Symptoms Of Mesothelioma - Early Detection Of A Deadly Cancer
By KhmengWat.com
In most cases, people usually ignore the symptoms of Mesothelioma due to their generic nature. This is because the early symptoms of mesothelioma can also be the indication of other common Read more...
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Common Factor Between Mesothelioma And Money
By KhmengWat.com
Apart from the common “m”, is there anything else in common between Mesothelioma and money? This is no kidding. Mesothelioma is as valid as a legal issue as it is one of the biggest medical concerns since the last century.
The first so called diagnosed case of Mesothelioma came forward in from of this whole world in the 1890s. And the first ever legal step against step to compensate for the cause of Mesothelioma was taken in 1929. Within a gap of around forty years the medical case took a new dimension to form a legal case as well.
Mesothelioma as a disease
You must have a comprehensive idea about Mesothelioma. A severe disorder in the human body that affects the body’s most protective outline covering the crucial internal organs like the abdomen,
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Presence of serum carbonic anhydrase autoantibodies in patients relapsed after autologous stem cell transplantation indicates an improved prognosis.
Authors: Lakota J, Skultety L, Dubrovcakova M, Altaner C
Here we report patients with Hodgkin's disease and multiple myeloma, who relapsed/progressed after high dose therapy and autologous stem cell transplantation. In patients who developed aplastic anemia type syndrome, spontaneous tumor regression was observed and concomitantly high titers of serum autoantibodies were found. In order to identify the antibody specificity, two-dimensional electrophoresis, blotting and immunoreactions were used to analyze the peripheral blood stem cell extract with autoantibodies containing serum. The unique protein spot visualized exclusively by serum of patients with aplastic anemia type syndrome was identified as carbonic anhydrase I (CA I, accession No. P00915 and Q7M316) by means of mass spectrome...<p> </p><p><b><i>MedWorm Sponsored Message:</i></b> Find out how you can <a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/medicalsponsorship.php" target="_self">get your message across here</a> by sponsoring this MedWorm news feed.</p>
[commentary] treatment of stage iiia hodgkin's disease: long follow-up perspective
(Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology)
Novel virally targeted therapies of ebv-associated tumors.
Novel Virally Targeted Therapies of EBV-Associated Tumors.
Curr Cancer Drug Targets. 2008 Nov;8(7):591-6
Authors: De Paoli P
EBV is associated to the development of several malignancies of lymphoid and epithelial origin, including Burkitt's Lymphoma, post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders, Hodgkin's disease, AIDS-associated lymphomas, NK/T cell lymphoma and Nasopharyngeal carcinoma. EBV genes play an essential role in the development of the malignant phenotype and therefore molecules interfering with the function of these genes may represent an essential tool to treat EBV-associated malignancies. Several strategies to inhibit virus-induced tumorigenesis have been developed including antiviral and antitumor molecules, gene therapy approaches, interference with epigenetic ...
A history of cancer chemotherapy
The use of chemotherapy to treat cancer began at the start of the 20th century with attempts to narrow the universe of chemicals that might affect the disease by developing methods to screen chemicals using transplantable tumors in rodents. It was, however, four World War II–related programs, and the effects of drugs that evolved from them, that provided the impetus to establish in 1955 the national drug development effort known as the Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center. The ability of combination chemotherapy to cure acute childhood leukemia and advanced Hodgkin's disease in the 1960s and early 1970s overcame the prevailing pessimism about the ability of drugs to cure advanced cancers, facilitated the study of adjuvant chemotherapy, and helped foster the national cancer pro...
Female hodgkin's survivors have greater risk of secondary cancer
Pediatric Hodgkin's disease survivors aren't necessarily out of the woods, as they have a seven to 18 times higher risk of being diagnosed with cancer as an adult. In addition, the risk is significantly higher for women than for men, according to new study results. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Methotrexate: hodgkin's disease: case report
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Methotrexate: hodgkin's disease: case report.
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High-dose therapy and stem cell transplant useful for resistant hodgkin disease
High-dose therapy (HDT) combined with autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) may prolong remissions and improve survival in patients with chemoresistant Hodgkin lymphoma, researchers from Seattle report. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Pathology Headlines)
[from psychiatric symptoms to paraneoplastic syndrome]
[From psychiatric symptoms to paraneoplastic syndrome]
Tijdschr Psychiatr. 2008;50(9):603-9
Authors: de Bot ST, Dorresteijn LD, Haaxma CA, Kappelle AC, van de Warrenburg BP
Two patients, a 38-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman, were admitted to a psychiatric ward. The first patient suffered from a mood disorder, personality changes and complained of several, hitherto unexplained physical symptoms. Finally the patient was diagnosed with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration associated with Hodgkin's disease. The second patient presented with psychosis and panic disorders, but the condition was later found to be caused by paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis due to ovarian teratomas. These cases illustrate that patients with paraneoplastic neurological syndromes may present with...
Costimulation molecule expression and subset distribution of blood dendritic cells in normal children and newly diagnosed pediatric leukemia and lymphoma patients.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results show that peripheral blood DC from children with newly diagnosed leukemia or lymphoma are significantly altered in number, subset distribution, and costimulation molecule expression, and that lymphocyte function is impaired compared to healthy pediatric controls.
PMID: 18809238 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Experimental Hematology)
Meningeal spread in hodgkin's disease
18 year-old patient with a second reoccurance of Hodgkin's disease. In the course of restaging, an MR examination of the head was done. No neurological symptoms. Multifocal reoccurance (various lym... (Source: Pediatric Radiology RSS News, Cases, Teaching Files and Publications)<p> </p><p><b><i>MedWorm Sponsored Message:</i></b> Find out how you can <a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/medicalsponsorship.php" target="_self">get your message across here</a> by sponsoring this MedWorm news feed.</p>
[from psychiatric symptoms to paraneoplastic syndrome.]
