Several clinical syndromes can present with the symptoms or signs resembling an acute stroke. A 52-year-old woman uncontrolled diabetes presented of a hyperacute right middle cerebral artery (MCA) However, there was discrepancy between patient’s and multimodal neuroimaging findings. Further diagnostic workup confirmed bacteremia cerebritis caused by <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> live...

Background & Objectives: Chronicity of lupus nephritis (LN) should be considered for interaction of cell mediated immunity (CMI) and dendritic cells in glomeruli and tubulointerstitial areas. In this study establishment of immunohistopathological changes of dendritic cells and other immune effector cells in lupus nephritis comparing with non-lupus nephritis was performed. Materials & Methods: ...

background: few investigations have focused on the patients with lupus nephritis (ln) and neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (npsle). this study was aimed to investigate the clinical features, mortality, and the predictors for mortality of this group of patients. patients and methods: medical records were retrospectively reviewed in sun yat-sen memorial hospital from 1996 to 2012. da...

thymoma is a term that should be restricted to neoplasms of thymic epithelial cells, irrespective of the presence or the number of lymphocytes. the usual location of thymoma is the antrosuperior mediastinum; however, this tumor can also occur in other mediastinal compartments, in the neck, within the thyroid gland, in the pericardial cavity, the pulmonary hilum, within the lung parenchyma, or t...

objective(s)lupus nephritis (ln) is frequently associated with a poor long-term prognosis. renal biopsy is the diagnostic method of choice in this condition. urine biomarkers have been mentioned in the diagnosis of ln. the study,s purpose was to evaluate the performance of urinary monocyte chemoattractant protein 1(umcp-1) as a biomarker of renal involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus.mate...

Introduction: Systemic lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune progressive connective tissue disease characterized by multiple organ involvement and a highly variable clinical course. The aim of this study was to predict the health-related quality of life of women with lupus based on perceived stress, fear of perceptual body image and psychological resilience. Methods: This descriptive-analytical...

background: systemic lupus erythematosus is a systemic autoimmune disorder with unclear etiology. the importance of some genes in the development of systemic lupus erythematosus has been implicated. the gene polymorphism in codon 72 has attracted a lot of attention and its role in the occurrence or progression of many cancers and autoimmune diseases especially systemic lupus erythematosus has b...

The fundamentals of successful treatment of any disease include early diagnosis, timely treatment, and vigilant monitoring of response to treatment. To accomplish this sometimes-difficult process, it is crucial to employ the means that provide important disease markers, including laboratory parameters and imaging characteristics, in addition to clinical symptoms and signs. A brain abscess, for ...

In Korea, tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious public health problem and reported TB cases have not significantly decreased over the last decade (1). Tuberculosis involving the central nervous system (CNS) is the most significant type of extrapulmonary tuberculosis because of its high mortality rate and possible morbidity of neurologic sequelae. CNS tuberculosis can manifest in a variable forms,...