Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 12, No. 11, November 2006 1795 contacts with clandestine gold panners, mainly Brazilian illegal residents. This population, in which malaria incidence is almost impossible to evaluate, comes from Amapa State, where the incidence of malaria is increasing (5). In 2003, 60.9% of patients with malaria cases at Cayenne Hospital had a Brazilian na...

OBJECTIVES To investigate if there is a correlation between pre- and post-treatment mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet size deviation width (PDW), and platecrit (PCT) values and to investigate whether we can use them as laboratory parameters to estimate the relapses of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) patients. METHODS Patients with ITP diagnosed at the Hematology Clinic, School of Medicine, C...

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE A woman diagnosed with a recurrent vulval carcinoma after initial treatment with radiochemotherapy is presented. After three additional relapses she was vaccinated with Gardasil. She has had no relapses in her vulvar area for 39 months and an overall progression-free survival of almost 24 months.

BACKGROUND/AIM The most common urinary bladder tumors are superficial tumors. Due to their tension to relapse and progress towards deeper layers after surgical therapy, an adequate therapy significantly contributed to the improvement of the results of urinary bladder tumors treatment. Staging and gradus of the tumor, presence of the cardnoma in situ (CIS) or relapses significantly influenced th...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this work was to evaluate whether the treatment effects on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers at the trial level were able to predict the treatment effects on relapse rate in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. METHODS We used a pooled analysis of all the published randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis reporting...

BACKGROUND Temporal, i.e., 24-hour, weekly, and seasonal patterns in the occurrence of acute cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events are well documented; however, little is known about temporal, especially seasonal, variation in multiple sclerosis (MS) and its relapses. This study investigated, by means of a validated chronobiological method, whether severe relapses of MS, ones requiring medi...

Background Loco-regional relapses (LRRs) from rectal cancer still represent a major issue in colo-rectal surgery. With the introduction of Total Mesorectal Excision (TME), LRR incidence after curative resection for rectal cancer dramatically decreased from 20–40% of cases to 2–12%. Several factors are involved in predicting LRRs, the most important of these being Dukes stage. When no treatment ...