siderosis/carbohydrate

Chronic alcoholism has been reported to be associated with a reduced carbohydrate content of transferrin (TF), particularly, its reduced sialylation state. Low sialylation state of TF now serves as an objective marker of chronic alcohol abuse. To investigate the pathophysiological significance of

Glucose tolerance tests performed in 15 patients (10 males and 5 females, age range 6-34 years, mean 16 years) with transfusional iron overload revealed fasting and subsequent blood glucose concentrations within the normal range in all except one patients who was overtly diabetic. However, in all

The science of antiviral research was well advanced when HIV/AIDS appeared as a major new virus disease in the early 1980s. The first effective antiviral compound (AZT, azidothymidine, zidovudine) was already among the library of compounds screened and was promptly reported to be a specific

Congenital dyserythropoietic anaemia type II, or HEMPAS (hereditary erythroblastic multinuclearity with positive acidified serum lysis test) is a genetic disease caused by membrane disorganization of erythroid cells. The primary defect of this disease lies in the gene encoding enzyme(s) which is

BACKGROUND Ferumoxytol is a safe and effective parenteral therapy used for the treatment of iron deficiency anaemia that has recently been approved for use in North America and in Europe. METHODS Ferumoxytol consists of a superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) core, which causes T1, T2 and T2*