Serological and non-serological tests were performed in matched samples of cerebrospinalfluidand serum from236 syphilitic patients. An increased lgG or lgM index, or both, was found about70 times more often in symptomatic neurosyphilis than in latent syphilis without involvement of the central nervous system. An increased Ig index, together with a cell count >5/4., was only found in symptomatic...

Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain. Özge Uluçkan, PhD Erwin F. Wagner, PhD Please address correspondence to: Özge Uluçkan and Erwin F. Wagner, Genes, Development and Disease Group, Cancer Cell Biology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), C/Melchor Fernández Almagro 3, E-28029 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Received and ac...

We report the first imported case of chronic Q fever with multi-organ involvement seen in Hong Kong. Although the disease is found worldwide, its chronic form is very rare in our locality. Familiarity with the clinical presentation, useful diagnostic tools, and appropriate treatment is necessary for the prevention of the serious morbidity and mortality associated with chronic Q fever. To the be...

Cytochrome c maturation in Escherichia coli requires the ccm operon, which encodes eight membrane proteins (CcmABCDEFGH). CcmE is a periplasmic heme chaperone that binds heme covalently and transfers it onto apocytochrome c in the presence of CcmF, CcmG, and CcmH. In this work we addressed the functions of the ccmABCD gene products with respect to holo-CcmE formation and the subsequent ligation...

The objective of this manuscript was to describe the pathophysiology and the systemic and oral implications of chronic renal failure (CRF), end-stage renal failure (ESRF), and renal replacement therapy (RRT) in children and adolescents. Improvement in treatment modalities of CRF, ESRF, and RRT have resulted in an increase in survival, and better health in children and adolescents with renal fai...

conclusions the pattern and number of vessels involved were similar in both groups. based on common prevalence of traditional risk factors among two groups, planning for lifestyle changes is recommended. results of the 112 patients, 51 (45.5%) were in group a and 61 (54.5%) were in group b with mean age of 37.6 ± 4.4 and 63 ± 8.5, respectively. no significant statistical differences were found ...

Methods The records of all patients satisfying the ACR criteria for JSLE admitted to our Hospital from 1980 to May 2014 were retrospectively reviewed. Disease activity at onset was measured by SLE disease activity index (SLEDAI); organ damage was assessed at last follow-up using the SLICC/ ACR Damage Index (SDI). Using the 1999 ACR nomenclature for neuropsychiatric (NP) lupus syndromes, patient...

There are at least nine classification criteria for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) that have been proposed and used in clinical studies. With the exception of the ESSG and Bennett rules, all of the other criteria sets have a good performance in identifying PsA patients. As the CASPAR criteria are based on a robust study methodology, they are considered the current reference standard. However, if the...

OBJECTIVE To assess the correlation between intratumoral vascularization using three-dimensional power Doppler angiography (3D-PDA) and several histological tumor characteristics in a series of patients with endometrial carcinoma. METHODS Ninety-nine women (mean age, 61.7 (range, 31-84) years) diagnosed as having endometrial cancer were assessed by transvaginal 3D-PDA before surgical staging....