Association of ATG16L1 rs2241880 and TP53 rs1042522 with characteristics and course of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Background: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) represents the most frequent lymphoma in adults. Prognosis for DLBCL patients may be evaluated through the most prominent clinical/laboratory parameters or pattern of gene expression. In order to improve prognostic/prediction scores or provide new therapeutic targets, novel genetic markers are needed.

Detection of bacteria and analyses of Chlamydia trachomatis viability in patients with postvenereal reactive arthritis.

Postvenereal reactive arthritis is an inflammatory form of arthritis that commonly develops after urogenital infection, predominantly in human leucocyte antigen-B27-positive men in the third decade of life. In our hospital, patients underwent synovectomy before a 4-month course of antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, tetracycline and roxithromicin). The clinical remission was achieved in approximately 70% patients.

Reiter's syndrome--disease of young men-- analysis of 312 patients.

Introduction: Reiter's syndrome is reactive arthritis occurring after acute urogenital (urethritis, cervicitis) or enterocolitis infections. The associated ophthalmological and/or mucocutaneous changes are full clinical manifestations of this disease. This paper was aimed at analyzing clinical and radiological characteristics and findings of possible etiological factors and protocol for Reiter's syndrome therapy.

Polymorphisms of genes encoding tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin-10, cluster of differentiation-14 and interleukin-1ra in critically ill patients.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine whether distributions of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α(308), interleukin (IL)-10(1082), CD14(159), and IL-1ra gene intron 2 genotypes in critically ill patients are associated with outcome, underlying cause of sepsis, and type of microorganism.

Materials And Methods: Blood samples from 106 critically ill white patients were genotyped by method based on polymerase chain reaction for TNF-α(308), IL-10(1082), CD14(159), and IL-1ra gene intron 2.

Results: All patients with TNF-α(308)AA genotype survived; relative risk (RR) of death in patients with AG was 3.

Expression of programmed cell death proteins in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.

Purpose: Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a malignant myeloproliferative disease developing out of pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells that contain the fusion Bcr-Abl gene. The mechanisms that lead to these changes at molecular level are still unknown as are the mechanisms that increase the proliferative capacity of these cells. Disorders that occur in the process of apoptosis represent one of the possible molecular mechanisms that bring about disease progress.