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Plaque psoriasis is increasingly recognized as a multisystemic disease whose most common comorbidities include psoriatic arthritis, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, overweight/obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, and depression. The presence of such comorbidities affects the therapeutic

A medical emergency can be defined as an acute change in physiological or psychological status likely to result in death, disability, or delayed recovery without prompt and appropriate treatment. Clinical deterioration in children develops more rapidly than in adults, but with correct treatment the

Cytology offers a rapid, relatively noninvasive means to identify lesions of all varieties including immune-mediated, degenerate, inflammatory, and neoplastic. One area that is particularly amenable to cytologic diagnosis is infectious disease. Organisms that can be seen and identified include

Introduction: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a complex neurodegenerative disease predominantly affecting upper and lower motor neurons. Diagnosis of this devastating pathology is very difficult because the high degree of clinical heterogeneity with which it

A wide variety of diseases have a significant genetic component, including major causes of morbidity and mortality in the western world. Many of these diseases are also angiogenesis dependent. In humans, common polymorphisms, although more subtle in effect than rare mutations that cause Mendelian

OBJECTIVE To review the classification and the clinical and pathological characteristics of the most common dysautonomias. METHODS Primary dysautonomia includes neurodegenerative diseases of unknown causes that are characterised by the intracytoplasmic accumulations of alpha synuclein that manifest

Cataract, macular degeneration and dry eye are the three main age-related eye conditions.

Cystic adventitial degeneration (CAD) of the arteries is an uncommon cause of intermittent claudication in adults. The majority of reported cases have involved the popliteal artery and have occurred predominantly in men, and all had clinical evidence of occlusive vascular disease. An unusual example