Published by: Tehran University of Medical Sciences (http://ijp.tums.ac.ir) hepatitis A, between two to three months before the first manifestations of HSP. Serum sickness can be the first presentation of acute viral hepatitis (especially hepatitis B)[6,7]. Serum sickness and HSP can be very similar to each other (both of them present with skin rashes and arthritis, and GI involvement also is c...

We studied the relation of serum total calcium, dialyzable calcium, and dialyzable magnesium in 61 well and sick newborn infants aged 7-76 h. The infants' serum total calcium, dialyzable calcium and magnesium concentrations (ion chromatography method) were studied in comparison with the infant's history and sickness scale. We found that serum total calcium and dialyzable magnesium were lower in...

The problem of sensitivity tests for serum can be stated to be as follows: Is it possible, by observing the local reaction which follows an intradermal or subcutaneous injection of a small amount of serum, to determine beforehand whether or not a patient will develop anaphylactic shock, and/or severe serum sickness, when given a full therapeutic or prophylactic dose? To be of practical value, t...