The ketogenic diet is an effective treatment for the patients with intractable epilepsy, however, the diet therapy can sometimes be discontinued by complications. Protein-losing enteropathy is a rarely reported serious complication of the ketogenic diet. We present a 16-month-old Down syndrome baby with protein-losing enteropathy during the ketogenic diet as a treatment for West syndrome. He su...

The effects of in vitro changes in calcium and albumin on human platelet arachidonic acid metabolism were evaluated. Hypoalbuminemia enhanced the conversion of released 14C-arachidonic acid from prelabeled platelet phospholipids to the metabolites of the platelet cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase pathways. This effect was, however, associated with a decreased release of arachidonic acid in the pr...

Liver function and its correlation with bilirubin and hepatic enzymes were evaluated in 30 male chronic asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic alcoholics admitted into the psychiatric hospital for detoxification and treatment of alcoholism. Hypoalbuminemia, lowered prothrombin activity, hypotransferrinemia and hypofibrinogenemia were detected in 32%, 32%, 28%, and 24% of patients, respectively. Trans...

We report a 57-year-old female patient with suspected systemic lupus erythematosus presented with general anasarca, pleural effusions, hypercholesterolemia and severe hypoalbuminemia. First, nephrotic-range proteinuria was revealed and membranous glomerulonephritis was diagnosed and successfully treated. She developed diarrhea 2 years later with similar clinical presentations but this time no p...

The definition of nephrotic syndrome is proteinuria accompanied by hypoalbuminaemia and oedema. This, however, is not a direct chain of events. In the presence of normal liver albumin synthesis, nephrotic range of proteinuria (> 3.5 g/24 h) should not cause hypoalbuminaemia, and a low plasma albumin concentration itself does not result in oedema formation except in the presence of sodium retent...