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Dengue virus infection can cause a wide spectrum of illness. Thrombocytopenia with concurrent haemoconcentration differentiates dengue haemorrhagic fever from classical dengue fever. Only cases with shock or unstable vitals signs need admission in the pediatric intensive care. The management is essentially supportive and symptomatic. The key to success is frequent monitoring and changing strategies. A rise in hematocrit of 20% along with a continuing drop in platelet count is an important indicator for the onset of shock...

We report a series of seven patients who underwent fine-needle aspiration (FNA) for clinically apparent parotid gland lesions. In all seven cases, numerous to abundant polyhedral, multifaceted (nontyrosine) crystalloids were noted in the background of scanty cellular specimens composed predominantly of oncocytic cells. Subsequent surgical excision showed that three of the seven glands revealed sialolithiasis and sialadenitis without evidence of neoplasia. The histology of the remaining four cases consisted of two Warthin's tumor, one oncocytic papillary cystadenoma, and one cellular benign mixed tumor...

Interleukin-2 (IL-2) is an essential growth factor for T cells. Previous studies have shown that human peripheral eosinophils respond to IL-2 in chemotaxis and express the IL-2 receptor (CD25). In addition, eosinophils have been shown to transcribe messenger RNA for IL-2. The aim of the present study was to determine whether eosinophils translate mRNA for IL-2 and to determine the site of intracellular localization. By immunocytochemistry, an average of 9% of cells showed cytoplasmic staining for IL-2 in freshly isolated unstimulated blood eosinophils obtained from asthmatic subjects who were not receiving oral corticosteroid treatment (n = 5)...