Over the past two decades it has been shown that chronic pancreatitis is a variable part of cystic fibrosis syndrome caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene (CFTR). The aim of ...

The aim of the study was to assess the clinical and laboratory features of patients with family history of chronic pancreatitis. The results demonstrated that patients with a family history of chronic pancreatitis have ...

Among structural and functional changes of the liver in portal hypertension, recent pathogenic approaches show an initial involvement of the hepatic vascular structures. Endothelial dysfunction results in impaired vascular ...

The allergic diseases are widespread throughout the world and have a special place in the structure of the population morbidity. The frequency of atopy has a general tendency to increase. Reduced quality of life, high ...

Prevalence and incidence of allergic pathology had increased in the last 20-30 years due to the increase in temperature, industrial pollution, lower humidity, rised number of domestic animals, food makers and others. ...

Just as in the case of other diseases, in gout the primary and/or secondary prophylaxis may be suggested as well as the treatment of the disease in its acute phase and the basic one. The fact to be mentioned is that no ...

In patients with ankylosing spondilitis (AS), the mobility of the rib cage can be considerably decreased because of the involvement of the facet and the costochondral joints. The purpose of our study is to assess the ...

Psoriatic arthritis is an inflammatory arthritis associated with psoriasis. Early objectification joint pathology and conditioning treatment, slows progression of the disease and its unfavorable prognosis. The aim of the ...

The disease activity threshold necessary to start DMARD by combined or monotherapy was established arbitrary, for patient with axial spondylo arthritis, at BASDAI ≥4. At the moment, the correlation between the activity ...

While the standard X-ray is the classic landmark in the diagnosis and structural lesions in AS, recently the experts have given more weight to modern imaging techniques and especially to MRI in recent criteria and ...