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Pigmented purpuric dermatosis (Schamberg's purpura) in an infant.
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Pityriasis rosea-like eruption after anti-inflammatory and antipyretic medication
We report 2 cases of a pityriasis rosea-like eruption after the use of the anti-inflammatory and antipyretic medications naproxen, acetaminophen, and a combination of acetylsalicylic acid and codeine phosphate. The role of these drugs in the induction of the eruption was supported by the results of macrophage migration inhibition factor and mast cell degranulation tests performed on the offending drugs
Bariatric Emergencies for Non-Bariatric Surgeons: Complications of Laparoscopic Gastric Banding
Subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma: further evidence for a distinct neoplasm originating from large granular lymphocytes of T/NK phenotype
A CASE OF HEMORRHAGE DUE TO RUPTURED COMMON HEPATIC ARTERY AFTER PANCREATODUODENECTOMY IN WHICH LIGATION OF THE HEPATIC ARTERY AND ARTERIALIZATION OF THE PORTAL VEIN MIGHT BE EFFECTIVE
Anti-Endothelial Antibodies and Neuropsychiatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
The pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (NPSLE) has been attributed to autoantibody-mediated neural dysfunction, vasculopathy, and coagulopathy. Several autoantibodies specificities have been reported in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of NPSLE patients (i.e., antineuronal, antiribosomal P proteins, antiglial fibrillary acidic proteins, antiphospholipid, and anti-endothelial antibodies). We have recently demonstrated an association between serum anti-endothelial antibodies and psychosis or depression in patients with SLE. Subsequently, by screening a cDNA library from human umbilical artery endothelial cells with serum from a SLE patient with psychosis, one positive strongly reactive clone was identified encoding the C-terminal region (C-ter) of Nedd5, an intracytoplasmatic protein of the septin family. Anti-Nedd5 antibodies have been found significantly associated with psychiatric manifestations in SLE patients, strengthening the view of a possible implication of autoantibodies in the development of psychiatric disorders. © 2006 New York Academy of Sciences