[From psychiatric symptoms to paraneoplastic syndrome.]
Tijdschr Psychiatr. 2008;50(9):603-9
Authors: de Bot ST, Dorresteijn LD, Haaxma CA, Kappelle AC, van de Warrenburg BP
Two patients, a 38-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman, were admitted to a psychiatric ward. The first patient suffered from a mood disorder, personality changes and complained of several, hitherto unexplained physical symptoms. Finally the patient was diagnosed with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration associated with Hodgkin's disease. The second patient presented with psychosis and panic disorders, but the condition was later found to be caused by paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis due to ovarian teratomas. These cases illustrate that patients with paraneoplastic neurological syndromes may present wit...
The use of the mammosite balloon applicator in re-irradiation of the breast.
CONCLUSIONS: Use of the MammoSite device in the treatment of the previously irradiated breast is feasible and may provide adequate local control as well as acceptable cosmesis in carefully selected patients.
PMID: 18786865 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Brachytherapy)
[space-occupying parietal dural lesion.]
[Space-occupying parietal dural lesion.]
Radiologe. 2008 Sep 5;
Authors: Lettau M, Lemke D, Hartmann M
An elderly female patient presented in our clinic with low grade hemiparesis. The history revealed that the patient had suffered from Hodgkin's disease and B non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which were treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The hemiparesis was now a symptom which required cranial magnetic resonance tomography.
PMID: 18769902 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Der Radiologe)
Understanding the risk of second malignant tumors in children with hodgkin's disease
Today there is much concern over the potential late effects that cancer survivors might face. Perhaps the most discussed is that of second malignant tumors occurring in individuals cured of their first cancers. Most available data come from the survivors of Hodgkin's disease, for which survival rates after appropriate therapy are now are in the range of 90% and greater, providing large cohorts of long-term survivors at risk for subsequent events. These remarkable cure rates have come from both the use of high-dose radiation therapy and, more recently, from combinations of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. (Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics)
Subsequent malignancies in children treated for hodgkin's disease: associations with gender and radiation dose
Conclusions: Survivors of childhood HD are at risk for SMNs, and this risk is greater for female individuals even after accounting for breast cancer. Although SMNs occur in the absence of radiation therapy, the risk increases with RT dose. (Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics)<p> </p><p><b><i>MedWorm Sponsored Message:</i></b> Find out how you can <a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/medicalsponsorship.php" target="_self">get your message across here</a> by sponsoring this MedWorm news feed.</p>
Unilateral and bilateral breast cancer in women surviving pediatric hodgkin's disease
Conclusions: Women surviving pediatric HD were found to have a 37-fold increase in the risk of breast cancer and a high likelihood of rapidly developing bilateral disease. Early-stage HD and age greater than 12 years at diagnosis of HD were independent risk factors. Higher radiation doses may augment risk, and pelvic radiation may be protective. Breast cancer screening methodology and frequency, plus the role of prophylaxis in patients with unilateral disease, require definition. (Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics)
Cancer quality alliance: blueprint for a better cancer care system.
Authors: Rose C, Stovall E, Ganz PA, Desch C, Hewitt M
The Cancer Quality Alliance (CQA), a national alliance advocating for improvements in the quality of cancer care in America, presents a set of 5 case studies that depict a vision of quality cancer care and a "Blueprint" for actions to realize this vision. The CQA Blueprint case studies feature patients with soft tissue sarcoma, breast cancer, rectal cancer, and Hodgkin disease and focus on key phases in the cancer care trajectory: detection, diagnosis, treatment, post-treatment/survivorship, and end of life. Each case study begins with a patient summary, follows with a worst- and a best-case scenario, and concludes with a discussion section identifying "what went right" in the best case and "what went wrong" in the worst case. Step...
Unusual presentation of ovarian cellular fibroma coexisting with nodular sclerosing hodgkin's disease: a case report and review of the literature
Abstract: A case of a nonfunctioning, noncalcified ovarian cellular fibroma in a 15-year-old adolescent girl is described. The fibroma was found incidentally in a patient who was later found to have nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's disease. The patient presented with symptoms suggestive of lymphoma but on exam was found to have a mobile and nontender abdominal mass. Laparotomy exposed a smooth, well-circumscribed left ovarian mass. A left salpingoophorectomy was performed. The mass weighed 2390 g and measured 19 × 15 × 8.5 cm. Approximately 15% of the tumor was composed of large cellular nodules identified as spindle cells having a storiform pattern. Mild nuclear atypia with 2 mitosis per 10 high-power fields was noted. An ovarian fibroma in a 15-year-old is an unexpected diagnosis. Less tha...
[hodgkin's disease variant of richter's syndrome. two cases and literature review.]
We report the clinical and immunohistological features of two cases of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) with Hodgkin's transformation. These cases occurred in a 70-year-old man with a three-year history of CLL and in a 76-year-old man with a few months history of CLL. Microscopic examination showed the presence of large tumor cells with the morphological and immunophenotypic features of classical Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (R-S) cells, in a background of otherwise typical B-CLL. The transformation of CLL into large B cell lymphoma (Richter's syndrome) is a well-documented phenomenon. Only rarely does CLL transform into Hodgkin's lymphoma, but this diagnosis is often easy and offers few differential diagnoses. The major points of interest lie in the pathogenetic relationship between CLL ...
Apoptosis-inducing high (.)no concentrations are not sustained either in nascent or in developed cancers.
Apoptosis-Inducing High (.)NO Concentrations Are Not Sustained Either in Nascent or in Developed Cancers.
