Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical problem in pregnancy requiring emergent intervention. To establish a contemporary patient profile and formulate an effective management strategy, a retrospective review was conducted of 84 pregnant patients who underwent laparotomy with a preoperative diagnosis of...
Objective: We report the immune response during a case of acute HEV response in a patient with an acute hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 infection in the Netherlands. Methods: Cytokine evaluation was performed via multiplex cy
The role of the renin-angiotensin system in mediating the circulatory and metabolic responses to hypoxia was studied in three groups of conscious dogs that were infused continuously with normal saline, teprotide (10 mug/kg per min), and saralasin (1 mug/kg per min), respectively. Hypoxia was...
The host response in hepatitis E virus (HEV)-related liver disease of pregnant women is unclear. This study was carried out to evaluate the serum concentration of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α in HEV-related acute viral hepatitis (AVH) and fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) in pregnant women ...
Immunophenotypic studies are essential to distinguish acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) from minimally differentiated acute myeloid leukemia (AMLM0) and to classify ALL into immunologic subtypes. Frequently, immunophenotyping identifies myeloid antigen expression in ALL, causing a potential diagnostic problem....
The features of cholangitis were analyzed in 99 consecutive cases treated in the last ten years. The disease was severe and refractory in half the cases due to malignant stricture, and in 20% of those due to gallstones. Benign strictures, sclerosing chol
To quantitate reduced food intake during diarrhea and to assess possible means of promoting such intake, the 24-hr food and breast milk intakes of 41 children 6 to 35 months divided into three groups were measured. The energy and protein intake of 15 children hospitalized with acute watery diar...
Understanding the role of autophagy in sepsis-induced acute lung injury (ALI) may provide new insights into developing novel therapeutic strategies for this group of patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the regulation of autophagy in the septic lung and to use pharmacologic agents ...
ACG CASE REPORTS JOURNAL CASE REPORT | LIVER Aspirin-Induced Acute Liver Injury Janese Laster, MD1, and Rohit Satoskar, MD2 1Department of Internal Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC 2Department of Hepatology, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC Abstract Aspirin is ...