The study was conducted with an objective torule out the dogs presented a complaint of clinical signs suggestive cardiac disease. A total 14 animals were chosenfor theassessment serum NT-pro BNP level. grouped into to group 1 Holterelectrocardiographic arrhythmias and 2 without arrhythmias. Group showed significant increase in levels contrast control animals. estimation screening suspected for ...

OBJECTIVE To describe a patient who developed acute interstitial nephritis, hepatitis and serum sickness-like syndrome after receiving piperacillin-tazobactam (zosyn) therapy. CASE SUMMARY A 30-year-old woman received a 7-day course of piperacillin-tazobactam as empiric treatment for pneumonia. The patient's kidney function worsened and she turned anuric needing dialysis. She also developed f...

Serum and urine proteins were measured daily in 17 subjects undertaking a typical high altitude Himalayan trek. Marked changes occurred in a variety of serum proteins as a result of plasma volume alterations and 'stress'. There was only a sporadic increase in proteinuria. None of the changes was related to the development of acute mountain sickness.

OBJECTIVE To increase awareness of minocycline-induced autoimmune syndromes. METHODS Review of relevant publications from the American and European literature. RESULTS Four minocycline-induced syndromes have been described in 82 patients: serum sickness, drug-induced lupus, autoimmune hepatitis, and vasculitis. Aside from sporadic cases of serum sickness, all other syndromes occurred in pat...

Serum biochemical changes were assessed to determine hepatic and renal function in 4 vervet monkeys experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, the causative agent of sleeping sickness in West and Central Africa. Parameters examined included serum bilirubin, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and cholesterol levels. Significant increases in the total bilirubin and BUN levels occurred fro...

Twenty days after a streptokinase infusion given for myocardial infarction, a patient developed a group G streptococcal throat infection. Thirteen days later he presented with a serum sickness type illness and progressive renal failure. Renal biopsy showed crescentic glomerulonephritis.

Peripheral administration of a variety of inflammatory stimuli, such as endotoxin or cytokines, induces an orchestrated set of brain-mediated events referred to as the sickness response. The mechanism for how immune products signal the brain is not clear, but accumulating evidence supports the existence of neural as well as blood-borne pathways. Although endotoxin or cytokine administration res...