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Aim: Trauma is one of the leading causes for years of life lost in New Zealand. Its costs to acute care services alone amount to hundreds of millions per year, and it is the main contributor to years of life lost in patients under 40. Since 2016, the Canterbury Trauma Registry has been actively collecting data on all major traumas presenting to Christchurch hospital.
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September 2022
Unit of Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele, via Olgettina 60, Milan 20132, Italy; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, via Olgettina 60, Milan 20132, Italy.
Objective: Immune-related adverse events (irAEs) due to immune checkpoint inhibitors are responsible for a considerable burden of morbidity and mortality. Predictors of severity of rheumatic irAEs have not been identified yet. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis whether the presence of autoantibodies could be associated with a more severe and difficult-to-treat clinical phenotype of rheumatic irAEs.
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January 2022
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Loghman Hakim Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Background & Objective: Eosinophils are normally found in different parts of the gastrointestinal tract and with less prevalence in the esophagus. Eosinophilic infiltration is increased as part of inflammatory reactions in various diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the count and distribution of eosinophils in esophageal specimens obtained for different causes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Med Res
March 2021
Department of Imageology, Malabar Cancer Center, Thalassery, Kerala, India.
Background & Objectives: Human papillomavirus (HPV) and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) are found to be strongly associated with each other with an increase in incidence has been noted globally over the years. A literature search for data depicting the role of HPV in oropharyngeal carcinoma in South India, however, has resulted in little information, thus, the present study was aimed to assess a possible association between the two among OPSCC patients from a tertiary care cancer centre in South India.
Methods: One hundred and fourty three OPSCC cases were included in the study and analyzed for age, gender, marital status, habits, clinical TNM staging, site, laterality, symptoms, histological type (keratinizing and non-keratinizing), primary treatment and follow up period.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
October 2021
Community Medicine, Dr. RML Hospital & PGIMER, New Delhi, India.
Recalcitrant dermatophytosis has had an alarming rise in India with concomitant decreased effectiveness of conventional antifungal agents. This has prompted the use of second-line agents for treatment. In this retrospective study, we aimed to analyze the response rate, efficacy, relapse rate, and side effects of oral ketoconazole (KZ) in the treatment of recalcitrant tinea corporis and cruris.
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