clinical features of cushing s syndrome

... Morquio s syndrome, three hours after a Tc-99m methylene diphosphonate injection Focal increased uptake is seen in the right sacroiliac joint and sacral body, consistent with fractures, and most likely ... Bone Spine 2008, 75:495-498 Fitzgerald J, Verveniotis SJ: Morquio s syndrome A case report and review of clinical findings N Y State Dent J 1998, 64:48-50 Mikles M, Stanton RP: A review of Morquio ... most likely representing the cause of the patient s pain Figure Anterior and posterior whole body bone scan views of a 46-year-old Caucasian man with Morquio s syndrome complaining of lower back...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... symptoms (data not shown) Figure and scores VASseven of measured subjective symptoms in weeks one VAS scores of measured subjective symptoms in weeks one and seven * indicates statistically significant ... University Hospital KEVO grants References Statistical analysis SPSS for Windows Release 11.5.1 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) was used for the statistical analysis Since the number of the marked scores ... of Negative Results in BioMedicine 2007, 6:11 of the disease is often stable with slow initiation and progression of sicca symptoms Primary SS is a separate disease entity, while secondary SS...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21

... hypotheses The cause of DS has been sought in disturbances during stages of oogenesis, including the period of meiotic arrest of the oocyte [51] This has generated several hypotheses One possibility ... A study of 41 mothers of DS infants found a statistically significant increase in plasma homocystine (Hcy) compared to controls [8] Hcy is a sensitive marker of folate status that is inversely ... Nicolaides, personal communication) Similarly, a metaanalysis of four second trimester amniocentesis series totalling 4,953 pregnancies found an excess of 0.54% [3] A meta-analysis of 433 livebirths...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:12

... physical symptoms such as bloating and breast tenderness as well as depressive symptoms Oral contraceptives have numerous health advantages, such as prevention of bone loss and decreased risks of ... (e.g., antihypertensive medications, bronchodilators, antiulcer agents, corticosteroids, analgesics, sedatives, decongestants) Nutritional assessment Assessment of use of caffeine, salt, and alcohol ... Psychiatric Assessment of Women Gender-specific aspects of the psychiatric assessment of women are summarized in Table 1–2 Clinicians should be alert to the elements of the history that are specifically...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... ‘‘active’’ tics), we can consider these ‘‘blocking’’ tics These events should be differentiated from seizures or other paroxysmal episodes of loss of awareness There is never loss of awareness with blocking ... CONCLUSION In summary, the natural history of TS reveals the complexities of this disorder At the present time, much of our understanding of this illness stems from the study of more severely symptomatic ... (2,3,6,31) Most typically, obsessive–compulsive symptoms develop at age or 10 years, 2–3 years after the onset of tics (8,9) Many TS patients exhibit symptoms associated with classical OCD such as contamination...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 22:21

... proposed the use of a scale, consisting of the educational level, insight assessment, the presence of psychosis, the activities of daily living as well as MMSE Measured at baseline this scale might ... majority of AD researchers assume Risk Factors for Disease Progression in Alzheimer 's Disease a linear slope, but some investigators also suggest trilinear models of decline or even more trajectories ... also the downstream ‘omic s is the tissue of study Human brain tissue for analysis can only be obtained post-mortem and sampled only once This tissue usually reflects a late-stage disease unless...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 05:20

... about Cushing' s Syndrome Ectopic Cushing' s Syndrome tends to present with less impressive classic features, but more dramatic hypertension and loss of potassium, sometimes in the setting of weight ... Syndrome from taking steroid medication is extremely common because of the widespread use of these medicines in treating many illnesses Spontaneous Cushing' s Syndrome and Cushing' s disease can occur ... Cushing' s disease is the name given to a type of Cushing' s Syndrome caused by too much ACTH production in the pituitary Dr Harvey Cushing first described a woman with signs and symptoms of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/07/2014, 02:21

... primary cause of the Cushing' s Syndrome is always the best, if possible HOW NORMAL IS A CUSHING' S PATIENT 'S LIFE? The symptoms, disabilities and life-style of a person with Cushing' s Syndrome depend ... Frequent calls and visits to physicians are necessary If the Cushing' s Syndrome is curable, or if iatrogenic Cushing' s Syndrome must remain, these individuals will have to cope with persistent fatigue, ... degree of cortisol excess, the duration of the disease, the basic health of the person, but especially the type and curability of the Cushing' s Syndrome If it is cured, all of the features of the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/07/2014, 02:21

... nghiệm cortisol tự do, 17hydroxycorticosteroid đo mẫu cortisol máu lúc 8h Ngày thứ cho bệnh nhân uống dexamethason 2mg/6h S có khả xảy ra: Nếu bệnh Cushing cortisol máu 17hydroxycorticosteroid ... loãng xương thường thấy cột s ng, xương s ờn xương dài, gãy xương bệnh lý xương s ng xương s ờn, xẹp đốt s ng phát nhờ chụp X quang - Tiêu hoá: tăng tiết HCl pepsin dày nên thường hay bị loét dày, ... thận, giảm bình thường có u lành (adenoma), cường s n vỏ thượng thận bình thường tăng + Các xét nghiệm để chẩn đoán phân biệt hội chứng Cushing bệnh Cushing (do cường thùy trước tuyến yên) - Định...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 20:22

