Items for "infection"

Activation of the kallikrein-kinin system and release of new kinins through alternative cleavage of kininogens by microbial and human cell proteinases

Kinins are released from kininogens through the activation of the Hageman factor-prekallikrein system or by tissue kallikrein...

Keywords: allergy, elastase, gingipain, infection, mite, tryptase

Pathophysiology and diagnostic value of urinary trypsin inhibitors

Inflammation is an important indicator of tissue injury. In the acute form, there is usually accumulation of fluids and plasma components in the affected tissues...

Keywords: antiprotease, autoimmune disease, bikunin, C-reactive protein, chondroitin sulfate, elastase, infection, inflammation, inter-?-inhibitor, pro-enzyme, proteolytic enzyme, protease-activated receptor, serine protease, urinary trypsin inhibitor

Maternal serum interleukin-1?, -6 and -8 levels and potential determinants in pregnancy and peripartum

Aims: To measure maternal serum interleukins (IL) in pregnancy, delivery and early puerperium, and to identify their potential determinants.

Methods: Prospective longitudinal measures of serum IL-1?, IL-6 and IL-8 in 38 healthy pregnant women at antenatal visits, through labor and delivery, with clinical correlates (infection, vaginal hemorrhage and anemia) recorded by questionnaire.

Results: Pregnancy IL levels remained consistently low...

Keywords: infection, interleukins, labor, pregnancy, puerperium

Non-hydropic intrauterine fetal death more than five months after primary parvovirus B19 infection

Aims: Clinical follow-up of possible fetal complications associated with maternal parvovirus B19 infection is usually recommended during the 2–3 months after primary infection.

Results: A case of late intrauterine fetal death associated with at least 5 months of maternal parvovirus B19 viremia and in the presence of B19 IgG and IgM is described.

Conclusions: The time of clinical and laboratory followup after maternal parvovirus B19 infection may need to be revised if prolonged viremia is more common than previously described.

Keywords: Fetal, infection, intrauterine death, Parvovirus B19

Examining the relationship between positive mid-gestational fetal fibronectin assays and histological evidence of acute placental inflammation

Aims: Both acute placental inflammation and positive mid-gestational cervico-vaginal fetal fibronectin assays have been independently correlated with preterm delivery...

Keywords: Chorioamnionitis, fetal fibronectin, infection, placenta, preterm birth

Procalcitonin und seine Bedeutung für die Diagnose bakterieller Infektionen / Procalcitonin: Importance for the diagnosis of bacterial infections

Zusammenfassung Procalcitonin ist das Pro-Hormon von Calcitonin. Im Gegensatz zu Calcitonin, welches primär in der Schilddrüse gebildet wird, wird Procalcitonin bei einer bakteriellen Infektion im Körper von allen infizierten parenchymatösen Organen produziert. Insbesondere bei der Diagnosestellung milder, lokalisierter oder beginnender Infektionen muss ein empfindliches Verfahren verwendet werden mit einer funktionellen Sensitivität, die idealerweise in dem Bereich gesunder Individuen messen kann (ca...

Keywords: Antibiotika, Infektion, Pneumonie, procalcitonin, antibiotics, infection, pneumonia

Correction of ventricular cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples for blood content does not increase sensitivity and specificity for the detection of CSF infection

Background: Blood contamination is commonly observed in ventricular cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from patients with extraventricular drainage systems...

Keywords: blood contamination, cerebrospinal fluid, correction, infection