Chronic Kidney Disease Treatments

Summary: Orthodontic treatment (OT) is characterized as a lengthy procedure and enormous effort has been harnessed to shorten the OT duration using either surgical or non-surgical approaches. With the emerging concept of accelerated orthodontics, scientific interest has been focused on chemical and electrical stimuli in combination with mechanical forces for rapid bone turnover and more stable results. Giv...

Summary: Alopecia areata (AA) is an immunologically mediated disease characterized by non-scarring hair loss (Madni and Shapiro, 2000). AA is presented by rapid and complete hair loss in one or more round or oval patches, usually on the scalp, beard area, eyebrows, eyelashes, and less commonly, on other hairy areas of the body (Berker et al., 2010 and James et al., 2011) Alopecia areata is a T-cell-mediate...

Summary: This study aims to compare two different protocols commonly used in the management of post thyroidectomy hypoparathyroidism : PTH based calcium repletion and empiric repletion. The investigators aim to compare the quality of life associated with these two protocols in a randomized trial.