Primary Amyloidosis: Short-Term Prognosis Is Not Always Unfavorable

Short-term prognosis of definitive neonatal infection

Long-term prognosis of clinically early IgA nephropathy is not always favorable

BACKGROUND The long-term prognosis of clinically early IgA nephropathy (IgAN) patients remains to be clarified. We investigated the long-term outcomes of IgAN patients with an apparently benign presentation and evaluated prognostic factors for renal survival. METHODS We included patients with biopsy-proven IgAN who had estimated glomerular filtration rates (eGFR) ≥ 60 mL/min/1.73 m2, normal b...

Is amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis always secondary?

The case is reported of a patient with systemic AA amyloidosis associated with non-specific mesenteric lymphadenitis and chronic sideropenia. Renal, small bowel, and rectal biopsies showed amyloid deposits containing AA protein, as defined by potassium permanganate sensitivity and by reactivity with AA antiserum. Reversal of the nephrotic syndrome occurred during steroid-azathioprine therapy.

The short-term prognosis of severe primary infantile malnutrition.

I . Among a series of 343 children with severe primary malnutrition there were 248 for whom, on admission, there were reliable records of age, weight, height, liver size, severity of oedema, skin lesions and angular stomatitis, and concentration of total serum protein, haemoglobin and sodium. For eighty-four of these children the serum bilirubin concentration was also known. 2. The correlations...

Small is not always beautiful

Peer-to-peer content distribution systems have been enjoying great popularity, and are now gaining momentum as a means of disseminating video streams over the Internet. In many of these protocols, including the popular BitTorrent, content is split into mostly fixed-size pieces, allowing a client to download data from many peers simultaneously. This makes piece size potentially critical for perf...