Due to advances in caring for critically ill children and those with chronic diseases, rates of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) are increasing in children. Risk factors consist of central venous catheters, chronic medical conditions, thrombophilia, and various medications. Compression Doppler ultrasonography is the method most commonly used to diagnoseDVT, and patientswill usually present with p…
Breast reconstruction is associated with multiple risk factors for venous thromboembolism. However, the incidence of deep vein thrombosis in patients undergoing breast reconstruction is uncertain.
Metformin is the first-line pharmacologic treatment for type 2 diabetes and the most commonly prescribed drug for this condition worldwide, either alone or in combination with insulin or other glucose- lowering therapies
The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical features, laboratory findings, systemic manifestations, treatment and outcome of patients with bullous systemic lupus erythematosus in a tertiary care center in Thailand
Biomarkers to predict locoregional lymph nodes metastasis is not yet accurate until now. The number of occult metastasis in laryngeal carcinoma varies between 1–65%. A tumor biomarker that can give information on the existence of locoregional lymph node involvement in patients with or without signs of clinical locoregional lymph node involvement, as guidelines whether selective neck dissec…
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is the leading cause of kidney failure worldwide, but few effective long-term treatments are available. In cardiovascular trials of inhibitors of sodium– glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2), exploratory results have suggested that such drugs may improve renal outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes.
We measured erythrocyte aggregation and hematocrit in 155 uncomplicated pregnancies and in 55 pregnant women with pre-eclampsia. In the later group we found increased erythrocyte aggregation and a higher hematocrit than in normal patients of comparable gestational age
Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis is primarily a disorder of childhood, which is characterized by hemoptysis, iron deficiency anemia, and diffuse parenchymal infiltrates on chest x-ray secondary to recurrent attacks of alveolar hemorrhage. It can be diagnosed by showing hemosiderin laden macrophages in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid after other specific causes of diffuse alveolar hemorrhag…
Superficial hemosiderosis of the central nervous system (CNS) is an uncommon and often unrecognized disorder caused by small repeated hemorrhages into the subarachnoid space, resulting in CNS hemosiderin deposition in the subpial layers. The etiology is reported to be idiopathic in 35% of cases, CNS tumor in 15%, trauma in 13%, and arteriovenous malformation in 9% of cases. It
Morbid obesity, defined as bodymass index (BMI) ‡40 kg/m2, affects approximately 8% of United States adults and is a recognized risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD). We present the first focused biopsy-based study exploring the range of kidney diseases in this population. Among 3263 native kidney biopsies interpreted at Columbia University in 2017, we identified 248 biopsies from m…