Background and objectives: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex and systemic inflammatory disease in which the immune response is disturbed. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the promoter regions of regulatory cytokines including interleukin-10 (IL-10) may lead to exacerbated immune response and increased risk of RA. Here, we aimed to assess the association of IL-10 -1082 (G/A) (rs180...

Systemic immune cell dysfunction is a typical feature of liver diseases and increases the risk of bacterial infection, especially spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. We evaluated functional properties of neutrophil granulocytes in blood and ascites of patients both with and without decompensated cirrhosis. We collected blood and ascites samples from 63 patients with cirrhosis and eight without c...

Background: Hepatorenal syndrome is a part of the prerenal acute kidney injury (AKI) characterized by dysfunction which secondary to decreased renal blood flow that occurs in liver cirrhosis with portal hypertension and fatal complication. (HRS) about 20% patients refractory ascites.Method: This study was conducted on 24 ascites who visited Gastroenterohepatology Outpatient Ward Internal Medici...

The clinical picture of liver disease in endemic areas of Schistosomiasis mansoni differs in many ways from that observed in alcoholic and other types of cirrhosis. In hepatosplenic schistosomiasis there is predominance of the clinical manifestations of portal hypertension, e.g., bleeding esophageal varices, while ascites, jaundice, and hepatic precoma or coma are much less common. Ammonia tole...

Progressive growth of the P815 mastocytoma as an ascites in either normal or immunodepressed, semisyngeneic B6D2F1 mice resulted in the outgrowth of tumor cells resistant to lysis in vitro by tumor-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTLs). Additional testing in vitro showed that late ascites tumor cells also developed a progressive decline in susceptibility to lysis by alloreactive CTLs. The dec...

background: rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic inflammatory disease with many genetic factors predisposing to disease susceptibility. the aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of cd226 rs727088 and rs763361 polymorphisms and susceptibility to ra in a sample of the iranian population. methods: this case-control study was carried out on 100 patients with ra and 104 healthy su...

Nephrogenic ascites is a condition characterized by the presence of massive ascites in a patient with ESRD. Neither the exact cause nor the pathogenesis of ascites formation is clearly understood. Patients frequently present with hypertension, moderate to massive ascites, minimal extremity edema, cachexia, and a history of dialysis-associated hypotension. The ascitic fluid is typically an exuda...

Purpose: To evaluate the utility of artificial ascites induction for radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of peridiaphragmatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) through retrospective cohort analysis comparing characteristics and complications of peridiaphragmatic HCC without the use of artificial ascites to non-peridiaphragmatic HCC. Materials and Methods: IRB approval was obtained. From September 2003 t...

to investigate the effects of zataria multiflora boiss essential oil (zmb) on incidence of ascites syndrome and blood parameters of arian broiler chicks, an experiment with 500 one-day-old chicks were conducted. this experiment was based on completely randomized design with 5 treatments including 1) control (basal diet), 2) basal diet with 100 mg/kg probiotic, 3) basal diet with 150 mg/kg avila...

wo women with gastrointestinal malignancies leading to increased abdominal pressure from their copious ascites presented irreducible pelvic organ prolapse.