Multidrug resistance of isolated microorganisms in occluded bile duct stents.

Background/aim: Biliary stents have been used for benign or malignant biliary strictures, preoperative biliary drainage, resolution of biliary or pancreatic leaks, and dissolution treatment of non-extractable bile duct stones since 1979, and should be replaced at 3-6 month intervals. The aim of this cross-sectional pioneer study was to identify the microorganisms in occluded bile duct stents and to determine incidence and diagnosis of multidrug resistance of the isolated microorganisms in stents and in blood cultures.

Methods: Fifty-one patients (14F, 37M, mean age: 58.

Association of anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome with Herpesvirus 6, 7.

Background: Anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS) is one of the most severe forms of drug eruption with potentially lethal, and multiorgan involvement. Recently, it has been suggested that Human Herpesvirus (HHV) infection has been involved in this syndrome, although the pathogenesis of this syndrome remains still unclear.

Methods: The objective of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics of AHS and the possible role of viral infection as a co-factor.