Abstract Background Aortoesophageal fistula (AEF) is an extremely rare and highly fatal complication leading to a high risk of morbidity and mortality.Successful management of AEF after Rear Cinch esophagectomy for esophageal carcinoma has rarely been reported in the literature.Case presentation Here we present a rare case of a 44-year-old female w
BACKGROUND: Rift Valley fever virus is an arthropod-borne human and animal pathogen responsible for large outbreaks of acute and febrile illness throughout Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.Reverse genetics technology has been used to develop deletion mutants of the virus that lack the NSs and/or NSm virulence genes and have been shown to be stable,
The information processing capacity of the human mind is limited, as is evidenced by the so-called "attentional-blink" deficit: When two targets (T1 and T2) embedded in a rapid stream of events are presented in close temporal proximity, the second target is often not seen.This deficit is believed to result from competition between the two targets f
BACKGROUND: Tubulin polymerization promoting protein/p25 (TPPP/p25), known as a microtubule-associated protein (MAP), is a brain-specific unstructured protein with a physiological function of stabilizing cellular microtubular ultrastructures.Whether TPPP involves in the normal functions of PrP or the pathogenesis of prion disease remains unknown.He
Objective : To study the health status of paid housemaids within the age range of 15-55 years and above, in the study area.To compare the health status, morbidity pattern and some health related factors like contraceptive practices, between the working and non-working women of the same age-range, neighbourhood and socio-economic status and to ident