... autoimmune diseases supports a hypothesis that, in some cases, clinically distinct autoimmune diseases may be controlled by a common set of susceptibility genes [32] Sjögren s syndrome is considered ... sufficient for disease expression This makes the genetics behind these diseases more complicated than those of diseases with a simple Mendelian character Sjögren s syndrome is major histocompatility ... M, Skarstein K, Bolstad AI, Johannessen AC, Jonsson R: Fas-induced apoptosis is a rare event in Sjögren s syndrome Lab Invest 2001, 81:95-105 Ohlsson M, Jonsson R, Brokstad K: Subcellular redistribution...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... against La-antigen; hLFS, lymphocytic focus score ≥ 1.0 in sublabial minor salivary glands biopsy DM, dermatomyositis; Pt, patient; SSc, systemic sclerosis; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus aIgA, ... M, Shoenfeld Y, Skopouli FN, Smolen JS, Soromenho F, Tishler M, Wattiaux MJ: Assessment of the European classification criteria for Sjogren s syndrome in a series of clinically defined cases: ... techniques Besides that, the observed sensitivity of these classic autoantibodies is higher than that of anti-α-fodrin antibodies, regardless of the anti-fodrin ELISA system (Hanover versus Nijmegen...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... a total of 120 pathological sections are used in the analysis of this study-22 from basaloid squamous cell carcinoma cases and 98 from PDSC cases Clinical features of basaloid squamous cell carcinoma ... Furthermore, no statistical associations were found between the prognosis of patients and their age, gender, smoking status, history of cardiovascular disease, pathological type (i.e basaloid squamous cell ... PDSC cases One of the 19 basaloid squamous cell carcinoma sections had a pure basaloid pattern and was reclassified as a variant of a large cell carcinoma Additionally, of the 102 PDSC sections,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:23

... risk of inadvertent gastrointestinal injury due to the presence of adhesions Bouveret s syndrome is a rare complication of gallstone disease [1], and is characterized by passage of a large stone ... endoscopic disimpaction may be possible, but surgery is frequently necessary Cholecystectomy carries no benefit in these cases, and is often very difficult and should be avoided This case is an ... patients unfit for surgery [4] Surgical exploration of the common bile duct is necessary where endoscopic and percutaneous techniques are unsuccessful Reoperation in these patients poses a significant...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... the obviously malignant cases in which the diagnosis is based on common clinicopathologic features universally valid for tumors of any site, such as distant metastases, surgical unresectability ... neoplasm He was symptomatic and admitted to the hospital because of suspected Cushing' s syndrome The laboratory findings were compatible with the syndrome, and further investigation revealed a mass ... behavior of adrenocortical oncocytic neoplasms The Weiss system is the most widely used and accepted histological scheme to distinguish benign from malignant adrenal tumors [11] According to this system,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... possible role of BAFF and IL17A in this phenomenon needs to be better defined in SS pathogenesis Conclusions The capability of IL-17A to induce features of SS in SSnon-susceptible mice demonstrates ... compartment in SS-non-susceptible mice The presence of LF and loss of saliva secretion raises an interesting question about the possible role of IL-17A in B cell activation As BAFF is capable of inducing ... consistent with the concept that SS develops along specific biological processes in a sequential fashion and interference with this process alters development of disease [1-3] Therefore, this study...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... frequencies of HLA-A alleles between patients and controls or between patients with and without certain clinical features Statistical calculation was done using SPSS version 17.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, ... Katsuyama Y, Pivetti-Pezzi P, Ohno S, Inoko H: Significant associations of HLA-B*5101 and B*5108, and lack of association of class II alleles with Behçet s disease in Italian patients Tissue ... avoid false negative results when assessing the association between certain HLA-A alleles and clinical manifestations of BD, we compared each clinical subset with a large number of controls Then,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... deficiency Time, in days, from respiratory Immunosymptoms suppressive Lymphocyte to ICU Ventilatory Chemotherapy agents count admission support Superinfection Anti-infectious agentsa Outcome Chronic ... viruses [5] as the main defense mechanism is CD8 T-lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity The clinical presentation in our patients was similar to that described in immunocompetent individuals, with symptom ... J, Kusne S: Influenza virus infection in adult solid organ transplant recipients Am J Transplant 2002, 2:287-291 doi:10.1186/cc8927 Cite this article as: Camous L, et al.: Clinical features of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... consistent rates for positive GM results of a first test and of a second test, at least one positive GM result from two consecutive tests, and both positive GM results of two consecutive tests ... patients’ characteristics, including age, sex, medical history, and reasons for ICU admission; use of immunosuppressive drugs (steroids and others) and antibiotics; presence of typical symptoms and ... the patients or their next of kin Processing of clinical samples LRT samples of all patients included in this study were taken once a day for the first days of their ICU stays LRT samples were collected...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... the present article, we report two cases of mental disorders as clinical presentations of primary SS, suggesting that psychiatrists should keep in mind that SS can be a potential cause of psychiatric ... general, this consideration holds for all autoimmune diseases Psychiatric presentation of primary SS also suggests that mental disorders not occur only as a response to a psychological distress or a ... neuropathological mechanisms of SS are unknown In CNS-SS, the most serious neuropsychiatric disorder appears to result from ischaemic damage caused by vasculitis [7], but the role of anti-Ro/SS-A alone or...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... INTRODUCTION of Some Linguistic Features of Barack Obama s English Speeches” 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.2.1 Aims This study aims at analyzing the stylistic features of Barack Obama s English speeches (ESs) ... features of Barack Obama s speeches In addition, descriptive method is used to give a detailed description of some stylistic features of Obama s speeches 3.2 DESCRIPTION OF SAMPLES All sources of ... the realm of discourse analysis, the typical linguistic features of political speeches have so far been the focus of many linguists and researchers However, there are still few studies of the language...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:21