BACKGROUND Obesity, a worldwide pandemia, is associated with a large variety of comorbidities, among which is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. NAFLD is a complex disease that may eventually lead to cirrhosis, posing a high risk for the patient and thus necessitating early diagnosis and treatment. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the association between ultrasonographically diagnosed non-alcoholic fat...

Background: Mercury in any form is poisonous and mercury toxicity most commonly affects the nervous, gastrointestinal (GI) and urinary systems. The aim of this study was to investigate the specific effect associated with mercury toxicity and to evaluate the effectiveness of iron and vitamin B6 supplement on mercury-induced toxicities in rats. Methods: This experiment was performed on 25 rats...

To determine in clinical practice which rheumatoid arthritis (RA) clinical status variables are most associated with a change in disease modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) therapy, we studied 26,240 observations from 1905 RA patients occurring over 25 years. Variables included tender joint count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), grip strength, visual analog scale for pain, global severit...

Early diagnosis of neonatal septicemia is difficult due to lack of specific clinical and laboratory findings. Blood culture is considered gold standard for the diagnosis, but is very time consuming. Hence most of the paediatricians administer antibiotics at the least suspicion of sepsis. To overcome this, several rapid haematological tests have been evaluated for their usefulness in rapid diagn...

Introduction: Aging process has been viewed as progressive decline in physiological process necessary for maintenance of a constant milieu interior and death as the ultimate failure to sustain homeostasis. Reticulocytes are juvenile red cell. It is flat non-nucleated disc shaped, slightly larger than mature erythrocyte .The number of reticulocyte present in the peripheral blood is a fairly accu...

BACKGROUND AND AIM The immunosuppressive properties of 6-mercaptopurine and its parent compound azathioprine are mediated by their intracellular metabolism into active 6-thioguanine (6-TG) metabolites. Measurement of erythrocyte 6-TG metabolite levels has been proposed as a useful clinical tool for assessing treatment efficacy in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). AIM The purpose...

A woman born in September 1912 was examined at the Mayo Clinic in March 1971. She had a history of chronic anxiety state and functional fatigue. For at least 35 yr she had been mildly anemic, and various treatments given elsewhere, including iron, liver extract, and vitamin B,2, had not helped her. Fifteen years before her present admission she had had a bone marrow study that was interpreted a...

The renal- and hepato-toxicity induced by abamectin pesticide (Vertimec) and a commercial form of a bio-insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis (Agerin) in male albino rats were evaluated. Blood picture and blood glucose level were investigated. Male albino rats were administered dietary doses each equivalent to 1/10 or 1/100 of the LD50 values of each toxicant for 30 consecutive days. Abamectin was...