BACKGROUND In Brazil, it is estimated that between 2.5 and 4.9% of the general population present anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies, which corresponds to as many as 3.9 to 7.6 million chronic carriers. Chronic liver disease is associated with HCV infection in 20% to 58% of the Brazilian patients. The objective of this case-control study was to investigate the risk factors for presence of ...

Drugs administered for anesthesia can trigger seizure attacks in patients with epilepsy. Benzodiazepines have been consistently reported to be anticonvulsants, and a novel benzodiazepine, remimazolam, was recently introduced. We report case of total intravenous maintained remimazolam patient epilepsy who underwent deep brain stimulation both anterior thalamic nuclei. Despite the administration ...

A nulliparous non-descript mare presented at full term with a history of straining (utero-abdominal contractions) for the last 24 hours. Vaginal examination revealed dead foal in posterior presentation bilateral hip flexion and dorso-iliac left position. Pre-operatively, 5 mL Tetanus toxoid as intramuscular injection, 3g Ceftriaxone 4 Dexamethasone 3L 5% Dextrose normal saline (DNS) intravenous...

the TCR d gene rearrangements in AML show the same pattern as those in T-ALL,4 and occur more frequently in immature AML3,6 or in lymphoid antigen–(CD2, CD4, or CD7) positive (Ly1) AML.4 Because myeloid/NK cell precursor acute leukemia can be recognized as immature AML or Ly1 AML, the existence of the Dd2-Jd1 pattern of TCR d gene rearrangement in myeloid/NK cell precursor acute leukemia is con...

This study was designed to assess whether blocking endogenous endothelin with anti-endothelin antibodies could alter the development of hypertension in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and DOCA-salt treated rats. Specific anti-endothelin antibodies were produced in rabbits by standard methods. The amount of anti-endothelin antibodies employed in this study blocked the hyperten...

Of 368 hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected intravenous drug users, 144 (39%) were positive for antibody to hepatitis D virus (anti-HDV). Anti-HDV-positive HBV carriers had a lower rate of positivity for HBV DNA than did anti-HDV-negative carriers (52 versus 73%, respectively). From 1986 to 1997, the average rate of decrease in the prevalence of HDV infection in this population was 4.7%/year.

Question: I understand that anti-IgA antibodies are quite rare in patients with IgA deficiency, but, when starting intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) in patients with common variable immune deficiency and with very low serum IgA levels, is the product with the lowest IgA concentration, the only choice or could one choose a product with a low IgA concentration (<25 mg/mL)? I know that subcutaneou...

We retrospectively investigated the association between platelet autoantibody specificity and response to intravenous immunoglobulin G (IVIG) in 17 patients with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). Platelet-associated antibodies against glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa, GPIb/IX, and GPIa/IIa were detected in 13, 10, and 8 patients, respectively. A response occurred in 7 of 7 patients without anti-GPIb/IX,...