Background and Aims. CIN is a major and serious complication following PCI in patients with ACS. It is unclear whether a higher serum ferritin level is associated with an increased risk of CIN in high-risk patients. Thus, we conducted this study to assess the predictive value of SF for the risk of CIN after PCI. Methods. We prospectively examined SF levels in 548 patients with ACS before underg...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the major cause of cervical cancer and its precursor, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), and HPV testing has therefore been proposed for improved triaging and follow-up of women treated for CIN. We compared two common HPV DNA detection tests (Hybrid Capture II [HCII] and PCR-enzyme immunosorbent assay (EIA) using the primers GP5+/GP6+ followed by H...

To evaluate the prognostic importance of chromosomal instability (CIN) in squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the lung, the relationship between CIN detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and survival in SCC patients was examined. Forty-seven surgical specimens of lung SCC were analyzed. To identify tumors with CIN, p16 and multi-target DNA FISH assays for c-myc, chromosome 6, EGFR,...

Results: Of 386 patients with normal referral cytology, 32 (8.3%) had CIN I, 14 (3.6%) had CIN II/III, 2 patients (0.5%) had glandular abnormalities (CGIN) and 1 (0.3%) had invasive cervical cancer stage 1b1. Assuming cumulative smears have 93% specificity, there is a more than expected increase in CIN in women with normal cytology and PCB (using Chi-squared test p<0.01). Of 92 patients with no...

The close relationship between chromosomal instability (CIN) and aneuploidy has been reported. The purpose of this study was to identify genomic aberrations present with CIN and aneuploidy in gastric cancers. FISH and image cytometry were applied to 27 sporadic gastric adenocarcinomas to identify CIN-positive tumors and to determine DNA ploidy, respectively. In addition, array-based comparative...

BACKGROUND We measured the incidence and risk factors for contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in trauma patients. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of a prospectively collected trauma database. We studied injured patients who received a contrast-enhanced computer tomography with an initial and repeat serum creatinine after 48 h. Exclusion criteria were patients on dialysis. CIN was d...

Background Cinaciquat (CIN) is a guanylate cyclase (sGC) activator that induces cyclic GMP generation and vasodilation preferentially in diseased vessels [1]. CIN has the potential to increase cardiac output in patients with acute decompensated heart failure [2]. CIN is predominantly and rapidly cleared by the liver [3], and thus, it was not expected that the kidney function would have an influ...

OBJECTIVE Global incidence of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) is 2-5%, but a recent Kenyan study highlighted a local incidence of 12-14% without offering an explanation for the higher incidence. This study proposes that inflammatory states confer a higher relative risk for development of CIN. Our objective was to determine the risk of developing CIN given the presence of an inflammatory stat...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to determine the increase in the yield of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 3 (CIN 3) or cancer (CIN 3+) from random cervical biopsy in quadrants without visible lesions and endocervical curettage (ECC) in a low-prevalence setting. MATERIALS AND METHODS Random biopsy and ECC (unless pregnant) have been obtained in the colposcopy clinic of the Southern California Per...

Chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (CIN) reportedly indicated better prognosis for some cancers. We retrospectively analyzed 150 evaluable metastatic gastric cancer (MGC) patients who had received first-line EOF5 (combination regimen of epirubicin, oxaliplatin and 5-day continuous infusion of 5-fluorouracil) treatment. We divided patients into three groups according to the worst grade of CIN: abs...