Prunus mume extract and choline treatment in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease estimated by b-mode ultrasonography and hepatorenal index.

Background: The aim of this study was to find the difference between the liver function test (LFT) and hepatorenal index (HRI), before and after the administration of (PM) and choline i.e., to find the predictors of the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) severity according its HRI, during the three-month follow-up period.

Femoral neck and spine bone mineral density-Surrogate marker of aortic calcification in postmenopausal women.

Objective: Osteoporosis and abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in postmenopausal women. The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of anterior-posterior (AP) dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) compared with that of X-ray lateral lumbar radiography (LLR) in detecting and scoring AAC.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study conducted in 56 postmenopausal asymptomatic females aged 59.

Biomechanics of urinary stress incontinence surgery--theory of the non-permanently acting suburethral supportive structure.

This biochemical study of the lower urinary tract as it relates to urinary continence and incontinence is based on the morphotopographic results of radiological, autopsy and surgical investigations in the period 1966-1968. The process of urinary continence is simply explained by the application of universal hydromechanical laws, which demonstrated that continence during straining results from compression of the urethra over a suburethral resistant structure. Compression occurs during dorsocaudal physiologic displacement of the urethrovesical complex in conditions of increased intra-abdominal pressure.

The gamma-globin gene rearrangements in newborns from the Republic of Macedonia.

Cord blood samples of 3,232 newborns of different ethnic origins living in the Republic of Macedonia were analyzed by starch gel electrophoresis, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography. Hb Bart's was detected in 26 newborns (0.8%) indicating the low incidence of alpha-thalassemia in the Republic of Macedonia.