OVERVIEW OF THE ISSUE The appropriate management of superficial and deep pyoderma requires the use of both topical and systemic therapy. Topical therapy is often used as an adjunctive to systemic antibiotics because it will speed the healing process, aid in the elimination of bacterial byproducts and generally make the patient feel better. Topical therapy can also be used as a preventative ther...

BACKGROUND Intravenous cyclophosphamide (IVCY) pulse therapy has been used for lupus nephritis since the latter half of the 1980s; it has been shown to be effective for lupus nephritis and vasculitis and has become a standard therapy for the diffuse proliferative type of lupus nephritis in adults. IVCY therapy has also come to be used in children. This paper reports the long-term outcomes of IV...

A 12-year-old Japanese boy was referred to our hospital with a 2-month history of persistent proteinuria. Despite uri-nary protein excretion in the nephrotic range, associated with hypoproteinemia, the patient did not complain of any disability. A percutaneous renal biopsy revealed minor glomerular abnormalities, without any evidence of immune complex deposition. Therapy with pred-nisolone (60 ...

The present study compared the efficacy of cyclophosphamide combined with low-dose prednisolone in the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) with efficacy in idiopathic fibrosing nonspecific interstitial pneumonia fibrosing (NSIP). A total of 27 patients with IPF and 12 patients with fibrosing NSIP were included in this study. All patients had undergone surgical lung biopsy. The diag...

BACKGROUND Patients with severe psoriasis may be unresponsive to or unable to tolerate the adverse effects of traditional therapy. Thioguanine has been used to treat psoriasis, but experience is limited. Most previous studies have used daily therapy and have demonstrated significant hematologic abnormalities. OBJECTIVE To reduce the adverse effects of traditional thioguanine therapy, our stud...

a 56-year-old woman came in with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, 15 kg weight loss and accelerated asthma for which she had used zafirlukast and a high dose of prednisolone. during taper down of her prednisolone, her condition deteriorated. she developed generalized wheezing, diffuse abdominal pain, and left foot drop. lab examination revealed eosinophilia, elevated red cell sedimentat...

Nanosecond-pulse power has the characteristics of quickly increasing applied power, short pulse width, and considerably high-energy electrons. In this study, we investigated different air/helium mixture ratios nanosecond-pulsed-power-driven plasma jet discharge physicochemical properties gaseous aqueous phases. Results showed that length luminescence intensity increased with decreasing air rati...

introduction: adequate control of acne is difficult, regardless of the various conventional modalities. intense pulsed light (ipl) system is one of the emerging options that are become increasingly useful. methods: to achieve the best ipl parameters we evaluated the efficacy and tolerability of ipl at 752-nm wavelength, 35 j/cm2 fluence, 55-ms pulse duration in comparison with 572-nm wavelength...

Background: Children experience dental anxiety during their first visit, which affects the quality of treatment and gives rise to behaviour management problems. Clay, origami building blocks have been effective in alleviating hospitalization pediatric patients. These successful techniques hospitalized patients seldom used set up. Therefore, aim this study is assess compare efficacy clay therapy...