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Rrapi R, Chand S, Lo JA, Gabel CK, Song S, Holcomb Z, Iriarte C, Moore K, Shi CR, Song H, Xia FD, Yanes D, Gandhi R, Triant VA, Kroshinsky D. The significance of exanthems in COVID-19 patients hospitalized at a tertiary care centre. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2021; 35:e640-e642. [PMID: 34146347 PMCID: PMC8447347 DOI: 10.1111/jdv.17459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- R Rrapi
- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Nambudiri VE, Shi CR, Vleugels RA, Olbricht SM. Academic dermatology leadership in the United States -- Addressing the gender gap. Int J Womens Dermatol 2018; 4:236-237. [PMID: 30627624 PMCID: PMC6322155 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijwd.2018.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2018] [Revised: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 05/11/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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- V E Nambudiri
- Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Dermatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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Abstract
New Zealand rabbits were assigned randomly to three groups: sham operation, intestinal simple obstruction, and strangulation obstruction. To relate possible changes in the body fluid content of biochemical markers to the strangulation process, subsequent samples of blood and peritoneal fluid, for the determination of levels of creatine kinase (CK), lactic acid (LA), xanthine oxidase (XO), and inorganic phosphate (IP), were obtained at 1-, 2-, 4-, and 6-hour intervals, and intestinal histological specimens were graded blindly. Significant increases in plasma LA (3.93 +/- 0.26 v 2.99 +/- 0.37; P < .05), peritoneal LA (5.03 +/- 1.14 V 3.33 +/- 0.86; P < .05), and CK (940 +/- 146 v 772 +/- 165, P < .05) occurred after 1 hour of ischemic injury. Except for serum CK, all parameters in the blood and peritoneal fluid in group 3 were markedly elevated within 4 hours. The serum CK remained almost unchanged throughout the 6-hour study period. The results suggest that plasma LA, peritoneal LA, and CK are sensitive indicators in the early diagnosis of bowel ischemia; the determination of both serum and peritoneal XO and IP was also helpful for early diagnosis; in contrast, serum CK was not a useful indicator. The value of any biochemical marker as an early diagnostic tool for intestinal ischemia depends not only on its quantity but also on its location and mechanism of release.
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- X P Liao
- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Second Medical University, People's Republic of China
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In 31 cases of Hirschsprung's disease, the mean value of erythrocyte AChE activity was discovered to be 91.24 +/- 10.24 u/mL, being significantly higher than that from 127 normal children of 73.51 +/- 9.36 u/mL (P less than 0.001); whereas serum ChE mean value of 14.49 +/- 4.04 u/mL showed no difference from normal control (16.89 +/- 8.86 u/mL, P greater than 0.05). In addition, the erythrocyte AChE activity of six newborns with Hirschsprung's disease was also found to be much higher than its own normal control. It was therefore, concluded that this assay may be of supplementary diagnostic significance in diagnosing neonatal Hirschsprung's disease.
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