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Etiology of elevated hemoglobin level in an adult

https://read.qxmd.com/read/17259569/life-threatening-hyperglycemia-and-acidosis-related-to-olanzapine-a-case-report-and-review-of-the-literature
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REVIEW
Mritunjay Kumar Varma, Karen Connolly, Barbara Fulton
The authors report a case with life-threatening hyperglycemia and acidosis in a patient with no previous diabetic history following treatment with olanzapine. A 35-year-old woman with a history of bipolar affective disorder treated with olanzapine presented with severe diabetic ketoacidosis. She had no prior history of diabetes or risk factors for diabetes. Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) on admission blood sample suggested that long-term glycemic control had been poor. The authors postulate that treatment with olanzapine precipitated hyperglycemia, an elevated creatine kinase level, and a high amylase level...
January 2007: Journal of Intensive Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/16610061/cryptogenic-cirrhosis-in-the-region-where-obesity-is-not-prevalent
#22
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hideyuki Kojima, Shinya Sakurai, Masahiko Matsumura, Norie Umemoto, Masahito Uemura, Hiroyo Morimoto, Yasuhiro Tamagawa, Hiroshi Fukui
AIM: Recent studies have demonstrated that obesity is the common feature of cryptogenic cirrhosis (CC) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. However, there is little information on CC in the region where obesity is not prevalent. METHODS: The clinical features, and the liver-related morbidity and mortality of CC were analyzed in Japan where the prevalence of obesity is low. Among 652 cirrhotic patients, we identified 29 patients (4.4%) with CC. Of these, 24 CC patients who were followed up for more than 6 months were compared in a case-control study with age-, sex-, and Child-Pugh score-matched controls having cirrhosis of viral etiology...
April 7, 2006: World Journal of Gastroenterology: WJG
https://read.qxmd.com/read/16368297/an-unexpected-inverse-relationship-between-hba1c-levels-and-mortality-in-patients-with-diabetes-and-advanced-systolic-heart-failure
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shervin Eshaghian, Tamara B Horwich, Gregg C Fonarow
BACKGROUND: In diabetes, poor glycemic control, as indexed by hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events and new-onset heart failure (HF). However, in patients with diabetes and HF, the relationship between glucose control and survival has not been investigated. Our study aimed to evaluate the relationship between HbA1c levels and mortality in patients with diabetes and advanced systolic HF. METHODS: We studied a cohort of 123 patients with diabetes and advanced systolic HF referred to a single center with HbA1c values measured at presentation...
January 2006: American Heart Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/15926112/fasting-hyperglucagonemia-in-patients-with-transjugular-intrahepatic-portosystemic-shunts-tips
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
D Raddatz, C Rossbach, A Buchwald, K-H Scholz, G Ramadori, W Nolte
BACKGROUND: Hyperglucagonemia has been described to be associated with insulin resistance in patients with liver cirrhosis. Portosystemic shunts may be involved in the etiology of hyperglucagonemia. To test this hypothesis we investigated fasting peripheral plasma glucagon levels before and after portal decompression by transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting (TIPS). METHODS: Glucagon, insulin, plasma glucose, HbA1c, and C-peptide were determined in peripheral venous samples from 21 non-diabetic (ND)- and 15 diabetic patients (D; 3 treated with insulin, 3 with sulfonylurea, 9 with diet alone) with liver cirrhosis, showing comparable clinical features (gender, age, BMI, creatinine, Child-Pugh-score, complications, and etiology of liver cirrhosis) before, 3 and 9 months after elective TIPS implantation...
May 2005: Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology & Diabetes
https://read.qxmd.com/read/15066877/adult-hemoglobin-levels-at-birth-and-risk-of-sudden-infant-death-syndrome
#25
JOURNAL ARTICLE
David B Richardson, Steve Wing, Fred Lorey, Irva Hertz-Picciotto
BACKGROUND: During the final weeks of gestation, infants normally begin a transition from the production of fetal to adult hemoglobin. Delayed or faulty transition to the production of adult hemoglobin might play a role in the etiology of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between adult hemoglobin levels measured at birth and the subsequent risk of SIDS. DESIGN AND SETTING: Cohort study of all infants born in California between March 1, 1990, and December 31, 1997, who were enrolled in the state's Newborn Screening Program and followed up during the first year of life to identify deaths attributed to SIDS...
April 2004: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/11281388/lack-of-known-hepatitis-virus-in-hepatitis-associated-aplastic-anemia-and-outcome-after-bone-marrow-transplantation
#26
JOURNAL ARTICLE
R Safadi, R Or, Y Ilan, E Naparstek, A Nagler, A Klein, M Ketzinel-Gilaad, K Ergunay, D Danon, D Shouval, E Galun
Viral infection has been shown to induce aplastic anemia, unidentified types of hepatitis being the most common cause for aplastic anemia-associated viral hepatitis. The survival rate for this group of patients after bone marrow transplantation with stem cells from an HLA-matched sibling is not well known. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of hepatitis G virus (HGV) and transfusion transmitted virus (TTV) infection in non-A, non-B, non-C hepatitis associated-aplastic anemia (HAAA) patients, and to define the role of bone marrow transplantation (BMT) as a therapeutic modality for this disease...
