diastase/fever

Both clinical and experimental investigations have shown that maternal hyperthermia during critical stages of embryo development can induce malformations in the offspring. Studies of the effect of heat stress on the placental functions are limited to the ewes, but that on microscopic structure is

A case of Whipple's disease (WD) personally observed is described. A 28-year-old male was admitted to hospital for evaluation of weakness, intermittent fever and weight loss arisen since a month. On clinical investigation, he complained of vomit and diarrhea since three months. He had neither

A 36-year-old male with a history of immature teratoma and embryonal carcinoma of the testis was admitted to the hospital for abdominal pain and fever. A CT scan revealed a large right abdominal mass. The patient's serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) was 46.8 ng/ml (reference < 25 ng/ml). Fine-needle

A 74-year-old Japanese female presented with the sudden appearance of hemorrhagic purpuric ecchymoses on her lower extremities and with fever and chills, and died on the fifth day of hospitalization. A diagnosis of alpha1-antitrypsin (AT) deficiency was made postmortem. The liver weighed 1260 g.

Hepatic epithelioid cell granulomas that were negative for periodic acid-Schiff stain after diastase digestion were found in a 32-yr-old man who presented with painless hepatomegaly and slight fever. The patient never complained of intestinal symptoms, which in part explains why the diagnosis of

Whipple's disease is a systemic infection, caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, with protean clinical manifestations characterized by fever, weight loss, diarrhea, polyarthritis, skin hyperpigmentation and adenopathy. For a long time, due to the inability to culture the causative organism,

Type IV glycogenosis is due to branching enzyme deficiency and is usually manifested clinically by progressive liver disease with cirrhosis and hepatic failure between the second and fourth years of life. We describe a 5-year-old boy who, following an acute febrile illness at 2 years of age, was

We present the first case in Bulgaria of cytologically verified undifferentiated (embryonal) sarcoma of the liver. A 10-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital with abdominal pain, extreme hepatomegaly, one-month fever, anemia and highly elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (95 mm). A large

BACKGROUND Pubic symphysis osteomyelitis during the antepartum period of pregnancy is rare. METHODS We report a patient in the third trimester who presented with pubic pain, low-grade fever, and altered gait. She was found to have a retropubic abscess at the time of cesarean delivery. Radiologic