an early age accelerates long-term changes in the functional properties underlying emotional perception and therefore may alter the stress response later in life. Unfortunately, the interdisciplinary approach in stress research emphasised the study of stress phenomenon in the development of this or that pathology or manifestation of appropriate reactions under the influence of this or that factor, i.
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At the current stage of healthcare development, the inclusion of immunomodulators in the complex pharmacotherapy of various immunoinflammatory and viral diseases is widely discussed, but due to the lack of sufficient research and a broad evidence base, not all drugs with similar properties are used in medicine. According to the information obtained from the instructions for the use of immunomodulators, it was obtained that the main contraindications to their use include the prescription of children, pregnant women, and women during breastfeeding. In this study, we evaluated the effects of immunomodulatory drugs: aminodihydrophthalazindione sodium and meglumine acridonacetate, on the early developmental stages of Danio rerio (Zebrafish) embryos.
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