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With the increasing success of liver transplantation and the proven effectiveness of highly active retroviral therapy in HIV-positive patients, liver transplantation has been performed successfully in selected HIV-positive recipients with CD4 and an HIV viral load response to highly active

We report a case of Sjögren's syndrome (SS) and systemic sclerosis (SSc) complicated with acute pancreatitis. A 51-year-old woman had been diagnosed as SS in 1973. She noticed Raynaud's phenomenon in 1977. In 1988, interstitial pneumonia (IP) was pointed out and she was treated with

A 68-year-old woman was evaluated by her primary physician for swelling and pain in the right neck. Treatment with antibiotics failed to achieve any improvement. Two weeks later, she was hospitalized to the gastroenterology department because of liver dysfunction and pneumonia. Disseminated

A 59-year-old-woman received related non-myeloablative allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) subsequent to autologous PBSCT in our hospital five years after she was diagnosed as oligo-secretory myeloma. She was admitted to our hospital because of vomiting and grayish diarrhea

A 54-year-old black African woman, 22 years human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive, presented with an acute coronary syndrome. She was taking two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and two protease inhibitors. Viral load and CD4 count were stable. Angiography revealed a right coronary

Surgical wounds dehiscence is a serious post-operatory complication, with an incidence between 0.4% and 3.5%. Mortality is more than 45%. Complex wounds treatment may require a multidisciplinary management. VAC Therapy could be an alternative treatment regarding complex wound. VAC therapy has been

Neisseria lactamica was isolated from the blood of a 7-year-old girl who was immunosuppressed from chemotherapy for acute lymphocytic leukemia. She was receiving trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole prophylactically. The isolate was resistant to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and sensitive to penicillin.

A thirty-year old HIV-positive woman, who had been receiving antiretroviral therapy (protease inhibitor, lamivudine and stavudine) for seven months, was diagnosed with severe lactic acidosis type B, most likely induced by nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor treatment. The antiretroviral

We present the case of a woman (age: 64 years) with acute thrombotic microangiopathy due to severe acquired ADAMTS-13 (von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease) deficiency. She was successfully treated with plasma exchange therapy and glucocorticosteroids. She relapsed seven months later, and

Hypercalcemia rarely causes acute pancreatitis due to secretory block in the pancreas and damage by accumulated proteases. Hypercalcemia, though described in granulomatous disorders, is uncommon in tuberculosis. Acute kidney injury is known to occur with acute pancreatitis, secondary to sepsis and

A 48-year-old woman with HIV infection developed Cushingoid features while she was taking ritonavir-boosted darunavir. Cushing's syndrome was confirmed due to the drug interaction between ritonavir and budesonide. Diagnosis of iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome in HIV-positive patients who are on

We present the case of a 30-year-old woman with HIV/AIDS who experienced a 47% weight gain over a period of a year after commencing treatment with highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) and went on to develop benign intracranial hypertension (BIH). She was not on any other medication

OBJECTIVE To present two cases of iatrogenic Cushing syndrome caused by the interaction of budesonide, an inhaled glucocorticoid, with ritonavir and itraconazole. METHODS We present the clinical and biochemical data of two patients in whom diagnosis of Cushing syndrome was caused by this

OBJECTIVE Pancreatic enzyme is essential in the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF), but intolerance to it occasionally occurs. We encountered a child who was intolerant to multiple commercially available preparations of pancreatic enzymes and, hence, desensitization was attempted, with

This is the first-case report of isolated human immunodeficiency virus-2 (HIV-2) infection that developed squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the buccal mucosa. She was treated with radiotherapy 66 Gy in 30 fractions. HIV-2 infection was diagnosed with Tridot test, and quantitative estimation was done