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{"title":"Radiographic Parameters in Non-Contrast Computed Tomography Predict the Success of Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy","authors":"H. M. Alaridy, Hayder Q. Al-mosawi, Zena Abduljabbar","doi":"10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/9","url":null,"abstract":": Aim: To evaluate whether non-contrast Computed Tomogram (CT) parameters (stone density, localization, size & degree of pelvicalceal system dilatation) predict the outcome of percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PCNL). Method: This study included 68 patients (43 male & 25 female) with renal calculi scheduled for PCNL. They were examined by non-contrast CT to determine calculus size, calculus density, calculus location & degree of pelvicalceal system dilatation. Ultrasound at scheduled PCNL follow-up one and two months later and undertaken by 2 radiologist at the same unit (HD11XE Philips 2010 unit) checked for residual stones. Stones equal or more than 4 mm in largest diameter was regarded as significant. Result : CT parameters that were associated with more residual stones ( P value <0.001) included density less than 700 HU, upper calyx location, presence of preoperative hydronephrosis and large stone size. Conclusion: pre - operative CT can predict the outcome of PCNL. Stone parameters that predict the oucome of PCNL included stone density, less than 700 HU, upper calyceal stone, large size stone & the presence of pre-operative hydronephrosis.","PeriodicalId":152061,"journal":{"name":"University of Thi-Qar Journal of Medicine","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129135515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Immediate Results of Percutaneous Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty in Patients with Congenital Aortic Valvular Stenosis","authors":"Abdulhadi Hameed. A. Al Kaaby, T. Jarrah, Jasim Nasir Alkhalidi","doi":"10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/11","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: To assess the immediate-term effectiveness of percutaneous balloon aortic valvuloplasty (PBAV) for congenital aortic stenosis (AS). Design: Early clinical and instrumental evaluation of 34 consecutive PBAV performed from 2001 to 2007. Setting: A tertiary referral center for heart diseases (Ibn Al-Bitar Cardiac Center). Patients: Thirty-four patients with congenital valvular AS, twenty-five males and nine females. Interventions: PBAV using Tayshak balloons of different sizes and lengths. Main outcome measures: Doppler and peak to peak pressure gradient (PG) across the aortic valve (AV) before and after valvuloplasty, the percent of PG reduction post dilatation, left ventricular (LV) systolic and diastolic pressures before and after valvuloplasty, number of the aortic cusps, degree of aortic regurgitation (AR) before and after valvuloplasty, left ventricular systolic function before and after valvuloplasty, associated anomalies, and the need for emergency surgery were the main outcome measures. Thi-Qar Medical Journal (TQMJ): Vol.(13), No.(1), 2017 https://jmed.utq.edu.iq Web Site: Email:utjmed@utq.edu.iq 117 Results: The peak to peak instantaneous PG across the AV was reduced acutely from 102 ± 42.7 (20 200) mm Hg to 40 ± 25.5 (10140) mm Hg (p<0.001), left ventricular systolic pressure was reduced from 196 ± 48.57 (70 – 280) mm Hg to 133 ± 35.45 (65 – 240) mm Hg (p<0.001) and both are statistically significant. Three patients had inadequate relief of obstruction but in one of them it was mainly due to subaortic obstruction and two patients had severe AR, one of them with acute pulmonary edema and required surgical AV repair. PBAV produced a gradient reduction ≥ 50% in 29 patients, six patients having a residual peak to peak gradient of >50 mm Hg and in one of whom the remaining PG was 70 mm Hg which was mainly subvalvular (50 mm Hg). Six patients had bicuspid AV while the other patients had tricuspid valve. Six had associated anomalies. There was no mortality during the procedure. Severe AR reported in two patients and moderate AR occurred in five patients. One significant complication (acute pulmonary edema) occurred immediately after the dilatation and surgery was done for that patient after few days. Two serious complications occurred during the procedure which responded to routine resuscitation. There was a residual maximum Doppler gradient of < 30 mm Hg in 12 patients, ≥ 60 mm Hg in four (one of them had mainly subvalvular gradient) and between 30 to 48 mm Hg in the others. Twenty one patients developed new AR (62%), in fourteen of them (41%) it was mild. Conclusions: PBAV is an effective procedure and offers a good palliation for congenital AS.","PeriodicalId":152061,"journal":{"name":"University of Thi-Qar Journal of Medicine","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116576822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Medical Versus Surgical Treatment of Incomplete First Trimestric Abortion","authors":"Aseel Mosa","doi":"10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/12","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: to assess efficacy and risks of medical treatment of incomplete abortion using misoprostol versus surgical procedures. Methods: A prospective comparative study included 208 women with incomplete abortion with gestational age between 5 th and 12 th week randomized equally to two groups Group I received 600 micro gram misoprostol as single oral dose and Group II underwent surgical dilatation and evacuation. Primary outcome was successful treatment all women give a written acceptance of being involved in the trial. Results: There was no statistically significant difference between Misoprostol and surgical groups regarding endometrial thickness evaluated after treatment (10.5±2.65 versus. 