(1) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(3) The serum concentration of hyaluronan (HYA) was determined in 59 patients with various myeloproliferative disorders, including 33 patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis.
(4) These data indicate that CSF levels are not inversely related to the blood neutrophil count in chronic idiopathic neutropenia and suggest that CSF is not a hormone regulating the blood neutrophil count in a manner analogous to the erythropoietin regulation of circulating erythrocyte levels.
(5) In contrast, idiopathic GH deficient girls have an onset of puberty and PHV nearer to a normal chronological age and at an early bone age.
(6) Both Types I and II collagen are important constituents of the affected tissues, and thus defective collagens are reasonable candidates for the primary abnormality in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
(7) A new surgical procedure for idiopathic priapism has been used successfully in patients.
(8) The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were measured both during relapse and remission in 8 patients with idiopathic, minimal-lesion nephrotic syndrome.
(9) The treatment of adult patients with idiopathic scoliosis is a challenge of the 1980s.
(10) It remains to be seen, whether the small number and sterility causes were coincidental or manifest themselves in future, especially, if the sterility concerned can be classified as idiopathic.
(11) The distinction between idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and myocarditis is controversial, both clinically and pathologically.
(12) Complete normalization was more common in the idiopathic group (66%) than in the symptomatic group (27%).
(13) We carried out a neuropsychological study on cognitive impairment in 57 subjects affected by idiopathic Parkinson's Disease (P.D.)
(14) Thirty-three patients with idiopathic scoliotic curvatures underwent metrizamide myelography before surgery from 1979 through 1985.
(15) Two cases of idiopathic myelofibrosis of childhood were treated with intravenous methylprednisolone.
(16) In 26 patients, including the two reported here, etiology was uncertain (idiopathic aneurysm of the left ventricle) in as much as malformation or an infectious disease might have been the underlying cause.
(17) The association of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and pregnancy is of special therapeutic significance because it increases the risk to mother and infant during labor.
(18) Two patients who had had idiopathic steatorrhoea for several years developed typical eruptions of dermatitis herpetiformis.
(19) No increased incidence of pancreas divisum was found in any of four groups: an incidental group, a group with alcoholic pancreatitis, a group with unexplained upper abdominal pain, and an idiopathic pancreatitis group.
(20) This population-based case-control study of 130 Calgary residents with neurologist-confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and 260 randomly selected age- and sex-matched community controls attempted to determine whether agricultural work or the occupational use of pesticide chemicals is associated with an increased risk for PD.
Inborn
Definition:
(a.) Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is an inborn error of the mitochondrial beta-oxidation of fatty acids.
(2) Fibroblasts cultured from the skin of a patient with metachromatic leukodystrophy have been found to manifest the biochemical defect of this inborn error of metabolism, a deficiency of arylsulfatase A. Diseased cells had less than five per cent of normal arylsulfatase-A activity, while activities of other lysosomal enzymes-including arylsulfatase B, beta-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase, and beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase-were comparable to those in control cells.
(3) Defects in this enzyme are responsible for one of the most common inborn errors of metabolism in humans.
(4) The current major indications for prenatal diagnosis are Down's syndrome (Trisomy 21), numerous rare inborn errors of metabolism, and neural tube closure defects.
(5) The authors discuss the problem of administration and amount of fluids and electrolytes in neonates after operations of inborn developmental defects and during the postoperative period.
(6) Hurler syndrome, a lethal inborn error of lysosomal metabolism, results from the systemic accumulation of glycosaminoglycan.
(7) Prognosis of this "inborn error of metabolism" is not favorable due to calcium-oxalate depositions in kidney and other organs.
(8) Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency is a common inborn error of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation.
(9) The child was also shown to be a genetic carrier for ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, an x-linked inborn error of urea cycle metabolism.
(10) These patients appear to have deleterious inborn enzymatic abnormalities of a type originally postulated by Garrod.
(11) The surgery also impaired the corrective movements, especially if their direction was opposite to the inborn unconditioned reaction.
(12) It appears that most patients with well recognized disorders are not being diagnosed, and it is our conviction that there are new, as yet unidentified, inborn errors of metabolism in this population of patients.
(13) Inborn and learned ability to detect mild, nonpainful distension of the sygmoid colon was examined in 22 patients who underwent colonostomy one year or more before the investigation.
(14) And so we consider psoriasis to be an inborn fault in the metabolism of epidermal and other cells, which is only provoked by secondary influences (drugs, allergic reactions, local traumas).
(15) The hypothesis is advanced that both phenomena represent inborn dialectical logical instruments of evolution-like human identity creation and maintenance.
(16) Jack Ashley provided the political language and the inborn fighting skill, but she would labour to help him find the killer facts.
(17) We want to modify the albino definition as a hereditary and congenital inborn error of metabolism related to the pigment cell, and resulting in a systemic disorder that is characterized by anomalies of eyes, and hypopigmentation in most cases or absence of pigment in skin, hair, and eyes, and of which the neuro-anatomical consequences are the most characteristic.
(18) In a 5-year period, 476 consecutive live and inborn neonates weighing less than or equal to 1000 gm were studied.
(19) We believe that it is particularly suitable for the rapid and acute diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism, especially the organic acidurias, and for acute pediatric clinical care, when rapid monitoring of major metabolic alterations is required in a time scale suitable to influence directly and immediately the therapy of the patients concerned.
(20) Serum levels of 7 alpha-hydroxycholesterol, 7 beta-hydroxycholesterol and 26-hydroxycholesterol were determined in several groups of patients: normals, untreated patients suffering from cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, patients suffering from cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis and treated with either chenodeoxycholic acid or cholic acid in an effective dose, patients suffering from cerebro-hepato-renal syndrome, patients suffering from hypercholesterolemia and treated with cholestyramine for prolonged periods and one patient presumed to be suffering from an inborn error of metabolism in bile acid synthesis.