A 22-year-old man with a history of AIDS, gastritis, and perianal warts presented to his primary care physician with a complaint of worsening dyspepsia and diarrhea. The patient denied fever, nausea, vomiting, bloody stools, melena, weight loss, and change in appetite. He had a history of poor adherence to medication and had stopped his antiretroviral regimen of zidovudine, lamivudine, and nelf...

Adrenalectomized dogs maintained on desoxycorticosterone acetate developed a fatal circulatory collapse when given normal dog plasma. They showed general restlessness, a rapid fall in blood pressure and cardiac index, a decline in central venous pressure and general prostration. Most dogs developed a bloody diarrhea and a minority showed edematous swelling of the face with itching. Animals with...

Diarrheal diseases due to infection constitute a major burden of disease. Dehydration resulting from diarrhea can be fatal. It is the cause of approximately 1.8 million deaths every year. The vast majority of these deaths are of children under five years of age living in lowand middleincome countries. Interventions to prevent diarrhea include provision of safe water, hand washing, the use of sa...

OBJECTIVE The aim is to find the common causes of chronic diarrhea in our hospital, and to find out the most useful methods for diagnosis. METHODS This study was carried out in the medical ward at Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq, during the period January 1999 through to August 2000. Fifty inpatients with diarrhea for 4 weeks or more were evaluated by history, physical examination...

reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page Klebsiella oxytoca is a gram-negative member of the human fecal microbiota, which is detected in the intestine of about 1.6% to 9% of healthy subjects and thus considered to be a commensal member of the enteric microflora. 1 Recently, K. oxy...

Collagenous colitis, which is clinically characterized by chronic non-bloody diarrhea, is a variant of microscopic colitis. It can be diagnosed on histological grounds, with thickening of the subepithelial collagen layer [1–3]. The colonic mucosa is usually endoscopically normal, although minor abnormalities such as edema or erythema can be seen [2,3]. Serious complications are rare. A 69-year-...

to determine the effective factors on persistent diarrhea in under five year old children (un5), a total of 1341 subjects were selected between cases referred to sanandaj children hospital for diarrhea in the period between 1st june and 22nd october 1994. the children were questioned for prolongation of diarrheal episode after 14 days of its onset. the investigation showed that the duration of ...

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disorder that mainly affects the colon and rectum. Immunological derangements are associated with the pathogenesis of UC. Many patients with UC also have chronic kidney disease, associated with immunological disorders and/or pharmacotherapy for UC. Some patients with UC may develop end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and require renal replaceme...