Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Infection with this bacterium is known to induce the development of autoantibodies of which a few are also known to be diagnostic markers for some other diseases. Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies (ANCA's) are among those autoantibodies used in clinical setting for diagnosing systemic vasculitic sy...

Accepted 12 January 1996 In December 1983, a 53-year old Chinese woman presented with a one-year history of generalised pruritus. Various members of her family, extending over four generations, had autoimmunne thyroid disorders. On examination, she had bilateral xanthelasmata but no stigmata of chronic liver disease nor jaundice. Her liver was just palpable but she had neither splenomegaly nor ...

The relationship between autoimmunity and cancer has been a gray area, with many theories but no solid proof so far. Hashimoto's thyroiditis is an autoimmune disorder major cause of hypothyroidism, while papillary thyroid carcinoma the most common malignancy generally found in patients younger than 45 years age. literature on correlation these two disorders somewhat based potentially biased his...

We present a mechanistic biomathematical model of molecular radiotherapy thyroid disease. The general consists set differential equations describing the dynamics different populations cells with varying degrees damage caused by (undamaged cells, sub-lethally damaged doomed and dead cells), as well thyroglobulin antithyroglobulin autoantibodies, which are important surrogates treatment response....

background: infections attributed to helicobacter pylori ( h. pylori ) involve almost half of the world's population. one of the effects is auto-antibody induction and cross-reaction with numerous proteins in the body. as a result of its widespread prevalence and importance, this study evaluates the associations between h. pylori and thyroid auto-antibodies. materials and methods: this study en...

background and aims: toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease which may cause some laboratory symptoms in infected individuals. one of the main ways of transmition this organism is placenta to fetus pathway. if this transmission occurs in the 3th month of pregnancy, the abortion, central nerve system and ocular disorder will happen. because of this issue, the precise technique for detection of toxo...

background: the clinical significance of antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with chronic hepatitis c virus (hcv) and some other viral infections is controversial. objective: to study the prevalence of anticardiolipin antibody (acla) and antibeta2glycoproteini antibody (antibeta2gpi antibody) in hcv and hepatitis b virus (hbv) infected patients and its association with liver clinical parame...

To the Editor: The diffuse sclerosing variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (DSPTC) is a relatively rare histologic subtype of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). It was first described in 1985 [1] and accounts for 2%-10% of all PTC [2-5]. The major clinical features of DSPTC include: younger age at presentation, larger tumor size, greater incidence of cervical lymph node involvement, distant m...