With the initial presentation of nodules, a clinician must rule out infectious disorders including various bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections. Other vasoocclusive disorders such as ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Not long after Julia and Spencer Peterson welcomed their first child into the world, baby Wesley started to get sick. The Petersons said they didn’t think much of it ...

We also can see other major vasculitis such as Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis in hepatitis C, you can see a Polyarteritis nodosa with hepatitis B, we have seen some different type of vasculitis with ...

Doctors in Salt Lake City discovered Wesley had a rare autoimmune disease called polyarteritis nodosa or PAN. After returning home Wesley was admitted at the University of Iowa Stead Family ...

The principal diagnosis of CTD was recorded using the following ICD-10 codes: M329 (adult-onset Still’s disease), M352 (Behçet’s disease), M341 (CREST syndrome), M308 (cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa), ...

Calcium levels showed a negative causal relationship with the risk of polyarteritis nodosa. MVMR results demonstrated that selenium could independently affect the risk of autoimmune hyperthyroidism, ...

A new prognostic model could potentially predict and stratify the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) among patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) who are noncirrhotic and not indicated for ...

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Figure 3. Formation of foamy macrophages and their role in TB pathogenesis. Foamy macrophages play a key role in the formation of caseous necrosis. They are formed when macrophages acquire cholesterol ...

The term dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) refers to a spectrum of heterogeneous myocardial disorders that are characterized by ventricular dilation and depressed myocardial performance in the absence of ...