We found the prevalence of MetS in PD patients was 73%. Young et al. showed the prevalence of MetS between dialysis patients was 69.3% which had no signifi cant diff erence comparing general population.[4] Previous studies demonstrated that MetS is higher in PD.[5] We also found that the presence of MetS in PD is high. It might be due to absorption of PD fl uid’s glucose and subsequent hypergly...

Chronic rhinosinusitis represents an infl ammatory condition of the nose and paranasal sinuses, characterized by two or more symptoms. The diagnosis of acute rhinosinusitis is made, most often, clinically; however, in the case of chronic rhinosinusitis, imaging, bacteriological, as well as the histological investigation are necessary in order to establish the diagnosis and to exclude other dise...

Purpose To report a young patient who initially manifested with bilateral anterior nodular scleritis and subsequently developed ocular features typical of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease. Case description A 9-year-old girl was diagnosed with bilateral anterior nodular scleritis, which improved with topical administration of corticosteroids and systemic nonsteroidal anti-infl ammatory drugs. ...

www.chestpubs.org 2 . Bouros D , Wells AU , Nicholson AG , et al . Histopathologic subsets of fi brosing alveolitis in patients with systemic sclerosis and their relationship to outcome . Am J Respir Crit Care Med . 2002 ; 165 ( 12 ): 1581 1586 . 3 . Betteridge ZE , Gunawardena H , McHugh NJ . Novel autoantibodies and clinical phenotypes in adult and juvenile myositis . Arthritis Res Ther . 201...

Four patients were subjected to sialolithotomy of the submandibular gland in the Department of Otolaryngology, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University in Cracow. The resected calculi were examined under a scanning electron microscope and chemical analysis of their structure was carried out. Results of these studies were compared with clinical observations. It has been found that sialoliths a...

functions Th e family of type I IFN consists of multiple subtypes of IFNα, a single IFNβ and some less characterized family members, such as IFNε, IFNκ and IFNω. Th e diff erence in biological function between the multiple subtypes of type I IFN is unclear, especially since the induced genes downstream of the diff erent types of IFN (the IFN response program) are highly similar between, for exa...

tion of bile acid into the main pancreatic duct. In CD-1 mice severe acute pancreatitis can be induced with a choline-defi cient, ethionine-supplemented diet. These models are mostly used to investigate the systemic infl ammatory response, multiorgan failure and to evaluate therapeutic interventions. Although all these models have in common that they do not recapitulate the human disease, we us...

Dear Editor, Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), also known as Forestier’s disease, is a non-infl ammatory enthesopathy of unknown etiology. Affecting predominantly men, it results in fl owing, robust ossifi cation of the anterior longitudinal ligament of the spine. In contrast to ankylosing spondylitis, the disc space itself is usually spared and by defi nition, it affects 4 or mo...

s from the First Annual Baylor Scott and White Surgery Research Day 318 was that maternal preeclampsia independently increases necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) risk in newborns. Th e database of all births at our institution from 2008 to 2011 (n = 9993) was retrospectively reviewed after institutional review board approval. Multiple mother and baby variables, including maternal age, race, parity...

Sir,—The hypothesis of wear particles causing foreign-body reaction, periprosthetic osteolysis and eventually prosthetic loosening was already put forward in the 1970s (Brinkmann and Heilmann 1974, Willert et al. 1974). The term cement disease was coined in the 1980s (Jones and Hungerford 1987), generalized to particle disease in the 1990s (Harris 1994), and wear particles are still widely cons...