Post ERCP pancreatitis, also known as post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is a potentially serious complication that can occur after this endoscopic procedure. It characterized by acute inflammation of the pancreas, triggered manipulation and trauma induced during ERCP. This clinical condition manifests with severe abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, bloating fever. varies in seve...

objective this study aimed at investigating seasonal variation, clinical symptoms, and cerebrospinal fluid (csf) changes in patients with aseptic meningitis admitted in mofid hospital between 1995 and 1996. materials & methods a total of 63 children with aseptic meningitis were enrolled in the study. their age, gender, season of the disease, etiology, clinical symptoms, csf changes, and treatme...

Aseptic loosening is a major cause of revision surgery of total hip arthroplasty (THA). Only few host factors affecting aseptic loosening have been identified until now, although they are urgently needed to identify and possibly treat those patients at higher risk for aseptic loosening. To determine whether the functional single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) c.-938C>A (rs2279115), located in th...

In this paper we wish to emphasise the danger of avascular necrosis of the capital femoral epiphysis arising as a late complication of osteomyelitis of the intertrochanteric region. This necrosis is primarily aseptic and is believed to follow interference with the vulnerable vascular channels supplying the capital femoral epiphysis rather than spread of infection into the joint. If, however, th...

This article reviews current industry practices and regulatory expectations for the aseptic processing of sterile drugs. It provides comparisons and outlines points of tension between curent manufacturing technology and capabilities with regulatory “requirements” for this important activity. n 1988, the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) published a position paper on aseptic processing in respon...