Background: Patients with proliferative lupus nephritis are at risk of frequent relapses.Whether low- dose prednisone prevents relapses is uncertain.Objectives: We undertook a pilot RCT to determine the feasibility of a larger trial.Design: Pilot randomized controlled trial.Setting: Single center Canadian outpatient nephrology clinic.Patients: Part
Yaru Zou,1,2,* Dong Mei,1,* Jinjie Yuan,1,2 Jiaqi Han,1 Jiamin Xu,1 Ning Sun,1 Huan He,1 Changqing Yang,2 Libo Zhao1 1Clinical Research Center, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children’s Health, Beijing, 100045, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Basic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacy
Plasmodium vivax is a human malaria parasite responsible for significant morbidity worldwide and potentially death.This parasite possesses formidable liver-stage biology that involves the formation of dormant parasites known as hypnozoites.Hypnozoites are capable of activating weeks, frizz ease air dry waves months, or years after a primary blood-s
Introduction.The paper discussed the results of the study concerning the chemical composition of 16 mirrors from the Golden Horde period originating from the settlements Selitrennoe, Vodyanskoe, Uvekskoe Khmelevskoe I, Shirokiy Buerak and stored in the State Historical Museum (Moscow) and Saratov Regional Museum of Local Lore (Saratov).Method.The v
Preeclampsia is one of the most frequent and severe complications of pregnancy.Symptoms of preeclampsia usually occur after 20 weeks of pregnancy and include hypertension and kidney dysfunction with proteinuria.Up to now, delivery of the infant has been the most effective and life-saving treatment to alleviate symptoms of preeclampsia because a cau