9.3±1.97 respectively, where P value 0.251Non significant , treatment failure (11 versus. 6 respectively, where P value 0.071 Non significant), those with blood loss more than 500 cc ( 1 versus. 3 respectively, where P value 0.482 Non significant ) and those who needed recurrettage ((11 versus. 6 respectively, where value 0.064 Non significant). Side effects of treatment showed no statistically significant difference between the studied women (fever occurred in 3 versus. 1, IUS in 0 versus. 1 and vomiting occurred in 1 versus. 3 in medical versus. surgical women respectively ,where P value > 0.05) except diarrhea which was much more common in women under Misoprostol treatment (28 versus. 0 respectively, where value < 0.001). Conclusion: Medical treatment is effective and acceptable and less costly than surgical treatment in women with incomplete abortion. Keyward : Pregnancy. Misoprostol . Abortion in Nassiriyah","PeriodicalId":152061,"journal":{"name":"University of Thi-Qar Journal of Medicine","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126453317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Biofilm formation by Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and its relation to antibiotic resistance in Thi-qar province/Iraq","authors":"Saad A Atiyah","doi":"10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/8","url":null,"abstract":"Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most dangerous pathogens in the community and the hospital environment for its high resistance to antibiotics and the production of a number of virulence agents such as toxins and biofilm. The study aims to determine the ability of local isolates to produce the biological membrane and its relationship to resistance to antibiotics. A cross sectional study include (37) isolates of methicillin-resistant S. aureus from the burn department at Al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Thi Qar province/Iraq for the period April-October 2015, The capacity of bacteria to produced biofilm was done by micro plate technique and the antibiotic susceptibility test for vancomycin, amikacin, ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, cefotaxime and amoxicillin-Claviolinate using the diffusion technique of antibiotic disks. The study showed that 64.9% of the MRSA isolates were able to form biofilm, while the isolates were fully resistant to the used beta-lactam antibiotics. But, the 94.6% of the isolates were sensitive to the vancomycin. There was no significant statistical relationship between the antibiotic resistance and the ability of bacteria to produce the biofilm except for the ciprofloxacin. The study showed that the local MRSA isolates have a high ability to produce the biological membrane and antibiotic resistance with the exception of the vancomycin with a relationship between the resistance to ciprofloxacin and the production of the biological membrane by bacteria. Therefore, the study recommends the use of vancomycin in medical sites to treat the infections caused by MRSA to prevent the spread and development of these resistant strains.","PeriodicalId":152061,"journal":{"name":"University of Thi-Qar Journal of Medicine","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129645773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reproductive Effects of some trace elements On Male Infertility In Thi-Qar Governorate/Iraq","authors":"Malak. A. Naeem, Sajid. H. Guzar, E. Jawad","doi":"10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/7","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was carried out on 50 infertile males whose age range between (19-49) year and 16 male, who were apparently healthy, as a control group whose age range between (18-49) year. The studied males were classified into two groups according to their case health to infertile male and fertile male. The parameters measured were seminal fluid levels lead, cadmium, zinc, copper, chromium, magnesium, iron and cobalt. These parameters were estimated in seminal fluid of patients and control group. The results shown a highly significant different in levels of lead element(7.541 a , 0.056 b ), cadmium element(0.023 a , 0.007 b ), zinc element(1.275 a , 0.054 b ), chromium element(0.408 a , 0.090 b ), iron element(2.172 a , 0.148 b ), cobalt element(0.022 a , 0.008 b ), in primary infertile males when compared with in secondary infertile males(a: primary, b:secondry).The results shown a highly significant different in levels of lead element, cadmium element, zinc element, chromium element, iron element, cobalt element, in infertile men when compared with fertile men. The results illustrated highest level of concentrations elements in measurements was lead element levels and cadmium levels in infertile males when compared with control group. As well as lower levels of concentration metals was cobalt element levels in infertile males when compared with control group.","PeriodicalId":152061,"journal":{"name":"University of Thi-Qar Journal of Medicine","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127912935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Time