ChemMedChem. 2008 Aug 29;
Authors: Heller A
Nitric oxide ((.)NO) induces apoptosis at high concentrations by S-nitrosating proteins such as glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. This literature analysis revealed that failure to sustain high (.)NO concentrations is common to all cancers. In cervical, gastric, colorectal, breast, and lung cancer, the cause of this failure is the inadequate expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), resulting from the inhibition of iNOS expression by TGF-beta1 at the mRNA level. In bladder, renal, and prostate cancer, the reason for the insufficient (.)NO levels is the depletion of arginine, resulting from arginase overexpressio...<p> </p><p><b><i>MedWorm Sponsored Message:</i></b> Find out how you can <a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/medicalsponsorship.php" target="_self">get your message across here</a> by sponsoring this MedWorm news feed.</p>
Subcutaneous calcification as a delayed complication of radiotherapy: a case report and review of the literature.
Subcutaneous Calcification as a Delayed Complication of Radiotherapy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
Pathol Oncol Res. 2008 Aug 28;
Authors: Zaka Z, Fodor J, Udvarhelyi N, Orosz Z, Kásler M
Subcutaneous calcification following radiotherapy is a very rare late complication. Here we report a case of radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease in a patient with ichthyosis. Our review of the literature revealed that subcutaneous calcifications occurred in previously normal skin following irradiation. In our case the calcification developed in abnormal skin after telecobalt radiotherapy for mediastinal Hodgkin's disease. Ichthyosis is a systemic cutaneous disease and may increase the risk of late radiation complications.
PMID: 18752059 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher...
Biologic features and treatment outcome of secondary acute lymphoblastic leukemia--a review of 101 cases
Conclusion: Better identification of prognostic factors to prevent the occurrence of sALL is indicated. (Source: Annals of Oncology)
Response to "hematological values and prognosis of pediatric hodgkin disease"
No Abstract. (Source: Pediatric Blood and Cancer)
Preservation of ovarian function in young woman with hodgkin disease by laparoscopic medial transposition before abdominal irradiation.
Page: 423DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e3181730893Authors: Sola, Vicente MD *; Ricci, Paolo MD *; Baeza, Mario Ramon MD +; Lema, Rodrigo MD *; Pardo, Jack MD * (Source: Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques)
Etanercept: hodgkin's disease: case report
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Etanercept: hodgkin's disease: case report.
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Analysis of competing risks of causes of death and their variation over different time periods in hodgkin's disease.
CONCLUSIONS: The progression of Hodgkin's disease is the main cause of death. Over time, a reduction in death related to infection and the acute toxicity of treatment was seen. A lot of patients still die for reasons linked to delayed side effects of radiotherapy, such as second tumors and heart disease, which is important to plan preventive activities and clinical research.
PMID: 18698050 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Cancer Research)
Adoptive cell therapy against ebv-related malignancies: a survey of clinical results
Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy , September 2008, Vol. 8, No. 9, Pages 1265-1294.
Background: Epstein?Barr Virus (EBV) infection is associated with a heterogeneous group of tumors, including lymphoproliferative disorders, Hodgkin's disease, nasopharyngeal carcinoma and Burkitt's lymphoma. As such neoplastic disorders express viral ... (Source: Expert Opinion: Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy: Table of Contents)
Prognostic factors in children with hodgkin disease
No Abstract. (Source: Pediatric Blood and Cancer)
Breast cancer and microbial cancer incidence in female populations around the world: a surprising hyperbolic association.
We examined age-adjusted BC and MC incidence rates in 74 female populations around the world with cancer registries. Our analysis suggests that BC and MC rates are inversely associated in a special mathematical form such that the product of BC rate and MC rate is approximately constant across world female populations. A differential equation model with solutions consistent to the observed inverse association was derived. BC and MC rates were modeled as functions of an exposure level to unspecified common factors that influence the 2 rates. In conjunction with previously reported evidence, we submit a hypothesis that BC etiology may have an appreciable link with microbial exposures (and/or immunological responses to them), the lack of which, especially in early life, may elevate BC risk.
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Incidence of mantle cell lymphoma on rise
Aggressive form of non-Hodgkin disease puts older men chiefly at risk, study finds. Source: HealthDay (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Nutritional status at diagnosis of children with malignancies in casablanca
Nutritional assessment is an essential component of the initial assessment of children with cancer. Malnutrition may be present at diagnosis due to the effects of the malignancy or, in low income countries (LIC), due to poverty and an inadequate diet.The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of malnutrition at diagnosis in children with cancer in Morocco.Nutritional status of 100 children aged less than 18 years with newly diagnosed malignancy between January 2005 and January 2006 was evaluated by anthropometric and biochemical parameters before initiating therapy. We measured weight, height, weight-for-height using z-scores index for children and body mass index for adolescents, triceps skinfold thickness and mid-upper arm circumference, and serum albumin.A total of 100 patients...
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs in fertility preservation-lack of biological basis?
Authors: Oktay K, Sönmezer M
In this Practice Point commentary, we discuss the results and limitations of a nonrandomized, retrospective-prospective study of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs (GnRHa) in women with Hodgkin disease. Blumenfeld et al. concluded that coadministration of GnRHa during chemotherapy preserved cyclic ovarian function but not fertility. As the endocrine and ovulatory functions of the ovary are connected, this conclusion seems implausible. The study did not control for disease severity or the dose of alkylating agents. In addition, GnRHa treatment was not randomized, so patients in the control group were unlikely to have received GnRHa because the severity of their disease resulted in more-aggressive chemotherapy. By contrast, the only randomized study ...
The prevalence of signs and symptoms of childhood leukemia and lymphoma in fars province, southern iran.
Conclusion: Knowledge of signs and symptoms and types of presentations of childhood leukemia and lymphoma may help a physician to improve the patient's outcome. This study revealed that attention to uncommon signs and symptoms in history taking and physical examination together with laboratory tests may increase the physicians' awareness and better diagnosis of pediatric malignancies and would also be beneficial for the patient.
