Aphasic status epilepticus (ASE) is a rare disorder characterized by recurrent aphasia without impairment of other cognitive functions. A 76-year-old woman with chronic kidney disease developed ASE after neglecting peritoneal dialysis. Magnetic resonance imaging failed to demonstrate an appropriate lesion. Electroencephalography demonstrated ictal discharges in the left frontotemporal leads. AS...

Introduction: It is believed that uremia causes destruction of white blood cells (WBC) and thus causes leukopenia. Therefore this study had an attempt to assess the effect of uremia on WBC count. Materials and Methods: This case control study was conducted on 120 uremic patients and 100 samples as control group. All samples were examined for determination of urea and creatinine in their seru...

The differential diagnosis of pulmonary disease of vascular origin must include pulmonary edema, uremia, Loeffler’s syndrome, periarteritis nodosa, Wegener’s granulomatosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, rheumatoid lung, pulmonary hemosiderosis, pulmonary purpura with nephritis, a pulmonary embolism and pulmonary arteriovenous fistula. Puhnonary edema and uremia have been included ...

The susceptibility of uremic patients to infectious disease has been widely reported, but the host immune factors associated with the increased incidence of infection have not been clearly defined. In this study, the possibility of synergism between biologically active components that accumulate in uremia and immunosuppressive drugs used in the course of management was investigated. An animal m...

The effect of uremia on immune incompetence was studied. BALB/c mice were infected with a minimally virulent strain of Cryptococcus neoformans 6 weeks before immune assay. Uremia was induced by intramuscular injection of 0.15 ml of glycerol. Pooled spleen cells from four experimental groups (normal, uremic, infected, and infected and uremic) were assayed by lymphocyte transformation (LT) and lu...