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Omsk haemorrhagic fever is an acute viral disease prevalent in some regions of western Siberia in Russia. The symptoms of this disease include fever, headache, nausea, severe muscle pain, cough, and moderately severe haemorrhagic manifestations. A third of patients develop pneumonia, nephrosis,
A report is made of a 65-year-old male who died of a malignant hyperthermia of 42 degrees C. Symptoms included muscle rigidity at the termination of operation for neck-clipping of an aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery. Latent myopathy was observed in skeletal muscle, and a bleeding focus
A 38-year-old male was admitted with fever, progressive jaundice, cervical lymphadenopathy, hepatomegaly and acute oliguric renal failure. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection was diagnosed by detection of EBV-DNA in plasma and confirmed by EBV seroconversion. Kidney biopsy revealed acute tubular
The presence of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has rarely been described in one patient. This report describes an adolescent Polynesian male with RHD who developed SLE years later. Initially, he fulfilled modified Jones criteria for rheumatic fever with aortic
Since the original description of Rift Valley fever in sheep, cattle and man in the Rift Valley in Kenya in 1931, very little has been published on the disease in cattle. This report deals with the macroscopic and microscopic pathology of field cases of Rift Valley fever in 22 adult cattle, 8 calves
A 54-year old man was admitted to our hospital because of high fever, productive cough and purpura in both legs in June 2005. Urinalysis showed microscopic hematuria and proteinuria. Chest radiograph showed consolidation of right upper field. Because acid-fast bacilli and polymerase chain reaction
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a genetic disorder, restricted to peoples originating in the Middle East. The clinical syndrome is characterized by shortlived febrile episodes, accompanied by inflammation in one of the serous membranes, resulting in peritonitis pleuritis or synovitis. In many
A case of interstitial shadows associated with oral cyclophosphamide therapy in a 32-month-old girl with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome, who was admitted to the Nishi-Kobe Medical Center with systemic edema, is reported. Due to the lack of response to prednisolone, cyclophosphamide was also
A previously healthy 29-year-old homosexual man presented with a 4-day history of fever, malaise, sore throat, and bleeding gums. Rhabdomyolysis, acute renal failure, and nephrotic range proteinuria were also present. The patient was found to have acute human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
A 10-day-old litter of five puppies of Bracco Italiano dog breed showed weakness and diarrhea and, 2 days later, four of them died. At the same time, the bitch showed high hyperthermia (40 °C) and endometritis. The necropsy of a puppy revealed a severe lobar pneumonia accompanied with a bilateral
Quinine was compared with a 9-phenanthrene methanol (WR33063) and a 4-quinoline methanol (WR30090) for the treatment of 207 patients with falciparum malaria in Southeast Thailand. Quinine eradicated parasitaemia (average 70 hours) more rapidly than either WR30090 (72 hours) or WR33063 (77 hours).