PMID: 18632219 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Cancer Detection and Prevention)
10haematopoietic cell transplantation with non-myeloablative conditioning in denmark: disease-specific outcome, complications and hospitalization requirements of the first 100 transplants
We analysed the outcome and hospitalization requirements of the first 100 patients (Hodgkin's disease (HD), N=13; multiple myeloma (MM), N=14; chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), N=12; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), N=17; myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), N=18; acute myeloid leukaemia (SML), N=24 and chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), N=2) treated in Denmark with haematopoietic cell transplantation after non-myeloablative conditioning with TBI 2 Gy±fludarabine. The cumulative incidence of acute GVHD grade II[ndash]IV and extensive chronic GVHD was 67 and 49 %. After a median follow-up of 534 days, the overall survival, progression free survival (PFS), relapse-related mortality and treatment-related mortality (TRM) were 59, 50, 25 and 17 %, respectively. Patients with CLL, NHL, AML and MDS wit...<p> </p><p><b><i>MedWorm Sponsored Message:</i></b> Find out how you can <a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/medicalsponsorship.php" target="_self">get your message across here</a> by sponsoring this MedWorm news feed.</p>
10haematopoietic cell transplantation with non-myeloablative conditioning in denmark: disease-specific outcome, complications and hospitalization requirements of the first 100 transplants
APMIS, Volume 116, Issue 5, Page 422, May 2008.
We analysed the outcome and hospitalization requirements of the first 100 patients (Hodgkin's disease (HD), N=13; multiple myeloma (MM), N=14; chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), N=12; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), N=17; myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), N=... (Source: APMIS)
Malignant lymphomas (ml) and hiv infection in tanzania
Conclusion:
Malignant lymphomas apparently, increased significantly among diagnosed tumors at MNH between 1996 and 2001, predominantly among the young, HIV infected and AIDS patients. The frequent aggressive clinical and histological presentation as well as the dominant B-immunophenotype and the HIV serology indicate a pathogenic association with AIDS. Therefore, routine HIV screening of all malignant lymphoma patients at MNH is necessary to enable comprehensive ARL diagnosis and formulation of preventive and therapeutic protocols. (Source: Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research)
Breast cancer and microbial cancer incidence in female populations around the world: a surprising hyperbolic association
We examined age-adjusted BC and MC incidence rates in 74 female populations around the world with cancer registries. Our analysis suggests that BC and MC rates are inversely associated in a special mathematical form such that the product of BC rate and MC rate is approximately constant across world female populations. A differential equation model with solutions consistent to the observed inverse association was derived. BC and MC rates were modeled as functions of an exposure level to unspecified common factors that influence the 2 rates. In conjunction with previously reported evidence, we submit a hypothesis that BC etiology may have an appreciable link with microbial exposures (and/or immunological responses to them), the lack of which, especially in early life, may elevate BC risk. ©...
Little or no evidence supports conventional medical treatments
(NaturalNews) Do you ever get the feeling that your doctor doesn't know what he's doing? Well, you are probably right. There is little or no evidence that today's $2 trillion-dollar medical system works any better than various other alternatives. Whether you have diabetes, heart trouble, back pain or cancer, this judgment applies. If you are contemplating surgery, you should know that the orthodox disease establishment doctors have little clue about the success rates for the procedures they endorse.Dr. David Eddy, a consultant for healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente and leader in the development of clinical evidenced based guidelines admits that the medical profession does not know what its doing, according to an article published by Alan Stang. Even today, with a high-tech health-care syst...
Synchronous hodgkin's disease and gastric adenocarcinoma.
Conclusion: It is thought that this case is the first of a synchronous stomach adenocarcinoma and Hodgkin's lymphoma encountered in the English literature. It should be kept in mind that second malignancies can be seen in mass lesions in patients diagnosed with cancer.
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Atypical lymphocytes in hodgkin disease
(Source: Blood)
Secondary cancers in young survivors of hodgkin disease evaluated
Denise Rokitka, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, will present the results of a study of secondary cancers among children and adolescents following treatment for Hodgkin disease, Sunday, June 1, at 2 pm, at the 2008 annual meeting of the (Source: Lymphoma / Leukemia News From Medical News Today)
Restaging of patients with lymphoma. comparison of low dose ct (20 mas) with contrast enhanced diagnostic ct in combined [18f]-fdg pet/ct.
CONCLUSION: Overall, there was no significant difference between PET/LD-CT and PET/CE-CT. However, PET/CE-CT yielded a more precise lesion delineation than PET/LD-CT. This was due to the improved image quality of CE-CT and might lead to a more accurate investigation of lymphoma.
PMID: 18278211 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] (Source: Nuklearmedizin)
Cancer patterns among children of turkish descent in germany: a study at the german childhood cancer registry
Conclusions:
No major differences were found in cancer patterns among cases of Turkish descent compared to all other cases in the GCCR. Slightly higher proportions of systemic malignant diseases indicate that analytical studies involving migrants may help investigating the causes of such cancers. (Source: BioMed Central)
Intracerebral presentation of hodgkin disease mimicking meningioma in a young woman: case presentation with literature review.
Page: 369DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e31816392b7Authors: Apollonsky, Nataly MD *; Edelman, Morris MD +; Johnson, Alan MD ++; Bhuiya, Tawfiqul MD +; Karayalcin, Gungor MD * (Source: Journal of Pediatric Hematology Oncology)<p> </p><p><b><i>MedWorm Sponsored Message:</i></b> Find out how you can <a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/medicalsponsorship.php" target="_self">get your message across here</a> by sponsoring this MedWorm news feed.</p>
Successful salvage with unrelated umbilical cord blood transplant for hodgkin's disease relapsed following autologous stem cell transplant
Successful salvage with unrelated umbilical cord blood transplant for Hodgkin's disease relapsed following autologous stem cell transplant
Bone Marrow Transplantation advance online publication, May 5, 2008. doi:10.1038/bmt.2008.134
Authors: S H Lim, Y Zhang, C Burris
& M Townsend (Source: Bone Marrow Transplantation)
Role of dobutamine stress echocardiography in resynchronization therapy in a patient with heart failure secondary to radiotherapy for hodgkin's disease and ventilatory and inotropic dependence.
