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Transmission of hepatitis C virus by occupational percutaneous injuries in South Korea
06 February 2012
Seung Mok Ryoo, Won Young Kim, Won Kim, Kyoung Soo Lim, Christopher C. Lee, Jun Hee Woo
Korea is an endemic area of hepatitis. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections caused by occupational percutaneous injuries are a serious problem for healthcare workers and there has been a gradual increas...
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Charcoal hemoperfusion for bupropion overdose with ventricular tachycardia and status epilepticus
03 February 2012
Chia-Ter Chao, Vin-Cent Wu, Wei-Jie Wang
A woman aged 18 years of age was brought to the emergency department due to an acute change in mental status after taking 2.85g sustained release bupropion 1.5 hours earlier. On presentation, she was ...
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Rapid identification of heterozygous or homozygous JAK2V617F mutations in myeloproliferative neoplasms using melting curve analysis
03 February 2012
Ching-Liang Ho, Yi-Ying Wu, Hsiu-Man Hung, Ping-Ying Chang, Wei-You Kao, Yeu-Chin Chen, Tsu-Yi Chao
Background: The activating JAK2 mutation with a G-C to T-A transversion at codon 617 (JAK2V617F) is associated with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), including polycythemia vera (PV), essential thr...
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Granulomatous liver diseases: A review
03 February 2012
Marcy Coash, Faripour Forouhar, Catherine H. Wu, George Y. Wu
Granulomas that consist of focal accumulations of macrophages are commonly found in the liver due to stimulation of the immune system by a number of agents. Manifestations are variable depending on wh...
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Disseminated candidemia refractory to caspofungin therapy in an infant with extremely low birth weight
03 February 2012
Meng-Ju Li, Po-Ren Hsueh, Chun-Yi Lu, Hung-Chieh Chou, Ping-Ing Lee, Luan-Yin Chang, Li-Min Huang
Systemic fungal infections have high morbidity and mortality rates in neonates, especially neonates with an extremely low birth weight (ELBW). Here, we describe a 21-day-old ELBW female infant with an...
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