Notwithstanding the multiple challenges related to working in conflict zones and on war-time sexual violence in particular (Fast 2010; Jewkes et al. 2014; Leatherman 2011), and despite the highly commendable advances made, some explanations for the gap between policy and practice point to the international humanitarian system's 'inherent structural insufficiency' (ALNAP 2015. p. 14).
Thus, if pain is due mainly to the structural bone insufficiency of vertebral bodies, probably percutaneous vertebroplasty is a good solution for pain reduction and mobility improvement.
In our cases, even though we can not exclude a contribution of the altered bone structure, inflammatory histologic changes seem to be of a different, supposedly metabolic, nature than structural bone insufficiency alone.
TS is associated with multiple medical issues including impaired growth, ovarian insufficiency, structural cardiovascular abnormalities, abnormal fat mass accrual, as well as an increased risk of diabetes mellitus, an unfavorable metabolic profile, hypertension, and impaired endothelial function [1], [2], [3], [4].
In order to understand structural determinants of food insufficiency and elucidate potential interventions to prevent food insufficiency and malnutrition in HIV-negative and HIV-infected women, we examined the prevalence and socio-demographic associations of food insufficiency, household dietary diversity and low BMI in such women in Rwanda.
All patients had prior diagnostic US or computed tomography (CT) to exclude patients with a structural cause of renal insufficiency and to avoid biopsy of single or small kidneys.
5 8 Food insufficiency may be caused by structural factors: social, political, economic structures or institutions that affect people's ability to control the conditions of their lives and meet their basic needs.
When heart valve tissues become diseased, structural changes lead to biomechanical insufficiency of the valves, which can have a major impact on blood distribution.
The structural basis of normoalbuminuric renal insufficiency in patients with type 2 diabetes remains to be elucidated.
9 But structural factors associated with food insufficiency in Sub-Saharan women, and how such factors may be addressed to mitigate food insufficiency in the region is not well studied.