Role of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Resynchronization Therapy in a Patient With Heart Failure Secondary to Radiotherapy for Hodgkin's Disease and Ventilatory and Inotropic Dependence.
Congest Heart Fail. 2008 May-Jun;14(3):149-52
Authors: Ciampi Q, Bianchi S, Porta MD, Petruzziello B, Caputo S, Pezza B, Villari B
PMID: 18550926 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Congestive Heart Failure)
10haematopoietic cell transplantation with non-myeloablative conditioning in denmark: disease-specific outcome, complications and hospitalization requirements of the first 100 transplants
APMIS, Volume 116, Issue 5, Page 422, May 2008.
We analysed the outcome and hospitalization requirements of the first 100 patients (Hodgkin's disease (HD), N=13; multiple myeloma (MM), N=14; chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), N=12; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), N=17; myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), N=... (Source: APMIS)
Searching for evidence of disease and malignant cell contamination in ovarian tissue stored from hematologic cancer patients
CONCLUSIONS
Preoperative imaging prevented operations and storage of tissue with cancer. Evaluation of stored ovarian tissue for MRD using sensitive markers is essential to increase safety and to prevent reimplantation of tissue with malignant cells. (Source: Human Reproduction)
heart and lungs. The disease is called Mesothelioma that is caused mainly due to inhalation of asbestos dust in the form of airborne particles mostly when your body remains continuously in an environment full of asbestos particles and fibers.
You are right. The next thing you would like to know is how a person will come in contact with such huge amount of asbestos. It is only possible if the person works in an asbestos firm or stays in a place where an asbestos milling company is in close proximity. The first one is a direct threat though the second one can be to some extent considered passive.
What is legal in Mesothelioma?
Till this point it is okay that Mesothelioma is a lethal disorder in the human body and the patient can at the most live for three years from the period of diagnosis of this disease. Till date the Medical reports have given this record yet several researches are taking place across the globe to combat Mesothelioma from its roots. But does it allow you smell something legal in it? Not yet!
Mesothelioma becomes legal because Mesothelioma can be checked completely through some preventive measures. The industries don’t maintain the pollution control measures and compel their workers to suffer from the asbestos dust. Most of the consequences result out of negligence from the authority’s side and ignorance from the patient’s part. Thus a legal case can always be filed and fought. If you as a patient can prove that you are a victim of such a situation that was forcefully imposed on you and you were unaware of the ill consequences, you can earn even millions of dollars as compensation. So did you get the justified way to find the connection between the “m” factor between money and Mesothelioma?
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Understanding the gender divide (aha scientific sessions 2006)
Studies find mechanisms for the well-documented gap between outcomes for men and women with heart disease and suggest strategies for narrowing it. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)
Chronic kidney disease management: comparison between renal transplant recipients and nontransplant patients with chronic kidney disease
Nephron Clin Pract 2007;107:c7-c13 (DOI:10.1159/000105138) (Source: Nephron Clinical Practice)
Phenylacetic acid and arterial vascular properties in patients with chronic kidney disease stage 5 on hemodialysis therapy
Nephron Clin Pract 2007;107:c1-c6 (DOI:10.1159/000105137) (Source: Nephron Clinical Practice)
Study on the association between soat1 polymorphisms, alzheimer's disease risk and the level of csf biomarkers
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2007;24:146-150 (DOI:10.1159/000105164) (Source: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders)
Analysis of the effect of memantine in reducing the worsening of clinical symptoms in patients with moderate to severe alzheimer's disease
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2007;24:138-145 (DOI:10.1159/000105162) (Source: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders)
The role of higher-level cognitive function in gait: executive dysfunction contributes to fall risk in alzheimer's disease
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2007;24:125-137 (DOI:10.1159/000105126) (Source: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders)
The effectiveness of nitric oxide derivates in hydatid disease
Chir Gastroenterol 2007;23:000-000 (DOI:10.1159/000103248) (Source: Chirurgische Gastroenterologie : Last 20 articles)
The third age of ionic liquids?
Scientists in the US and Poland have shown that ionic liquids could have significant biological applications in drug delivery. (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Reduced lung capacity linked to cardiovascular disease by inflammation
People who have a reduced lung capacity may have a greater risk of heart attack and stroke because they show evidence of inflammation, reveals a study published online ahead of print in Thorax. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Is treating parkinson's possible with new neurotrophic factor?
Researchers have discovered a novel neurotrophic factor CDNF (Conserved Dopamine Neurotrophic Factor) that was shown to protect and even rescue damaged dopamine neurons in an experimental model of Parkinson's disease. More importantly, the function of the neurons was recovered after an experimental lesion of the dopamine neurons in Substantia Nigra. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
New 'longboat delivery system' could mean more potent anti-cancer drugs
Scientists are reporting development of carbon nanotubes as a "longboat delivery system" that shows potential for addressing shortcomings that have hindered development of more generally applicable platinum-based anticancer drugs. These include analogues of the widely used and extremely potent drugs cisplatin, carboplatin, and oxaliplatin. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Specific type of cell death may accelerate decompensated heart failure
Autophagy, a normal process by which cells eat their own proteins to provide needed resources to the body in times of stress, may paradoxically cause harm to hearts already weakened by disease, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Myeloperoxidase offers clues to heart attack in seemingly healthy people
We've all wondered how a seemingly healthy person can actually be at high risk for heart disease or a heart attack. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Rimonabant may prevent and treat obesity-related liver disease
A new study on the effect of the anti-obesity drug rimonabant on liver function in obese rats found that it reduced markers of liver damage, decreased levels of pro-inflammatory proteins, and improved lipid profiles. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Researchers step toward a creutzfeldt-jakob disease test
Researchers have shown that a recently developed laboratory method to amplify prions (Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification) can be applied to variant CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease). (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
The next era of cancer treatment
Teaching a body's own immune system to seek out and destroy cancerous tumours represents a promising way to fight a disease that kills more than 70,000 Canadians a year. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Scientists develop new way of testing for vcjd
SCIENTISTS in Edinburgh have developed a technique that could help in the diagnosis of the human form of mad cow disease. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
Third victim tests positive for legionnaire's
A THIRD person has tested positive for Legionnaire's disease in an outbreak thought to centre on a Highland hotel's jacuzzi. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
Researchers identify alcoholism subtypes
Analyses of a national sample of individuals with alcohol dependence (alcoholism) reveal five distinct subtypes of the disease, according to a new study by scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)."Our findings should help dispel the popular notion of the 'typical alcoholic,'" notes first author Howard B. [click link for full article] (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Haplotype analysis of signal peptide (insertion/deletion) and xbai polymorphisms of the apob gene in gallbladder cancer
Liver International Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???-???.
