J Cataract Refract Surg 2009; 35:1906-1910 (C) 2009 ASCRS and ESCRS”
“Objective: Early studies on blood donors point to a seroprevalence of approximately 0.25% for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in Iran. However, the true selleck compound prevalence in the general population is unknown. The objective of this study
was to determine the prevalence of HCV infection in the general population of Iran.
Methods: We randomly selected 6583 subjects from three provinces in Iran for inclusion in the study. Subjects were aged between 18 and 65 years. Anti-hepatitis C antibody was tested by a third-generation ELISA test. A recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA) test was used to confirm the results. Risk factors were recorded and a multivariate analysis was performed.
Results: A total of 5684 learn more plasma samples were tested. After confirmatory tests, we found 50 cases of HCV. The overall weighted prevalence of anti-HCV was 0.5%. The rate was significantly higher in men (1.0%) than in women (0.1%). In multivariate analysis, male sex, history of intravenous drug abuse, and imprisonment were significantly associated with anti-HCV.
Conclusions: We found the prevalence of HCV infection in Iran to
be higher than previous estimates. It appears that the rate is rising, and in the future, hepatitis C will replace hepatitis B as the most common cause of chronic viral liver disease in Iran. (C) 2010 International Society for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“Apart from typical reflux symptoms and oesophagitis the clinical presentation of GERD can be dominated by mucosal complications of reflux (Barrett s oesophagus oesophageal adenocarcinoma
Peptic structure) or by extra-oesophageal syndromes most notably asthma laryngitis or chronic cough Managing these entities is much less straightforward than with oesophagitis With respect to adenocarcinoma metaplasia and dysplasia are recognised precursors but the potential of these lesions to evolve to cancer has not been shown to lessen as a result of treatment medical or surgical Consequently management focuses on strategies to identify and eliminate high-grade dysplasia and intra-mucosal cancer lesions that are potentially curable by endoscopic ablation or surgical resection With respect to the extra-oesophageal GERD syndromes CHIR98014 clinical trial these are increasingly recognised as multifactorial conditions with reflux as in exacerbating factor Treatment trials have been generally disappointing and the clinical challenge remains in accurately identifying afflicted patients who might benefit from more intensive medical or surgical reflux treatment Published by Elsevier Ltd”
“PURPOSE: To determine whether the difference in optic quality between 2 types of phakic intraocular lenses (pIOLs) affects visual quality.
SETTING: Fundacion Oftalmologica del Mediterraneo, Valencia, Spain.