OBJECTIVE Our aim was to study the response to antiretroviral treatment among women exposed to single-dose nevirapine (NVP) and/or short-course zidovudine (ZDV; with or without lamivudine [3TC]) for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. METHODS All HIV type 1-infected women who initiated antiretroviral treatment with stavudine or ZDV, ...

Syncope is defined as a transient loss of consciousness and postural tone, characterized by rapid onset, short duration, and spontaneous recovery, and the process of syncope progression is here described with two types of sympathetic change. Simultaneous recordings of microneurographically-recorded muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and continuous and noninvasive blood pressure measuremen...

OBJECTIVE The goal was to determine the association between short-duration (< or =3 days) and long-duration (> or =4 days) intravenous antibiotic therapy and treatment failure in a cohort of young infants hospitalized with urinary tract infections (UTIs). METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study of infants <6 months of age who were hospitalized with UTIs between 1999 and 2004 at 24 c...

background : pruritus is one of the commonest problems in patients with end-stage renal failure undergoing hemodialysis. pruritus is an irritating symptom which can directly affect the life quality of patients with chronic renal failure. however, available treatments have failed to relieve the symptom and kidney transplant remains the definite treatment of the problem. a recently proposed treat...

Right heart failure was produced in dogs by controlled progressive stenosis of the pulmonary artery. Cardiac enlargement, systemic venous engorgement, tachycardia, hepatomegaly and ascites were consistent findings. The course of cardiac failure was characterized by continual changes in cardiovascular hemodynamics; either cardiac decompensation became progressively severe or circulatory function...

Acute liver failure has a high mortality and its most frequent cause in Spain is viral infection. In this article, we present a case of fulminant liver failure. The failure is secondary to an idiosyncratic reaction to ibuprofen, an entity included in the DRESS syndrome. This syndrome plays a key role in the differential diagnosis of acute liver failure, since its unfortunate course often requir...

As a result, the need for Computer Scientist is continuously growing. This brings up an important question. How can we increase the number of computer science students? Getting students interested and enrolled in computer science is only half the battle. Computer science(CS) is known to have one of the highest failure rates of all majors. Back in 1997, the average failure rate in the first CS c...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is often complicated by respiratory failure, known as a myasthenic crisis. However, most of the patients who develop respiratory symptoms do so during the late course of disease and have other neurological signs and symptoms. However, in some patients respiratory failure is the initial presenting symptom. We report the case of a 68-year-old woman with MG who presented wit...