Time course of urinary neopterin in a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patient during chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

The objective of this study was to follow urinary neopterin in a patient affected by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma during the three months treatment from the onset of the disease. In the study a patient affected by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Stage IV (centrocyto-centroblastic type) was enrolled. He was treated with combined chemotherapy and local radiotherapy.

Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes - patients' cohort profile in the Czech Republic.

Reported paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are rare disabling neurological diseases with supposed autoimmune pathogenesis. The aims of this study were to evaluate frequency, clinical course and therapeutic response in the cohort of PNS positive patients (n=10) in the Czech Republic for the first time. Second, we determined the presence and distribution of oligoclonal IgG bands (OB IgG) in PNS and compared the clinical and laboratory features of OB IgG positive and negative patients.

[Fructose metabolism disorders and infusions].

The authors give an account of views regarding the use of non-glucose energy sources in parenteral nutrition during the immediate post-load period/serious operations, severe injuries). Attention is devoted to the metabolic pathway of fructose and its disorders. In hereditary fructose intolerance an infusion of D-fructose or D-glucitol (= sorbitol) can induce life threatening hypoglycaemia (unless glucose is administered concurrently).

[Parenteral nutrition in multiple injuries. III].

One of the main features of parenteral nutrition in patients with multiple injuries remains the slow administration of different substances and the adherence to "anti-insulin provisions" which are usually called for during the first week after the injury. The recommended ratio of amino acids with branched carbon chains for patients with multiple injuries (i. e.