[THE IMPACT OF ADMISSION TO THE MEDICAL WARD ON HEMOGLOBIN A1C LEVELS AMONG PATIENTS WITH TYPE-2 DIABETES].

Introduction: Blood glucose monitoring is a routine medical practice in the medical ward regardless of the cause of hospitalization of patients with diabetes. In this study we prospectively evaluated the impact of hospitalization on hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) among patients with type-2 diabetes admitted to the medical ward, for reasons unrelated directly to their diabetes.

Methods: Patients with type-2 diabetes who were admitted to the medical ward for reasons not directly related to diabetes were asked to participate in our study.

The Impact of Intra-articular Depot Betamethasone Injection on Insulin Resistance Among Diabetic Patients With Osteoarthritis of the Knee: A Case-Control Study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of intra-articular corticosteroid injection (IACI) of depot betamethasone at the knee joint on insulin resistance (IR).

Methods: Patients with type 2 diabetes, non-insulin treated, with painful osteoarthritis of the knee were requested to participate in our study. After consent, demographic, clinical, and laboratory parameters were documented in addition to fasting blood glucose (FBG) and fasting blood insulin levels just prior to IACI of 1 mL of depot betamethasone.

The impact of corticosteroid treatment on hemoglobin A1C levels among patients with type-2 diabetes with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation.

Background: Corticosteroid-induced hyperglycemia is a known adverse effect. There are no studies on the impact of corticosteroid treatment on hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels in type-2 diabetes patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation.

Methods: HbA1c levels were evaluated in type-2 diabetes patients with COPD exacerbation on admission to the hospital (group-1) and 3-months later.

Simultaneous bilateral knee injection of methylprednisolone acetate and the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis: a single-blind case-control study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of simultaneous bilateral intra-articular injection (IAI) of methylprednisolone acetate (MPA) on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Methods: Nonselected patients with symptomatic bilateral knee osteoarthritis had simultaneous IAI of 80 mg MPA at each knee (group 1). Just before the injection and on weeks 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 after it, patients had 1 µg adrenocorticotropin hormone stimulation test.

The effect of intra-articular injection of betamethasone acetate/betamethasone sodium phosphate at the knee joint on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis: a case-controlled study.

Background: Intra-articular corticosteroid injection (IACI) of betamethasone depot preparation is a popular procedure at the knee joint. Intra-articular corticosteroid injection in general could be associated with systemic effects including suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. There are nearly no reports on the effect of IACI of betamethasone at the knee joint on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.

[Acute eosinophilic pneumonia: a potentially fatal disease under a mask of acute community-acquired bacterial pneumonia].

Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP) is a rare and sometimes fatal disease. Diagnosis of AEP may be especially difficult in its early stages, before development of peripheral eosinophilia. This is a case study of AEP in a 27 years old female, reviewing etiologic factors, clinical presentation, diagnostic procedures and current treatment strategies.

Effects of hyperoxia on local and remote microcirculatory inflammatory response after splanchnic ischemia and reperfusion.

Splanchnic ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) causes tissue hypoxia that triggers local and systemic microcirculatory inflammatory responses. We evaluated the effects of hyperoxia in I/R induced by 40-min superior mesenteric artery (SMA) occlusion and 120-min reperfusion in four groups of rats: 1) control (anesthesia only), 2) sham operated (all surgical procedures without vascular occlusion; air ventilation), 3) SMA I/R and air, 4) SMA I/R and 100% oxygen ventilation started 10 min before reperfusion. Leukocyte rolling and adhesion in mesenteric microvessels, pulmonary microvascular blood flow velocity (BFV), and macromolecular (FITC-albumin) flux into lungs were monitored by intravital videomicroscopy.