Antibodies to varicella zoster virus in the cerebrospinal fluid of neonates with seizures. Archzoster virus infection after maternal subclinical infection: Clinical and neuropathological findings. ABBREVIATIONS BBB blood brain barrier BBBP blood brain barrier permeability CBF cerebral blood flow CMV cytomegalovirus CNS central nervous system CSF cerebrospinal fluid CP cerebral palsy CT computed...

Heroin abusers are frequently found to have abnormal liver function tests and hepatic histology. Hepatitis viruses A, B, and NANB, other drugs or drug contaminants and excessive alcohol consumption are factors thought to contribute. One hundred and sixteen heroin abusers attending a London treatment centre were studied. Sixty two (53%) had a raised aspartate transaminase. This was not explained...

In 1990 Omura, Y. reported that Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 as the major cause of chronic intractable pain and its effective treatment using mixture of EPA & DHA with Selective Drug Uptake Enhancement Method. Subsequently among the other causes of pain, he included Chlamydia Trachomatis, Borrelia Burgdorferi, Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, human Herpes Virus type 6, and Circulatory Disturbances. I...

A 10-year boy was presented to our hospital with a chief complaint of fever for 10 days, particularly at night. He was prescribed amoxicillin/clavulanic acid per-orally (PO) to treat upper respiratory tract infection before admission. Because of persisting fever, PO clarithromycin was added to his therapy 4 days ago. The patient had no complaints other than fever. Vital signs, general condition...

In several epidemiological studies, it was suggested that a high titer of cytomegalo-virus (CMV) antibody meant CMV reactivation, and that this condition was a determinant of coronary artery disease (CAD). The purpose of this study was to investigate both the prevalence of the CMV infections in our study population and whether high CMV sero-positivity is a determinant of CAD. Blood samples from...

A 53-year-old man is seen in clinic 4 months after receiving an orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) for two small (<3 cm in diameter) hepatomas which were discovered incidentally. The patient had a history of heavy alcohol use in his twenties and thirties, but has not used alcohol for over 10 years. Liver histology on the resected organ revealed early micronodular cirrhosis with the two tumor nod...

AIM To identify definitions of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and intestinal disease, in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), to determine the prevalence associated with these definitions. METHODS We conducted a systematic review and interrogated PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane for literature on prevalence and diagnostics of CMV infection and intestinal disease in IBD patients. As medical headings ...

The outpatient clinic of special study group on AIDS (POKDISUS) FKUI/RSCM provides health service for most of patients with HIV infection/AIDS in Jakarta. According to information center currently there are approximately 1800 cases and most of them (67%) are intravenous drug users. The study to obtain the profile of opportunistic infection in hospital had been initiated by Aida et al (1999). Th...