Circulating extracellular vesicle-associated CD163 and CD206 in multiple myeloma.

Objectives: Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are important for intercellular signalling in cancer. Tumour-associated macrophages, expressing the haemoglobin-haptoglobin and mannose receptors CD163 and CD206, are crucial for cancer progression. We recently identified CD163 on EVs in the circulation as a fraction of total soluble CD163 (sCD163).

Decubitus prophylaxis: a prospective trial on the efficiency of alternating-pressure air-mattresses and water-mattresses.

Six hundred patients at risk for pressure sores were randomized in either a control group or one of two experimental groups placed on alternating-pressure air-mattresses and water-mattresses. The groups remained comparable throughout the 10-day study period. Twenty-one patients from the control group developed decubitus ulcers, compared with 7 in each of the other groups.

Prevention of pressure sores by identifying patients at risk.

The risk of pressure sores developing in patients admitted with acute conditions was assessed by a simple risk score system based on age, reduced mobility, incontinence, pronounced emaciation, redness over bony prominences, unconsciousness, dehydration, and paralysis in a prospective clinical study. During seven months in 1977, 600 of 3571 patients were classified as at risk. Of these 35 (5.

Viral hepatitis in a venereal clinic population. Relation to certain risk factors.

In the present survey 3 groups of patients were studied: 95 homosexual males, 117 heterosexual males and 68 females attending clinics for venereal diseases in Copenhagen. 10 cases of hepatitis B infection were found, all in homosexual males. Chronic carriership of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and presence of hepatitis B e-antigen (HBeAg) was demonstrated in 8 and 5 cases, respectively and liver biopsy showed chronic liver disease in 5 out of the 8 former.

Microscopy of tonsillar smears and sections in tonsillar gonorrhoea.

Microscopy of methylene-blue and Gram-stained smears from the tonsillar surface and an immunofluorescence (IF) test were carried out for 130 patients, 129 with genital and/or anal gonorrhoea, 27 of whom also had tonsillar gonorrhoea. One patient had only tonsillar gonorrhoea. 5 of the 28 patients with tonsillar gonorrhoea had acute tonsillitis and for these, agreement was found between culture, light microscopy and IF test, while only 5 of the remaining 23 patients had positive microscopy.