A 62-year-old-man presented to our hospital with complaints of coldness, numbness, pain, weakness and cyanosis on the fingers and toes in March 2010. Laboratory findings revealed marked eosinophilia (46.6%; WBC 20600/μl), an elevation of serum creatine kinase, proteinuria and hematuria. He was diagnosed as hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) without evidence to support a diagnosis of underlying di...

Abstract The rate of disability due to acute osteofascial compartment syndrome (OCS) is high, and the therapeutic effect decompressive fasciotomy not ideal. This paper retrospectively reviews modern treatment OCS, including Western medicine Traditional Chinese (TCM), mainly in context advantages TCM process or conservative patients who are suffering from OCS. It was found that reduced levels se...

background: latrodectism, a syndrome caused by latrodectus genus, is one of the clinical problems that occur predominantly in north east of iran. nowadays antivenom therapy has become the most useful treatment for animal bites; however there is still a controversy about route and time of antivenom administration in spider bite. the aim of the present study was to determine the efficacy of speci...

Serum antibody reactivity to squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) was evaluated in 41 autologous serum-tumor cell line combinations using the protein A hemadsorption assay. Autologous antibody reactivity (median titer of 1:4) was detected in sera from 24 of the patients tested. In 10 cases autologous antibody reactivity could be detected only in undiluted serum precluding furthe...

AIMS To assess the place of AST/ALT ratio (the ratio of serum aspartate aminotransferase to serum alanine aminotransferase) as a diagnostic marker in medical populations. METHODS Laboratory tests were viewed retrospectively in three groups of patients: 313 patients with alcohol dependence, consecutively admitted to an alcohol and drug treatment unit for treatment of withdrawal (W) symptoms, 7...

To investigate the associations between obesity and serum hepatic enzyme activities, we measured total body fat (TBF), body mass index (BMI), and hepatic biochemical parameters in 732 apparently healthy adults. TBF was assessed using a body fat analyzer. Serum activities of alanine and aspartate aminotransferase (ALT and AST), gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), and la...

Serum antibody reactivity to squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) was evaluated in 41 autologous serum-tumor cell line combinations using the protein A hemadsorption assay. Autologous an tibody reactivity (median titer of 1:4) was detected in sera from 24 of the patients tested. In 10 cases autologous antibody reactivity could be detected only in undiluted serum precluding furth...

BACKGROUND Muscle enzymes in saliva have been reported to be possible markers of heart and muscle damage in humans. The aim of this study was to assess if Creatine kinase (CK) and Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) activities could be measured in canine saliva, and to evaluate their possible changes in situations of muscle damage. RESULTS The spectrophotometric assays for CK and AST measurement...