Cancer anorexia: clinical implications, pathogenesis, and therapeutic strategies

Anorexia and reduced food intake are important issues in the management of patients with cancer because they contribute to the development of malnutrition, increase morbidity and mortality, and impinge on quality of life.

Metabolic Encephalopathies

Kinnier Wilson coined the term metabolic encephalopathy to describe a clinical state of global cerebral dysfunction induced by systemic stress that can vary in clinical presentation from mild executive dysfunction to deep coma with decerebrate posturing; the causes are numerous. Some mechanisms by which cerebral dysfunction occurs in metabolic encephalopathies include focal or global cerebral e…

Systematic review: portal vein thrombosis in cirrhosis

Portal vein thrombosis is encountered in 10–25% of cirrhotics. In terms of pathophysiology, cirrhosis is no longer considered a hypocoagulable state; rather than a bleeding risk in cirrhosis, various clinical studies support a thrombotic potential. Clinical findings of portal vein thrombosis in cirrhosis vary from asymptomatic disease to a life-threatening condition at first presentation

Heart Failure in the diabetic patient – epidemiology, etiology, prognosis, …

In the type 2 diabetic patient the frequency of heart failure (HF) is increased and the mortality from HF is higher than with non-diabetic HF. The increased frequency of HF is due to the cardiotoxic tetrad of ischemic heart disease, left ventricular hypertrophy, diabetic cardiomyopathy and an extracellular volume expansion resistant to atrial natriuretic peptides

Pharmacokinetics and Side-Effects of Clonidine

single oral dose of clonidine 309 ~tg was administered to 8 healthy, normotensive subjects and the time course of its plasma concentrations was followed for 24 h.

Infections and risk-adjusted length of stay and hospital mortality in Polish …

The median LOS for neonates with infections was twice as high as for neonates without infection. LOS was significantly affected by the overall general condition of the neonate, as expressed by both gestational age and birth weight as well as by the Clinical Risk Index for Babies (CRIB) score; another independent factor was presence of at least one infection. Risk of in-hospital mortality was…

ANTIBIOTIC HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS AND APPROACHES TO DESENSITIZATION

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Prevalence of the Helicobacter pylori in the tonsils and adenoids

This study suggests that children are exposed to Hp at an early age of their life in this province. Hp may have a role in the pathogenesis of chronic adenotonsillitis, especially in endemic areas.

Anaesthetic management of nephrectomy in a chronic obstructivepulmonary disea…

Nephrectomies are usually performed under general anaesthesia alone or in combi-nation with regional anaesthesia and rarely under regional anaesthesia alone. We report themanagement of a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with a history of recurrentspontaneous pneumothorax undergoing nephrectomy under regional anaesthesia alone

The effect of addition of dexamethasone to levobupivacaine in parturients rec…

Regional analgesia is commonly used for the relief of labour pain, Prolongation of analgesia can be achieved by adjuvant medications. The aim of this randomisedrncontrolled trial was to evaluate the efficacy of intrathecal levobupivacaine with dexamethasone forrnlabour analgesia