Prevention of lupus nephritis by antigens that cross-react with DNA.
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A Ben-Yehuda
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Intestinal obstruction caused by bezoar: a rare complication after bone marrow transplantation.
Gastrointestinal complications are described frequently after preparation of patients for bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Two patients who underwent BMT developed complications due to gastrointestinal bezoars. One patient developed intestinal obstruction, which necessitated emergency surgery, and the other patient had a gastric bezoar, which caused vomiting. The diagnosis and treatment of this rare complication after BMT are described.
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Insulinoma complicating pregnancy: case report and review of the literature.
A 24-year-old woman, gravida 1, para 0, experienced recurrent attacks of headaches and bizarre behavior from the sixth week of gestation onward. Three days before confinement, she lapsed into coma and was delivered of a normal child. Plasma glucose, insulin, and C-peptide levels were diagnostic of insulinoma. Subsequently, after she spontaneously regained consciousness, a pancreatic tumor was removed at laparotomy with complete resolution of symptoms. The problems of diagnosing insulinoma during pregnancy are discussed.
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Yellow nail syndrome: case report and review of the literature.
A patient with yellow nail syndrome is described. The presenting features were right pleural effusion resistant to therapy, leg edema and slow-growing yellow nails. T-lymphopenia in the peripheral blood and T cell predominance in the pleural fluid were demonstrated. In addition, the capillaries in the conjunctival and nail beds showed increased vasomotion and decreased diameter. It is suggested that the disease is not confined to the lymphatic system, but also involves the capillaries.
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Apolipoprotein Eepsilon4 allele, a risk factor for late onset nonfamilial Alzheimer's disease among Israeli Jews.
Apolipoprotein (apoE) genotypes were determined in 90 Israeli Jews with late onset sporadic Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and in 90 age- and sex-matched non-demented controls. The percentage of subjects carrying at least one apoEepsilon4 allele was 6% among the controls, and 42% among the patients (P<0.001), indicating a strong association between late onset sporadic AD and the apoEepsilon4 allele. However, no association was found between the apoEepsilon4 allele in demented and non-demented Jewish Israeli patients with Down's syndrome or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The data presented in this paper confirmed several recent reports, suggesting that the apoEepsilon4 allele is a risk factor for the development of AD but not for the development of CJD or Down's syndrome among Israeli Jews.
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Dermatomyositis associated with the recurrence of transitional cell carcinomas and Kaposi's sarcoma.
A 76-year-old male was admitted to our hospital because of dermatomyositis (DM). Fourteen years earlier a transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder was diagnosed. Following repeated resections of the neoplasm, he was free of the disease for the last two years. Six weeks after starting treatment with steroids and azathioprine for DM, he has developed Kaposi's sarcoma of the skin which subsided upon discontinuation of the immunosuppressive drugs. Four months after the diagnosis of DM, a local recurrence of the bladder carcinoma was found. This patient illustrates the importance of a thorough search for neoplasms or recurrence in elderly patients with dermatomyositis. The case also emphasizes the need for caution in immunosuppressive treatment of autoimmune disorders in such patients. Still, discontinuation of these medications resulted in a significant improvement of the skin neoplasm.
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