Behcet\'s Disease (Introduction of Three Cases Treated With Immunosuppressor Drugs)

Symptom management in Behcets disease.

OBJECTIVE To determine the symptoms experienced by patients diagnosed with Behcet's Disease and how they cope with them. METHODS The qualitative study was conducted from September 2013 to March 2014 at Ege University Medical Faculty Hospital, Turkey, comprising patients having all symptoms of Behcet's Disease. Data was collected through semi-structured focus-group interview form. The findings...

Role of Cytokines in Behcets Disease

Behcets disease (BD) is considered a chronic relapsing multisystem inflammatory disorder. It has a worldwide distribution, but it is more prevalent in Mediterranean countries. Although its etiopathogenesis remains elusive, Immunological investigations have demonstrated the presence of immune dysregulation among the patients with BD. The disease is characterized by infiltration of lymphocytes an...

Interstitial lung disease resistant to corticosteroid therapy. Report of three cases treated with azathioprine or cyclophosphamide.

Three patients with severe progressive interstitial lung disease refractory to steroid therapy were treated with immunosuppressive drugs. Biopsy material of one showed mainly fibrosis, while that of the second showed interstitial pneumonitis as well; both patients received azathioprine. Cyclophosphamide was employed in the third patient with systemic vasculitis and massive hemoptysis. All patie...

A Note on Three Cases Treated with Emetine

S. L. M-, male, Mahomedan, aged 22. History of dysentery of five months' duration contracted in Bombay and for which he wns in a Bombay hospital for three months. He was given emetine hydrochloride i gr. hypodermically morning and evening for three days and this resulted in a gain of 3 lbs. in weight, the disappearance of blood and slime, the passage of a normal motion and a very great improvem...

Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation (CCAM) with Two Cases Introduction

CCAM is a rare conolition in the neonatal Period. Two babies were admitted to Mofid hospital with cyanosis and respiratory distress. Pneumectomy was done for both of them for space occupaying lesion. Pathology examination of first case showed area of cuboidal epithelium lined tubes and spaces resembling fetal bronchioles, which are torn in folds. In second case, pathologic examination revealed...

Three Cases of Unruptured Tubal Gestation Treated by Operation, with Notes of Cases Simulating This Condition