mohammed saeed, Alaa Hussein Mohamed, Ahmed Hassan Owaynat
Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causing severe acute
respiratory distress syndrome caused by coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) still has no
solid effective therapy. From previous studies, dexamethasone has led to a
decrease in mortality in patients who required oxygen supplementation mainly
invasive mechanical ventilation; at the same time, it is unknown if another
corticosteroid ... hiện toàn bộ
Abstract Introduction Platelets are not only involved in hemostasis and
coagulation, but play a significant role in innate immunity and inflammatory
response. Excess production of cytokines and acute phase reactants affect
megakaryopoiesis resulting in the release of immature platelets from the bone
marrow altering platelet indices. Aim To study platelet indices in RT-PCR-proven
COVID patients and... hiện toàn bộ
Abstract Background Worldwide, the incidence of individuals with thyroid
dysfunction is increasing and represents approximately 30–40% of the patients
seen in an endocrine clinic. The undiagnosed thyroid dysfunction may adversely
affect the metabolic control and add more risk to already predisposing
cardiovascular risk factors. Thus, the objective of the present study was to
assess the prevalence ... hiện toàn bộ
Mohamed Momtaz, Hussein Al Fishawy, Ula M. Al-Jarhi, Rabei Z. Al-Ansi, Mohamed A. Megid, Mohamed Khaled
Abstract Background Although there are considerable data on the changes in left
ventricular function in hemodialysis (HD) patients, only a few studies on right
ventricular (RV) function can be found in the literature. We investigated the
changes in RV function in HD patients. Methods We examined 74 individuals
grouped as follows: healthy controls (n = 24) and HD patients (n = 50).
Echocardiography... hiện toàn bộ
Samiha A. Abd Rabo, Nagwa Abd EL-Ghaffar, Somayh S. Eissa, Abeer A. Ali, Sahar Mohamed Ismail, Reham S. Gad
Abstract Introduction Obesity is commonly associated with insulin resistance and
hyperinsulinemia and is the most important risk factor for type 2 diabetes.
Visfatin is an adipokine that exerts insulin-mimetic effects that stimulate
muscle and adipocyte glucose transport and inhibit hepatocyte glucose
production. Purpose The aim of this study was to assess levels of visfatin and
its relationship t... hiện toàn bộ