Management of chronic diarrhea in HIV-infected patients: current treatment options, challenges and future directions.

Diarrhea is a common clinical manifestation of HIV infection regardless of whether the patients have AIDS. HIV and malnutrition tend to occur in the same populations, the underprivileged and resource-poor. Malnutrition increases severity and mortality of infection.

Helicobacter pylori and CagA seropositivity and its association with gastric and oesophageal carcinoma.

Objective: Helicobacter pylori infection is an established risk factor for non-cardia gastric adenocarcinoma. Infection with H. pylori strains harbouring the cagA pathology island may augment this association.

ColoPlus, a new product based on bovine colostrum, alleviates HIV-associated diarrhoea.

Objective: HIV-associated diarrhoea occurs in nearly all patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the developing countries. Diarrhoea is caused by the HIV-related immune dysfunction and is pivotal in the decrease of the helper T-cell (CD4 + ) population. Enteric pathogens in HIV-associated diarrhoea are, for example, Cryptosporidium, Amoeba and Campylobacter species.

A retrospective study on the influence of apolipoprotein e and serum lipids in progressive renal failure.

Background: Progression of renal failure is associated with altered lipoprotein metabolism. Apolipoprotein E polymorphism is an important genetic marker for dyslipidemia. The main purpose of this retrospective study was to examine the influence of apolipoprotein E polymorphism and serum lipids level on the progression rate in a group of patients with kidney diseases of diverse etiology.

Apolipoprotein E polymorphism in 385 patients on renal replacement therapy in Sweden.

Objective: To examine apolipoprotein (apo) E polymorphism and its possible link to kidney disease in all patients receiving renal replacement therapy in our region.

Material And Methods: The apo E genotype, plasma (P) lipids, blood pressure and albumin excretion rate were determined retrospectively in 385 patients.

Results: No differences in apo E genotype or the allelic frequencies of epsilon2, epsilon3 or epsilon4 were found between the patient group and a control group of 343 healthy individuals.

Evaluation of western blot CagA seropositivity in Helicobacter pylori-seropositive and -seronegative subjects.

CagA seropositivity is an important risk factor for gastric adenocarcinoma and duodenal ulcer. However, CagA seropositivity is also found in Helicobacter pylori-seronegative subjects. Is CagA seropositivity in these subjects a sign of a past H.