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OBJECTIVE
Diarrhea, weight loss and osteoporosis are prominent symptoms and clinical signs of alcoholism. One of several possible factors causing this clinical picture is small intestinal damage leading to malabsorption. The aim of this study was to prospectively evaluate small intestinal absorption
BACKGROUND
The safety and efficacy of idarubicin, etoposide, and carboplatin as remission induction therapy for patients younger than 60 years with untreated acute myeloid leukemia was studied as an alternative to standard regimens based on cytarabine plus anthracycline.
METHODS
Eligible patients
A 25-year-old man, who was admitted for evaluation of arthralgia and fever of 2-weeks duration, complained of a 10 kg weight loss during the previous weeks. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was diagnosed on the basis of leukopenia, LE cells, antinuclear antibodies, antibodies to double-stranded
Local and systemic side effects of clofazimine in 514 Leprosy and 26 vitiligo patients who had taken the drug in different doses (100 mg to 300 mg daily) for variable periods of time. The commonest side effect noted was reddish brown pigmentation of skin in 77.8% patients. In an equal number of
Background: Satoyoshi syndrome (SS) [OMIM 600705; ORFHA 3130] is a multisystemic disease with a probable autoimmune basis, whose main symptoms are muscle spasms, alopecia, diarrhea and skeletal alterations. Chronic diarrhea may be severe and result in malnutrition,
Cyclospora is a coccidian parasite responsible for a syndrome of acute and chronic diarrhoea. The organism first come to worldwide attention in 1990 following the publication of three reports. The largest series of cases and the first clinical description of the illness associated with this organism
Intestinal barrier function was prospectively examined in the course of a clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of lisofylline for reducing cytotoxic therapy-induced intestinal epithelial damage-related infectious morbidity in patients receiving standard remission-induction therapy for