BACKGROUND Herpetic eczema is a herpetic superinfection of a preexisting skin disease. Hailey-Hailey disease is an autosomal dominant dermatosis that is clinically characterized by flaccid vesicles and rashes in intertriginous areas. The coexistence of those findings is a rare condition; only five cases have been published in literature. PURPOSE To report the rare coexistence between Hailey-H...

Thymomas are neoplasias that begin in the thymus and develop in the anterior mediastinum. They are commonly associated with a variety of systemic and autoimmune disorders, such as pure red cell aplasia, hypogammaglobulinaemia, pancytopaenia, collagen diseases, and, most commonly, myasthenia gravis. The presence of inter-current infections, especially diarrhoea and pneumonia, in the presence of ...

Six patients with antibiotic-associated diarrhea and one patient with diarrhea unrelated to antibiotic use yielded both cytotoxigenic and non-cytotoxigenic isolates of Clostridium difficile from the same stool specimens. In addition, these isolates were shown to be pathogenic and nonpathogenic, respectively, in the hamster model of antibiotic-associated colitis. These data imply that more than ...

RATIONALE Down syndrome (DS) is the most common chromosome disorder in live born infants, affecting several body systems, but usually sparing skeletal muscles. We present the case of a child with coexistence of DS and dystrophinopathy. Only 1 similar case has been reported so far. PATIENT CONCERNS An 8-year-old boy with DS had a history of incidental finding of increased serum creatine kinase...

Gastroesophageal reflux disease and asthma are both quite common the world over, and they can coexist. However, the nature of the relationship between these two diseases remains unclear. In this study, we review controversial aspects of the relationships among asthma, airway hyperresponsiveness, and gastroesophageal reflux disease in adults and in children.

DESCRIPTION Coronary slow flow (CSF) is a phenomenon characterised by delayed opacification of coronary arteries in the absence of epicardial stenosis, in which microvascular and endothelial dysfunction have been implicated in pathophysiology. The association between acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and Behcet’s syndrome is well known but rare, and is especially important due to the tendency to a...

We have used quotations that McLuhan cited from the works of Ortega y Gasset, never been commented, for comparing concurrence between analyses “revolt masses” and “return to village” in network. This review discerns how both descriptions converge a framework fosters unlimited expansion face-to-face relationships which, by encouraging remote adherence virtual identities, plethora communicative p...

The function of dopamine (DA) in the nervous system is paralleled by its neuroendocrine control of pituitary gland functions. Here, we document the neuroendocrine function of dopamine by studying the pituitary gland of mice lacking DA D2 receptors (D2R). These mice present a striking, progressive increase in lactotroph number, which ultimately leads to tumors in aged animals. Females develop tu...

Overexpression of EPHA10 protein was reported in concomitance with clinical severity of breast cancer. In this study, we annotate overexpression of EPHA10 protein with changes of isoform expression as EphA10s (EPHA10 isoform 2) and EphA10 (EPHA10 isoform 3). In the process of malignant transformation, secretory protein EphA10s is in low expression, and pseudo-kinase EphA10 is overexpressed and ...

Mechanization is the characteristic of the industrial era and computerization is the characteristic of the Information Era. Now we are facing on the transition from Industrial Era to Information Era. The spatial positioning character of Geo-spatial information is attracted by Information Technology (IT) industry. Map plays an important role in the phylogeny of humankind. Concomitance with the d...