BACKGROUND Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) can become colonized by aspergillus, which can act as an allergen and cause allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). OBJECTIVE To determine the rate of aspergillus colonization and ABPA in a population of Irish patients with CF. METHODS In 50 consecutive patients with CF who presented with exacerbations, we looked for the presence of aspe...

We examined the cerebrospinal fluid (CF) taken on admission from 60 patients with infections caused by Neisseria meningitidis for presence of TNF-alpha, IL-1, and IL-6. TNF-alpha was detected in CF in 55 and 19% (p = 0.03), IL-1 in 50 and 15% (p = 0.05), and IL-6 in 98 and 100% of patients with meningitis and septic shock/bacteremia, respectively. The median IL-6 concentration in CF in patients...

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to determine the chemical compositions, minerals and in vitro digestibility lathyrus sativusstraw during three years in shahrekord, kohrang and lordegan climates in chaharmahal & bakhtiari. this was one of the important legume straws that farmers used in ruminant winter diets in south west of iran. this legume straw gathered of different climates for three years. all samples were chemically ana...

Rober tson has advanced the concept tha t all l ipoprotein membranes in and a round cells have the characterist ic triple-layered 'uni t membrane s t ructure" (8 10). O the r authors have reported occasional exceptions. Thus Lillibridge (6) described a single-layered m e m b r a n e in pepsiniferous cells in h u m a n stomach, and Kar re r (4) has ment ioned certain vesicles in lung phagocytes ...

Orthopedic implants have become essential components of modern medicine. The risk of infection of total hip arthroplasty (THA) is 1.5%-2%. Are the C-reactive protein (CRP), the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and procalcitonin (PCT) good markers for THA infection screenings? From February 2009 to December 2012 at our Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, 1248 patients were treated w...

BACKGROUND International guidelines recommend depression and anxiety screening in individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF), but Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) remains understudied. METHODS Adults with CF (n=53) were screened using the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale-v1.1 Symptom Checklist (ASRS-v1.1), Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire-Revised (CFQ-R), and a self-report measure of treat...

Since the discovery of the gene that causes Cystic Fibrosis, our knowledge of how mutations in this gene cause the varied pathophysiological manifestations of this disease has increased substantially. This knowledge has led to the possibility of new therapeutic approaches aimed at the basic defect. Class I mutations of CFTR include premature termination codons (PTCs) or stop codons. In the last...

Variables involved in micro complement fixation (CF) tests for type-specific (TSM) and non-type-specific (NTSM) antibodies against preparations of streptococcal M protein were studied. Sera of rabbits immunized with purified M protein which contained high titers of anti-TSM and low titers of anti-NTSM antibodies reacted type specifically in the CF tests when relatively low concentrations of M p...