Background: Pruritus (skin irritation or itching) is common in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 4 and 5. It is associated with disrupted sleep, reduced quality of life, depression and increased mortality. A video of a patient describing the symptoms is at vimeo.com/49458473. Methods: We used gabapentin or pregabalin in 71 consecutive patients, 82% male. 25 had CKD stage 4 or 5,...

A high frequency (24%) of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) was noted among acute myelocytic leukemia (AML) cases at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California (LAC-USC) Medical Center, in comparison with the expected frequency of 5% to 15%. Because of the high proportion of Latinos in this center, we questioned if APL is more common in this ethnic group. The proportion of APL am...

Hannonen, Riitta Verbal and Academic Skills in Children with Type 1 Diabetes Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2011, 49 p. (Jyväskylä Studies in Education, Psychology and Social Research ISSN 0075-4625; 420) ISBN 978-951-39-4455-1 (nid.) ISBN 978-951-39-4456-8 (PDF) Yhteenveto: Tyypin 1 diabetesta sairastavien lasten kielelliset ja oppimiseen liittyvät perustaidot Diss. This thesis aimed at a...

The division problem under constraints consists of allocating a given amount of an homogeneous and perfectly divisible good among a subset of agents with singlepeaked preferences on an exogenously given interval of feasible allotments. We characterize axiomatically the family of extended uniform rules proposed to solve the division problem under constraints. Rules in this family extend the unif...

Although allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) is performed as a curative option in adult T cell leukemia-lymphoma (ATL) patients, its high transplantation-related mortality raises a serious issue. The clinical features of infectious complications after transplantation are not well known. To analyze the impact of infections after allo-SCT for ATL, we retrospectively comp...

BACKGROUND Infusion of sodium nitrite could provide sustained therapeutic concentrations of nitric oxide (NO) for the treatment of a variety of vascular disorders. The study was developed to determine the safety and feasibility of prolonged sodium nitrite infusion. METHODOLOGY Healthy volunteers, aged 21 to 60 years old, were candidates for the study performed at the National Institutes of He...