Abstract Purpose: The incidence of gallbladder cancer (GBC) is usually paralleled by the prevalence of gallstone disease, and genes of cholesterol metabolism have been implicated in gallstone disease. The XbaI and insertion/deletion (ins/del) polymorphis... (Source: Liver International)
Monocyte responses to candida albicans are enhanced by antibody in cooperation with antibody-independent pathogen recognition
FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???-???.
Abstract Although most individuals are colonized with Candida albicans, only patients with insufficient or nonfunctional phagocytes develop life-threatening C. albicans disease. Because recognition of bacterial pathogens through phagocyte receptors for Ig... (Source: FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology)
Mineral metabolism disturbances in patients with chronic kidney disease
European Journal of Clinical Investigation Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???-???.
Abstract Background Kidney disease, especially chronic kidney disease (CKD), is a worldwide public health problem with serious adverse health consequences for affected individuals. Secondary hyperparathyroidism, a disorder characterized by elevated serum... (Source: European Journal of Clinical Investigation)
Frequency of von hippel-lindau germline mutations in classic and non-classic von hippel-lindau disease identified by dna sequencing, southern blot analysis and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification
Clinical Genetics Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???-???.
Hes FJ, van der Luijt RB, Janssen ALW, Zewald RA, de Jong GJ, Lenders JW, Links TP, Luyten GPM, Sijmons RH, Eussen HJ, Halley DJJ, Lips CJM, Pearson PL, van den Ouweland AMW, Majoor-Krakauer DF. Frequency of Von Hippel-Lindau germline mutations in classic ... (Source: Clinical Genetics)
A 19year old girl takes the cocp. her father had a cerebral haemoorhage in his 40's, is this a caution?
We consulted the PRODIGY (CKS) [1] and Faculty for Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care (FFPRHC) guidelines on contraception [2] but found no advice on whether or not a cerebral haemorrhage occurring in a first-degree relative is a contraindication or caution in a patient taking the combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP). For further advice the NLH Q & A Service would recommend contacting the FFPRHC:Clinical Effectiveness Unit (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm) Tel: (01224) 553623Fax: (01224) 551081Email: (Source: NLH Question Answering Service)
Obligatory exercise and eating pathology in college females: replication and development of a structural model.
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<p><b>Obligatory exercise and eating pathology in college females: Replication and development of a structural model.</b></p>
<p>Eat Behav. 2007 Aug;8(3):334-49</p>
<p>Authors: Thome JL, Espelage DL</p>
<p>Although disordered eating behaviors and obligatory exercise are relatively common among undergraduate females, many questions about their etiology remain unanswered. In the current study, structural equation modeling was used to investigate whether a model of personality, exercise attitudes, and exercise behavior that was previously developed with a clinical sample [Davis, C., Katzman, D.K., & Kirsh, C. (1999). Compulsive physical activity in adolescents with anorexia nervosa: A psychobehavioral spiral of pathology. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 187, 336-342.] would also fit for a sample of non-clinical college females (n=599). Further, a second model extended the first model to predict exercise behavior and eating/weight restriction. Results indicated that the original structural model fit the non-clinical sample extremely well. Specifically, addictiveness and obsessive-compulsiveness were associated with obligatory attitudes toward exercise, which was then associated with exercise behavior. In the second model, obligatory attitudes toward exercise were equally associated with eating/weight restriction as it was with exercise behavior. In a third model, bootstrapping analyses demonstrated that while obligatory exercise was directly associated with eating and weight restriction, this association was partially mediated by weight-related reasons for exercise. These data suggest that the aforementioned variables are predictive of obligatory exercise and eating pathology in non-clinical samples, and that reasons for exercise is important in understanding the complex relations among disordered eating and exercise attitudes and behaviors.</p>
<p>PMID: 17606231 [PubMed - in process]</p> (Source: Eating Behaviors)
The monitoring schedule for vitamin b12 suggest checking plasma levels on a 12-month basis. most patients however require lifelong vitamin b12 injections so is there any benefit monitoring them?
We searched the TRIP and Medline databases but found little robust information to answer this question. Smellie et al writing in the 'Journal of Clinical Pathology' discusses the long term monitoring of vitamin B12 and states:"There is very little published guidance on the monitoring of vitamin B12 or folate deficiency… Patients with pernicious anaemia receiving vitamin B12 replacement should by definition not become vitamin B12 deficient and further monitoring would seem unnecessary in most instances, although practices vary and some haematologists would recommend annual full blood counts. (Source: NLH Question Answering Service)
Our trusts recommends patients on mesalazine should have u&es tests 6 monthly and those on sulphsalazine lfts and a fbc every three months? is there any evidence to support this?
