cosmetic/fever

Q fever is a zoonotic disease that is most commonly associated with outbreaks in slaughterhouses. We describe an outbreak of 4 cases occurring in a factory that processes ovine fetal products for the cosmetics industry. It is important that industries typically not associated with risk of Q fever

It was observed that malignant tumor cells are more sensitive than normal cells to heat. Hyperthermia is known to be cytotoxic at temperatures above 41 degrees C and selectively lethal to cancer cells. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of continuous wave Nd:Yag

The government of Thailand has invested heavily in community-based dengue fever prevention campaigns, yet community participation has been inadequate to prevent transmission. This ethnographic study explored local understandings of dengue in rural northeast Thailand, and their implications for

Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is characterized by fever, headache, abdominal pain, renal dysfunction and various haemorrhagic manifestations. The viruses causing HFRS all belong to the Hantavirus genus in the Bunyaviridae family. At least three of the different hantaviruses are

Clearly the malignant hyperthermia crisis offers a significant challenge in the well cosmetic surgical patient. Aggressive early treatment is mandatory in these cases. Any delay can be disastrous. At times, the crisis may be aborted due to such therapy, leaving some doubt as to the current

BACKGROUND In the chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) definition of the RhinoSinusitis Task Force (RSTF) of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, fever is one of the minor symptoms. In the EP3OS definition, fever is not mentioned as a contributing factor. The main aim of this study

We encountered a 55-year-old female patient with Hashimoto's thyroiditis who showed persistent fever, and could not find any source of fever other than the large nontender goiter. Her fever continued with positive CRP for 6 months. Although we did not assume that the inflammation was related to

Nowadays Botulinum Toxin injection has become the most welcomed cosmetic procedure for its satisfactory results, less downtime. However, adverse effects like fever may happen after Botulinum Toxin injection and the patients may not be informed about the side effects even though they were mentioned

Specific examinations of university students in Japan revealed numerous people affected by hay fever among the younger population, various measures for hay fever prevention and dissatisfaction with commercially available hay fever masks. Questionnaire replies from 1519 students demonstrated the

The febrile infant is a common clinical problem for the primary health care provider. This paper employs the example of a young infant with fever to describe an important epidemiologic concept that is useful in the interpretation of diagnostic data--the likelihood ratio. The likelihood ratio

1. After preliminary experiments in monkeys, 15 persons were actively immunized by a single injection of a dried mixture of living yellow fever virus, fixed for mice, and human immune serum, with separate injections of enough additional serum to make up the amount required for protection. 2. One

OBJECTIVE Chest wall recurrences of breast cancer are a therapeutic challenge and durable local control is difficult to achieve. Our objective was to determine the local progression free survival (LPFS) and toxicity of thermochemoradiotherapy (ThChRT) for chest wall recurrence. METHODS Twenty-seven

BACKGROUND Amyloidosis of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) may lead to end-stage renal failure, culminating in kidney transplantation in some patients. OBJECTIVE To assess demographic, clinical and genetic risk factors for the development of FMF amyloidosis in a subset of kidney-transplanted

OBJECTIVE To report a case of necrotizing fasciitis after cosmetic blepharoplasty. METHODS Case report. A 74-year-old woman with history of type II diabetes mellitus underwent bilateral upper eyelid blepharoplasty. Postoperatively she developed fever, grayish discoloration of the skin, violaceous

Many of the developing countries of the Southeast Asian region are significantly affected by endemic typhoid fever, possibly as a result of marginal living standards. It is an important public health problem in countries such as Papua New Guinea, which is geographically close to some of the foci of