chinese/edema

In India, eating Chinese food has become very popular. We hereby report a case who presented with angioneurotic edema of the uvula and the surrounding structures, after eating Chinese food, which resulted in severe difficulty in swallowing saliva and inability to speak.

Two unrelated Chinese-Canadian families with recurrent hydrops fetalis are described. The investigation, acid-base and blood gas studies, and clinical course of one hydropic fetus with large amounts of hemoglobin Bart's who survived for three hours are described. Data for the parents of both

A 45-year-old Japanese woman presented with a high fever, a nonproductive coughing, and severe dyspnea, and was admitted to another hospital. During the week prior to hospitalization, she had been given Shosaikoto for treatment of liver dysfunction of unknown etiology. Mycoplasma pneumonitis was

UNASSIGNED Chinese American individuals are a fast-growing segment of people in the United States, but the burden and effect of diabetic complications on this group of people is not fully understood. UNASSIGNED To determine the age- and sex-specific prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) overall

Phototoxicity can cause toxic responses such as edemas and lesions, and is one of the severe adverse effects that largely limit the use of these phototoxic drugs. Some traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) and their constituents have been reported to be phototoxic. However, to date, their

A male infant, 4 months and 5 days old, who was born with a large placenta, had had onset of edema on the 17th day of life. Heavy proteinuris, hematuris, striking hypoalbuminemia, and hypercholesterolemia were noted in the first studied specimens on the 31st day of life. Corticosteroid therapy had

Edema, as one of common clinical diseases, could be treated by taking medicines and adopting external therapies with traditional Chinese medicines (TCM). In recent years, there have been many clinical and basic studies concerning external therapies with TCM on edema Data showed that the external

The death of a 23-year-old Chinese construction worker in southern Israel from refractory metabolic acidosis after presenting symptoms of edema and loss of sensation in his legs raised the suspicion of Beriberi disease. As thiamine deficiency was suspected, two other Chinese workers from the same

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of macular abnormalities in Chinese patients affected by uveitis. METHODS A retrospective study was performed by reviewing the medical records and high-definition spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) scans in a cohort of 413 uveitis eyes to

High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is a non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema that is always found among unacclimatized persons after rapid ascent to high altitude, and HAPE is caused by the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. To screen and analyze the susceptibility genes and single

A 66-year-old woman presented with acute pulmonary edema followed by cardiogenic shock. Emergency left ventriculography demonstrated typical apical ballooning of takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Coronary angiogram and intravascular ultrasonography did not reveal significant coronary artery disease. Within

To evaluate the effects of saponins from Chinese Buckeye Seed in the treatment of cerebral edema in patients with stroke or cerebral trauma, a metaanalysis of randomized controlled trials was conducted. Randomized trials that compare the effects of treatment with saponins from Chinese Buckeye Seed

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical features and visual outcomes of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) in Chinese patients. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the charts of patients diagnosed with IIH in Taipei Veterans General Hospital from 1981 to 2009. Demographic data, clinical features,

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical characteristics of Chinese patients with intermediate uveitis (IU). METHODS Retrospective review of patients with IU with at least 6 months follow-up. RESULTS Seventy patients were identified and the mean follow-up was 59.7 months. The mean age at presentation was