Overall, we found little robust information on the monitoring of mesalazine. The BNF makes the following recommendation for monitoring, based it appears on the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC) for mesalazine:¡§Cautions: ¡Kelderly; with oral preparations, test renal function initially and every 3 months for first year then every 6 months for next 4 years and annually thereafter (risk of serious renal toxicity) ¡K¡¨ [1]The SPC issued by Proctor and Gamble states:¡§Renal disorder: Mesalazine is excreted rapidly by the kidney, mainly as its metabolite, N-acetyl-5-aminosalicylic acid. (Source: NLH Question Answering Service)
Novel neurotrophic factor cdnf protects and rescues midbrain dopamine neurons in vivo
Novel neurotrophic factor CDNF protects and rescues midbrain dopamine neurons in vivo
Nature 448, 73 (2007). doi:10.1038/nature05957
Authors: Päivi Lindholm, Merja H. Voutilainen, Juha Laurén, Johan Peränen, Veli-Matti Leppänen, Jaan-Olle Andressoo, Maria Lindahl, Sanna Janhunen, Nisse Kalkkinen, Tõnis Timmusk, Raimo K. Tuominen
& Mart Saarma
In Parkinson’s disease, brain dopamine neurons degenerate most prominently in the substantia nigra. Neurotrophic factors promote survival, differentiation and maintenance of neurons in developing and adult vertebrate nervous system. The most potent neurotrophic factor for dopamine neurons described so far is the glial-cell-line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF). Here we have identified a conserved dopamine neurotrophic factor (CDNF) as a trophic factor for dopamine neurons. CDNF, together with its previously described vertebrate and invertebrate homologue the mesencephalic-astrocyte-derived neurotrophic factor, is a secreted protein with eight conserved cysteine residues, predicting a unique protein fold and defining a new, evolutionarily conserved protein family. CDNF (Armetl1) is expressed in several tissues of mouse and human, including the mouse embryonic and postnatal brain. In vivo, CDNF prevented the 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA)-induced degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in a rat experimental model of Parkinson’s disease. A single injection of CDNF before 6-OHDA delivery into the striatum significantly reduced amphetamine-induced ipsilateral turning behaviour and almost completely rescued dopaminergic tyrosine-hydroxylase-positive cells in the substantia nigra. When administered four weeks after 6-OHDA, intrastriatal injection of CDNF was able to restore the dopaminergic function and prevent the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra. Thus, CDNF was at least as efficient as GDNF in both experimental settings. Our results suggest that CDNF might be beneficial for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. (Source: Nature)
Physiology of sleep disordered breathing.
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<p><b>Physiology of sleep disordered breathing.</b></p>
<p>Otolaryngol Clin North Am. 2007 Aug;40(4):691-711</p>
<p>Authors: Woodson BT, Franco R</p>
<p>Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) results from complex interactions between anatomy and physiology. A structurally small and abnormally collapsible upper airway predisposes to disease, and interacts with normal and pathologic physiologic mechanisms to determine severity of disease. Understanding the pathophysiology provides insight into airway collapse, and may improve treatment and lead to potential new medical and surgical treatments for OSA.</p>
<p>PMID: 17606019 [PubMed - in process]</p> (Source: Otolaryngologic clinics of North America)
Preoperative and postoperative management of obstructive sleep apnea patients.
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<p><b>Preoperative and postoperative management of obstructive sleep apnea patients.</b></p>
<p>Otolaryngol Clin North Am. 2007 Aug;40(4):877-89</p>
<p>Authors: Mickelson SA</p>
<p>Safe perioperative management of patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) requires special attention to preoperative and postoperative care. Patients with OSA are more likely to have comorbidities including hypertension, esophageal and laryngopharyngeal reflux disease, coronary artery disease, and obesity. Obesity may also contribute to deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary emboli. OSA increases the risk for anesthetic and postoperative complications. The recommendations for measures for preoperative and postoperative management of OSA presented in this article are based on a culmination of 20 years experience supported by the peer-reviewed medical literature.</p>
<p>PMID: 17606028 [PubMed - in process]</p> (Source: Otolaryngologic clinics of North America)
Is is possible to quantify the risks of a patient having a discectomy with laminectomy l4 l5 ending up with arthritis affecting these vertebrae and how quickly is it likely to develope?
We interpreted this question to mean does having a discectomy and/or a laminectomy of the L4L5 vertebrae pose a risk for developing arthritis and if so what is the time frame. This answer does not cover the likelihood of developing arthritis as a result of any specific condition that may have led to having these surgeries in the first place (e. (Source: NLH Question Answering Service)
Nigeria: danger! rural farmers more exposed to avian influenza
Despite the compensation paid to poultry farmers by the Federal Government and efforts made by international and local organisations to check the outbreak of Avian Influenza, investigations still show that rural farmers are more exposed to the disease. Hilda Okoisor, who visited some rural farms, writes (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Persistent long-term human herpesvirus 6 (hhv-6) infection in a patient with langerhans cell histiocytosis.
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<p><b>Persistent Long-Term Human Herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) Infection in a Patient with Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis.</b></p>
<p>Pathol Oncol Res. 2007;13(2):157-60</p>
<p>Authors: Csire M, Mikala G, Jákó J, Masszi T, Jánosi J, Dolgos J, Füle T, Tordai A, Berencsi G, Vályi-Nagy I</p>
<p>Langerhans cell histiocytosis (eosinophilic granuloma) was first diagnosed in the adolescence of a male patient presented. Several years later persisting human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) infection was recognized. The HHV-6 infection could be verified retrospectively in his historical histological samples; the continuous presence of HHV-6 could be established through 17 years of disease course. The patient was operated several times during this period for painful relapses, and developed diabetes insipidus. At variable time points during the clinical course, Varicella zoster (VZV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infections were temporarily detected from blood samples and biopsy specimens. HHV-6 was the only virus continuously identified throughout the entire follow-up period. Antiviral therapy effectively cleared EBV and HHV-8, but HHV-6 remained detectable throughout the disease course. Since DNA sequences of HHV-6 could be detected in the pathologic histiocytes of eosinophilic granuloma, and from other samples taken later on, it is suggested that long-term HHV-6 infection may be associated with development or progression of Langerhans cell histiocytosis.</p>
<p>PMID: 17607379 [PubMed - in process]</p> (Source: Pathology Oncology Research)
Cdc defends tb patient's quarantine
Federal health officials stand by their quarantine of an Atlanta lawyer they believed had a dangerous form of tuberculosis, even though new tests show he has a less severe form of the disease. (Source: CTV Health)
Nigeria: strengthen fight against aids, fg told
The Federal Government has been enjoined to step up its fight against the scourge of HIV/Aids among Nigerians, in order to considerably check the effects of the disease in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
The pharmacokinetics and effects of a long-acting preparation of superoxide dismutase (pc-sod) in man
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???-???.
