... positive labial salivary gland biopsy The average age of onset of disease was 48 years (range 29 to 73 years) and the average disease duration was 13 years (range to 29 years) All participants ... 2003, 115:62-65 Kovacs L, Papos M, Takacs R, Roka R, Csenke Z, Kovacs A, Varkonyi T, Pajor L, Pavics L, Pokorny G: Autonomic nervous system dysfunction involving the gastrointestinal and the urinary ... unstimulated salivary flow, and therefore may be an important component of the clinical spectrum of this disease Of note, we [21] and others [23] previously reported increased bladder symptoms in pSS patients;...
... prevent further neurologic damage [6-9] Lorenzo's oil was ineffective in cerebral inflammatory disease variants but asymptomatic patients without cerebral involvement and female carriers may ... uniform and unusual discoloration of the lips and mucosal surfaces seen in our patient was not typical of adrenal deficiency, which might have contributed to the delayed diagnosis of his underlying ... immature airways during early lung development [4,12,13] It is the most common congenital cystic lung disease and is believed to result from insults to the developing lung at to 22 weeks of gestation...
... Hypogammaglobulinemia observed in the patient was considered a clinical manifestation of his Bruton’s disease A 26 year old Japanese crane operator was admitted to our affiliated hospital with fever, ... H, Usui K, Nukiwa T, Namiuchi S, Matsushita M, Yamadori T, Suemura M, Kishimoto T, Tsukada S: Atypical X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) diagnosed in adult Intern Med 1999, 38:722–725 Ohashi...
... severe sinopulmonary disease including pansinusitis and bronchiectasis requiring surgical resection, and to prevent further progression to severe chronic obstructive lung disease He continued ... reclassified as atypical variants of XLA These patients ranged from 21 to 60 years of age Table 3: Clinical data and Btk mutations of 16 patients reported in the world literature with atypical XLA ... encephalitis [13] This case demonstrates the clinical variability of a XLA within a family in which typical and atypical variants exist and the need for maternal screening and early treatment of affected...
... with a high density of essential genes with low levels of transcriptional noise harbor more phenotypically important nonessential genes, these being those that would benefit from the low noise...
... http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2010, progression of their disease 66 Daily activities and lifestyle in our study patients MS is a debilitating disease and the concurrent diagnosis of POTS in our study ... Comorbidity Five patients (55%) had hyperlipidemia, (33%) migraine and (22%) patients had coronary artery disease and diabetes each Symptoms of POTS Fatigue and palpitations (on assuming upright posture) ... (Females) Values 49±9 100 8/9 (89%) Comorbid Condition Hyperlipidemia Migraine Coronary artery disease Diabetes 5/9 (55%) 3/9 (33%) 2/9 (22%) 2/9 (22%) Symptoms of POTS Fatigue Dizziness/Near...
... manifestation of Fragile X syndrome provides an important insight into the molecular basis of the disease In this case there is no CGG repeat expansion upstream of fmr1 but there is a single point ... I304N, occurs in Fig NMR structure of the KH1 domain from FMRP (PDB code 2FMR) The KH1 domain has a typical KH b ⁄ a fold The helices pack against a three-stranded antiparallel b-sheet forming the ... KH1-KH2(I307N) (blue) The CD spectrum of the KH1-KH2(wild-type) is dominated by the a-helical signal and is typical of that observed for K homology domains (Fig 4A) A comparison of the KH1-KH2(wild-type)...
... pathology of stroke and to a number of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease (Maragakis and Rothstein 2006) While a comprehensive ... For example, there are currently mice that model Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinsonism, prion diseases, hypercholesterolemia, Crohn’s disease, Down syndrome, and Prader–Willi syndrome to name a few ... recent R.B Denman development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSs) disease models for spinal muscular atrophy and other diseases (Vogel 2010) These less complex models allow us to more easily...
... 1: Typical arrangement of the XRF set-up at the City University 4500 4000 Kα 3500 Unattenuated Attenuated Counts 3000 2500 Kβ 2000 1500 1000 500 16 17 18 19 20 21 Energy (keV) Figure 2: A typical ... 0.5 Zn Water 11.2 - - 88.8 ED1S (dry) 8.52 66.48 9.45 15.55 ED4C (dry) 8.45 66.15 10.08 15.32 The typical arrangement of the X-ray fluorescence (XRF) apparatus is as shown in Figure X-ray photons...
