Background: Adenosarcoma of endometriosis presenting with neurological paraneoplastic manifestations is rare. Case: 30 year old multiparous woman presented to neurologist with stroke. Subsequent evaluation revealed haemorrhagic ascites with adnexal masses and pulmonary thrombosis. Her CA 125 level was very high and ascetic fluid cytology showed adenocarcinoma deposits and she was treated as adv...

A 55-year-old woman presented with recurrent abdominal pain, a lump in her abdomen, and vomiting. In the previous 10 years, she required multiple hospital admissions for pain. Examination revealed pallor and a lump (20 cm 15 cm) extending from left hypochondrium to left iliac region. Labs showed hemoglobin 7.8 g/dL, platelet count 5,100 cells/mm, and serum protein/ albumin 6.7/3.4 g/dL; the res...

The aim of this study is to investigate the antitumor activity and possible molecular mechanism of Phenethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC) against Ehrlich ascites carcinoma in-vivo and in-vitro.In-vivo, ascetic fluid volume, body weight, serum malondialdehyde (MDA) level and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) were determined using Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (EAC) bearing mice. In-vitro, MTT assay was use...

BACKGROUND Midodrine is an α-agonist prodrug of desglymidodrine used for the management of hypotension. Midodrine has demonstrated usefulness in hepatorenal syndrome. OBJECTIVE The objective of the present work was to study the role of midodrine in patients with non-azotemic cirrhosis with tense ascites. METHODS This prospective randomized double blind placebo-controlled study was conducted...

Objective The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of umbilical cord blood stem cells (USCs) transplantation combined with routine supportive therapy (RST) for liver cirrhosis (LC). Materials and methods Clinical trials involved in this research were searched from Web of Science, PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Wanfang and CNKI database. Treatment effects, quality of lif...

a study was conducted to evaluate the effects of blood pressure medications on index of liver damage in ascites incidence in broilers. a completely randomized experimental design with a 2×3 factorial arrangement (sex and feed additive), with 3 replicates of 12 birds, with 216 (108 male and 108 female) one-day-old (ross 308) was applied. feed additive includes control (without feed additive) lev...