Capillary Leak Syndrome (CLS) in patients with severe course of disease is more and more common, and the clinical manifestations of CLS include systemic edema, hypoproteinemia, effective circulating blood volume reduction and hemoconcentration. The common pathogenies are sepsis, severe trauma, cardiopulmonary bypass and so on. Clinically, CLS is usually divided into leakage period and recovery ...

Blood doping is an ergogenic procedure wherein normovolemic erythrocythemia is induced via autologous (i.e., re-infusion of athlete's own blood) or homologous (i.e., transfusion of type matched donor's blood) red blood cell (RBC) infusion (11, 27, 28, 34). The resultant hemoconcentration increases arterial oxygen concentration (Ca)2) (9, 23). During peak exercise, oxygen delivery [cardiac outpu...

Eighty-one (71.7%) out of 113 patients had confirmed dengue infection (using ELISA IgM serology) at Kassala, Eastern Sudan during the period of August through November 2010. According to the WHO criteria, dengue fever (DF), dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), and dengue shock syndrome (DSS) were observed in 30.9, 58, and 11.1% of these patients, respectively. The mean age of these 81 patients was 2...

To study the effect of plasminogen activator inhibitors (PAl) on fibrinolysis it is essential to be able to specifically measure these proteins in plasma. To this end PAl-i was purified from cortisol-stimulated HT 1 080 fibrosarcoma cells and antisera raised in rabbits. The immunologic relationship of the purified inhibitor to PAl-i in plasma and platelet extracts was established by immunoblott...

Adipsic diabetes insipidus (ADI) is a rare disorder. It can occur after transcranial surgery for craniopharyngeoma, suprasellar pituitary adenoma and anterior communicating artery aneurysm but also with head injury, toluene exposure and developmental disorders. It is often associated with significant hypothalamic dysfunction and complications like obesity, sleep apnea, thermoregulatory disorder...

Calcutta has a long experience of recurrent epidemics of Dengue fever(l,2). Serological surveys carried out during 1960 by Sarkar et al.(3) and a re-survey in 1966(4) showed a high endemicity of Dengue in Calcutta. Calcutta experienced Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) for the first time during 1963-65(5,6). During this epidemic, Dengue viruses 2 and 4 were isolated^). Dengue hemorrhagic fever is ...

A 22 years old lady was admitted because of progressive dyspnea, severe abdominal protrusion and lower extremity edema. She had undergone ovarian hyperstimulation for primary infertility by Clomiphen and Human chorionic gonadotropin for 3 months. Abdominopelvic ultrasonography revealed bilateral enlarged multi cystic ovaries and massive ascites. Transesophageal echocardiography revealed a large...

OBJECTIVE To report two cases with GnRH agonist triggering and a freeze-all approach in a GnRH antagonist protocol resulting in the development of severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), requiring hospitalization and peritoneal drainage. DESIGN Two case reports. SETTING A tertiary referral center and an obstetrics and gynecology department of a hospital. PATIENT(S) Case 1 and cas...