Americans are increasingly exposed to exotic zoonotic diseases through travel, contact with exotic pets, occupational exposure, and leisure pursuits. Appropriate isolation precautions are required to prevent nosocomial transmission of rare zoonotic diseases for which person-to-person transmission has been documented. This minireview provides guidelines for the isolation of patients and manageme...

Varicella is usually regarded as a benign and self-limited disorder. Severe cases, including hemorrhagic varicella, are rare. These cases were thought to be influenced by underlying diseases such as HIV infection, leukemia. This study aims to explore the relationship among clinical character, lab data and prognoses in children suffering from hemorrhagic vesicles. The clinical and lab data of 32...

A large epidemic of anthrax that occurred in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg), Russia, in 1979 resulted in the deaths of many persons. A series of 42 necropsies, representing a majority of the fatalities from this outbreak, consistently revealed pathologic lesions diagnostic of inhalational anthrax, namely hemorrhagic necrosis of the thoracic lymph nodes in the lymphatic drainage of the lungs and ...

Hemorrhagic bowel syndrome is a highly fatal intestinal disease of adult dairy cattle with uncertain cause. In a dairy herd in KhorasanRazavi province, Northeast of Iran, two cows showed depression, anorexia, decrease in milk production, ruminal hypomotility, bruxism and dehydration. At necropsy, massive hemorrhage and clot formation was observed within the jejunum and bacterial culture of the ...

Four trials with pigs and one trial with rats were conducted to determine the relationship of dietary sugar level, supplemental vitamin K, sodium salicylate, therapeutic levels of chlortetracycline and initial pig weight to development of sugar-induced heart lesions and hemorrhagic syndrome. The effects of crude vs. refined sucrose and glucose vs. sucrose were also compared. Each of the high su...

Hemorrhagic shock is a frequent cause of liver failure and often leads to a fatal outcome. Several studies have revealed that p38 MAPK is a key mediator in hemorrhagic damage of the primary organs through the activation of proinflammatory cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and interleukin (IL)-1β. However, the precise role of these factors in liver damage following hemorrhagic shoc...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Hemorrhagic stroke is more common in non-Western settings and does not always share risk factors with other cardiovascular diseases. The association of smoking with hemorrhagic stroke subtypes has not been established. We examined the association of cigarette smoking with hemorrhagic stroke, by subtype (intracerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage), in a large coh...

Hemorrhagic radiation cystitis is an example of a typical radiotherapy-induced adverse event. However, the optimal treatment for hemorrhagic radiation cystitis is not known. There are limited data regarding the use of argon plasma coagulation for hemorrhagic radiation cystitis. Here, we present the use of argon plasma coagulation using a gastrointestinal endoscope to treat hemorrhagic radiation...

Acute stroke is a serious cerebrovascular disease and has been the second leading cause of death worldwide. Conventional diagnostic modalities for stroke, such as CT and MRI, may not be available in emergency settings. Hence, it is imperative to develop a portable tool to diagnose stroke in a timely manner. Since there are differences in impedance spectra between normal, hemorrhagic and ischemi...

High-field MRI is capable of differentiating acute, subacute, and chronic hemorrhagic cortical infarctions. In eight of nine patients, hemorrhage occurred in a vascular watershed zone. Acute hemorrhagic cortical infarction produces mild cortical low intensity on T2-weighted images outlined by subcortical edema (high intensity) and isointensity with normal cortex on T1-weighted images. Subacute ...