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[on The cover of HMJ]

The darkest marks in our history are its vicious wars, and most people who were not present World War one (WW1, from 1914 to 1918), are usually stunned by the number of its fatalities. More than 15 million people were killed, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in history. The true causes of death were not only related to the numbers and sizes of the nations involved, but the inability to treat war causalities, wounds, infections and progressive septicemia at that time.
WW1 was called the "trench warfare", where fighting lines, consisted mostly of trenches, in which troops were immune to the enemy's small arms fire and were sheltered from artillery. The trenches were muddy, non sanitary, with human waste and even dead bodies. The area between opposing trenches was called "no-man land", where fire was opened from either side on any moving object. Medical services were primitive and antibiotics had not yet been discovered. Relatively minor injuries could prove fatal through the onset of infection and gangrene. The magnitude of infections related to mortality have been found in the American records. They recorded that 44% of casualties who developed gangrene died. 50% of those wounded in the head died and 99% of those wounded in the abdomen died.

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[Clinical] Value of Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Estimating the Spread of Atherosclerosis and Its Relation to C-Reactive Protein

Sherif S. Elzahwy1, Inas I.Ewida1, Mohsen G.Ismaeel2, Shady K. Hakeem. 1Departments of Cardiology Dept., Ain Shams University, 2Departments of Radiodiagnosis Dept., Ain Shams University.