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  1. Vitamin D deficiency increases muscle weakness and pain leading to reduced power and function, increased bone turnover and increased risk of falls and hip fractures in elderly. We postulated that vitamin D def...

    Authors: Ahmed Rabiee, Mohamed AboElsoud, Sayed M. Seif El Nasr and Sameh Abouzeid
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:25
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  2. Acute pancreatitis is one of the main causes of acute abdomen. It may cause multi-organ failure or even death. High morbidity and mortality are associated with it. The research study aimed at evaluating the cl...

    Authors: Enas Ahmed Reda Alkareemy, Lobna Abdel-Wahid Ahmed, Muhammad Abbas El-Masry, Hany Ayad Habib and Mohamed H. Mustafa
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:24
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  3. Asymptomatic malaria is a threat to malaria eradication program. Host-related factors (e.g., immunity, oxidative stress, anti-oxidants activities) associated with asymptomatic malaria remain a gray area in res...

    Authors: Ayodele S. Babalola, J. Jonathan and Boluwatife E. Michael
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:23
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  4. Chronic allograft dysfunction (CAD) is considered the leading cause of late allograft loss. The cluster of differentiation 47 (CD47) and calreticulin (CRT) are involved in many and diverse cellular processes. ...

    Authors: Rasha Ibrahim Abdel Razek Gawish, Hayam Abdel Meguid El Aggan, Sabah Abdel Hady Mahmoud and Sara Ahmed Mohamed Mortada
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:19
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  5. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system with varied clinical features. Disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) of MS associated with different types of thyroiditis...

    Authors: Nearmeen M. Rashad, Marwa G. Amer, Waleed M. Reda Ashour and Hassan M. Hassanin
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:17
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  6. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disorder associated with immunological abnormalities (Aringer et al., Arthritis Rheumatol 71:1400-1412, 2019). Vitamin D (VD) has an important role in SLE pa...

    Authors: Marwa K. Khairallah, Yasmine S. Makarem and Marwa A. Dahpy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:16
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  7. Hyperglycemia can adversely affect patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in both diabetic and non-diabetic patients. The majority of the studies had investigated the impact of admissio...

    Authors: Taghreed Sayed Meshref, Mahmoud Aly Ashry, Refaat Fathi Abd El-Aal, Hisham Mostafa Imam and Dina Ali Hamad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:15
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  8. Thyroid hormones are essential for normal development and function of the central nervous system. Thyroid dysfunction is associated with many neuropsychiatric disorders mainly cognitive impairment.

    Authors: Ayman M. Elbadawy, Ahmed E. Mansour, Ibrahim A. Abdelrassoul and Rasha O. Abdelmoneim
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:9
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  9. Serum IgM (immunoglobulin M) testing is commonly used to diagnose acute viral infections. However, most clinicians are unaware of the vagaries of IgM testing, including antigenic cross-reactivity between multi...

    Authors: Raai Mahmood, Khalid Mohamed, Naba Saeed, Kadhim Al-Banaa, Jonathan Zimmerman and Cecilia Big
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:14
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  10. Cardiovascular disease is the commonest cause of death in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) under maintenance hemodialysis. Dyslipidemia, oxidative stress, and low-grade inflammation with increased ...

    Authors: Hussein S. Hussein, Gamal E. Mady, Sahar M. Shawky, Noha A. Omran and Nahla M. Teama
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:6
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  11. Gestational diabetes mellitus is any degree of glucose intolerance with onset or first recognition occurring late in second trimester and third trimester of pregnancy. It constitutes a greater impact on diabet...

    Authors: Muhamad R. Abdel Hameed, Osama Ahmed Ibrahiem, Entsar Hamed Ahmed, Paula Rofaeel Sedky and Naglaa Mohamed M. A. Mousa
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:7
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  12. Acute pancreatitis is a relatively common acute medical presentation that may progress beyond the pancreas to cause multi-organ failure or death. It is associated with high morbidity and mortality with mortali...

    Authors: Lobna Abdel-wahid Ahmed, Abd-Alla Ismail Ali Kelani and Fady Refaat Edwar Nasr-Allah
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:5
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  15. Targeting B-cell in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) seems to be a promising approach. Although rituximab failed to show efficacy in refractory SLE in clinical trial setting, real-world experience still show...

    Authors: Mervat E. Behiry, Ahmed Shaker, Kyrillus Shohdy and Fadi Nagy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104981
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  16. Metformin, the most widely used antidiabetic drug, is considered as the cornerstone of type 2 diabetes treatments. Surprisingly, a few years ago, it has been reported that serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TS...

    Authors: Fatema A. Abdelmoez, Ghada A. Mohamed and Dina M. S. Eldine
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104972
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  17. Serum osteoprotegerin (OPG) is a marker of cardiovascular disease. The deterioration of renal function in diabetic patients could be predicted by OPG concentrations, and it was suggested that OPG could be used...

    Authors: Khaled A. Elhefnawy, Ezzat M. Mohamed, Athar M. Abou Yousef, Abeer A. Fikry and Hala M. Allam
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104922
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  18. Proinflammatory cytokines play an important role in the establishment of arteriolosclerosis and kidney injury. Inflammatory cytokines are involved in the development of microvascular diabetic complications, in...

