Báo cáo y học: "Cytomegalovirus-associated splenic infarcts in a female patient with Factor V Leiden mutation: a case report" docx

... V Leiden mutation: a case report Lihi Atzmony, Nili Saar, Tamar Chundadze, Yaron Arbel, Dan Justo* and Noa Mashav Address: Department of Internal Medicine D, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, ... Central Page 1 of 3 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Medical Case Reports Open Access Case report Cytomegalovirus-associated splenic infarcts in a female p...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21

... final diagnosis was semi-invasive pulmonary asper- gillosis and we started him on itraconazole (400 mg orally per day) for one year. During follow-up examination he had remained asymptomatic and ... or part of a lobe due to decreased vascularity and air trapping. Case presentation: We report a case of semi-invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in a 38-year-old Portuguese, Caucasian ma...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... arthritis (RA) syno-via is associated with elevated synovial autoantibody levelsThe presence of lymphoid aggregates in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) syno- via is associated with elevated synovial autoantibody ... hetero- geneity [18]. For a given autoantibody or immunoglobulin ana- lyte, synovial/serum index (SSI) was defined as the ratio of synovial analyte/synovial albumin divided by th...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:21

... attenuated to varying degrees in models including IL-6, a marker of system inflammation – suggesting that IL-6 is a potential mediating variable. Increasing overall RA severity was also associated with ... any CAC with increasing RA severity was observed for both men and women with RA. Increasing RA severity was associated with higher mean CAC scores in participants with pre...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... disease duration, with a mean duration of 9.3 years. ATA-positive patients had a mean disease duration of 8.0 years, and ARA-positive patients and Ab-Neg patients had disease durations of 5.4 years ... cytokine profiles. IL-6 was elevated in ATA-positive and ARA-positive patients, but not in ACA-positive patients. IL-8 was uniquely increased in the ATA-positive subset while both A...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... abdominal pain and orthostatic symptoms and was in obvious discomfort with move- ment. He was moderately tachycardic and tachypneic, with a temperature of 101.9°F. Abdominal examination revealed ... chemistry panel and urine analysis were normal. Liver function tests (LFTs) revealed mild transaminitis, with aspartate aminotrans- ferase (AST) of 82 u/L and alanine aminotransferase (A...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:22

... Down syndrome: A case report Kotb A Metwalley 1 , Hekma S Farghalley 2 and Alaa A Abd-Elsayed* 3 Address: 1 Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, ... Metwalley - kotb72@hotmail.com; Hekma S Farghalley - hekma73@hotmail.com; Alaa A Abd- Elsayed* - alaaawny@hotmail.com * Corresponding author Abstract Introduction: Prune belly syndrome is...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... tubular secretion, including acyclovir, cidofovir, valcyclovir, ganciclovir and valganciclovir. Co- administration may lead to increased serum levels of ten- ofovir. Additionally, tenofovir causes ... causes CYP 1A2 inhibition, and drug levels may be increased when given with other antiretroviral medication. Administration of ritonavir alone or with lopinavir has been shown to increase th...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... cerebral artery (MCA) infarction may ini- tially appear normal and the low density area may not be apparent. Some early signs of acute MCA infarction are loss of definition of the grey/white interface ... directly involved in adminis- tering intravenous thrombolysis for early stroke due to infarction and it is important to gain some knowledge regarding various CT and other imaging changes t...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... Cardiac patient small pulmonary artery showing iNOS positivity in endothelium and media. Intra-alveolar macrophages stained also strongly positive. (D) Small pulmonary artery of control patient ... and alveolar macrophages/alveolar lining cells of controls and cardiac patients (* p = 0.008 comparing cases to controls). (C) Staining intensity for iNOS was quantified in pulmonary vas...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20