INTRODUCTION Hepatitis B (HB) may progress to cirrhosis and liver carcinoma. Its prevalence is estimated at 3.2 % in hemodialysis (HD) patients. HB vaccine when applied intramuscularly (IM) in end-stage renal disease patients often does not induce appropriate antibody titers. However, there has been suggestion for intradermal (ID) to be a more effective inoculation method. OBJECTIVE To compar...

BACKGROUND In China, caregivers of chronic viral hepatitis patients experience considerable burdens, stress and disruption of their own well-being and social activities. Measurement of the effect on caregivers is an under-researched area. The Family Burden Interview Schedule (FBIS) was primarily devised for the caregivers of schizophrenia patients, and the adverse effect of the disease was simi...

Sirli R, Sporea I. Aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index for the assessment of liver fibrosis severity in patients with chronic hepatitis. I read with interest the article by Yilmaz et al. regarding the value of aspartate aminotransferases (AST)–to– platelet ratio index (APRI score) for the noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis, which was published in Hepati...

BACKGROUND Presumed seasonal use of acetaminophen-containing products for relief of cold/influenza ("flu") symptoms suggests that there might also be a corresponding seasonal pattern for acute liver injury (ALI), a known clinical consequence of acetaminophen overdose. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine whether there were any temporal patterns in hospitalizations for ALI th...

Regarding the article of Leonardi and La Rosa: "Are hepatitis B virus and celiac disease linked?", published in the 2010 issue of Hepatitis Monthly (1), we believe that there is no relationship between the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and celiac disease (CD). None of the study’s patients tested positive for immunoglobulin A anti-endomysium or immunoglobulin A anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies,...

How to cite this article: Contin LA, Rocha VB. Pseudo “fringe sign” in frontal fibrosing alopecia. An Bras Dermatol. 2017;92(6): 892-4. Dear Editor, Agranulocytosis induced by sulphonamide or dapsone (44-diaminodiphenylsulphone – DDS) is characterized by a low concentration or absence of granulocytes due to sulfone cytotoxicity effects on bone marrow and mononuclear cells.1 DDS is a structural ...