    Authors: Khaled A. Elhefnawy, Ahmed M. Salah and Hanaa H. Elsaid
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104917
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  19. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a major vascular complication and the leading cause of amputation in people with diabetes. Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF-23) is a recently discovered 30-kD secreted horm...

    Authors: Mohamed R. Halawa, Abeer A. Abdalah, Yara M. Eid, Merhan S. Nasr, Bassem M. Mostafa and Nesma H. Ahmed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104902
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  20. Thyroid imaging reporting and data system (TI-RADS) is assessment of risk stratification of thyroid nodules, using a score. A novel ACR (American College of Radiology) TI-RADS has been recently suggested by Am...

    Authors: Mohammed Ewid, Mervat Naguib, Ali Alamer, Hala El Saka, Sharifa Alduraibi, Abdullah AlGoblan and Elzaki Ahmed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104868
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  21. Autotaxin is a lysophospholipase D related to liver fibrosis; its clinical role in liver cirrhosis is still unknown or limited. In this study we investigate the relation of autotaxin serum levels and prognosis...

    Authors: Nagwa Ramadan Ahmed, Ahmed Nabil EL-Mazny, Sarah Ahmed Hassan and Laila Ahmed Rashed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104849
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  22. Biliary strictures are challenging clinical condition for gastroenterologists, radiologists, and surgical specialists. We aimed to find out the frequency of malignant biliary strictures in our institutions.

    Authors: Adnan A. Mohamed, Ahmed M. Ali, Mahmoud R. Shehata, Wael A. Elsewify and Salah Maklad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104836
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  23. Left-sided colonic malignant lesions have the potential of acute bowel obstruction. Emergency surgery with stoma construction is considered the standard of management. Insertion of colonic stent to allow bowel...

    Authors: Mohammad S. Marie and Gad M. Behairy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104831
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  24. Albuminuria is commonly used to predict the onset and to follow the progression of diabetic nephropathy (DN), but it lacks both sensitivity and specificity in early stages.

    Authors: Aasem Saif, Eman Elsayed, Amr Shaker, Tarek Ramzy, Basma Zaghlol and Shrook Mousa
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104790
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  25. About one-third of patients with acute ischemic stroke will endure early neurological deterioration (END), which leads to increased mortality and functional disability. A better understanding of risk factors f...

    Authors: Jehan Saeed, Ghada M. Samir and Ahmed F. El-Said
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104774
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  26. Vascular involvement in Behçet’s disease (BD) is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity. Modifiable cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, overweight,...

    Authors: Emad El-Shebiny, Amira El-Fakharany, Enas Zahran, Sabry Shoeib, Mohamed Salem, Mohammed Elnaggar and Nibal Morad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104726
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  27. Interstitial lung disease (ILD) remains a leading cause of mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play an important role in inflammation, autoimmune diseases and aberrant fibro...

    Authors: Mervat M. Abo Gabal, Noha H. Shedid, Elham S. Mohamed and Warda Abdelfattah
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104720
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  28. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the most common autoimmune diseases. It affects mainly the synovial membranes of the small joints. However, it may also have extra-articular manifestations. Enthesopathy may...

    Authors: Samar Tharwat, Mohammed Kamal Nassar, Asmaa Enein and Muhammad Emran Asad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104715
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  29. Diabetes is one of the major risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD); hormones implicated in cardiac diseases may play a role in diabetes development. Increased activities of the arginine-vasopressin (A...

    Authors: Nearmeen M. Rashad, Tamer M. Ezzat, Reem M. Allam, Wesam M. R. Ashour, Ayman E. Ali and Mohamad H. Soliman
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104696
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  30. Procalcitonin (PCT), an amino acid protein precursor of calcitonin hormone released by thyroid C cells or other body cells, can be used as a marker for diagnosing infection. PCT has a suggestive role in diagno...

    Authors: Nabil A. El-Kafrawy, Mohammed A. Shaaban, Mohammed A. Korany, Ahmed A. Sonbol and Moustafa B. Ata
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104652
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  31. Hormones of the thyroid gland play an important role in the regulation of various metabolic processes. Disturbances in thyroid hormone concentrations may lead to hyperlipidemia and obesity, thus contributing t...

    Authors: Fatema Abu Bakr Abdel-Moez, Ghada A. Mohamed, Wael A. Abbas, Mohamed A. A. Abozaid and Shymaa Mohammed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104629
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  33. Vitamin D is suggested to influence glucose homeostasis. An inverse relationship between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and glycemic control in non-chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients with type 2 diabet...

    Authors: Haitham A. Azeem, Arafa I. Mohammed and Alaa M. Hashim
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104573
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  34. Accurate evaluation of the degree of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic liver diseases is crucial to make therapeutic decisions and to determine the prognosis of liver disease and also the protocol of fur...

