Priapism in Antipsychotic Drug Use: A Rare but Important Side Effect by Igne Sinkeviciute, Rune A. Kroken, Erik Johnsen

“…The case thus illustrates the etiological complexity which could delay a diagnosis of antipsychotic-induced priapism, and the problem of establishing a link between priapism and one particular ingredient of a drug combination. …”
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Alcohol-induced liver disease: primary and secondary prevention by S. V. Plyusnin, K. V. Ivashkin, A. N. Bobrov, S. A. Belyakin, I. V. Plyusnina

“…Alcohol is the main etiological factor of liver cirrhosis in Russia. Prompt change of situation with alcohol abuse is required for reduction of morbidity and mortality. …”
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Clumsiness and Disturbed Cerebellar Development: Insights From Animal Experiments by Albert Gramsbergen

“…Extrapolation of these results strongly suggests that a disturbed cerebellar development should be considered as an important etiological factor in clumsiness in human children.…”
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Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Properties of the Essential Oil of Myrtus communis L. against Clinical Strains of Mycobacterium spp. by Stefania Zanetti, Sara Cannas, Paola Molicotti, Alessandra Bua, Marina Cubeddu, Silvia Porcedda, Bruno Marongiu, Leonardo Antonio Sechi

“…Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the etiological agent of tuberculosis. The World Health Organization has estimated that 8 million of people develop active TB every year and the situation is complicated by an increase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains resistant to drugs used in antitubercular therapy: MDR and XDR-TB. …”
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Evaluation of Cognitive Schemas Based on the Presence of Anxiety Disorder among Coronary Artery Disease Patients by Huri ASLAN, Ýbrahim TAYMUR, Mehmet Hakan TÜRKÇAPAR

“…Objective: The relationship between psychological factors and cardiac diseases has been concerned for a long but our knowledge about the cognitive profiles which could be important etiological factor in cardiac disease and comorbid psychiatric disorders is limited. …”
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Assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the hearing organ by Jan Piotrowski, Bianka Nowińska, Izabela Hądzlik

“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a probable etiological agent of hearing organ dysfunction, including sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL). …”
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Family case of cardiac achalasia by Yu. V. Yevsyutina, A. S. Trukhmanov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Nowadays there are three main etiological hypotheses in cardiac achalasia development — genetic, infectious and autoimmune. …”
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Two Case Reports of Varicocele Rupture during Sexual Intercourse and Review of the Literature by Chalil Arif, Konstantinos Kotoulas, Chrysostomos Georgellis, Konstantinos Frigkas, Athanasios Bantis, Emmanouil Patris

“…The varicocele is considered an etiological factor for male infertility. Although different pathophysiological patterns have been proposed, there is no consensus in the urological society to date. …”
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Bcl2 Family Functions as Signaling Target in Nicotine-/NNK-Induced Survival of Human Lung Cancer Cells by Xingming Deng

“…Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and has a strong etiological association with cigarette smoking. Nicotine and nitrosamine 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) are two major components in cigarette smoke that significantly contribute to the development of human lung cancer. …”
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Irritable bowel syndrome: pathophysiological and clinical issues by V. T. Ivashkin, Ye. A. Poluektova

“…To discuss the issues of etiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation and differential diagnostics of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).Summary. …”
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Erythema Multiforme Attributable to Herpes Simplex Virus: Clinical Aspects and Treatment by Aya Mtiri, Ghada Bouslama, Nour-sayda Ben Messouad, Iyadh Abidi, Souha Ben Youssef, Badreddine Sriha

“…Erythema multiforme is an acute mucocutaneous hypersensitivity reaction with various etiological factors, including herpes simplex virus, medications, autoimmune diseases, and malignancies, but the most common cause is infection by herpes simplex virus. …”
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Genetic polymorphism of hepatitis C virus and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma by S. N. Mammayev, A. M. Karimova

“…Early detection mutant Glu 70, Met 91 forms of HCV genotype 1b will provide prediction of HCC risk in CHC patients and to begin adequate etiological treatment for preventive maintenance of this dangerous complication intime.…”
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Congenital Hemifacial Hyperplasia: Clinical Presentation and Literature Review by Karpagavalli Shanmugasundaram, V. K. Vaishnavi Vedam, Sivadas Ganapathy, Sivan Sathish, Parvathi Satti

“…Multiple tissue involvement has resulted due to etiological heterogeneity like heredity, chromosomal abnormalities, altered intrauterine environment, and endocrine dysfunctions. …”
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Complex application of mathematical methods in diagnostics of diffuse liver diseases by I. Yu. Pirogova, S. A. Pyshkin, A. A. Bolotov

“…The standard of diffuse liver disease (DLD) diagnostics, allowing to determine etiology, stage of liver fibrosis (LF), histological activity index (HAI) is the liver biopsy (LB). …”
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Periconceptional Folate Deficiency and Implications in Neural Tube Defects by J. Safi, L. Joyeux, G. E. Chalouhi

“…Nutritional deficiencies are preventable etiological and epigenetic factors causing congenital abnormalities, first cause of infant mortality. …”
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Seroprevalence of HCMV among Pregnant Women and Its relation to CD4 and CRP by Staar Mohammed Qader

“…It has been described as an important etiological agent of intrauterine infection in during the pregnancy, which may lead to some serious results such as miscarriage, cerebellar malformation stillbirth, and fetus developmental retardation. …”
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Antibiotic-associated diarrhea: state-of-the-art by D. V. Piliev, S. I. Achkasov, T. K. Korneva, O. I. Sushkov

“…Its extreme and most severe manifestation is pseudomembranous colitis, caused by toxin-producing Clostridium difficile strains. This etiological agent in modern world has got significant association with hospitals and assisted-care facilities, therefore it can spread in out-patient conditions as well at the present time. …”
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African swine fever: one hundred years later by V. V. Makarov

“…The infection fundamentals have been established and described – the etiological, immunological  and nosological uniqueness  of the infection, fatal susceptibility of domestic  pigs, clinical sings and pathomorphology,  viral etiology, natural reservoir and source of the infection, survival of the virus outside the body, many specific epizootological aspects. …”
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Combination of metagenomic next-generation sequencing and morphology for identifying Coccidioides immitis: a case report by Hong Liu, Kaixin Zhou, Chaoran Zhong, Ming Guan

“…Furthermore, the diagnosis of C. immitis was then confirmed by smear staining combined with morphological characteristics of the colony, which provided an important etiological basis for clinical diagnosis and treatment. …”
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Aggregation and environmental transmission in chronic wasting disease by Olga Vasilyeva, Tamer Oraby, Frithjof Lutscher

“…The socialbehavior of hosts affects both of these pathways, and a successfulintervention requires knowledge of the relative influence of thedifferent etiological and behavioral aspects of the disease. Wedevelop a strategic differential equation model for ChronicWasting Disease and include direct and indirect transmission aswell as host aggregation into our model. …”
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