Báo cáo y học: "Idiopathic chronic cough: a real disease or a failure of diagnosis" ppt

... reflect an inadequate approach to diagnostic evaluation and failure to appreciate both pulmonary and extra pulmonary causes for chronic cough [2,3]. In other cases, trials of therapy may be of inade- quate ... Thus failure to respond to antireflux therapy may not indicate an idio- pathic chronic cough. Finally an association between cough, GORD and a famil- ial sensory neuropath...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... neovascularization. Also it acts as a survival factor for tumour cells, protecting them from hypoxia, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In normal tissues its action is stabilisation of mature cells. ... varices, a Barrett's oesophagus and portal gastropathy. These findings were all consistent with an intrahepatic cause of portal hypertension. Liver biopsy showed Kupffer cell hyperpl...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... monoclonal antibody directed against TNF-α, was given to patients with disease refractory to traditional DMARD therapy and was found to suppress disease activity, improve the quality of life and ... risk of infection and malignancy. Introduction Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a progressive destructive inflammatory disease associated with pain and disability. It has a significant n...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... Immunocytometry Systems) or with a goat anti- mouse IgG2b fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-conjugate (Caltag Laboratories). Finally, PBMCs were analyzed by flow cytometry on a Becton Dickinson FACScan ... Kalyanaraman VS, Sarngadharan MG, Robert-Guroff M, Miyoshi I, Golde D, Gallo RC: A new subtype of human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-II) associated with a T-cell variant of hai...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 06:20

... E, Hamano T, Kataoka Y, Seto Y, Iwata N, Kaneda Y, Matsumoto K, Nakamura T, Ueki T, et al.: Hepatocyte growth factor ameliorates acute graft-versus-host disease and promotes hematopoietic function. ... the Shizuoka Labora- tory Animal Center (Shizuoka, Japan). All mice were main- tained in a pathogen-free facility at the Hyogo College of Medicine. Animal experiments were done in acco...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... 20% of patients with a known m alignancy are found to have pericardial involvement upon autopsy [10]. However, tamponade as an initial manifestation of malignancy is relatively uncommon. A review ... We report the case of a 58-year-old African American-Nigerian woman with a history of travel to Nigeria and a positive tuberculin skin test who presented with cardiac tamponade....

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:21

... m alignancy are found to have pericardial involvement upon autopsy [10]. However, tamponade as an initial manifestation of malignancy is relatively uncommon. A review of 78 cases revealed that ... Pericarditis and early cardiac tamponade as a primary manifestation of lymphosarcoma cell leukemia. Am J Med 1979, 67:719-723. 13. Leung WH, Tai YT, Lau CP, Wong CK, Cheng CH, Chan TK: Car...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:20

... http://jmedicalcasereports.com/jmedicalcasereports/article/view/9211 4. Dan M, Samra Z, Katz A, Debby A, Gutman R, Zakut H: Etiology of acute pelvic inflammatory disease proven by laparoscopy. Sex Transm ... tissue samples revealed chronic, partly sub-acute inflammatory changes with a xanthogranulomatous pattern and there was no evidence of malignancy (Figure 2). The patient had no...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... without pulmonary hypertension, congenital cardiac abnormalities or cardiac intervention. A diagnosis of pulmonary artery dissection is rarely made during life because it generally leads to cardiogenic ... presentation: We report a rare case of a 51-year-old female patient, without pulmonary hypertension or other cardiac abnormalities, who presented with acute chest pain and was...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... generally treated at the onset of symptomatic dis- ease, and initial treatment includes alkylator therapy (chlorambucil or cyclophosphamide) or purine nucleo- side analogs, such as fludarabine alone ... laboratory parameters were in the normal range, plasma proteins as detected by electrophoresis and immunofixation were without pathological findings. As a consequence, a watch and wa...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22