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J Mycol Med
August 2022
Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Attikon University Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Electronic address:
Premature neonates are at particularly increased risk to develop invasive infections with excessive case fatality due to their low birth weight, enteral malabsorbtion, insufficient microbial defenses and underdeveloped anatomic barriers. We present a case of Moesziomyces aphidis (syn. Pseudozyma aphidis) fungemia in a newborn with severe morbidity and prolonged hospital stay.
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April 2017
Dr Sardar Rezaul Islam, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Jahurul Islam Medical College Hospital (JIMCH), Bajitpur, Kishoreganj, Bangladesh.
Abdominal pain, one of the major symptoms of chronic pancreatitis, is believed to be caused by obstruction of the pancreatic duct system by stones or strictures. This results in increased intraductal pressure and parenchymal ischemia. Surgical decompression of the duct and ductal drainage can achieve best pain relieve and slow the progression of the disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTuberk Toraks
June 2016
Clinic of Chest Diseases, Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Introduction: Malnutrition is a comorbidity oftenly seen in COPD patients who have progressive chronic inflammation and severity. In this prospective study, we aimed to determine the nutritional status of stable COPD patients and to investigate the impact of nutritional status on perception of dyspnoea, exercise capacity, body composition, hospitalisation and life quality.
Materials And Methods: COPD patients were assessed using previous smoking story, physical examination and irreversible airway obstruction.
Unlabelled: Improvement in the quality of life in Europe and North America in last decades caused that economical and social aspects of living conditions of the population have less effect and genetic defects of malabsorption of vitamin B12 became the main reason for cobalamin deficiency in children. Imerslund-Grasbeck syndrome (IGS) is characterized by vitamin B12 deficiency that leads usually to megaloblastic anemia and mild proteinuria. We described two pairs of siblings in two families with IGS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMaldigestion persists in most patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP). The objective lipase and amylase insufficiency diagnosis is needed to achieve an adequate clinical response to oral pancreatic enzyme substitution therapy. The novel data is presented in the article about the role of 13C-mixed triglyceride breath test as a tool for exocrine pancreatic insufficiency diagnosis, for evaluating fat malabsorbtion in CP patients.
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