DOCK8 deficiency is the most common cause of autosomal recessive hyper-IgE syndrome (AR-HIES). The clinical spectrum is wide resulting in combined immunodeficiency, atopy, autoimmunity, and malignancies. To study the clinical and molecular profile of 20 patients with DOCK8 deficiency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Glioblastoma (GBM) is a fatal, fast-growing, and aggressive brain tumor arising from glial cells or their progenitors. It is a primary malignancy with a poor prognosis. The current study aims at evaluating the neuroradiological parameters of de novo GBM by analyzing the brain multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) scans acquired from a publicly available database analysis of the scans.
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June 2023
Introduction: Cyberbullying has been extensively studied and is associated with adverse mental health outcomes in adolescents. However, adolescents may also experience a range of other negative experiences, such as name-calling, threats, exclusion, and unwanted attention or contact from others. Few studies have investigated how adolescents' mental health is affected by these relatively common and less severe types of negative experiences on social media (SOME).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Adolescents' presence on Social Media (SoMe) facilitates peer connections making them susceptible to peer-influences and approval. Negative experiences on SoMe can affect adolescent stress and wellbeing, impelling their use of alcohol. This paper provides a novel understanding of the relationship between negative experiences on SoMe and key indicators of alcohol use in adolescents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNon-immune fetal hydrops (NIFH) is an etiologically heterogeneous condition. Cardiac anomalies are one of the common causes of NIFH. Cardiac anomalies can be isolated, multifactorial malformations or have a genetic basis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The objective of this study was to document and explain bilateral differences in the Q angle.
Materials And Methods: Two hundred limbs of healthy adult Indian volunteers were studied. The Q angle was measured using a goniometric method with the subjects supine, quadriceps relaxed and lower limbs in neutral rotation.