BACKGROUND Birdshot chorioretinopathy is a chronic bilateral inflammatory disease of unknown etiology characterized by bilateral retinal vasculitis, mild to moderate vitritis, retinal vascular leakage, cystoid macular edema (CME), and typical "birdshot" chorioretinal lesions. Typically, patients with birdshot chorioretinopathy are treated with systemic immunosuppressive and/or corticosteroid th...

Objective: To describe a possible association between Graves’ disease and nephrotic syndrome secondary to membranous nephropathy and to review the literature related to renal diseases in patients with Graves’ disease. Methods: The clinical, laboratory, and renal biopsy findings in a patient with Graves’ disease and membranous nephropathy are discussed. Results: 50 Y, Male, non diabetic, non hyp...

Objective: To study the pattern and outcome of acute renal failure (ARF) in diabetes mellitus. Methods: Outcome of variables like duration of renal failure, recovery of renal function and mortality were analyzed with parameters like age, sex, duration of diabetes mellitus, preexisting diabetic nephropathy, preexisting ischemic heart disease, cause of renal failure, dialysis requirement and numb...

The TATA element is a well-known example of a DNA promoter sequence recognized by the TATA box binding protein (TBP) through its intrinsic motion and deformability. Although TBP recognizes the TATA element octamer unusually (through the minor groove, which lacks the distinctive features of the major groove), single base-pair replacements alter transcriptional activity. Recent crystallographic e...

We update the light curves from the X-ray, optical, and radio bandpasses which we have assembled over the past decade, and present two observations in the ultraviolet using the Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph. The HRI X-ray light curve is constant within the errors over the entire observation period. This behavior is confirmed in the ASCA GIS data obtained in 1993 and 1995. In ...

690 CMAJ, April 5, 2011, 183(6) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors A29-year-old married woman, an immigrant from sub-Saharan Africa, presented to the Southern Alberta HIV Clinic at week 26 of pregnancy after receiving a positive test result from prenatal HIV screening. She had a university-level education, was fluent in English and agreed to start highly active antiretroviral ...

Decision procedures are key components of theorem provers and constraint satisfaction systems. Their modular combination is of prime interest for building efficient systems, but their effective use is often limited by poor interface capabilities, when such procedures only provide a simple “sat/unsat” answer. In this paper, we develop a rule-based framework to design cooperation schemas between ...

AIM The aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of psoriatic arthritis in the patients with psoriasis and to analyze retrospectively the results of a 34-year multidisciplinary management of the patients with psoriatic arthritis. METHODS The study included 162 out of 183 treated patients with psoriatic arthritis, aged 48 +/- 15 years. All the patients satisfied the current diagnostic ...