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  1. Only 15–20% of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) has been attributed to TB of the urogenital system and often results from haematogenous spread from an active site of infection. Isolated involvement of prostate...

    Authors: Onkar Jha, Vidya Nair and Deepak Talwar
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2703123
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  2. We report the case of a diabetic patient who presented with severe hyponatremia (serum sodium concentration of 88 mEq/l) caused by hypovolemia and thiazide diuretic use. His serum sodium levels were gradually ...

    Authors: Manjunath Kulkarni, Prashanth Kadri, Raghavendra Bakki Sannegowda, Maria Bethsaida and Nikhil D’Souza
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2703121
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  3. Bronchogenic carcinoma usually presents as a mass lesion associated with variable degrees of lung collapse and associated effusion. Although primaries from other sites such as thyroid, choriocarcinoma, and sar...

    Authors: Deepak K. Prajapat, Arjun Khanna and Deepak Talwar
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2703118
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  4. Aluminium phosphide is one of the most common agricultural poisons being consumed in north India. Consumption of a fresh tablet is lethal as no antidote is available. Acute intoxication primarily presents with...

    Authors: Quaiser Saif, Khan Ruhi and Sharma Aparna
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2703115
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  5. Egypt has the highest prevalence of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection worldwide with the development of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)–cMET axis promot...

    Authors: Heba S. El Deen and Hemmat E. El Haddad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2703092
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  7. Many of the nontransplant physicians who manage hepatic patients (internists and hepatologists) keep asking about liver transplantation. The purpose of this article is to highlight important topics a nontransp...

    Authors: Amany AbdelMaqsod Sholkamy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 26:2604139
    Content type: Review article Published on:

  8. Aluminium phosphide (AlP) is a cheap solid fumigant and a highly toxic pesticide that is commonly used for grain preservation. AlP has currently generated interest with increasing number of cases in the past f...

    Authors: Yatendra Singh, Subhash C. Joshi, Vivekanand Satyawali and Abhisek Gupta
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 26:2603099
    Content type: Review article Published on:

  10. Splenic abscess is a rare clinical entity with an incidence of 0.2–0.7% in autopsy-based studies. When untreated, splenic abscess is associated with nearly 100% mortality; in treated patients, the mortality ra...

    Authors: Mohit Bhatia, Hanumant Lohar, Daksha S. Nirhale and Vishal Tomar
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2702078
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  11. Portal and mesenteric venous thrombosis (PMVT) is an uncommon disease, but it is a clinically important case of acute mesenteric ischemia. Its diagnosis is often delayed because of nonspecific abdominal sympto...

    Authors: Shaileshkumar S. Garge, Pooja D. Vyas, Bushra B. Rasool, Krantikumar Rathod and Inder A. Talwar
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2702075
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  12. A 21-year-old normotensive male patient presented with acute-onset flaccid paralysis with the history of a similar episode a few months back. Clinical and laboratory evaluation revealed lower motor neuron type...

    Authors: Pulin Gupta, Vikas T. Talreja, M. S. Dhananjaya and Sakshi Mittal
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2702072
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  13. Primary breast lymphoma (PBL) is a rare neoplasm that constitutes 0.4% of malignant breast lesions and 2% of extranodal lymphomas. It is seldom distinguished preoperatively from other common forms of breast ca...

    Authors: Mohammad Akram, Ruquiya Afrose, Sadaf Hayat and Mohammed Naim
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2702069
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  14. Paraoxonase-1 (PON-1) is an enzyme synthesized in the liver that has antioxidant functions as it binds to the HDL particles and prevents the oxidation of LDL, which possibly plays a role in the prevention of a...

    Authors: Nehal H. El-said, Mohammed M. Nasr-Allah, Noha A. Sadik and Saher A. Sharaf
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2702063
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  15. The number of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients has been increasing over the past two decades, both globally and in Egypt. In our current study we tried to identify the pattern of end-stage renal patients ...

    Authors: Salwa Ibrahim, Hatem Darwish and Ahmed Fayed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2702058
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  16. Spondyloarthritis (SpA) are a group of inflammatory rheumatic diseases that share some common clinical and genetic features such as inflammatory back pain, peripheral arthritis, enthesitis, anterior uveitis, s...

