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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Hepcidin is a peptide hormone produced by the liver and appears to be the master regulator of iron homeostasis. This peptide is upregulated in inflammatory conditions, including uremia. Hepcidin functions to r...

    Authors: Ihab Abdelrahman Ibrahim, Usama M. Mohamad, Hatem A. Darweesh and Amal M. Rashad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:26010006
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Atypical neurological presentations of hypothyroidism include myelopathy which has been seldom reported as presenting feature in patients. This case was one of those atypical presentations of hypothyroidism in...

    Authors: Nimisha Jain, Ramesh Aggarwal, Sachin Kumar Jain, Nitin Garg, Aadhaar Dhooria and Kajal Prasad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2602086
  12. Skin prick test (SPT) is a gold standard test for diagnosis of allergic [immunoglobulin E (IgE)] diseases. There is a subset of patients who have positive nasal provocation to allergens, despite having a negat...

    Authors: Z. A. Ashour, Hosam Rabee, H. A. El-Melegi, Mohamed Yousef Attia and Hesham Sanad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2602080
  13. 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
  14. Omentin-1 is a novel adipokine that has a pivotal role in modulating insulin sensitivity, immunity. and inflammation. Adipokines contribute directly to the atherosclerotic process. The current study was conduc...

    Authors: Hend M. Tawfeek, Hala M. Maghrapy, Fadila M. Elsaid and Hanaa Abou Eliazeed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2602068
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. Nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (Visfatin), an enzyme involved in the NAD+ salvage pathway, has been shown to help in the regulation of glucose homeostasis. It is a highly conserved, 52 kDa protein foun...

    Authors: Mohamed F. Almaghraby and Abeer A. Mahmoud
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2602045
  18. 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
  19. Gout is a crystal deposition disease caused by raised levels of uric acid in the blood (hyperuricaemia) with persistence of hyperuricemia at levels higher than a serum saturation of 6.8 mg/dl leads to formatio...

    Authors: Hanan Abdel Rehim
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:2602035
  20. A 43-year-old man presented with bony pains, repeated pathological fractures with overlying skin ulcerations, and forearm and chest wall swellings. Investigations led to the diagnosis of Erdheim–Chester diseas...

    Authors: Mohamed A. Hussein, Ali El-Hindawi and Gaafar Ragab
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:2503159
  21. Diabetic foot problems are highly prevalent, responsible for almost 50% of all diabetes-related hospital admissions and a 10-year reduction in life expectancy. The main factors involved in the pathology of dia...

    Authors: Mary N. Rizk and Ashraf I. Ameen
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:2503154
  22. As cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in type 2 diabetes mellitus, new markers for early detection and risk stratification of diabetic macroangiopathy and microangiopathy are highly desir...

    Authors: Ibtissam Zakaria, Mary N. Rizk, Maha Rakha and Amal Shehaby
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:2503143
  23. Dyslipidemia has long been implicated in diabetic complications. However, many subgroups have been considered to be responsible. Furthermore, a cause and effect relationship has long been debated. Apolipoprote...

    Authors: Mary N. Rizk, Hala Aly, Pierre Samir, Hala el Mofty and Osama K. Allah
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:2503137
  24. Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. Diabetic nephropathy is the major microvascular complicat...

    Authors: Ebtissam Zakaria, Hoda Al-Rawi, Nashwa S. Ghanem, Naglaa M. Elsayed and Laila A. Rashed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:2503133
  25. Although there are considerable data on the changes in left ventricular function in hemodialysis (HD) patients, only a few studies on right ventricular (RV) function can be found in the literature. We investig...

    Authors: Mohamed Momtaz, Hussein Al Fishawy, Ula Mabid Aljarhi, Rabei Z. Al-Ansi, Mohamed A. Megid and Mahmoud Khaled
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:2503127
  26. This study investigated the utility of measuring plasma long pentraxin 3 (PTX3) levels in the early detection of endothelial dysfunction compared with Von Willebrand factor (vWF) activity and flow-dependent ar...

