This study aimed to assess the relationship between malnutrition and anemia in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). The cross-sectional retrospective included 80 UC. Body mass index total body fat were derived retrospectively from bioimpedance measurements. Anemia was diagnosed according WHO criteria. A binary logistic regression performed nutritional status parameters anemia, adjusted for de...

Rotaviruses (RV) are the most common cause of acute diarrhoea in children. The course of RV infections may vary from a mild to a serious course of diarrhoea with significant disturbances to the water-electrolyte and acid-base homeostasis and complications requiring hospitalisation. There are known cases of postinfectious enteropathy and severe cases may involve a complete villous atrophy and te...

During a 20-year period disseminated mycobacteriosis occurred in 11 (1.1%) of a total of 1006 patients with severe hematologic disorders, with the frequency remaining almost unchanged. The diagnosis in three patients (27%) was made only at autopsy. Tuberculosis accounted for 64% of all cases. Female preponderance was seen with a male-to-female ratio of 3:8. The major factors associated with dis...

The albumin component is, by reason of size and net charge and concentration, chiefly responsible for plasmas osmotic activity ( 1) .2 The validity of Starling's hypothesis in the dynamics of water balance in conditions associated with hypoproteinemia has been the subject of considerable recent discussion. The basic experimental problems involved have been considered by some of us in other publ...

The study was conducted on 145 buffaloes brought to Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, LUVAS from Hisar and adjoining villages, with signs of anorexia and decreased milk yield. Urine samples from buffaloes were screened for ketosis using two tests (Rothera’s test and Keto-Diastix-strip test). The disease was confi rmed in 24 buffaloes as primary ketosis on the basis of clinical signs (select...

Ménétrier's disease is a rare protein-losing gastropathy characterized by hypertrophic gastric fold, foveolar hyperplasia, and hypoproteinemia with resulting peripheral edema. It is clinically evident as nonspecific gastrointestinal symptoms, including abdominal discomfort, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, weight loss, diarrhea, and edema. Pediatric Ménétrier's disease usually has an insidi...

Protein-losing gastroenteropathy (PLGE) is a rare etiology of generalized edema. It is caused by a loss of serum protein into the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in hypoproteinemia, generalized edema, ascites, pleural effusions and occasionally, pericardial effusions. PLGE is associated with various conditions, such as gastrointestinal malignancy, cardiac diseases, inflammatory bowel disease,...

The effect of malarial fever on hepatic physiology has recently been investigated. It has been found (1) that considerable bromsulphthalein retention, a marked reduction in cholesterol and cholesterol esters, a moderate fall in phospholipids, diminished hippuric acid excretion and a strongly positive cephalin-cholesterol flocculation reaction resulted when malaria was induced in 9 patients by i...