37 research outputs found
Fecal Bacteriotherapy: A Case Report in an Immunosuppressed Patient with Ulcerative Colitis and Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection
No full textWe report a case of ulcerative colitis (UC) and recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) where the patient was on immunomodulatory therapy and had successful CDI eradication after fecal transplantation. This is the first case report in the literature documenting successful C. difficile eradication in an immunosuppressed patient. We feel that fecal transplantation should be studied as a treatment option in these patients
Suggesting new words to extract keywords from title and abstract
No full textWhen talking about the fundamentals of writing research papers, we find that keywords are still present in most research papers, but that does not mean that they exist in all of them, we can find papers that do not contain keywords. Keywords are those words or phrases that accurately reflect the content of the research paper. Keywords are an exact abbreviation of what the research carries in its content. The right keywords may increase the chance of finding the article or research paper and chances of reaching more people who should reach them. The importance of keywords and the essence of the research and address is mainly to attract these highly specialized and highly influential writers in their fields and who specialize in reading what holds the appropriate characteristics but they do not read and cannot read everything. In this paper, we extract new keywords by suggesting a set of words, these words were suggested according to the many mentioned in the researches with multiple disciplines in the field of computer. In our system, we take a number of words (as many as specified in the program) that come before the proposed words and consider it as new keywords. This system proved to be effective in finding keywords that correspond to some extent with the keywords developed by the author in his research
A Rare Case of Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage Secondary to Acute Pulmonary Histoplasmosis
No full textDiffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) is a rare presentation of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis. While histoplasmosis has been reported to cause hemoptysis and alveolar hemorrhage in children, the English language literature lacks any adult case reports documenting this association. We report a case of pulmonary histoplasmosis where the initial presentation was pneumonia with a subsequent diagnosis of DAH
Early Disseminated Lyme Disease with Multiple Cranial Neuropathy
No full textIntroduction: Lyme disease, caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by the Ixodes tick, encompasses a variety of symptoms across multiple stages. Early localized Lyme disease may present within 1 month of tick bite with erythema migrans, arthralgias, and fever. Disseminated infection typically occurs 3 to 12 weeks later and can cause neurologic symptoms of dizziness, headache, diplopia, cranial neuropathy, cranial nerve (CN) VII palsy, meningitis, encephalopathy, and cardiac arrhythmia or heart block. Late Lyme disease may arise after months or years and is characteristically associated with monoarticular arthritis. Among patients who have cranial neuropathy in early disseminated Lyme disease, 80% have CN VII involvement, but optic and extraocular neuropathy may occur.
Clinical Findings: We describe a case of a patient in their 60s who presented with erythema migrans, headache, neck pain, and diplopia, and they were found to have right CN VI palsy. A brain magnetic resonance imaging showed diffuse enhancement of the bilateral oculomotor nerves, trigeminal nerves, abducens nerves, and CN IX/X/XI complexes; patchy enhancement of the right facial nerve; and pachymeningeal enhancement.
Clinical Course: Although initial testing for Lyme disease antibodies was negative in serum and cerebrospinal fluid, a repeat serum enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay was positive. After a course of intravenous ceftriaxone and methylprednisolone followed by oral doxycycline, their skin lesions, headache, neck pain, and diplopia resolved.
Conclusions: Lyme disease may involve multiple CNs and present with diverse neurologic symptoms, even before seroconversion occurs. Our unique case of neuroborreliosis—which presented as headache followed by diplopia, neck pain, and CN VI palsy, with diffuse CN involvement shown on magnetic resonance imaging—responded well to treatment
Structural and photoluminescence properties of Ni doped CdS nanoparticles synthesis by sol gel method
No full textMicrostructural and optical properties of CdS nanoparticles synthesized by sol gel method
No full textMicrostructural and optical properties of sol gel synthesized CdS nano particles using CTAB as a surfactant
No full textCaries, oral hygiene status and dates consumption among Saudi female university students
No full textAuthors: Al Essa, Noura A., Al Mutairi, Manal A., Al Ohali, Hadeel M. From
Intern, King Saud University College of Dentistry
Authors: El Hejazi, Ahmed, Associate Professor, RDS Department, Operative Dentistry Division, King Saud University
College of Dentistry, Riyadh.
Author: Chohan, Arham, Lecturer, PDS Department, Pediatric Dentistry Division, King Saud University College of
Dentistry, RiyadhThe objectives of the present study were to determine the caries experience, oral hygiene
status and consumption of dates among Saudi female University students. A total of 406
female University students were examined for dental caries and oral hygiene. The information
about oral hygiene practices and consumption of dates was obtained through a selfadministered
questionnaire. The mean DMFT was 10.01 (SD 4.71) with a decay (D)
component of 5.87 (SD 4.28), missing (M) component of 0.83 (SD 1.44) and filled
component of 3.31 (SD 3.92). There was significant (p< .05) difference observed between the
mean DMFT scores of the students from various age groups. Only one-fourth (25.6%) of the
students had good oral hygiene. A positive correlation (p< .0001) was exhibited between the
mean DMFT scores and oral hygiene. Almost all (98.0%) students used brush to clean their
teeth. A majority of the students were cleaning their teeth twice (47.0%) or thrice (22.4%)
daily and only about one in ten (12.3%) students’ used miswak to clean their teeth. More than
three-fourth (81.0%) students were eating dates and about one-fourth (24.4%) of the students
were eating 5-10 dates per day. No significant (p> .05) correlation was observed between
caries and dates consumption. It was concluded that the caries prevalence and severity was
very high. Only small percentage of the students had good oral hygiene and eight in every ten
students was eating dates daily
Optical properties of cerium oxide (CeO2) nanoparticles synthesized by hydroxide mediated method
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