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Serum copper and zinc levels of children with asthma
Zinc is as an essential micronutrient for normal growth and health that have important effects on biologic actions including enzyme activity, and release of insulin, homeostasis, cardiovascular, immune function and DNA construction. Childhood asthma is a respiratory disease with increased airway inflammation and airway obstruction was associated with infiltration and accumulation of neutrophil…
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SERUM LEAD, COPPER AND ZINC IN CHILDREN WITH BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
Bronchial asthma is chronic inflammatory of the lung airways resulting in episodic airflow obstruction. Lead exposure results in alteration of immune system function resulting in asthma. Zinc, copper are component of antioxidant system and alteration of their level affect increase risk of asthma
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Elsevier’s CiteScore index values for Acta Dermatovenerologica Alpina, Pann…
Elsevier’s recently launched citation metric CiteScore enables comprehensive, transparent, and current evaluation of a journal’s performance. For an editorial office, insight into a journal’s impact over time is of great value when making important decisions regarding the journal’s future. A 2016 update of CiteScore index values for Acta Dermatovenerologica Alpina, Pannonica et Adriat…
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Left main bronchus foreign body masquerading as diaphragmatic hernia in an ad…
Foreign body aspiration is quite uncommon in the adults. It can be a life-threatening situation and it often requires a high index of suspicion, because the diagnosis can be obscure
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Migrating foreign body in an adult bronchus: An aspirated denture
As a safety measure, dentures are routinely removed before surgery. Aspiration of a denture could be catastrophic, with medicolegal implications. Foreign body aspiration is uncommon in adults; however, aspirations may remain asymptomatic and undiagnosed for long periods of time. We report an adult male who presented with a cough for more than 6 months. On radiography, a foreign body was foun…
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Elsevier Clinical Practice Model Achieves Milestone Successes to Advance Clin…
One of the highlights of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) is the sharing of members’ key activities and achievements. The vast experience and contributions of ANI member organizations are always impressive as we all work towards ANI’s vision to “transform health and healthcare through nursing informatics and innovation.” As an ANI affiliate member, Elsevier Clinical Practice M…
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Elsevier’s approach to the bioCADDIE 2016 Dataset Retrieval Challenge
We developed a two-stream, Apache Solr-based information retrieval system in response to the bioCADDIE 2016 Dataset Retrieval Challenge. One stream was based on the principle of word embeddings, the other was rooted in ontology based indexing. Despite encountering several issues in the data, the evaluation procedure and the technologies used, the system performed quite well. We provide some po…
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Childhood community-acquired pneumonia: A review of etiology- and antimicrobi…
Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a leading cause of childhood morbidity worldwide. Because of the rising antimicrobial resistance rates and adverse effects of childhood antibiotic use on the developing microbiome, rational prescribing of antibiotics for CAP is important. This review summarizes and critically reflects on the available evidence for the epidemiology, etiology and antimicrobia…
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Community-acquired pneumonia management and outcomes in the era of health inf…
Pneumonia continues to be a leading cause of hospitalization and mortality. Implementation of health information technology (HIT) can lead to cost savings and improved care. In this review, we examine the literature on the use of HIT in the management of community-acquired pneumonia. We also discuss barriers to adoption of technology in managing pneumonia, the reliability and quality of elec…
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Transcatheter vs surgical aortic-valve replacement in lowto intermediate-surg…
The American and European expert documents recommend transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for inoperable or high-surgical-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis. In comparison, efficacy of TAVR is relatively less studied in low- to intermediate-surgical-risk patients. We sought to discover whether TAVR can be as effective as surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in low- to inter…
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