During inflammation, immune cells produce cytokines, chemokines and prostaglandins. This results in acute or chronic inflammation, which favor the development of degenerative diseases such as diabetes, obesity or cardiovascular diseases. Inflammatory processes are modulated by intrinsic and external factors. External factors are supposed to act via similar modes of action as do endogenous molec...

Hepato-splenic schistosomiasis is the most important etiology of non-cirrhotic portal hypertension. It represents a particular type chronic liver disease, which presents unique characteristics that differentiate it from those found in cirrhosis. The relative preservation parenchyma despite fibrosis was thought to yield more benign course hepato-splenic terms synthetic dysfunction and late decom...

background procalcitonin (pct) levels are increased in sepsis. in most previously conducted research, pct levels were found to increase during septic shock. objectives the purpose of this study was to compare pct levels with crp and esr levels in children with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs), sepsis, and septic shock. methods this cross-sectional study was conducted between decem...

background sepsis is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in the intensive care units (icus). it is difficult to accurately differentiate sepsis from similar diseases rapidly. therefore, it becomes critical to identify any biomarker with the ability of differentiation between sepsis and nonsepsis conditions. the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor has been implicated...

BACKGROUND Sepsis is one of the most common diseases that seriously threaten human health. Although a large number of markers related to sepsis have been reported in the last two decades, the diagnostic accuracy of these biomarkers remains unclear due to the lack of similar baselines among studies. Therefore, we conducted a large systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the diagnostic va...

BACKGROUND The degree of inflammatory response with cytokine release is associated with poor outcomes after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Previously, we reported on an association between systemic IL-6 levels and clinical outcome in patients with aneurysmal SAH. The intention was to assess the impact of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and acetaminophen on the inflammat...

Abstract Aims Post-operative systemic inflammatory reaction is part of the stress response caused by major thoracic surgery. Different anaesthetic agents used affect different immunological phenomena. This systematic review evaluates impact on profile and associated clinical significance. Methods A MEDLINE, EMBASE Cohrane databases to explore how post-operative response. Results total nine stud...

Biopharmaceuticals directed against tumor necrosis factor-alpha, integrins, interleukins, interferons and their receptors have become key agents for the management of inflammatory diseases in the fields of gastroenterology, rheumatology, dermatology and neurology. However, response to these treatments is far from optimal. Therapeutic failure has been attributed in part to inadequate serum conce...

The purpose of this article is to review the evidence linking depression with inflammation, to examine the bi-directional relationship between the neuro-humeral circuitry of depression and the inflammatory response, and point out new treatment implications of these ideas. The evidence available is in areas of genetic links, association of depression with raised inflammatory markers such as Tumo...