ulcerative colitis is a mucosal-inflammatory disease that usually involves the rectum and extends proximally to involve all or part of the colon. medications for treatment include anti-inflammatory agents such as 5-asa compounds, systemic and topical corticosteroids and immunomodulators. a 33 year-old female and 52 year-old male both diagnosed with severe active ulcerative colitis who were resi...

Acquired hemophilia A might be caused by Ginkgo-dipyridamolum especially by Ginkgo, and it was successfully treated with hemostasis and immune-suppression therapy including methylprednisolone and cyclophosphamide.

The significance of necrosis (karyorrhexis), among the most characteristic findings in lupus nephritis, was evaluated by studying the correlation between the existence of necrosis in renal biopsy specimens and laboratory findings. The subjects were 54 patients with diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis and 6 patients with focal proliferative lupus nephritis selected from 143 patients with lupus...

The ability of efficiently detecting changes in XML documents is crucial in many application contexts. If such changes are represented as XQuery Update Pending Update Lists (PULs), they can then be applied on documents using XQuery Update engines, and document management can take advantage of existing composition, inversion, reconciliation approaches developed in the update processing context. ...

Systemic corticosteroid therapy may affect diaphragm structure and function. We postulated that functional, immunohistochemical and biochemical characteristics of rat diaphragm were less affected by alternate-day methylprednisolone (MP) administration, and more by repeated bursts of MP, in comparison to daily s.c MP. Sixty adult rats were randomized into four groups: saline s.c.; MP continuousl...

PURPOSE To evaluate changes in clinical outcomes, inflammatory cytokine levels, and tear osmolarity in the tears of patients with moderate to severe dry eye syndrome before and after the application of topical 1% methylprednisolone. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-two patients with moderate to severe dry eye unresponsive to previous aqueous enhancement therapy were enrolled. Five patients were l...

Relapses, exacerbations or attacks of multiple sclerosis are the dominating feature of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), but are also observed in patients with secondary progressive MS. High-dose methylprednisolone is the routine therapy for relapses at present, but other treatments are also in current use. The objective of the task force was to review the literature on treatment of ...

Effects of different treatment regimens of methylprednisolone on rat diaphragm contractility, immunohistochemistry and biochemistry. R.H.H. van Balkom, H.F.M. van der Heijden, H.T.B. van Moerkerk, J.H. Veerkamp, J.A.M. Fransen, L.A. Ginsel, H.Th.M. Folgering, C.L.A. van Herwaarden, P.N.R. Dekhuijzen. ERS Journals Ltd 1996. ABSTRACT: Systemic corticosteroid therapy may affect diaphragm structur...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to demonstrate if the addition of anti-inflammatory treatment to antibiotic therapy shows any superiority to the treatment with antibiotic only. METHODS Forty-nine Wistar rats were divided into 7 groups. Pyelonephritis was performed by E. coli injection to upper pole of kidneys except control group. Group 2 was not treated. Ceftriaxone, ketoprofen, "ceftriaxone + k...