    Authors: Amr A. El Meligi, Alaa M. Abdel Hamid, Manal A. Aziz, Hemmat E. El Haddadd, Marian F. Ishak and Elham M. Yousief
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:2503117
  27. 30 yrs old man is known to have thalassemia intermedia presented with bilateral lower limb weakness and sphincteric troubles with loss of deep sensations, the motor power of the muscles and precipitancy of uri...

    Authors: Aysha I. Z. Badawi, Mona I. Nabih, Noha K. H. M. Khalil, Mohamed A. A. ELnady and Sarra A. Hassan
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:26010027
  28. Patients either with or without a prior history of diabetes mellitus may present with hyperglycemia during acute myocardial infarction (AMI); it is uncertain whether hyperglycemia upon admission, irrespective ...

    Authors: Hanan E. Zaghla, Mahmoud A. Elbadry, Alaa M. Ashour and Mohamed M. Abdelfatah
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:26010021
  29. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are essential molecules of the innate immune system that stimulate numerous inflammatory pathways and harmonize systemic defense against a wide array of pathogens. TLRs may also reco...

    Authors: Hanan A. Taha, Rania E. Sheir, Sanaa S. Abdel Shafy and Lamya M. Mohamed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:26010015
  30. Nicotinic acid is a well-known treatment for dyslipidemia in adults. This review article explored not only the role of nicotinic acid in dyslipidemia but also its role in hypertension and as a cardioprotective...

    Authors: Samar H. Aboulsoud
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 26:26010001
  31. Cardiovascular disease has increased as a complication of chronic kidney disease even in the absence of diabetes or hypertension. Angiopoietin-1 and 2 are 55 kDa antagonistic nonredundant gatekeepers of endoth...

    Authors: Fatma A. Attia, Nagwa A. Mohammed and Al-Shymaa A. Ibrahim
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:25040225
  32. Fetuin-A is a circulating inhibitor of calcium deposition in the vasculature and may be involved in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. Low plasma fetuin-A level is independently associated with increa...

    Authors: Amani K. Mohamed, Amany M. Abdallah, Maha A. Hassan, Nagwa A. Mohammed and Solaf A. Kamel
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:25040218
  33. Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects around 170 million individuals worldwide. Egypt has one of the highest prevalence of patients with HCV worldwide. A higher prevalence of insulin resistance (IR...

    Authors: Ebtissam Zakaria, Tarek Fayad, Mary N. Rizk, Nashwa S. Ghanem and Maisa Kamal
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:25040213
  34. Obesity is a chronic condition that is associated with disturbances in the metabolism of zinc. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between serum zinc level and different clinic...

    Authors: Doaa S. E. Zaky, Eman A. Sultan, Mahmoud F. Salim and Rana S. Dawod
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:25040209
  35. Endothelial dysfunction, atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular disease are strongly linked to chronic kidney disease. It has been hypothesized that visfatin may play an important role in uremia-related atheroscl...

    Authors: Abdel Wahab M. Lotfy, Nagwa A. Mohammed, Hanan M. El-Tokhy and Fatma A. Attia
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:25040202
  36. In patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension (PHT), portal hypertensive colopathy (PHC) is thought to be an important cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding. This study aimed at evaluating the pr...

    Authors: Zakaria A. Salama, Ahmad N. Hassan and Samar K. Darweesh
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:25040196
  37. It has been suggested that admission hyperglycemia is a marker of extensive brain damage. Despite these observations, studies that have examined the relationship between glucose levels and the outcome after st...

    Authors: Kamel Abdelaziz Mohamed and Ahmad Saad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:25040185
  38. Oxidative modification of low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) induces formation of immunogenic epitopes in the LDL molecule, which leads to the formation of antibodies against oxidized low-density lipoprotein (OxL...

    Authors: Mohamed S. Mokhtar, Hanan E. Hassan Zaghla, Wael Samy and Abdou Mahmoud
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:25040177
  39. Thyroid hormones influence heart rate, serum lipids, metabolic rate, body weight, and multiple aspects of lipid, carbohydrate, protein, and mineral metabolism. Although increased thyroid hormone levels can imp...

    Authors: Randa F. Salam
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2014 25:25040171