BACKGROUND Currently, there are no biomarkers that can predict the incidence of dengue shock and/or organ failure, although the early identification of risk factors is important in determining appropriate management to reduce mortality. Therefore, we sought to determine the factors associated with dengue shock and/or organ failure and to evaluate the prognostic value of serum procalcitonin (PCT...

Idiopathic anaphylaxis is characterized by recurrent anaphylaxis without a known trigger. The coexistence of acute liver injury with idiopathic anaphylaxis is rare, even in cases of severe anaphylaxis such as shock. An unusual case involving repeated episodes of anaphylactic shock accompanied by acute liver injury is described here. A 36-year-old woman who experienced anaphylaxis due to an unkn...

In the present investigation, we deal with the reliability characteristics of a repairable system consisting of two independent operating units, by incorporating the coverage factor. The probability of the successful detection, location and recovery from a failure is known as the coverage probability. The reboot delay and common cause shock failure are also considered. The times to failure of t...

Can Ngoc Dang, Satoshi D. Ohdachi, Nghia Xuan Nguyen, Tien Duc Pham, Bazartseren Boldbaatar, Hiroshi Satoh, Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, Shigeru Morikawa, Keiko Tanaka-Taya, Richard Yanagihara, and Kazunori Oishi Author affiliations: National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (S. Arai, K. Araki, H. Satoh, S. Morikawa, K. Tanaka-Taya, K. Oishi); Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources,...

congenital hepatic fibrosis (chf) is a rare disease that affects both the liver and kidneys.  congenital hepatic fibrosis (chf) is an autosomal recessive inherited malformation defined pathologically by a variable degree of periportal fibrosis and irregularly shaped proliferating bile ducts. affected individuals also have impaired renal function, usually caused, in children and teenagers, by an...

Shock, a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children, is the the most anxiety-provoking emergency that needs to be addressed urgently and effectively by the attending paediatrician. It is a state where the metabolic demands of the tissue are not met due to circulatory dysfunction. Unlike adults, hypotension is a very late feature of shock in children. As the child’s condition worsens, th...

Introduction: Sepsis or septic shock, a life-threatening condition, is rarely reported as the initial manifestation of uterine malignancy. Case report: A 43-year-old woman consulted our hospital for pyrexia, anorexia, dyspnea, and markedly distended abdomen. Computed tomography images showed large abdominal tumor occupying almost entire cavity with an air-fluid level multiple masses in both lun...

Results During the study period fifty-five patients were supported with VA-ECMO with mean age of 42 (16-66), being male 75%. The aetiology of cardiogenic shock was acute ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 10 patients (18,18%), chronic IHD with decompensated heart failure (DHF) 9 patients (16,36%), dilated cardiomyopathy with DHF 24 patients (43,63%), acute heart failure secondary to miocarditis 8 pa...

ACUTE oliguric renal failure complicating acute pancreatitis is rare and many standard texts fail to mention it. Russell Taylor (1949) found it only once in 110 such patients, and in 163 examined post mortem Blumenthal and Probstein (1959) found only one case where a lower nephron nephrosis seemed to be related to postoperative haemorrhage and shock, although albuminuria without evidence of fur...