Based Success in Creation of Initiative Arterio-Venous Fistula for Patients with Chronic Renal Failure need Haemodialysis","authors":"Muayyad M. Almudhafer","doi":"10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/4","url":null,"abstract":"Background : Patients with chronic kidney disease need permanent vascular access for hemodialysis and the best choice is by surgically created arterio-venous fistula. Artificial AVF is a challenging surgery because it carries a high failure rate with increasing morbidity and mortality. Objectives : to highlight the importance of time factor (the time interval between the establishment of CKD to the time of creation of AVF) as a predictor factor affecting the outcome of surgery. Methodology : a retrospective descriptive analytic study of 216 patients ( 124 male and 92 female) all with chronic kidney disease underwent surgical creation of AVF for hemodialysis in the vascular unit at Sader teaching hospital/Basra, south of Iraq from 1 st of January 2010 to 30 th of June 2012. Results : the overall success rate was 55.55% and the failure rate was 44.45%, the causes of failure in sequence were inadequate vein (51%), technical difficulties (16.6%), fistula thrombosis (11.6%), bleeding (9.4%), false aneurysm (7.3%) and distal ischemia (4.1%), the patients followed up after 24 hours, 1 week, 1 month and 6 months. Conclusion : the outcome of the surgery is affected by the time interval between the establishment of diagnosis of CKD and the time of surgical creation of AVF, the success rate is decreased with increasing time interval and become abrupt after 6 months, while the failure rate is increasing smoothly with increasing time interval with peak increase being after 6 months. Thi-Qar Medical Journal (TQMJ): Vol.(13), No.(1), 2017","PeriodicalId":152061,"journal":{"name":"University of Thi-Qar Journal of Medicine","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122118555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association of GSTM1 , GSTT1 Genes Polymorphisms and Risk of Psoriasis in Thi Qar Province / Iraq","authors":"Ahmed Abdulhussein Kawen, H. H. Jalood","doi":"10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/3","url":null,"abstract":"Psoriasis is a ,chronic inflammatory, and proliferative skin disorder with a not entirely comprehended etiology. The aim of present study was to investigate the clinical features and estimate the association between null of GSTM1, GSTT1 genotypes and the development of psoriasis in Dhi Qar province. This study included 100 psoriasis patients and 100 healthy (mean age 29.08±16.46 and 31.8±11.2 respectively). Early onset was predominant (71%) than the late onset (mean of age onset 24.97±15.6). 51% of patients were males , 49% were females. Among cases 80% were non smoker, 20% were smoker. No significant between patient and control according to place of residence. Psoriasis vulgaris found in 65% of cases. Positive family history appear in 13% of patients. More of patients (56%) were exposure to stress during lifestyle. 5% patients were synchronized viral and bacterial infections. Analysis of GSTM1 , GSTT1 genotype showed no statistically significant with psoriasis susceptibility (OR=0.56; 95%, CI=0.32-0.99) and (OR=0.48; 95%, CI=0.25-0.92). Also the combined effect of GSTM1/GSTT1 null genotypes were found no increased risk of psoriasis (OR=0.55; 95%, CI=0.20-1.51).","PeriodicalId":152061,"journal":{"name":"University of Thi-Qar Journal of Medicine","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131729572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Prevalence of Asymptomatic Gallstones in Relation to Fasting Gallbladder volume in Type 2 Diabetic Patients","authors":"Imad H. Tahir","doi":"10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/6","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The sustained effect of poor glycemic control in diabetics results in a wide array of end-organ damage as a result of small and large vessels pathology. Mortality and morbidity are related to the progress of this damage but often there are acute metabolic deteriorations “ 1 ”. Autonomic neuropathy (sympathetic or parasympathetic) typically accompanies other chronic complications of DM and may play a pathogenic role through disturbed regulation of local blood flow and affecting many systems in the body including the gastrointestinal leading to(hyper-motility or hypo-motility of different organs leading to diarrhea, constipation, gastroparesis and gall bladder hypo-motility). The gallbladder tone is maintained by the vagal activity, but the sympathetic activity has little or no effect on the gallbladder “ 5 ”. Due to autonomic neuropathy, the contraction of gallbladder is poor resulting in hypo-motility, impaired gall-bladder emptying and biliary stasis “ 13,14 ” resulting in increased gallbladder volume, which predispose to gallstones formation“ 15 ”. Aim of study: to evaluate the prevalence of asymptomatic gallstones in relation to of FGBV in type 2 diabetics. Subjects and methods: 47 patient with type 2 DM were included in this study ( 37 patients were women and 10 patients were men). At first, we studied the presence of gallstones and then we divided the subjects into two groups, those who have gallstones and those who haven’t gallstones. Thereafter, we evaluated the fasting gall bladder volume (FGBV) in each group to study the relation between the presence