Pervasive Pneumatosis in a Patient on Immunosuppressive Agents

Deep dermatophytosis in a patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis on immunosuppressive drugs: A case report

Dermatophyte infections are one of the most common superficial fungal infections. However dermatophytes invade subcutaneous tissues rarely. We report herein a 65 year-old woman who was as a known case of rheumatoid arthritis (For 10 years) and taking immunosuppressive drugs, presented with multiple nodules and sinuses in the knee area. Histopathologic studies revealed PAS positive granulomas an...

Medicinal Plants as Immunosuppressive Agents in Traditional Iranian Medicine

[Immunosuppressive agents in Dermatology].

Immunosupressants are drugs that act in cell division and have anti-inflammatory effects. Therefore, they are essentially prescribed in the prevention of transplant rejection and in the treatment of autoimmune disorders and chronic inflammatory diseases, whose main example in Dermatology is psoriasis. In this work the most important immunosuppressive drugs and orientation to properly administer...

On coordinating pervasive persuasive agents

There is a growing interest in applying multiagent systems for smart-home environment supporting self-caring elderly. In this paper we investigate situations and conditions for coordination for such kind of system. We specify a high level architecture of it based on the notions of beliefs, desires, and intentions for both individual and group behavior of the agents including the human occupant’...

Pneumatosis Cystoids Intestinalis in an Immunosuppressed Patient

We report the case of a 59 year old woman who presented to the emergency room with a four day history of abdominal pain worsening over the last 24 hours. She had previously been diagnosed with Alport’s syndrome and had undergone an unrelated donor renal transplant in August 2001. She was on several immunosuppressants. There was some evidence of peritoneal signs on physical exam. Plain film X-ra...