... (range) 11.5 (2–23) 12.8 (3–22) Mean disease duration, years (range) 4.1 (0.2–16) 5.8 (0.9–15) No with active arthritis (%) 17 (85) 17 (85) No with active systemic disease (%) (40) - 30 (5–85) 21 ... rheumatic disease of childhood, JRA Materials and methods JRA is a chronic, idiopathic, inflammatory disorder with diverse clinical symptoms both at onset and during the course of the disease Classification ... course of the disease Classification of this heterogeneous disease has been based primarily on the type of onset, namely the clinical manifestations during the first six months [18,19] There are...
... metabolism Cell 2008, 134:728-42 Turek FW, Joshu C, Kohsaka A, Lin E, Ivanova G, McDearmon E, Laposky A, Losee-Olson S, Easton A, Jensen DR, Eckel RH, Takahashi JS, Bass J: Obesity and metabolic...
... rabeprazole, amitriptyline, meloxicam, K-lyte, and magnesium On physical examination, she had a typical Dunnigan-type lipodystrophic habitus, including lipoatrophy of the lower extremities but ... angiography, were all negative specifically showing no significant ischemia or coronary artery disease A 53-year-old woman from Ghana was referred for severe insulin resistance, treatment-resistant ... and bilateral frozen shoulders The patient has a strong family history for early coronary heart disease: her father had a myocardial infarction (MI) in his early 60s, her mother had three MIs,...
... Caucasian American man, who was a smoker but had no subjective or objective evidence of pulmonary disease or atopy, was in good health until he used a domestic aerosol product called 'Stand N' Seal ... (Figures and 2) Figure Chest radiograph Chest radiograph Chest X-ray showing bilateral airspace disease bronchodilator response to albuterol (320 ml and 13% improvement in FEV1 (forced expiratory...
... bacterial, fungal or viral infection and the leukocyte count remained normal Serological testing for atypical pneumonia (Legionella, Mycoplasma, Chlamydia and Coxiella), viral infection (Hepatitis virus ... Amir G: The role of open lung biopsy in the management and outcome of patients with diffuse lung disease Ann Thorac Surg 1998, 65(1):198-202 Kofteridis DP, Bouros DE, Vamvakas LN, Stefanaki KS, ... pneumonia Respiration 1999, 66(3):266-8 Iwanaga T, Hirota T, Ikeda T: Air leak syndrome as one of the manifestations of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia Intern Med 2000, 39(2):163-5 Yang...
... related) glucose intolerance, the diabetes patients and those who had liver or pancreatic diseases as primary diseases were excluded Six patients had acute respiratory distress syndrome (four caused ... complex Critical Care Vol No Hoshino et al Table Primary diseases of the nine septic patients with glucose intolerance Patient Age (years) Sex Diseases Prognosis 54 F ARDS (after panperitonitis due ... are often found in the clinical field and are considered to be the risk factors of cardiovascular diseases and glucose intolerance, especially in patients with noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus...
... history (arterial hypertension, congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, chronic pulmonary disease, chronic renal disease, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus) and intensive care unit ... requirements in excess of 0.5 µg/kg per minute Patients with peripheral arterial vascular occlusive disease or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus were excluded All patients were subjected to invasive...
... (Spearman correlation), including serum bilirubin, aspartate aminotransferase, Model of End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score, APACHE II score, and serum creatinine The Wilcoxon test for unpaired measurements ... none of the critically ill patients included in the Link study had a previous history of liver disease Mean SAPS-II score was lower in this study population compared with that in our study (45 ... changes in drug disposition and effect occur in these patients, resulting from drug/patient, drug /disease, and drug/drug interactions [33] In particular, the liver as the primary site of biotransformation...
... coronary disease (75) Despite the known link between obesity and cardiovascular disease the pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying obesity- and metabolic syndromeinduced cardiovascular diseases ... cardiovascular disease, it is not surprising that metabolic syndrome patients have elevated morbidity and mortality to many cardiovascular-related diseases, including stroke, coronary artery disease, ... independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (66) Recent estimates suggest that individuals with metabolic syndrome have a 61% increased risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those without...