What is already known about this subject ? Reactive oxygen species (ROS), like superoxide anion, play an important role in different disease states. ? Superoxide dismutase (SOD) acts as a free radical scavenger by catalysing the dismutation of superoxide.... (Source: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology)
Leptin, leptin soluble receptor and coronary atherosclerosis
European Journal of Clinical Investigation Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???-???.
Abstract Background The adipose tissue-related hormone leptin plays an important role in the regulation of body weight. The associations of leptin and leptin soluble receptor (sOb-R) with coronary artery disease (CAD) are not clear. Design We measured l... (Source: European Journal of Clinical Investigation)
In patients with chronic pain, is there any benefit in combining several different opioid analgesics of differing potencies?
We did not find any research evidence to support the use of opioid combinations in patients with chronic pain. We found one paper, published in 2005, which suggests that opioid combinations should not be used until clinical trials clarify the benefits and safety:"The use of combinations of potent opioids is a common clinical practice. (Source: NLH Question Answering Service)
Traveler's tb diagnosis downgraded
The Georgia, lawyer whose travels while suffering from tuberculosis drew international attention has a more treatable form of the disease than the extensively drug-resistant form previously diagnosed, doctors at a Denver, Colorado, hospital announced Tuesday. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Why smart people do dumb things: psychologist explores 'blind spots' to critical thinking
Sometimes the discoveries that lead to Nobel Prize awards make people wonder in retrospect, "How did we miss that"" Nobel Prize winning medical researcher D. Carleton Gajdusek's discovery of the cause of the dread disease kuru was delayed years because initially he failed to see possibilities that in the end turned out to be correct. [click link for full article] (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Why smart people do dumb things: psychologist explores 'blind spots' to critical thinking
Sometimes the discoveries that lead to Nobel Prize awards make people wonder in retrospect, "How did we miss that"" Nobel Prize winning medical researcher D. Carleton Gajdusek's discovery of the cause of the dread disease kuru was delayed years because initially he failed to see possibilities that in the end turned out to be correct.Engineers couldn't see any use for the odd material a GE engineer had experimented with, a compound we know today as Silly Putty. [click link for full article] (Source: Psychology / Psychiatry News From Medical News Today)
Loss of sense of smell could predict alzheimer's, new study
A new US study suggests that losing one's sense of smell in old age could be a predictor of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) which is often a precursor of Alzheimer's disease.The study is published in July's issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. [click link for full article] (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Loss of sense of smell could predict alzheimer's, new study
A new US study suggests that losing one's sense of smell in old age could be a predictor of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) which is often a precursor of Alzheimer's disease.The study is published in July's issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. [click link for full article] (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)
Xdr-tb turnabout raises questions
DENVER -- In a surprising turn of events, the tuberculosis that turned Andrew Speaker into an international cause celebre was misdiagnosed, physicians said today. (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Highly efficient neural differentiation of human somatic stem cells, isolated by minimally invasive periodontal surgery
Stem Cells and Development Jun 2007, Vol. 16, No. 3: 447-460.
Neural stem cells (NSCs) are potential sources for cell therapy of neurodegenerative diseases and for drug screening. Despite their potential benefits, ethical and practical considerations limit the application of NSCs derived from human embryonic stem ce... (Source: Stem Cells and Development)
Comparison of the behavior of neural stem cells in the brain of normal and twitcher mice after neonatal transplantation
Stem Cells and Development Jun 2007, Vol. 16, No. 3: 429-438.
The twitcher mouse is a model of human Krabbe's disease caused by a mutation in the galacto-cerebrosidase gene. As a result of deficient catabolism of myelin, death of oligodendrocytes and demyelination occur widely in the central and peripheral nervous s... (Source: Stem Cells and Development)
Concentrations of the acute phase reactants high sensitive c-reactive protein, ykl-40 and of interleukin-6 before and after treatment in patients with acromegaly and growth hormone deficiency.
Clinical Endocrinology Volume 0, Issue ja.
Background: Acromegaly is accompanied by increased cardiovascular mortality and a cluster of pro-atherogenic risk factors. In the general population ischemic heart disease is associated with elevated levels of inflammatory markers. It has been reported th... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology)
The earliest mr imaging and proton mr spectroscopy abnormalities in adult-onset krabbe disease
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???-???.
Wang C, Melberg A, Weis J, Månsson J-E, Raininko R. The earliest MR imaging and proton MR spectroscopy abnormalities in adult-onset Krabbe disease.Acta Neurol Scand: DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0404.2007.00867.x © 2007 The Authors Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwe... (Source: Acta Neurologica Scandinavica)
New device rapidly diagnoses gastrointestinal disease by 'reading' the odour of biological fluids
A pioneering new device that could help over four billion adults and children who suffer from infectious diarrhoea in the developing world and reduce outbreaks of diseases such as clostridium difficile (C.Diff) in UK hospital wards is the winner of this year's University of Bristol's New Enterprise Competition. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Cdc defends tb patient's quarantine
DENVER (AP) -- Federal health officials stand by their quarantine of an Atlanta lawyer they believed had a dangerous form of tuberculosis, even though new tests show he has a less severe form of the disease.... (Source: AP Top Health News)
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