Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
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Wien. Klin. Wochenschr. · Jan 2016
Pollen information consumption as an indicator of pollen allergy burden.
The Austrian pollen information service distributes pollen forecasts and offers various options (webpages, a mobile "Pollen" app, interviews for newspapers, radio, TV and information for the press agency) to support and inform pollen allergy sufferers in Austria in the best way to help to avoid their allergen. These services are well received and user numbers have increased, especially in recent years. ⋯ This study provides evidence that pollen information consumption can be seen as an indicator of the burden of pollen allergy sufferers as well as an indicator of the main flowering periods of the main plants inducing pollen allergies in Austria.
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Wien. Klin. Wochenschr. · Jan 2016
Case ReportsRepeated sugammadex usage in a patient with multiple sclerosis: a case report.
A 42-year-old woman been suffering from multiple sclerosis for 2 years received an emergency laparotomy because of acute pancreatitis. Anesthesia was induced with propofol and fentanil and maintained with nitrous oxide and sevoflurane. ⋯ Three days later the patient was operated again due to abdominal cavity infection and followed up with "open abdomen strategy" receiving general anesthesia with 3 days intervals. In all of the six general anesthesia procedures in 18 days the patient was successfully reversed with sugammadex.
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Wien. Klin. Wochenschr. · Jan 2016
Serum soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor and interferon-γ-induced protein 10 levels correlate with significant fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B.
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) presents an important public health problem. Liver biopsy is currently the gold standard for assessing the degree of intrahepatic inflammation and for staging liver fibrosis. However, the value of liver biopsies is limited by sampling errors, understaging and interobserver variability in interpretation. There is, therefore, a need to identify novel, non-invasive serologic biomarkers for the development of new predictive models of fibrosis. ⋯ suPAR and IP-10 were able to distinguish between significant and mild fibrosis with good sensitivity and specificity, and may thus represent useful biomarkers for identifying patients with significant fibrosis.