Showing papers in "Medicine in 2006"

TL;DR: A national registry of United States residents with XLA was established in 1999 to provide an updated clinical view of the disorder in a large cohort of patients and found that patients with a positive family history at the time of their birth were diagnosed before clinical symptoms developed.

TL;DR: Malignancy was the etiology in 60% of the cases, and bronchogenic carcinoma was the most common malignancy, and fibrosing mediastinitis was the second most common benign etiology (6 cases).

TL;DR: In a large prospective cohort of patients with SLE, the Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate survival probabilities of SLE patients over time since diagnosis and the predictors of survival in SLE using Cox proportional hazards models were analyzed.

TL;DR: Community respiratory viruses (CRVs) have been recognized as a potential cause of pneumonia and death among hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) recipients and patients with hematologic malignancies and HSCT recipients should be considered for antiviral therapy of proven efficacy to reduce the risk of tuberculosis and death.

TL;DR: Although RSH is rarely fatal, the clinician should be aware of important risk factors that lead to RSH including female sex, older age, anticoagulation therapy, and cough or other abdominal trauma.

TL;DR: It is found that massive pulmonary embolism (vascular obstruction ≥50%) is a risk factor for mortality within the first few days after onset but, subsequently, has no significant effect on survival.

TL;DR: A broadened spectrum for the ARPKD phenotype is indicated and that later presenting cases with predominant liver disease should be considered part of AR PKD.

TL;DR: The pathogenic mechanisms, clinical features, imaging findings, treatment, and outcome of meningeal, pituitary, and vascular involvement are discussed, with an emphasis on differential diagnoses, prognosis, and therapeutic management of WG-related CNS involvement.

TL;DR: Detailed analysis of FSG levels in a prospective National Institutes of Health study of 309 patients with ZES allowed us to identify important clinical guidelines that should contribute to improved diagnosis and management of patients withZES.

TL;DR: The presence of vasculitis in patients with SLE was associated with a higher ECLAM score, livedo reticularis, hematologic parameters (anemia, high ESR), and anti-La/SS-B antibodies and nearly 60% of cases not fulfilling the names and definitions adopted by the Chapel Hill Consensus Conference.

TL;DR: The results of a prospective National Institutes of Health (NIH) study of gastrin provocative tests in 293 patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (ZES) and compared these data with those from 537 ZES and 462 non-ZES patients from the literature as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that HLA signatures, comprising both risk and protective alleles or motifs, distinguish IIM patients with different myositis autoantibodies and may have diagnostic and pathogenic implications.

TL;DR: In the long-term, SLE-associated HS seems to define a severe SLE form with frequent flares, possible HS recurrences, and the need for prolonged immunosuppression.

TL;DR: The recommended way of measuring plasma glucose and the threshold used to define what is normal or abnormal have gone through several iterations over the past two decades are reviewed in this article.

TL;DR: Patients with SNS had significantly more frequent and severe involvement of vital organs than controls, had a longer history of sarcoidosis, and required systemic treatment more frequently and for a longer time.

TL;DR: A large symptomatic PE may be the presentation of an unrecognized underlying malignancy in approximately one-fifth of the patients with a nonrevealing basic workup, and this grave diagnosis cannot be ruled out on the basis of any clinical parameter.

TL;DR: The results of the present report highlight the need to consider the diagnosis of PDH among patients with AIDS in Europe presenting with a febrile illness who have traveled to or who originated from an endemic area.

TL;DR: Despite several well-designed recent trials, no novel approved treatment with unequivocal effects on the decline in nerve function in DPN has emerged and more severely afflicted patients require pharmacological intervention.

TL;DR: It would be appropriate to screen for autoimmune disease in previously healthy patients diagnosed with ibuprofen-related meningitis or meningoencephalitis in patients taking ib uprofen, especially if they are suffering from an autoimmune connective tissue disorder.

TL;DR: At least 35% of MMP patients had NT involvement, and the most severe were the laryngeal lesions that were significantly associated with severe ocular involvement and disseminated disease, and could be fatal.

TL;DR: Hereditary lysozyme amyloidosis should be considered in all patients with systemic amyloidsosis, particularly in patients who present with renal, gastrointestinal, or bleeding complications without evidence of AL or AA (secondary) amyloidaloses.

TL;DR: The magnitude of the cardiac sympathetic denervation remained stable 2 years after LT in patients with FAP, whereas the cardiac amyloid infiltration progressed, and the importance of cardiac sympatheticDenervation found in FAP patients before LT was associated with a neurologic worsening after LT.

TL;DR: In 4 patients who developed symptoms of myasthenia gravis within 2 weeks of starting treatment with a statin drug, the drug appears to have exacerbated underlying myastenic weakness, whereas in the other 3 cases, de novo antibody formation appears to be most likely.

TL;DR: NP damage is prevalent in Chinese patients with SLE and is independently associated with more active disease at diagnosis, antiphospholipid antibodies and the use of pulse methylprednisolone therapy.

TL;DR: The emerging concept is that dietary and endogenous antioxidants, endowed with different activities and characteristics, work synergistically contributing to the overall protective effect of plant foods.

TL;DR: A case series of unusual presentations of coccidioidomycosis including serous cavity infections with cases of pericarditis, empyema, and peritonitis, as well as unusual abscesses involving the retropharyngeal space and gluteal musculature are presented.

TL;DR: Cardiac conduction and repolarization abnormalities appear to be intrinsic features of TS, suggesting that deletion of the second sex chromosome has more profound effects on the cardiovascular system than previously recognized and that ECG analysis should be included in evaluating and monitoring patients with Turner syndrome.

TL;DR: Levamisole (LEV) has been used as an immunomodulating medication in patients with recurrent aphthous ulcers and as an adjuvant for chemotherapy, and induces multifocal inflammatory leukoencephalopathy (MIL), which is a serious inflammatory encephalopathy.

TL;DR: There has been an increase in the number of cases of invasive GAS soft-tissue infections in IDUs in Barcelona, which seems to be related to drug users' habits and their socioeconomic status.

TL;DR: This contribution attempts to give a structure for taking a neurological history, which is more of an art than a science, because it requires some knowledge of neurological conditions.