    Authors: Sukran Erten, Orhan Küçükşahin, Ali Sahin, Nurdan Cay and Gulay G. Ceylan
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2702053
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  18. Acute Kidney Injury is a complex and increasingly common syndrome. Practically all available markers reflect functional impairment rather than a true direct mark of cellular injury. An ideal AKI biomarker shou...

    Authors: Ahmed S. A. Zaky
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2702045
    Content type: Review article Published on:

  19. Tuberculosis of the adrenal glands is a common cause for Addison’s disease in developing countries. Whether treatment of tuberculosis normalizes adrenocortical function in these patients is controversial. We a...

    Authors: Bashir Ahmad Laway, Shahnaz Ahmad Mir, Mohd Ashraf Ganie, Feroze Shaheen and Parvaiz Ahmad Shah
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2701042
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  20. Squamous papilloma of the esophagus is a rare benign tumor with less than 200 cases reported in the literature. The etiology and pathogenesis appear to be related to an inflammatory–reparatory type, such as ch...

    Authors: Seham M. Seif, Ahmed Y. Altonbary and Wagdi F. Elkashef
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2701040
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  21. Bilateral pneumothorax is very rare in childhood. Moreover, if it is due to pulmonary involvement of Langerhans cell histiocytosis, it is even rarer in childhood. In our case, a nonsmoker 12-year-old boy prese...

    Authors: Anupam Patra, Sujit K. Bhattacharyay, Arnab Maji and Abhijit Mandal
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2701038
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  23. One of the causes of death in patients with liver cirrhosis is hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Hyperammonemia is the most important cause of HE.

    Authors: Seham S. El-seid, Fatma A. Attia, Mona Abd El-Raouf, Ghada S. Abd Al-Azeem, Nagwa Abd EL-Ghaffar Mohammed and Heba Anwar
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2701026
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  24. Colonoscopy is the diagnostic evaluation of choice in cases of rectal bleeding (RB). Colonoscopy in children is different from that in adults, but the technique of the examination is similar. Colonoscopy is a ...

    Authors: Ahmed S. Gado, Basel A. Ebeid, Aida M. Abdelmohsen, Ayman E. Eskander and Anthony T. Axon
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2701021
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  25. Hepatitis C viral (HCV) infection is a major risk factor for liver cirrhosis, liver failure, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A number of laboratory-based methods has been developed for the noninvasive diag...

    Authors: Rehab A. Mohamed, Hend M. Maghraby, Eman M. Abd El Salam, Hala M. Nageb, Eman E. Ahmad and Nagwa A. Mohamed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2701015
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  26. Behçet’s disease (BD) is a multisystem vasculitis and pulmonary involvement in BD is reported to indicate a poor prognosis and high mortality. We aimed to study the manifestations of pulmonary involvement in a...

    Authors: Sherif M. Naguib, Manal M. El Menyawi, Mona I. Nabih and Ihab Ismail
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2701008
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  27. All types of cells of eukaryotic organisms produce and release small nanovesicles into their extracellular environment. Early studies have described these vesicles as ‘garbage bags’ only to remove obsolete cel...

    Authors: Wael Nassar, Mervat El-Ansary, Mostafa Abdel Aziz and Ehab El-Hakim
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2015 27:2701001
    Content type: Review article Published on:

  30. Diagnosis of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is established clinically and is supported by nerve conduction studies and cerebrospinal fluid examination. Renal function is usually not affected, but recent case re...

    Authors: Abhishek Wankar, Nipun Pauranik and Chouksey Dinesh
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2604179
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  31. Poisoning with chromium is fatal and rarely reported. We report a case of a 25-year-old man who developed severe acidosis, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and acute kidney and hepatic injury following homicidal i...

    Authors: Saif Quaiser, Aparna Sharma and Ruhi Khan
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2604176
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  32. Ascites in liver cirrhosis is associated with a poor prognosis and impairment of the quality of life and may be complicated by hepatorenal syndrome. Renal functions and haemodynamic changes after large-volume ...

    Authors: Tary Abdel-Hamid Salman, Hassan EL-Sayed Zaghla, Khaled Mohammad Attallah, Omkolthoum Mohammad El-Haddad, Enas Mohammad Korayem, Ashraf Abbass Basuni and Hossam El-Din Mahmoud El-Ezzawy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2604170
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  33. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common chronic liver disease that includes a spectrum of liver diseases ranging from simple steatosis to steatohepatitis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis. Liver biopsy is ...

