A decrease in inhibitor titer has been reported in some patients with acquired factor VIII inhibitors treated with intravenous gammaglobulin (IGIV). We have conducted a prospective, multicenter study of high-dose IGIV in treatment of this disorder to determine efficacy. Nineteen patients received induction therapy with IGIV, 1,000 mg/kg x 2 consecutive days or 400 mg/kg x 5 consecutive days, fo...

L. L. Latour, J. A. Butman, J. Bykowski, P. Basser, S. Warach Section on Stroke Diagnostics and Therapeutics, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, United States, Diagnostic Radiology Department, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, United States, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar, Bethesda, MD, United States, Section on Tissue Biophysics and ...

The purpose of this report is to study the correlation between abnormal cervical Pap smears reported using the revised 2001 Bethesda system and their corresponding cervical biopsies, in order to identify discrepant non-correlating positive smears and analyze the smear characteristics causing the discrepancy in those cases. All abnormal cervical smears results classified using the revised 2001 B...

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide, with the estimated 493,000 new cases and 274,000 deaths in 2002 (Parkin et al., 2005). The incidence is much higher in developing countries. In Thailand, cervical cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer with the age-standardized incidence rate (ASR) of 19.5 per 100,000 per year (Pengsa and Jindawijak, 2003). Cervical c...