A5085779048- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Esophageal and GI Pathology
- Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments
- Liver Disease and Transplantation
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Metastasis and carcinoma case studies
- Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
- Ethics in medical practice
- Signaling Pathways in Disease
- Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
- Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments
- Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
- Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
- Biliary and Gastrointestinal Fistulas
- Polyomavirus and related diseases
- Antenna Design and Analysis
- Nuclear Physics and Applications
- Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Renal cell carcinoma treatment
- Liver Diseases and Immunity
- Galectins and Cancer Biology
Carilion Clinic
2022-2025
Virginia Tech
2022-2025
New College
2023
Dominion (United States)
2023
University of South Carolina
2019-2022
Bank of England
2017
Stony Brook University Hospital
1999
State University of New York
1999
RTX (United States)
1951
While adaptive immunity recognizes a nearly infinite range of antigenic determinants, immune tolerance renders vulnerable to microbes decorated in self-like antigens. Recent studies suggest that sugar-binding proteins galectin-4 and galectin-8 bind expressing blood group However, the binding profile potential antimicrobial activity other galectins, particularly galectin-9 (Gal-9), has remained incompletely defined. Here, we demonstrate while Gal-9 possesses strong preference for ABO(H)...
This paper describes a method of determining the source long-distance backscatter and results obtained using this at frequencies 9, 12, 16, 22 mc.
Despite post-crisis reforms in over-the-counter derivatives markets, regulators are left with incomplete, but still improved, data-sets. This means that methods for reconstructing networks of bilateral exposures from incomplete data necessary to conduct a proper assessment systemic risk. In this paper, we propose modification the network reconstruction method developed by Cont and Moussa includes additional information which is now available through reforms. By making use data-set containing...
Introduction Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is a disorder in which one or more parathyroid glands overproduce hormone, leading to hypercalcemia. It may present with symptoms like constipation, abdominal pain, psychiatric complaints as well signs of nephrolithiasis, and osteoporosis that need surgical treatment. PHPT often underdiagnosed undertreated. Our study aimed review hypercalcemia single center evaluate for undiagnosed PHPT. Methods A group 546 patients from Southwest Virginia was...
To compare the performance of medical students in Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) thefinal MBBS across four campuses The University West Indies, over a two-year periodAll final examination results Medicine and Therapeutics OSCE were collectedfrom Faculty Medical Science at Indies analyzed using both parametric (t-tests ANOVAs) non-parametric tests (chi-squared tests).Results indicated that achieved significantly higher mean scores 2002 than 2001 (t = 3.85, df 415, p 0.000)....
Pancreatitis is a condition much more commonly found in adults, but when diagnosed the pediatric population, often due to medications, congenital pathology, and critical illness. This patient had previously undergone treatment with 6-mercaptopurine presented pancreatitis that eventually worsened walled-off necrotic collection paracolic extensions reaching pelvis. Given clinical worsening development of shock, procedural options for source control were weighed gastroenterology, surgery,...
We report the case of a 56-year-old woman with pertinent past medical history chronic pancreatitis and peptic ulcer disease, who initially presented perforated posterior duodenal following Billroth II procedure, which was complicated by stump abscess purulent free fluid in pelvis. The patient subsequently underwent computed tomography (CT) scan abdomen, revealed extraluminal contrast extravasation within left upper quadrant, raising concern an anastomotic leak ([Fig. 1]). gastrointestinal...
A 74-year-old woman who was on warfarin for a past medical history of atrial fibrillation and mechanical mitral valve admitted with symptomatic anemia. The patient reported fatigue, shortness breath, epigastric abdominal pain, associated black stools week. Her physical examination unremarkable. Laboratory investigations were notable normocytic anemia (hemoglobin 6.2 g/dL), an international normalized ratio (INR) 1.6 prothrombin time 19.5 seconds. underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy...
There is increasing evidence that prognostic markers, including steroid receptors (estrogen and progesterone), estrogen-regulated proteins (pS2 cathepsin-D), proliferation markers (proliferating cell nuclear antigen), growth factors (epidermal factor receptor) can beuseful in the management of patients with breast cancer. However, a full panel assays would need large sample biopsy tissue, public awareness for early detection has resulted continuous decrease size individual biopsies....