In autoimmune conditions affecting the central and peripheral CNS as well as in multiple sclerosis (MS), the inflammatory syndrome is present with the onset of this disease. The present paper aimed to highlight the inflammatory syndrome based on the leukergia test, the total blood viscosity test, blood filterability test as well as on other tests. The early instituting of the therapeutic plasma...

66 Rev Esp Quimioter 2012;25(3): 224-225 Sir, I read the recent publication on new H1N1 influenza infection and predictive factors for pneumonia with a great interest1. Lerma et al. concluded that “Obesity, delay in medical care and higher levels of C reactive protein and IgG2 were predictive factors for pneumonia in adult patients with A (H1N1) influenza infection”1. Some points should be ment...

Research exploring the status of serum vitamin D levels in the populations of countries bordering the Arabian Gulf shows a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency/insufficiency. These reports were usually drawn from small samples unlikely to be representative of the population. We explored serum vitamin D level in a large sample (7924) of patients who were given a blood test to check their vita...

BACKGROUND Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) is among the key HIV prevention strategies in Zimbabwe. A decrease in use of antenatal care (ANC) services with an increase in home deliveries is affecting the coverage of PMTCT interventions in a context of accelerated economic crisis. The main objective was to evaluate acceptability and feasibility of reinforcing the role of...

Dialysis patients in the UK usually undergo routine monthly blood tests which support the medical team in assessing their ongoing condition. Based on these results, clinicians then advise the patients on appropriate changes to diet and/or medication to improve their health. Whilst the results of these blood tests can be made available to the patient via an online patient portal, their presentat...

INTRODUCTION Colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, is also among the most preventable cancers. However, Latino men are less likely than non-Latino men to engage in preventive screening. Compared with 60% of non-Latino white men and women, only 42% of Latino men are up to date with colorectal cancer screening guidelines, which may result in diagnosis a...

At present, the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is shown to be unreliable. In the absence of any laboratory or blood test, a study of the brain configuration using Magnetic Resonance Imaging, can help to demonstrate the differential atrophy involving the temporal lobe more than elsewhere, which is present in the majority of cases of Alzheimer's disease. Area measurements have been obt...

BACKGROUND Guidelines recommend screening for cervical cancer among women 30 years or older 3 years after a normal Papanicolaou test (hereinafter referred to as Pap test) result or a combined normal screening result (normal Pap/negative human papillomavirus [HPV] test results). We assessed reported recommendations by US primary care physicians (PCPs) on screening intervals that incorporate HPV ...

OBJECTIVE Ghana, like the rest of West Africa, has very low contraceptive prevalence and is one of a few nations that reports declines in contraceptive use over time based on two of the most recent national surveys. Fear of side effects is a leading cause of non-use of contraception, based on national surveys. The objective of this study was to gain a more holistic understanding of why Ghanaian...

Thi s note concludes the last issue of the 50 th volume of the Archives from an aspect that reveals the backstage of the journal. Manuscripts are blood of any journal and what the reader will find in the below figures are the results of a blood test. Thanks to the information era it was reasonably easy to analyse the flow of manuscripts through the Archives from 1979 to 1999 and see – through n...