    Authors: Rokaya A. Mohamed, Mona I. Nabih, Mohamed B. ElShobaky and Hany M. Khattab
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2604162
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  34. The pathophysiology of type II DM is complex; in addition to impaired insulin secretion from Beta-cells, reduced insulin sensitivity was found to play a predominant role in the pathogenesis of the disease. Fet...

    Authors: Lamyaa Ismail Ahmed, Sabila Gomaa Mousa, Nagwa Abd El-Ghaffar Mohamed, Zeinab Ahmed Yousry and Mayada Rabea Abd-El Khalaa
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2604157
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  36. Melatonin is a pineal hormone under the control of the biological clock, which is located in the hypothalamus and regulated by light exposure. Melatonin receptors have been found throughout the body in many ti...

    Authors: Tarek S. Heshmat, Heba Sh. Kareem, Noha Kh M. Khalil and Olfat G. Shaker
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2604145
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  37. Pyomyositis, a rare condition can involve perfectly healthy individuals but is generally a disease of immunocompromised like diabetic patients. Probably, the result of transient bacteraemia characteristically ...

    Authors: Sanjay Bhat, Kalyan Dutt and Khalid Javid Bhat
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2603137
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  38. Vaspin is a novel adipocytokine with insulin-sensitizing effects. However, it is not known whether a correlation exists between human vaspin serum levels and markers of insulin sensitivity and glucose or lipid...

    Authors: Nehal H. El-Said, Noha A. Sedik and Nagwa A. Mohamed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2603130
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  40. The changes that occur at the level of the skin microvessels reflect changes at other microvessels including the cardiac microvessels. Several disease states seem to alter skin microvascular function and struc...

    Authors: Maggie S. El-Nahid and Ali M. El-Ashmaoui
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2603116
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  41. The link of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) with insulin resistance was subsequently established by clinical studies characterizing the profound insulin resistance in obese and lean PCOS patients.

    Authors: Heba S. Kareem, Noha K. M. Khalil, Nagwa M. H. Badr and Fayez El-Shamy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2603110
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  42. Some reports suggest that chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and its combined antiviral therapy could alter seminal parameters, and so chronic HCV infection may influence male fertility.

    Authors: Hussein M. Ghanem, Nashaat N. Ismaeel, Alaa F. Haseeb, Waleed M. Nabawy, Mohamed Rehan and Hala Shreen
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2603104
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  45. Anterior pituitary hypofunction is a well-known complication following snake bite. However, central diabetes insipidus as a complication of snake bite is only rarely reported in the literature. We are reportin...

    Authors: Mary Grace and K. C. Shanoj
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2602091
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  46. Although acute myocardial infarction commonly results from coronary atherothrombosis, there are several other etiologies that should be taken initially into account, especially in young adults without signific...

    Authors: Jihen Ayari, Mohamed S. Mourali, Abdjalil Farhati and Rachid Mechmeche
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2602088
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  47. Obese patients are at increased risk for gallstones during rapid weight loss and after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. The aims of this study were to evaluate the prophylactic effect of ursodeoxycholic acid a...

    Authors: Alaa Elgamal and Ahmad Tarek Fawzy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2602075
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  48. Nasal polyposis (NP) is a chronic inflammatory condition with no proved effective long-term treatment and a tendency to recur.

    Authors: T. A. El-Samny, W. F. Ezzat, Zinab A. Ashour, E. K. Hakim, M. K. El Shrnouby, H. A. El-Melegi and Mohamed Y. Attia
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2602060
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  49. Spontaneous infection of ascites is a severe complication of ascites and must be actively searched for. Many studies have been carried out on inflammatory markers and their levels in serum and ascitic fluid su...

    Authors: Naglaa A. El-Gendy, Naglaa A. Tawfeek, Rayyh A. Saleh, Enas E. Radwan, Eman E. Ahmad and Rehab A. Mohammed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2602053
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  50. Obesity-induced limitations of the cardiopulmonary and the metabolic systems, resulting in exertional dyspnea, contribute to the limitations in the functional capacity frequently observed in obese individuals....

    Authors: Manal K. Youssef
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2602040
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