INTRODUCTION Cancer antigen 125 (CA-125), known as a biomarker for women genital tract malignancies, could be also useful in detecting and monitoring endometriosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate CA-125 in serum and peritoneal fluid (PF) as an indicator of endometriosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS Fifty-six patients admitted to the First Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology for diagnosti...

Background: Cancer Antigen-125 (CA-125) was first identified as an ovary-specific tumor indicator but subsequently shown that inflammation exists even in the absence of polymorphism leads to this marker rise. Multiple locations tuberculosis (TB) produce increase serum antigen levels. This research objects estimate diagnostic value CA-125 and establish cut-off value, distinguishing tuberculous f...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The prognostic benefit of statins in patients with heart failure is a topic of controversy. Under the hypothesis that statins may provide greater benefit in a subgroup of patients with heightened inflammatory activity, we sought to explore whether statins are associated with a decreased risk of long-term mortality in patients with acute heart failure based on elevate...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to compare the predicted value of the blood levels variations of CA 125 antigen and the imunohistochemical expression of CA 125, with imagistic criteria (The Response Evaluation Criteran in Solid Tumor--RECIST) regarding the survival estimation of female patients with relapsed ovarian carcinoma which undergo to second line chemotherapy. MATERIAL AND METHOD...

Tumor markers could increase in both tuberculous peritonitis and peritonitis carcinomatosa, confusing the differentiation of these diseases. This study aimed to better understand the extent of elevation and diagnostic efficacies of carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA 125), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and combinative use of them in tuberculous peritonitis and peritonitis carcinomatosa. Of 2998 patie...

were stained by the same antibody; they were mature eosinophils with segmented nuclei. In a bone marrow biopsy specimen from a patient with hypereosinophilic syndrome, there were also many mature EG2-positive eosinophils. These observations suggest that in asthma eosinophils have already been activated in the early immature stage in the bone marrow. This finding might be related to the pathogen...

BACKGROUND The mortality and morbidity associated with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) can be greatly reduced if tumor markers which can detect OSCC at an early stage are available. The use of saliva as an alternative to blood could provide a substantial advantage in sampling convenience. Cancer antigen 125 (CA 125) is a tumor-associated antigen found to be increased in epithelial tumors li...

Human placental alkaline phosphatase (hPLAP; EC 3.1.3.1), cancer antigen 125 (CA 125), and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) were determined in sera of patients with malignant and nonmalignant disorders. For CA 125 we used two different commercial assay systems, based on the same monoclonal antibody. hPLAP had the same sensitivity (20%) as CA 125 for detecting non-ovarian neoplasia, whereas that o...

Human placental alkaline phosphatase (HPLAP), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), and cancer antigen 125 (CA 125) were localized immunohistochemically in paraffin sections of normal lung tissue from 16 patients, using monoclonal antibodies and an indirect avidin-biotin-peroxidase staining procedure. HPLAP and CEA were present in epithelial cells of respiratory bronchioli and alveolar type I pneumoc...

background: b-cell non-hodgkin’s lymphoma (nhl) is a common malignancy of lymphoid tissues. different types of nhl show various behaviors, prognoses, and responses to treatment. evaluation of disease activity in nhl can be helpful in managing and even increasing the patient’s survey. methods and results: in total, 121 patients (76 males and 45 females), and their age range were 18-53 years, wer...