We report a 57-year old man with diabetes mellitus and hypertension who presented with acute HIV infection. Routine blood tests showed an elevated blood urea nitrogen and creatinine. Renal biopsy showed acute tubular nephropathy, which has not been reported to occur during acute HIV infection, in the absence of rhabdomyolysis or multiple organ system failure. Antiretroviral therapy was initiate...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate clinical profiles, predictors of 30-day mortality, and the adherence to international recommendations for the treatment of myocardial infarction in an academic medical center hospital. METHODS We retrospectively studied 172 patients with acute myocardial infarction, admitted in the intensive care unit from January 1992 to December 1997. RESULTS Most patients were male ...

the purpose of this investigation was to assess the effect of captopril on both systemic (p.a) and pulmonary arterial pressures (ppa) in patients with high-altitude pulmonary hypertension (haph). seventeen patients (mean age 44±6.8 years) with haph and mild to moderate systemic arterial hypertension were included in the study. all patients underwent right heart catheterization with measurements...

background: hypertension is one of the most important determinants of death due to vascular damage and is fast emerging as a high burden disease in india. however, its documentation is poor in the country. this study aims to estimate the rate and the causal pattern of mortality in a cohort of people with high blood pressure as compared to normotensives. methods: the study setting is varkkala, a...

BACKGROUND It is known that intra-abdominal hypertension has high morbidity in acute pancreatitis and has detrimental effects on patients. For third trimester pregnancy complicated by acute pancreatitis, the intra-abdominal pressure may have its own characteristic. This article will discuss this clinical scenario. METHODS This observational study in a cohort group was performed in the surgica...

results 111 female and 142 male were available from a total of 253 confirmed h1n1 cases. the minimum and maximum ages were 1.5 and 90 years, respectively. the most common symptoms were fever and cough. 144 cases had record of hospitalization, 100 cases were undergone outpatient treatment and nine cases have not recorded the treatment status. the most frequent underlying manifestation was hypert...

background: the role of uric acid as a risk factor for vascular disease and acute stroke is controversial and there is little information about it. in this study, we determined serum uric acid levels in patients with acute stroke and assessed its relationship with cerebrovascular risk factors. methods: in this cross sectional study, we assessed patients with acute stroke who were admitted in fi...

changes in extra and intracellular neurotransmitter amino acids concentration in the early stage of acute cerebral ischemia have been reported. in this the study, serum level of gamma aminobutyric acid (gaba) and l-arginine in acute ischemic stroke patients was assessed. 60 patients with acute ischemic stroke and sixthy healthy volunteers as a control group were assessed. serum gaba was measure...

Plasma renin activity in acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis and the haemolytic-uraemic syndrome. Plasma renin activity (PRA) was determined in 10 children with acute glomerulonephritis and in 10 with the haemolytic-uraemic syndrome (HUS). Low renin levels were found in the hypertensive children with acute nephritis, all of whom had evidence of fluid overload. The amount of this overload...

This study aims to investigate CYP2C19 gene polymorphisms and the association between with cardiovascular risk factors major adverse events (MACE) in patients acute myocardial infarction (AMI). A prospective cross-sectional analysis involved 86 AMI enrolled assessed MACE evaluated after three months of treatment. CYP2C19*1*1 genotype accounted for highest prevalence at 54.7%, which means normal...