intestinal pseudo-obstruction/protease

A 40-year-old HIV-infected woman developed nausea, vomiting, and epigastric pain and died following her third dose (per study protocol) of interleukin (IL)-2. Her HIV infection was diagnosed in 1996. Her last CD4 cell count was 390/microL, and her viral load was negligible (as of November 28, 1998).

BACKGROUND Pancreatic neuritis is a histopathological hallmark of pancreatic neuropathy and correlates to abdominal neuropathic pain sensation in pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PCa) and chronic pancreatitis (CP). However, inflammatory cell subtypes that compose pancreatic neuritis and their correlation

We herein report two cases of gastrointestinal amyloidosis, secondary to juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) in one, and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the other. A 21-year-old woman, who has been suffering from JRA for the past 12 years, was transferred to our hospital due to intense pain in the