    Authors: Ahmed Al-Khattib, Adham El-Nakeeb, Nevine I. Musa, Kerolous B. A. Dous and Heba Aly
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104556
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  35. Validate the biliary carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 6 in differentiating malignant from benign biliary lesions.

    Authors: Mohamed Abd-Elhakim Mahdy, Lobna Abdel Wahid, Alaa S. Abd-Elkader, Ramy A. Hassan and Hanan M. Ahmed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104544
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  36. Gastric cancer is currently the second most common cause of cancer-related death in the world and the fifth most common cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in Europe. It has been eviden...

    Authors: Ahmed N. El Mazny, Tarek Hishmat, Ahmed Hussein and Doaa Gaith
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104522
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  37. Myocardial injury in conditions other than coronary artery disease (CAD), known as type 2 myocardial infarction, is mostly related to mismatch between myocardial oxygen supply and demand. Cirrhotic patients wi...

    Authors: Rehab Shaheen, Tarek Gouda, Monir Bahgat, Tarek Selim, Hazem Hakim El-Beltagy El-Menshawy and Elsayed Awad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104508
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  38. Gastroesophageal varices (GVs) present in 50% of patients with liver cirrhosis. GVs bleed at a rate of 5–15%, and the 6-week mortality after hemorrhage is 20%. GVs are treated with a tissue adhesive, cyanoacry...

    Authors: Amr Elrabat, Salah El-Gamal, Mohammad M. Kashwaa and Mohamed M. El-Rakhawy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104487
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  39. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is one of the most common forms of chronic inflammatory bowel disease. Its diagnosis is based on history, clinical, radiological, laboratory, endoscopic, and histological examinations. ...

    Authors: Amr M. Elrabat, Neveen F. Ibraheem, Maha M. Maher, Fatma A. Abozeid and Maha A. Abelrahman
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104480
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  40. The stage of liver fibrosis is the most important predictive factor for initiation and duration of antiviral treatment, where patients with early fibrosis stages respond to treatment better with a higher susta...

    Authors: Ahmed A. Ghafar, Elsayed Ghoneem, Ramy H. Agwa, Ahmed Akef, Ahmad S. H. Hasan and Nahed Abdallah
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104465
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  41. Several extrahepatic manifestations have been reported and mixed cryoglobulinemia is a clonal disorder of B cells which is strongly associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV).

    Authors: Tarek A. Elshazly, Amr M. Elrabat, Sahar A. M. Ali, Muhammed Diasty and Mohamed El-Desoky
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104458
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  42. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. We investigated the potential usefulness of circulating apolipoproteins (Apo-A1 and Apo-A4) in HCC screening a...

    Authors: Hasan El Garem, Gamal Esmat, Rabab Salama, Hanan Fouad, Dina Sabry, Yomna Mostafa, Dalia Omran and Heba Omar
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104451
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  43. Portal hypertension in cirrhosis results from progressive fibrotic remodeling of the liver, which increases the resistance to hepatic sinusoidal blood flow. Increased portal venous pressure causes esophageal a...

    Authors: Ghada M. Kamal, Amr M. Zaghloul and Rania El Aref
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104442
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  44. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is a strong independent risk factor for coronary heart disease. Cyclophilin A (CyPA) is a protein secreted from vascular smooth muscle cells in response to reactive oxygen species...

    Authors: Manal M. Hussain, Emad A. M. Abdel Hady Mohammed, Alyaa A. El-Sherbeny and Amira R. Shehata
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104416
    Content type: Review article Published on:

  45. Mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, and texting have changed the way we see the world. There are ~6.9 billion mobile users, almost as many as people on earth. People who excessively use electroni...

    Authors: Gurmeet Singh Sarla
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 31:3104408
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  47. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) represents a major public health challenge worldwide. It affects more than half of the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D). It may progress to non-alcoholic s...

    Authors: Mohammed Ali Gameil, Mohammed Shereif Abdelgawad, Monir Hussein Bahgat, Ahmed Hassan Elsebaie and Rehab Elsayed Marzouk
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:12
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  48. Pentraxin 3 (PTX3), a member of a superfamily of conserved proteins called pentraxins. PTX3 and C-reactive protein (CRP) are members of this family and play an important role in the innate immune system. PTX3 ...

    Authors: Alaaeldin Abdelsalam Dawood, Mai Ashraf Kamel, Thoria Ahmed Omar and Ahmed Ahmed Mohammed Agaba
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:3
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  49. The prevalence of hepatitis C (HCV) infection among the patients on hemodialysis (HD) varies from country to country and from one center to another in the same country. Despite the existence of guidelines for ...

    Authors: Kerollos Motwade N. Kerollos, Hussein Ahmed El-Ameen, Lobna Abd El Wahed and Nashwa Mostafa A. Azoz
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:2
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  50. Typhoid fever can manifest with a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms. However, in the present-day era, gastrointestinal bleeding related to bowel ulceration is becoming increasingly sporadic especially in th...

    Authors: Amey D. Sonavane, Deepak Gupta, Tushar Parmar, Suvadeep Sen, Balakrishna Nimavat, Asawari Ambekar and Aabha Nagral
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2020 32:1
    Content type: Case Report Published on:
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