Volume 9, Issue 4 (2010)
Articles
Level of Resistin in Acute Myocardial Infarcti on Patients and its Relation to Lipid profile and Cardic Troponin I
Ammal Esmaeel Ibrahim, Hadef Dhafer EL-Yassin, and Hamid Kareem Sachit AL-Janabi
Study of Serum Uric Acid in a Group of Insuline Dependant Diabetes Mellitus Iraqi Patients .
Dhammyaa H. Salih and Wifaq M.Ali Al-Watar
Pancytopenia Adult Patients At Baghdad Teaching Hospital
Khudair Abbas Al-Khalisi, Azher Sebieh Al-Zubaidy, and Majid Rhaima
Analytical Study of Paternity Test Cases in Iraq During the Period ( 2002 – 2007 )
Ammirah Omar, Khalifa Salih, Nibras Waly, and Eman Husein
Hypolipoproteinemia as Biological Marker in Acute Leukemia
Majid Hameed AL Maini, Adil Siwan Aqabi, and Azher Sabih Zubaidy
Hepatitis C Virus Infection Assessment Among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients in AL-Kadhmiya Teaching Hospital
Jawad K. mnuti and Fadhil A. AL- Abbudi
Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease in a Sample of Healthy Iraqi Population Amira H. Shubbar* ,Layth Rafea Taqa** INTRODUCTION: DEFINITION GERD is described as any symptomatic or histopathological alteration resulting from episodes of gastroesophageal reflux, Reflux esophagitis describes the subset of GERD patient with histopathological changes of the esophageal mucosa(1). The clinical diagnosis of GERD is fairly straight forward, if the patient reports a substernal burning sensation radiating upwards the neck, which is promptly relived (albeit transiently) by the ingestion of antacids (2,5). EPIDEMIOLOGY Symptoms consistent with GERD occur in more than one third of the American adults on a monthly basis and weekly in as many as 10%, while 4-10% *Department of Medicine Al-Mustansiriya University. **Ibn AL Bitar for Cardiac Surgery on daily basis (2,3,5,6). Spechler reviewed the epidimiology and natural history of GERD in Orlando and he reported that 20-40% of the adults population experienced heartburn which is the cardinal symptom of GERD, but only some 2% of adults have objective evidence of reflux esophagitis, the incidence of GERD increases with the age, rising dramatically after 40 years of age(7). Also there is a wide geographical variation in prevalence(5,7). While the complications of the GERD (ulcer, stricture and barretts esophagus) are found in up to 20% of patient with esophagitis. The annual mortality of GERD is 1 death per 100 000 patients(8). 33% Healthy Britons had experienced heartburn; 10% had monthly basis symptoms and 3% had daily symptoms (8).In Finland Isolari et. al. estimated the prevalence of symptoms suggestive of GERD in an adult population by questionnaires concerned with the heartburn, regurgitation, ABSTRACT
Amira H. Shubbar, DEFINITION GERD is described as any symptomatic or histopathological alteration resulting from episodes of gastroesophageal reflux, Layth Rafea Taqa, INTRODUCTION, and Reflux esophagitis describes the subset of GERD patient with histopathological changes of
Homocysteine ,Folic acid ,Vitamin B12 and Pyridoxine : Effects on Vaso-Occlusive Crisis in Sickle Cell Anemia and Sickle –Thalassemia
Sawsan Sati, Najat Abul, Razak, Noor Mustafa, and Razeqa Abd Ali
The Detection of Neutrophiles in Gastric Mucosa of Patients Suspected to be Infected with Helicobacter Pylori Using Leukostix Nassir Enssief Mohsun*,
Suhaila Saadallah and Raji H AL-Hadithi
Prosthesis-Patient Mismatches in Aortic Valve Replacement a Study in Ibn Al-Bitar Hospital for Cardiac Surgery
Darya Akram Faqe Mahmood
Evaluation of Vermilion-Mucosa Flaps for Reconstruction of Oral Commissure Burn Microstomia
Ari R. Qader and Kurdo A. Mohmmad
Mortality Rate Among Low Birth Weight Infants in Al- Battool Teaching Hospital , Diyala Province, Iraq
Dawood Salman Hameed Alazzawi
Autism Among Children Attending Pediatric Psychiatric Department in Child's Central Teaching Hospital in Baghdad: a Descreptive Study
Entissar Hadi AL- Shimery, Jaafar Muhamed Hassan, AL- Ghabban, and Haider Abdul Muhsin
Knowledge and Preference of Mothers Delivering at ALKadhumyia Teaching Hospital Regarding Caesarean Section and Normal Vaginal Delivery
Huda Adnan Habib, Maysaloun Muhammed Abdulla, and Selwa Elias Yacoub
Whether Selective or Routine Episiotomy is more Useful to Protect Anal Sphincter in Primiparous Women
Abdulrazak H. Alnakash, Shaema Jafar, and Yousef Abdul-Raheem
Intraoperative Albumin Plus Crystalloid Solution Versus Crystalloid Alone in Renal Transplant Surgery
Alaa Hussein Ali
The Role of P53 nuclear Protein in Prediction of Progression and Recurrence of Superficial Tumor of the Bladder in Response to Intravesical Chemotherapy
Montadhar Hameed Nima and Rasha Abbas Azeez
Bladder Mucosal Pathological Changes Accompany High Grade and Squamous Cell Bladder Tumors
Jassim Mohammad Alkhazraji
Medico-Legal Applications of Multiplex STR System to Show Allel Frequencies of D16S 539, D13S317, and D7S820 in Iraqis
Hussein Mahmood Gazi, Mohammed Shafik Tawfeek, Nabeel Ghazi Hashim, and Hayder Hadi Lazim
Serum Enzyme Activities in Human Thyroid Diseases
Maysoon Mohammad Najeeb Mohammad Saleem, Arieg Abdul Wahab Mohammad, and Majid Syki Jabir
Etiologies of Adult Onset Epilepsy: Clinical and Paraclinical Study in the Governorate of Babylon.
Kareem Al-Tameemi
Effects of Herbs – Containing Phytoestrogens on Rat Testis: A Histological, Histochemical and Biochemical Study
Malak A. Al-Yawer
Primary Orbital Yolk Sac Tumor
Adel Rabea Alsaadawi
Undifferentiated (Embryonal) Sarcoma of the Liver. Case Report and Review of Literature Mohammed S. Saeed
ABSTRACT, Issraa A. Hussein, Osama E. Hudder, and Thukaa T. Yahya
