Autoimmune phenomena and clinically apparent autoimmune diseases, including autoimmune hepatitis, are increasingly been reported not only after natural infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but also after vaccination against it....
Seborrheic keratosis-like lesion of the cervix and vagina is a rare lesion and shows similar morphology to vulvar seborrheic keratosis; 3 of the 7 previously reported cases were associated with low-risk human papillomavirus...
Oncogenic osteomalacia (Onc-Ost) is a paraneoplastic phenomenon characterized by hypophosphatemia due to elevated fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF-23). Onc-Ost has been previously reported in patients with germ line mesenchymal...
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, especially persistent high risk HPV infection stands as the leading reason for cervical cancer morbidity. P53 protein can activate multiple tumor suppressor genes, leading to cervical cancer...
Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) is characterized by accumulation of hepatic free fatty acids (FFAs) and triglyceride (TG)-enriched lipid droplets and cell death. The present study aimed to investigate how FFA or TG induce...
The aims of the study were to estimate the rate and to identify predictors of high-grade abnormalities among women with persistent low-grade abnormalities or high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) positivity for at least 2 years...
Porto Alegre, in south Brazil, has one of the highest Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections rate in the country (84.4 cases/100,000 in 2018). Prenatal screening of HCV, however, has not been routinely offered.We conducted a...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major cause of liver diseases in Korea. Anti-HCV assays are used to screen for HCV infection. Here, we assessed the agreement and diagnostic performances of three different anti-HCV...
Current consensus recommendations are to not initiate cervical cancer screening for immunocompetent adolescent females prior to age 21 years. This is in part due to very low rate of 0.8 per 100,000 new cervical cancer cases...
Cervical cancer, caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, is the source of significant personal and societal burden, and robs more than one hundred thousand Indian women and their families of the chances of a healthy and...
Liver cancer most commonly develops in patients with chronic liver disease, the etiology of which includes viral hepatitis (B and C), alcohol, obesity, dietary carcinogens, and so forth. The current treatment modalities,...
Chronic hepatitis C, which is caused by the hepatitis C virus, represents a substantial health threat to humans and causes approximately 700,000 deaths each year worldwide. However, 30 years after the discovery of this virus in...
