Introduction Prostatic metastasis from testicular cancer is extremely rare, with only 10 reported cases, all of which were diagnosed as relapse. Herein, we report the case a patient concurrent and prostatic metastasis. Case presentation A 57-year-old man presented at our emergency department urinary retention. painless mass was found in right scrotum, computed tomography showed lung, mediastina...

Even though the mechanisms that mediate essential hypertension (HT) are not fully understood, an immunological-inflammatory mechanism could be common pathway for diverse pathophysiological mechanisms. We analyze in a simplified way participation of immune system HT. T lymphocytes (TL) and antigen presenting cells (APCs) components capable generating proinflammatory cytokines. They cause endothe...

Early detection of prostate cancer may lead to the overdiagnosis and overtreatment patients as well missing significant cancers. The current diagnostic approach uses elevated serum concentrations prostate-specific antigen (PSA) an indicator risk. However, this test has been widely criticized it shows poor specificity sensitivity. In order improve early diagnosis, several studies have investigat...

Previous immunohistological studies showed a relationship between expression of blood group-related antigens (BG-Ag) and invasive potential in human urinary bladder carcinoma, but the marked variability of antigen staining within many individual tumors has obscured the biological basis of this finding. We studied the expression of the A, H, and T (Thomsen-Friedenreich) BG-Ag by flow cytometry i...

Background. We used a random sample (n = 2, 495) from the population-based Prevention of Renal and Vascular End-stage Disease (PREVEND) study population to examine the association of the metabolic syndrome (Met S) with plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) and tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) antigen levels. Results. The overall prevalence of the Met S was 18%, was dependent on age ...

To evaluate the role of oxidative stress and aflatoxin exposure on risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a case-control study nested within a community-based cohort was conducted in Taiwan. Baseline urine samples, collected from a total of 74 HCC cases and 290 matched controls, were used to determine by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays the level of urinary excretion of 8-oxodeoxyguanosine (...

background: hydatidosis is one of the cosmopolitan parasitic zoonoses caused by the larval stage of echinococcus granulosus. diagnosis of hydatidosis is still an unresolved problem. serological tests using crude antigens for diagnosis of e. granulosus are sensi-tive, however their specificity are not satisfactory. therefore, who recommended spe-cific serological methods using specific antigens,...

common techniques for detecting chlamydial antigen are direct immunofluorescence (DIF) and enzyme immuno-assay (EIA). Examination of first void urine (FVU) samples using EIA to detect C trachomatis antigen appears to be as sensitive as taking urethral swabs for diagnosis in men.2 We have studied chlamydia prevalence in males attending their general practitioners from whom a mid stream urine sam...