Phosphatidylcholine is a ubiquitous phospholipid. It contains a phosphocholine (PC) headgroup and polyunsaturated fatty acids that, when oxidized, form reactive oxidized phospholipids (PC-OxPLs). PC-OxPLs are pathogenic in multiple diseases and neutralized by anti-PC IgM antibodies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute suppurative thyroiditis (AST) is a rare infection of the thyroid gland, and most patients are euthyroid upon presentation. We present an interesting case of a 42-year-old man with a history of intravenous drug use (IVDU) and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus who was admitted for sepsis and thyrotoxicosis from infective endocarditis (IE), AST, prostate abscess, and pyelonephritis. He suffered from a cerebral vascular accident (CVA) from septic embolic showering.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn education program offered health care providers information to assess patients' daily calorie goal and prompted an increase in weight loss and dietician referrals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Endocrinol (Lausanne)
January 2017
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global pandemic, as evident from the global cartographic picture of diabetes by the International Diabetes Federation (http://www.diabetesatlas.org/).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Prednisolone therapy increases the risk of infections in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis (SAH). We evaluated whether the use of the Lille Model at day 4 (LM4) is useful to predict response to prednisolone compared with the classic day 7 (LM7) in order to limit a futile exposure to corticosteroids.
Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of a large multinational cohort of patients with SAH with Maddrey's discriminant function (DF) ≥32.
Respir Med Case Rep
June 2015
Thoracic splenosis is rare benign condition that follows trauma leading to diaphragmatic injury. Most of the patients including ours present with a clear traumatic event leading to autotransplantation of spleen in thoracic cavity. Mostly diagnosed incidentally and we need to avoid unnecessary workup including radiological and invasive.
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