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The growing presence on the North American as well as European market of food products enriched with fish oil as a source of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) omega-3 in the diet requires evaluation and comment. Research exploring health influence of the consumption of fish oil started in 1990
This study used cross sectional design study.
Subjects with eligible criteria were included. Subjects were divided into subjects with inflammatory lesions and subjects with non inflammatory lesions.
Physical examination consisted of assesment of AV severity (using Lehman criteria) and presence of
Introduction
Malignancies during childhood constitute the 2nd cause of death, following injuries worldwide. According to epidemiological data, 300,000 new cases of neoplasia present themselves every year in children and teenagers under 19 years of age1, 160,000 of which concern children under the
Visit 1 Screening: All subjects will be performed indirect calorimetry to determine rates of energy expenditure and glucose/lipid oxidation for 40 minutes prior to all other procedures to obtain a fasting calorimetry. Subjects then will have a 75 gram oral glucose tolerance test to document the
In order to reduce PEP risk, a rectal non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug was administered 30 minutes before the ERCP in all patients. As the standard of care at the study hospital, the patients swallowed 2% lidocaine hydrochloride gel for local pharyngeal anesthesia, and 10 mg of diazepam were
BACKGROUND Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an inflammatory pancreatic process, presents different severity degrees [1]. Over the last two decades, there has been a paradigm shift in the management, from surgical to "step up" approach using percutaneous or endoscopic catheter drainage followed by
Acute pancreatitis is an acute inflammatory disease of the pancreas characterized by the sudden onset of abdominal pain, elevated serum amylase, and edema or necrosis of the pancreas. The clinical course of AP is generally mild; however, nearly 25% of patients progress into severe AP which consists
This is prospective, randomized, controlled, multicentre trial. Patients with mild and moderate acute pancreatitis (AP) will be randomly in two groups: group A: with early oral refeeding (EOR) with low fat solid diet (LFSD), started from the first day of admission in the hospital, and group B: with
Background The epidemics of obesity, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and atherosclerosis are increasing worldwide. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), for a long time unnoted in the metabolic field, is becoming recognized as a condition possibly involved in the pathogenesis of these
This is a non-randomized, open-label, multi-site phase II therapeutic trial of pembrolizumab and bavituximab in patients with locally advanced HCC. Locally advanced or metastatic HCC is defined as disease that is not amenable to surgical and/or locoregional therapies. Subjects must not have received
Over the last couple of years, the major concern in dermatophytic infections has been the occurrence of recurrent infections. This, in spite of the patients being treated with gold standard drugs, namely, terbinafine, griseofulvin, and even azoles like itraconazole, in adequate doses. The world is
INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes In Brazil, chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) were the cause of 72% of deaths and reached 63% in the world in 2008, with large numbers of premature deaths. Cardiovascular disease (31.3%), Diabetes Mellitus (DM) (5.2%), cancer (16.3%) and
Malnutrition is characterized by a negative energy balance due to a deep skeletal muscular loss, which is itself secondary to the reduction of intake and metabolic abnormalities aggravating the loss of weight. Sarcopenia is defined as the loss of muscle mass, the consequences of which are a decrease
Post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) pancreatitis (PEP) is the most common, serious complication of ERCP. More than 500,000 ERCP procedures are performed from which 25,000 cases of PEP occur in the U.S.A. annually. PEP accounts for significant morbidity and health care