Aims: To report to cases of button batteries as nasal foreign bodies and to emphasize the unique clinical characteristics of this condition regarding diagnosis and management. Presentation of Case: We report two boys, one 5-year-old who was found to have a button battery in his l...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19664
Eugene Klimov, Natalia Kondratieva, Kirill Skorobogatykh, Julia Azimova, Alexey Sergeev, Zarema Kokaeva, Elena Naumova, Andrey Rachin & Gyuzyal Tabeeva·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2016
Aims: There is evidence that endothelial nitric oxide synthase has a role in migraine pathophysiology. In our research, the role of SNP rs2070744 (c.-813C>T) in promoter region of NOS3 gene in the episodic and chronic forms of migraine is considered. Place and Duration of Stud...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26738
Introduction: Infertility among men is a major public health problem that has mainly been linked to semen abnormalities due to certain background or environmental characteristics, disease and surgical conditions as well as lifestyle. The purpose of this study was to assess the ef...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27042
We present the developmental, oral, clinical, radiographic findings and oral treatment of a 4-year-old girl presenting with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), which is a severe disabling childhood epilepsy disease that is treated with one or multiple anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs). The...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27089
Lp(a) is a novel cardiovascular risk factor resembling an LDL particle. It includes a copy of apolipoprotein (a) [apo(a)], whose molecular weight is dependent on the number of genetically encoded kringle IV type 2 (KIV-2) repeats and inversely related with Lp(a) plasma concentrat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27076
Background: The radiologic knowledge of tuberculosis-associated lung disease is an essential tool in the clinical diagnosis and management of tuberculosis, a disease that is still a big challenge to Nigeria and Africa at large. Chest radiogram is cheap and readily available, and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25347
Objective: The objective of current study to evaluate the outcome results of the surgical correction and as well as the effects of some factors on the outcome and surgical response of primary exotropia. Study Design: Retrospective Clinical Study. Place and Duration of Study: Ham...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25792
Mohamed Diomandé, Abidou Kawélé Coulibaly, Ehaulier Soh Christian Louis Kouakou, Joe Clovis Yao, Cyprien Kouakou, Mariam Gbané-Koné, Baly Ouattara, Kouassi Jean Mermoze Djaha, Edmond Eti, Jean Claude Daboiko & Marcel N’zué Kouakou·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2016
Background: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is the most common rheumatic disease in children. Compared to Western countries, very few studies have been devoted to this disease in black sub-Saharan Africa. The aim is to describe the epidemiological, clinical, paraclinical and therap...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27043
Aims: The study investigated haematological and kidney function indices of Wistar rats administered Piliostigma thonningii ethanol leaf extract after being induced with therapeutic doses of pefloxacin (400 mg/5 mL). Place and Duration of Study: Department of Medical Biochemistry,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26642
Continuous data with substantial proportion of zero values arise often in many disciplines. Modeling such zero-inflated data is always challenging. We use Tweedie model to analyze zero-inflated continuous outcome with a view to evaluate the effect of job training on future earnin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/26043
This paper empirically examines the extent of satisfaction experienced by customers and their switch intention within the Ghanaian banking industry, with special focus on Ghana Commercial bank. The study involved a cross-sectional survey of 200 respondents using structured questi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/26494
Appropriate variational formulation and detailed implementation of linear finite element for the stationary fractional advection dispersion equation(FADE) are discussed. Since fractional derivative is nonlocal operator, the stiffness matrix of finite element on traditional variat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/25617
In this paper, we investigate the position vectors of spacelike curves in terms of their curvature functions and give some characterizations for these curves to lie on some subspaces of .
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/24922
Aim: This study was to investigate the effect of dietary lemon peel extract (LPE) on high fat diet induced obesity in rats. Some of the LPE mechanism of action was also elucidated. Fifty adult rats were divided into five groups: 1) normal control, 2) lemon peel extract group supp...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2016/26651
In this paper, the Archimedean t-conorm- and t-norm-based interval-valued hesitant fuzzy ordered weighted averaging (A-IVHFOWA) operator and the Archimedean t-conorm- and t-norm-based interval-valued hesitant fuzzy ordered weighted geometric (A-IVHFOWG) operator are given by taki...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/27172