Linguistic gem or just another pidgin?

Iptakalim: a new or just another KCO?

Cardiac hypertrophy, especially left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), is a major compensatory mechanism in response to pressure overload derived from hypertension. Also, tissue remodelling through LVH is known to lead to heart failure if the increased workload is sustained over a long period of time. In a nutshell, hypertension can result in hypertrophy which, if sustained, leads to heart failure...

CAPAP in acute pancreatitis: just another marker or real progress?

There are no pathognomonic symptoms in acute pancreatitis. In reaching a diagnosis the patient’s history, physical findings, and serum amylase or lipase concentrations have to be considered. Serum amylase is one of the oldest clinically useful laboratory tests, having been around for almost 70 years. However, too great a reliance on amylase or lipase will lead to underdiagnosis owing to the lac...

CAPAP in acute pancreatitis: just another marker or real progress?

JAK 3 ( janus kinase 3 or just another kinase 3 )

JAK3 is expressed in 12 normal human tissues (bone marrow, spleen, thymus, brain, spinal cord, heart, skeletal muscle, liver, pancreas, prostate, kidney, and lung). JAK3S is more commonly seen in hematopoietic cells, whereas JAK3B and JAK3M are detected in cells of hematopoietic or epithelial origin. Localisation Intracellular, membrane-associated through association with interleukin (IL) recep...

MRSA: deadly super bug or just another staph?

Commenting on an article by Klevens et al in the Journal of the American Medical Association that described the incidence of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, an editorialist estimated that more patients died with invasive MRSA than died because of HIV/AIDS in the United States in 2005. Simultaneous reports of MRSA outbreaks among high school athletes and d...