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Chronic fungal rhinosinusitis
Full text linkDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova,
The 6th International Medical Congress for Students and Young Doctors, May 12-14, 2016Introduction: Fungal rhinosinusitis, long regarded as a rare pathology, is recognized and
reported with increasing frequency in the last two decades throughout the world.The purpose of the
paper is to highlight the characteristics of chronic fungal sinusitis and determine fungal ball’s etiological,
pathological, clinical and treatment aspects.
Materials and Methods: To achieve the objectives of the work was carried out a study which
included 12 patients diagnosed with fungal-ball, hospitalized in Otorhinolaryngology Department of the
Municipal Hospital "Sfinta Treime" during the period 2014-2015, data were taken from observations
sheets of patients in hospital archive. For statistical processing of the data was used Microsoft Office
Excel 2013.
Results: According to the distribution of patients by age, we find that 41.66% who are aged
between 50-55 years suffer from fungal-ball, between 45-50 years-25%, between 40-45 years-16.66%
of patients. Meets lower incidence in patients aged 35-40 years and 25-35 years- 8.33% each of all
patients with mycetoma. At the age up to 25 years it has not been found no patient with
mycetoma. According to the distribution of patients by gender, there was a predominance of the female-
66.66%, the male gender- 33.33%. According to the involved sinus, we find that most commonly affected
is the maxillary sinus, being affected in 75%, followed by sphenoid sinus which was affected in 16.66%,
only 8.33% was found the affection of ethmoidal sinus. The frontal sinus was not affected in any patient
of these examined. Based on the batch of 12 patients, we observed specific symptoms of mycetoma:
facial pain, encountered in all patients- 100%, followed by difficult nasal breathing- 91.66%, rhinorrhea-
83.33%, headache- 75%, anosmia- 58.33%, cough-16.66%, epistaxis- 8.33%. Has revealed that the
pathogen most often implicated in the appearance of mycetoma is Aspergillus fumigates, met in 75%,
followed by Aspergillus Niger- 16.66%, and Aspergillus Flavus- 8.33%.
Conclusions: Fungal rhinosinusitis has approximately 10% of patients requiring surgery on the
nasal cavity and sinuses, and between 13.5 and 28.5% of all sinusitis are caused by fungi or combination
of bacteria and fungi. I noticed that mycetoma meets more often in older people, between 45-55 years.
By gender, it was observed a predominance of the female gender (2: 1). According localization is
determined that most often affected is maxillary sinus. From the obtained results we concluded that the
most common symptoms are: facial pain, difficult nasal breathing, rhinorrhea, headache; the most rarely
encountered are anosmia, cough; and from the nonspecific rarely encountered it is epistaxis. Mycological examination revealed that the pathogen most often implicated in the appearance of mycetoma is
Aspergillus fumigates
Воспалительный статус у больных ишемической сердечной недостаточностью на фоне парадокса ожирения
Full text linkObesity is an independent predictor of cardiovascular disease, with an increased risk in primary prevention, but according to several studies, the potential protective effect of obesity when it coexists with cardiovascular disease has been demonstrated, a phenomenon called the „obesity paradox”.While previous research has shown that inflammatory mediators have been associated with shorter survival, the effect of inflammation on the association between obesity and heart failure has not been considered. Adipose tissue is known to have a crucial role in regulating inflammation and metabolic homeostasis, but some aspects of chronic inflammation also have an adaptive or compensatory effect under certain conditions in obese individuals.In this context, it is important to investigate the mechanisms of the protective effect of obesity in relation to heart failure in order to understand this paradox and develop more effective treatment strategies.Obezitatea este un predictor independent al bolilor cardiovasculare, cu un risc crescut în prevenția primară, dar conform mai multor studii a fost demonstrat efectul potențial protector al obezității atunci când coexistă cu boala cardiovasculară, fenomen numit „paradoxul obezității”.În timp ce cercetările anterioare au demonstrat că mediatorii inflamatori au fost asociați cu o supraviețuire mai scurtă, efectul inflamației asupra asocierii dintre obezitate și insuficiența cardiacă nu a fost luat în considerare. Se cunoaște că țesutul adipos are un rol crucial în reglarea inflamației și homeostaziei metabolice, însă unele aspecte ale inflamației cronice au și efect adaptativ sau compensator în anumite condiții la persoanele obeze.În acest context, este important să investigăm mecanismele efectului protector a obezității în relație cu insuficiența cardiacă pentru a înțelege acest paradox și pentru a dezvolta strategii de tratament mai eficiente.Ожирение является независимым предиктором сердечно-сосудистых заболеваний с повышенным риском при первичной профилактике, но, согласно нескольким исследованиям, был продемонстрирован потенциальный защитный эффект ожирения, когда оно сосуществует с сердечно-сосудистыми заболеваниями, - явление, названное «парадоксом ожирения».Хотя предыдущие исследования показали, что медиаторы воспаления связаны с более короткой выживаемостью, влияние воспаления на связь между ожирением и сердечной недостаточностью не рассматривалось. Известно, что жировая ткань играет решающую роль в регуляции воспаления и метаболического гомеостаза, но некоторые аспекты хронического воспаления также оказывают адаптивное или компенсаторное действие при определенных условиях у людей с ожирением.В этом контексте важно исследовать механизмы защитного эффекта ожирения в отношении сердечной недостаточности, чтобы понять этот парадокс и разработать более эффективные стратегии лечения
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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