Renal allograft re-use and herpetic re-infection

Re: renal involvement in patients with hepatitis C virus infection.

SIR, I read the original paper published in the previous issue of the Iranian Journal of kidney Diseases with great interest.1 The topic is important enough to mention by the authors. They concluded that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated with renal involvement. This result has been publicized by many articles in the literature.2,3 I agree with the authors that HCV infection is an ...

Adaptive ontology re-use: finding and re-using sub-ontologies

Starting from an ontology draft which reflects the intended modeling perspective, the ontology engineer can be supported by suggesting similar already existing sub-ontologies and ways for integrating them with the existing draft ontology. Our approach combines syntactic, linguistic, structural and logical methods into an innovative modelingperspective aware solution for detecting matchings betw...

Visual Learning Manager Re-Use and Re-Design

Infection and re-infection in early syphilis.

On May 30, 1956, a male patient aged 28 years reported at the Special Diseases Clinic of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary and complained of sores on the penis, which, he stated, had been present for 2 weeks. He gave a history of extra-marital intercourse 3 weeks and 5 weeks previously with different consorts, and of marital intercourse shortly before his sores appeared. On examination, he was foun...

Polyomavirus infection in renal allograft.

A 32-year-old-man, an Alport Syndrome carrier X link genetic disorder,1 has developed renal insufficiency and has been on peritoneal dialysis for 10 months. In June/2011, he underwent a kidney (cadaver) transplantation with 3 panel mismatch, reactivity of lymphocytes Class I and II 0% and MIC-A negative. The surgery was successful and the patient presented normal nitrogen metabolites (1.2 mg/dL...