elastase/fever

Fever suggests the likelihood of severe microbial infection. Abnormal temperature, tachycardia, tachypnea, and abnormal white blood cell counts define the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). In 300 hospitalized medical patients with fever, we determined clinical variables and

Argentine hemorrhagic fever (AHF) is a disease caused by Junin virus. In the acute phase, patients present hematologic and neurologic involvement with high levels of interferon-alpha and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha. Nineteen patients with a confirmed diagnosis of AHF were studied: six

Dengue fever (DF) is characterized by systemic inflammatory response including neutrophil activation leading to uncontrolled elastase activity. This study was aimed to measure the activity of plasma neutrophil elastase (NE), its endogenous inhibitors α1-antitrypsin (α1-AT) and α2-macroglobulin

The elastase-alpha1-proteinase inhibitor complex (E-alpha 1-PI) is a well known, sensitive indicator of infection. The significance of this parameter was investigated in 12 febrile paediatric-oncological patients. With neutrophil counts greater than 500/microliters infections caused a definitive

OBJECTIVE Cyclic neutropenia is a rare congenital hematopoietic disease which occurs sporadically or as an autosomal dominantly inherited disorder. Recently, the locus for cyclic neutropenia was mapped to chromosome 19p13.3. Autosomal dominant and sporadic cyclic neutropenia are now attributable to

OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of endogenous vascular elastase (EVE) in coronary artery between reconstruction among pediatric patients with Kawasaki disease (KD). METHODS Sixty children who were diagnosed with KD between January 2012 and April 2013 were selected as the case group, and peripheral

BACKGROUND Cyclic neutropenia (CyN) is a rare hematological disease. Herein, a CyN girl, aged 3 years and 2 months, with recurrent fever and oral mucosal ulcer caused by neutrophil elastase (ELANE) gene mutation is reported. METHODS A 3 years and 2 months old girl presented with recurrent fever and

Hantaviruses cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) in humans. Both diseases are considered to be immunologically mediated but the exact pathological mechanisms are still poorly understood. Neutrophils are considered the first line of

During acute inflammatory processes, extracellular release of granulocyte elastase can contribute to subsequent tissue damage. To test our hypothesis that extracellular elastase release during acute pyelonephritis may contribute to subsequent renal parenchymal damage, we compared the intracellular

We studied the clinical features of 59 chronic pulmonary aspergillosis cases (aspergilloma, chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis) which we experienced in our hospital. To diagnose this disease, X-rays, sputum culture and serologic tests were mainly examined, X-ray findings were a fungus ball

Sputum and serum samples were obtained from 38 patients with cystic fibrosis seen as out-patients at routine follow-up, or from patients admitted with acute pulmonary exacerbations of their disease. Elastolytic activity was measurable in the sputum of 13 of 16 out-patient samples and detectable in

Twenty burned patients divided in three groups according to the severity of the lesions were investigated at 1- or 2-day intervals for up to 5 weeks after injury. Plasma elastase levels were elevated during the first day after injury and were correlated with the area of the burns. However, plasma

OBJECTIVE Experimental evidence suggests that neutrophils and their metabolites play an important role in the pathogenesis of pyelonephritis. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic value of polymorphonuclear elastase-a(1)-antitrypsin complex (E-a(1)-Pi) for the detection of acute

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the benefit and safety of sivelestat (a neutrophil elastase inhibitor) administration in patients undergoing esophagectomy. METHODS Online databases including PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, Web of Knowledge, and Chinese databases (Wanfang database, VIP and CNKI) were

A 20-year-old man on oral substitution of pancreatic enzymes after hemipancreatectomy injected an enzyme preparation of fungal origin intravenously after dissolving it in water. Within a few hours chills, headache, nausea and vomiting, fever of 40.8 degrees C, and shock occurred. The acute illness