Brucellosis, whether in an endemic region or not, remains a diagnostic puzzle due to occasional misleading unusual presentations and non-specific symptoms. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical and laboratory findings, complications and treatment outcome of brucellosis in children in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey. This study focuses on the frequency of clinical and laboratory findi...

This study was conducted to see the presence of the antimycobacterial antibodies in healthy household contacts of tuberculous patients and healthy normal subjects who have never been in contact with tuberculous patients. A total of 200 subjects, 120 with history of household contact and 80 without such history were included in the study. Routine Haematological investigations were performed and ...

BACKGROUND Research demonstrates that most of the menopausal symptoms and problems are the reflection of individual and social circumstances rather than the endocrine events of the menopause. As majority of women live 30 years or more through postmenopausal period, treatment and following up their problems during this period is among the main duties of a midwife. The aim of this study is to det...

A 17-year-old male with short gut syndrome secondary to Hirschprung disease presented with a 2-week history of night sweats. He had an indwelling central line for total parental nutrition (TPN) supplementation and a history of multiple line infections with a variety of organisms. After completing a 10-day course of prophylactic fluconazole, and 1 week before the onset of night sweats, he had 4 ...

Although most women report vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes, night sweats) during midlife, their etiology and risk factors are incompletely understood. Body fat is positively associated with vasomotor symptoms crosssectionally, but the longitudinal relation between changes in body fat and vasomotor symptoms is uncharacterized. The study aim was to examine whether gains in body fat were related t...

Background: Menopause is a step of a woman’s life when hormonal changes cause menstruation to stop permanently. Menopausal symptoms can affect women's health and differ between different races and societies. Objective: The aim of this study was to survey the symptoms associated with menopause among Iranian women living in Tehran, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this cross sectional study which ...

BACKGROUND High tuberculosis (TB) burden countries should consider systematic screening among adults in the general population. We identified symptom screening rules to be used in addition to cough ≥2 weeks, in a context where X-ray screening is not feasible, aiming to increase the sensitivity of screening while achieving a specificity of ≥85%. METHODS We used 2010 Zambia South Africa Tubercu...

(CHEST 2005; 127:1045–1050) A 70-year-old white man was referred for evaluation of pulmonary infiltrates and bronchiectases associated with cough and constitutional symptoms. He was in his usual state of health until he acquired B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in 1990. The lymphoma was localized to his stomach, and he was treated with surgical resection; chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, vi...

CASE REPORT A 29 year old woman with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy was admitted to hospital in July 1992 with a history of persistent lethargy. Three weeks previously she had suffered a flu-like illness with night sweats and dry cough. The sweats had subsided but she still felt unusually warm at night. A week prior to this episode she had developed a swollen and tender left knee which...