of gallstones and volume of the gallbladder in the fasting state. other parameters were studied in both groups including ( gender, BMI, duration of DM, serum cholesterol and TG, cigarettes family of gallstones and HbA1c). Result and discussion: In this study that studied two diabetic groups, one of group with gallstones and the other have no gallstones, we found that in the diabetic group without gallstones,69.7% of the patients were women, while all the diabetics with gallstones (100%) were women with a significant difference (P-value= 0.020). The study also shows that diabetics group with gallstones have higher FGBV levels than diabetics without gallstones as most of the diabetics with gallstones (35.7%) have FGBV in the reference range 21 - 30 mL³), 35.7% have FGBV in the reference range of (31 - 40 mL³), while most of the diabetics without gall-stones FGBV levels less than20 mL³ significant difference between the two groups Conclusion: The prevalence of asymptomatic gallstones is higher in diabetic patients with higher levels of FGBV than in diabetics with lower FGBV levels especially in women.","PeriodicalId":152061,"journal":{"name":"University of Thi-Qar Journal of Medicine","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123521240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Overweight and Obesity among Children under 18 year attended Nutritional Clinic in AL-Diwaniyah Governorate, Iraq, 2016","authors":"Fatima A. Alkhalidi","doi":"10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32792/utq/utjmed/13/1/5","url":null,"abstract":"Globally, Childhood malnutrition is growing problem and an increasing public health concern in developed and developing countries. significantly the obesity in children are have impact on health physical and psychological aspect. Obesity in adulthood lead to causes chronic diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases at adult age. This study aimed to estimated the overweight and obesity rate among children. A descriptive cross sectional study was conduct in AL-dewania teaching hospital, ALdewania city, Iraq during 2016. the study sample of under 18 years children was selected randomly from children who attended the nutritional clinic. By using SPSS soft ware(SPSS version 18. 0) analysis of data was carried out, version 20.0(SPSS-20.0). Statistical significance will be considered when the P-value was equal or less than 0.05. A total study sample was 335 children, 97(29%) was male while 238( 71%) was female. mean ± SD of age ,weight , height and BMI was (10.7 ± 4.5), (46.9 ± 29.9), (136.5 ± 24.9) and (22.6 ± 9.2) respectively. overweight and obesity was 41.2% most of them female ( 79%) while underweight was 22.6% , 61.8% was female with statistical significant (P value 0.0001). The age group 5-10 year was represented 37.6% , then age group 11-15year was 32.5% with significant association. we concluded that the overweight and obesity rate was high among children under 18 year, female and age group 11-15 year had have higher rate.","PeriodicalId":152061,"journal":{"name":"University of Thi-Qar Journal of Medicine","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131839643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Role of T1 Weighted and Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance imaging application in the diagnosis of osteoporosis in lumbar spine in postmenopausal women","authors":"R. H. A. Tawfeeq, F. Noori","doi":"10.32792/utq/utjmed/14/2/11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32792/utq/utjmed/14/2/11","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Postmenopausal Osteoporosis is one of the most common causes of primary osteoporosis. For two decades, diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) has been applied to the evaluation of intracranial diseases, but technical advancement make it possible to apply DWI measurements to extra cranial sites, including vertebral column. Objective: Using diffusion-weighted MR imaging technology to determine the DWI and ADC values of lumbar vertebral body in postmenopausal women in correlation with the DEXA tscores. Patients and Methods: A cross sectional analytical studywas conducted at Al-Yarmouk Teaching hospital in Baghdad city. A total of 80 postmenopausal women, was recruited from subjects who underwent DEXA of the spine and categorized into three groups according to their t-score: Normal BMD, Osteopenia, and Osteoporosis. Then MRI study done for all of them including: T1, T2, DWI, and ADC value measurement. Results: The values of ADC at L3 vertebra were (0.46 ± 0.098) × 10 -3 mm 2 /s, (0.42 ± 0.084) × 10 -3 mm 2 /s, and (0.39 ± 0.052) × 10 -3 mm 2 /s for the three groups: the normal, osteopenic, osteoporotic respectively. The values of the diffusion signal intensity values at L3 vertebra were 134.5 ± 5.7 mm 2 /s, 112.7 + 3.4 mm 2 /s, 101.3 + 4.4 mm 2 /s respectively. There was a significant difference among the three groups in both diffusion and ADC measurement. Thi-Qar Medical Journal (TQMJ): Vol.(14), No.(2), 2017 851 Conclusion: Both diffusion and ADC values are significantly lower in subjects with postmenopausal osteoporosis. There is a significant positive relationship between T score that was determined by DEXA, and the ADC value.","PeriodicalId":152061,"journal":{"name":"University of Thi-Qar Journal of Medicine","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121117003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}