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Clinical features, laboratory findings, and complications of typhoid fever were correlated with sex through a retrospective case note review of 102 hospitalized culture-positive patients in Durban, South Africa. Intestinal perforation (P = 0.04), occult blood losses in stools (P = 0.04), and a mild
An exercise-induced malignant hyperthermia-like syndrome developed in an English Springer Spaniel. Moderate exercise resulted in pronounced hyperlactacidemia, dyspnea, and hyperthermia. Before exercise, the dog had high activities of serum muscle enzymes, mild reticulocytosis, abnormally increased
Examinations were made on erythrocytes, thrombocytes, leukocytes, lymph nodes, thymus, haemal nodes and bone marrow in field cases of East Coast Fever (ECF) in Tanzania. Seventy-six clinically sick short-horn Zebu and Taurine-Zebu crosses, positive for Theileria parva piroplasms and schizonts and 55
Following a three-week administration of alpha-interferon (IFN-alpha), a 62-year-old woman with chronic hepatitis C manifested fever and dyspnea and showed diffuse infiltrative opacities on chest roentgenograms. Her laboratory data included results of anemia with reticulocytosis, a decreased
Diaminodiphenyl sulphone (dapsone) is a drug of choice in the treatment of leprosy. It is also useful for the treatment of many neutrophilic and other dermatoses. Dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome is a rare but well recognized serious adverse effect characterized by fever, skin rashes, generalized
Thirty-six patients (pts.) with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) were treated between May 1990 and May 2003. There were 31 women and 5 men; the average age was 37 years. Twenty-five cases were idiopathic and 11 secondary (3 infection--related, 5 occurred during pregnancy and 3 were
OBJECTIVE
To describe the pharmacokinetic profiles of six different dosing regimens for epoetin alfa, and whether more rapid and robust reticulocytosis can be elicited with more frequent administration of epoetin alfa in anemic critically ill patients.
METHODS
Randomized, open-label, multicenter,
Twenty adult mongrel dogs of both sexes were used. Ten of the dogs were splenectomised and the remaining dogs were left intact. Five dogs each from the splenectomised and non-splenectomised (intact) animals were infected intravenously with Trypanosoma brucei brucei while the rest served as
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a clinical syndrome characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, fever, neurological symptoms, and renal involvement. The relationship of TTP to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has been recognized in the medical literature
Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia was diagnosed in eight horses on the basis of a positive Coomb's test. The disease was considered to be idiopathic in three cases and secondary to another condition in five. The clinical signs included dullness and depression, pyrexia, jaundice and haemoglobinuria. In
We diagnosed infections from human parvovirus B19 in three patients by using dot-blot hybridization and a polymerase chain reaction to detect B19 DNA and using an enzyme immunoassay to detect IgG and IgM to B19. For 5 months a 5-year-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission had anemia
Eighteen patients with a variety of refractory solid tumors received infusions of IgM class monoclonal antibody directed against tumor surface antigen and raised in a nonviral transformed human-human system. Three other patients with refractory hematologic or solid tumors had autologous marrow
Objective To determine the overall prevalence of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), and to compare clinical and laboratory features in a large population of children and adult lupus patients at diagnosis. Methods This retrospective study evaluated the medical charts of 336 childhood-onset systemic
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare disease, whose origin seems to lie in a acquired defect in the membrane of the pluri-potential hematopoietic cell. Chronic or intermittent acute hemolytic syndrome is the most frequent clinical manifestation, although in the literature there are
Visceral leishmaniasis is an important public health problem in Libya, but its exact prevalence is not known. Prompted by the paucity of information in the literature relevant to Libyan children, we reviewed the records of 21 children treated at El-Fatah Children's Hospital, Benghazi between March