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Research Articles (Internal Medicine): Recent submissions
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(BioMed Central, 2010-09)BACKGROUND: Advanced HIV infection can result in lipoatrophy and wasting, even in the absence of ongoing opportunistic infections, suggesting that HIV may directly affect adipose tissue amount and distribution. METHODS: ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010)No abstract available.
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-09)Anaemia is a relatively common finding in HIV-positive patients, with rates (among females) as high as 37%, compared with their HIV-negative counterparts (17%). Anaemia of chronic disease plays a very important role in ...
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(Clinics Cardiv, 2010-09)INTRODUCTION: Estimates of left atrial size in patients with suspected cardiac disease play an important role in predicting prognosis and events, as well as treatment decisions. Two methods are commonly used to estimate ...
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(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2010-09)Extramedullary haematopoiesis (EMH) is a rare cause of spinal cord compression. When a patient with a haematological disorder that causes chronic anaemia (particularly thalassaemia) presents with neurological deficits ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-07)BACKGROUND: During inflammation, the serum concentrations of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), plasma interleukin-6 (IL-6), and C-reactive protein (CRP) increase. A positive correlation between CRP and the ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-07)OBJECTIVES: The study was designed to evaluate the role of soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (s-TERM-1) measured in samples of endotracheal aspirates from critically ill, intubated patients as a marker ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-09)OBJECTIVE: Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET) is an accurate non-invasive imaging test for differentiating benign from malignant solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs). We aimed to assess its diagnostic ...
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(Clinics Cardiv, 2010-06)Diabetes mellitus is associated with a two- to four-fold increased risk of coronary artery disease, and in diabetic people, about two-thirds of deaths are cardiovascular (ischaemic heart disease, congestive heart failure ...
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(Medpharm Publications, 2010-05)Heart failure is a clinical syndrome that can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the performance of the ventricle: either to eject blood (systolic dysfunction) [or reduced ejection ...
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(BioMed Central, 2009-10)BACKGROUND: The role of protein kinase C (PKC) in regulating the activity of phospholipase C (PLC) in neutrophils activated with the chemoattractant, platelet-activating factor (PAF, 20 and 200 nM), was probed in the current ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2009)Obesity can have an impact on health at each stage of a woman’s life cycle. In young women, obesity has an impact on psychosocial health and, as they grow older, on their reproductive health. Obesity also imposes a number ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2009-07)HIV is one of the most prevalent diseases and causes of mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Pleural disease is common in the population of this region, especially pleural effusion. The disease is associated with a significant ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2009)OBJECTIVE: To determine the factors influencing non-attendance with clinic appointments in diabetic patients at a Gauteng Hospital in 2007/2008. SETTING: Two diabetes clinics situated at a secondary-level hospital, that ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2009)A 28-year-old woman presented with a thyroid storm while pregnant. Thyroid storm in pregnancy is a rare, life threatening endocrinological emergency. The diagnosis and management can be challenging. Even with early ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-02)Water-pipe smoking is growing in popularity, especially among young people, because of the social nature of the smoking session and the assumption that the effects are less harmful than those of cigarette smoking. It has ...
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(Medpharm Publications, 2009-03)BACKGROUND: Diabetes has become a major health problem worldwide, as well as in South Africa. This, coupled with the chronicity of the disease, relate to an increasing burden on health care facilities and an increasing ...
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(Medpharm Publications, 2009-05)Disseminated histoplasmosis can be the initial clue to the presence of AIDS. In HIV infected patients, histoplasmosis can present with unusual manifestations, without a positive exposure history or outside the typical ...
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(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2009)In patients with pheochromocytomas it is well known that different factors can precipitate an acute pheochromocytoma crisis. Our patient presented with a vesicular skin rash and respiratory distress suggestive of disseminated ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2008-10)Transmission of Helicobacter pylori is thought to occur mainly during childhood, and predominantly within families. However, due to the difficulty of obtaining H. pylori isolates from large population samples and to the ...
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