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Obese C57BL/6J-OB mice (ob/ob) and their lean littermates (?/+) were fed either torula yeast-based diet (TY) or brewer's yeast-based diet (BY) for a 23-d experimental period. Obese mice fed the BY diet had significantly lower liver weights than did mice fed the TY diet. Likewise, plasma glucose and
A 31-year-old, obese woman with extrameningeal cryptococcal disease was admitted to the Medical College of Virginia for antifungal therapy. Various physiologic variables influence flucytosine pharmacokinetics, and there are no guidelines for dosing the agent in obese patients. This patient received
In November 2007, a 30-year-old obese woman was admitted to our hospital with a complaint of persistent dry cough. Her chest-X-ray and computed tomography revealed multiple infiltrative shadows with air bronchograms in all lung fields. The bronchoalveolar lavage fluid revealed small bodies of
Benign intracranial hypertension (BICH) is a rare adverse event. We report the case of a 31-year-old female drug addict who had been seropositive for HIV since 1987. She had stage IV C1 AIDS, and was receiving intravenous amphotericin B for generalized cryptococcosis with no neuromeningeal