January 2001: Bone Marrow Transplantation
https://read.qxmd.com/read/11280567/evidence-of-an-increased-nitric-oxide-production-in-primary-biliary-cirrhosis
#27
JOURNAL ARTICLE
S Battista, F Bar, G Mengozzi, C Pollet, M Torchio, G Cavalli, F Rosina, E David, J C Cutrin, B Cavalieri, G Poli, G Molino
OBJECTIVE: Although possible implications of nitric oxide in the pathophysiology of liver cirrhosis have been extensively studied, until now few articles have addressed the assessment of nitric oxide production in primary biliary cirrhosis. This study was directed to evaluate circulating nitrosyl-hemoglobin levels as well as neutrophil elastase and soluble adhesion molecule concentrations in this condition, by assuming these parameters as possible markers of either inflammatory response or neutrophil activation...
March 2001: American Journal of Gastroenterology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/10374184/-the-usefulness-of-the-bone-marrow-examination-in-the-etiological-diagnosis-of-prolonged-fever-in-patients-with-hiv-infection
#28
JOURNAL ARTICLE
F Fernández-Avilés, J M Ribera, J Romeu, M Batlle, J T Navarro, J M Manterola, F Millá, E Feliu
BACKGROUND: To analyze the usefulness of bone marrow (BM) study in the diagnosis of fever of unknown origin (FUO) in patients infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in a single center during a period of 42 months. PATIENTS AND METHODS: 182 episodes of FUO in 162 patients p3th HIV infection were studied. Age, sex, risk factor for HIV infection, hemoglobin level, counts of leucocytes, neutrophils, lymphocytes, CD4 positive lymphocytes, platelets and levels of hepatic enzymes, albumin and beta 2-microglobulin were studied...
May 15, 1999: Medicina Clínica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/9540020/ethnic-differences-in-correlates-of-microalbuminuria-in-niddm-the-role-of-the-acute-phase-response
#29
COMPARATIVE STUDY
N Islam, F Kazmi, G D Chusney, M B Mattock, A Zaini, J C Pickup
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether microalbuminuria is associated with markers of the acute-phase response in NIDDM and whether there are ethnic differences in this association among the three main racial groups in Malaysia. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: NIDDM patients of Chinese, Indian, and Malay origin attending a diabetic clinic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were matched for age, sex, diabetes duration, and glycemic control (n = 34 in each group). Urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio was measured in an early morning urine sample...
March 1998: Diabetes Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/8549734/relevance-of-cholesterol-screening-in-the-united-arab-emirates-a-preliminary-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
M M Agarwal, P F Hughes, A A Haliga, P Newman, M M Sheekh-Hussen, A G Shalabi
The incidence of ischemic heart disease is rising rapidly in many of the affluent Arab countries and it is known that hypercholesterolemia is a well established risk factor for coronary artery disease. This community-based study was undertaken to determine if elevated cholesterol is a problem in the United Arab Emirates in order to be able to evaluate the contribution of cholesterol as a risk factor for atherosclerosis in this environment. Volunteers were recruited at busy urban public sites. Data on age, sex, nationality, weight, blood pressure and smoking history were collected, and blood samples were taken for estimation of total cholesterol, hemoglobin and individual blood group...
October 1995: European Journal of Epidemiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/2448411/false-elevation-of-hemoglobin-a1-by-hereditary-persistence-of-fetal-hemoglobin
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
D L Vesely, L L Sanders
Measurement of glycosylated hemoglobin (HgA1) is frequently helpful in the management of patients with diabetes mellitus as it provides an index of average glucose control over the previous two to three months. The present case of a diabetic patient with a markedly increased hemoglobin A1 to 42% (normal 5.2-9.2%) with good glucose control prompted an investigation into the etiology of the increased hemoglobin A1 levels. Hemoglobin electrophoresis revealed that the patient had hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin...
1987: Journal of Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/2042096/interleukin-6-and-its-relation-to-the-humoral-immune-response-and-clinical-parameters-in-burned-patients
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
M W Nijsten, C E Hack, M Helle, H J ten Duis, H J Klasen, L A Aarden
The cytokine interleukin-6, which has been shown to be increased in patients with burn injuries, is produced by activated monocytes and endothelial cells and has many in vitro activities, including stimulation of acute-phase protein synthesis in hepatocytes, immunoglobulin synthesis in B lymphocytes, and stimulation of growth of megakaryocytes. In 13 patients with a mean of 31% full-thickness burns, we studied the relation of serum interleukin-6 to clinical parameters and parameters of the acute-phase response and immunoglobulin production...
June 1991: Surgery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/1752878/evaluation-of-erythropoietin-levels-in-the-anemia-of-thermal-injury
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
S D Vasko, J J Burdge, R L Ruberg, A S Verghese
Thermal injury is associated with an anemia of multifactorial etiology. Erythropoietin is a hormone that increases red blood cell production in response to tissue hypoxia and is now being produced in a recombinant form for treatment of some anemias. How erythropoietin levels change in response to thermal injury has not been adequately investigated to date. We studied 27 patients with burns of 10% to 85% total body surface area by serially measuring hemoglobin, hematocrit, reticulocyte count, and erythropoietin levels...
September 1991: Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation
https://read.qxmd.com/read/1425104/diabetes-is-not-caused-by-cassava-toxicity-a-study-in-a-tanzanian-community
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
A B Swai, D G Mclarty, B L Mtinangi, S Tatala, H M Kitange, N Mlingi, H Rosling, W P Howlett, G R Brubaker, K G Alberti
OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that consumption of cassava with liberation of cyanide causes diabetes in malnourished individuals. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Glucose tolerance was assessed in two rural communities in Tanzania; in one (Nyambori), the main source of calories was cassava; and in the other (Uswaa), cassava was rarely eaten. Undernutrition was prevalent in both communities. The people of Nyambori were known to have high dietary cyanide exposure for many years from consumption of insufficiently processed cassava...
October 1992: Diabetes Care
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