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OBJECTIVE
To understand the emotional difficulties associated with living with the ocular condition Retinitis Pigmentosa, and to examine the functioning of a self-report instrument used to assess this construct.
METHODS
The difficulty of goals and tasks in the emotional health domain of the Dutch
A 40-year old man with Behçet's disease was admitted for severe decrease of visual acuity. Since 1987, he had suffered from oral aphtha, retinitis, erythema nodosum, genital ulcer and epididymitis. He was diagnosed as complete Behçet's disease and has been administered cyclosporin A (CYA) and
BACKGROUND
Lesions of adrenal glands are common findings at autopsy of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). In contrast the diagnosis of symptomatic adrenal insufficiency is rarely established during the lifetime of these patients.
METHODS
We report four new cases and review the
Over a seven-year period, we identified 23 patients who had prolonged or recurrent, severe, systemic, cat-scratch disease (CSD). Compared with the usual, benign course in 1,038 patients with typical CSD, the course in these 23 patients included prolonged (two or more weeks) morbidity (fever,
CONCLUSIONS
Recombinant granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rGM-CSF) is a polypeptide hormone produced through recombinant DNA technologies in glycosylated (yeast or mammalian expression systems) or nonglycosylated (Escherichia coli expression system) form. It is a multilineage
Chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection (CAEBV) presents with chronic or recurrent infectious mononucleosis-like symptoms, such as low-grade fever, liver dysfunction, lymphadenopathy, and hepatosplenomegaly. Immunological methods are useful for the diagnosis of viral infections. However, CAEBV
Ticks are tiny crawling bugs in the spider family that feed by sucking blood from animals. They are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of human disease, both infectious and toxic. Infected ticks spread over a hundred diseases, some of which are fatal if undetected. They spread the spirochete
Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) was discovered in 1986. This novel virus is genetically related to cytomegalovirus. HHV-6 mainly infects T lymphocytes but its tropism appears to be much wider and probably involves some epithelial cells. Two HHV-6 variants, designated as A and B, can be distinguished by
Since the first mitochondrial dysfunction was described in the 1960s, the medicine has advanced in its understanding the role mitochondria play in health and disease. Damage to mitochondria is now understood to play a role in the pathogenesis of a wide range of seemingly unrelated disorders such as
Since the first mitochondrial dysfunction was described in the 1960s, the medicine has advanced in its understanding the role mitochondria play in health, disease, and aging. A wide range of seemingly unrelated disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disease, dementia, Alzheimer's disease,