INTRODUCTION: Obesity represents a risk factor in case of major hepatectomy, because the future liver remnant (FLR) must be proportional with body weight. To avoid post-hepatectomy liver failure, and further increase the ...

Circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders (CRSWD) are sleep dysfunctions related to circadian functioning. They are characterized by symptoms of insomnia or excessive sleepiness that occur because the intrinsic circadian ...

We aimed to determine if an adolescent patient presenting with neurological impairment has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP). For this purpose, whole-exome sequencing was performed to assess mutations in XP genes. Dermal fibroblasts ...