Cutting Edge Issues in Polymyos ...
Skeletal muscle is the target tissue of immunoflogistic processes in patients affected with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). IIM are classi ...
Viruses and Cytotoxic T Lymphoc ...
Histopathological studies on pancreas tissues from individuals with recent-onset type 1 diabetes (T1D) consistently find that CD8 T cells substantia ...
The Diagnostic and Clinical Sig ...
The role of autoimmunity in cardiovascular diseases has become one of the focal points of research studies. Autoimmune response and autoreactive aut ...
Role of Dendritic Cells in Atop ...
Dendritic cells (DCs) have been recognized as key players bridging innate and adaptive immune systems. They control the balance of the adaptive immu ...
Cutting Edge Issues in Goodpast ...
Goodpasture’s disease, or anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease, is a systemic autoimmune disorder defined by anti-GBM antibody-media ...
Macrophagic Myofaciitis a Vacci ...
Macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF) is an immunemediated condition first reported in 1998. MMF is characterized by post-vaccination systemic manifestatio ...
Innate Immunity in Atopic Derma ...
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a clinically defined, highly pruritic, chronic inflammatory skin disease. In AD patients, the combination of a genetic pre ...
Pruritus and Atopic Dermatitis
Atopic eczema is one of the most pruritic skin diseases. Mediators of atopic eczema itch in the skin are still mostly unknown, but recent studies sh ...
Guillain–Barré Syndrome—A Class ...
Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare autoimmune disorder, the incidence of which is estimated to be 0.6–4/100,000 person/year worldwide. Often, G ...
Atopic Dermatitis and the Nervo ...
Due to the narrow associations between the skin, immune system, and nervous system, nerve endings are very important in the pathophysiology of infla ...
Recent Concepts of Autoimmune P ...
Recent studies suggested the existence of two subtypes of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP): type 1 related with IgG4 (lymphoplasmacytic sclerosing panc ...
Overcoming a “Probable” Diagnos ...
Serum anti-mitochondrial antibodies (AMA) are the serological hallmark of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), yet up to 15% of PBC sera are AMA negativ ...
Cutting Edge Issues in Primary ...
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic inflammatory liver disease characterized by the destruction of medium- to large-sized bile ducts a ...
Therapeutic Perspectives in Ato ...
Therapy of atopic dermatitis should comprise emollients, topical glucocorticosteroids, or calcineurin inhibitors, phototherapies, immunosuppressants ...
The Clinical Significance of An ...
Autoimmune response against myocardial antigens is evident in numerous heart diseases. Both the induction of an autoimmune response and the pathogen ...
Role of Autoimmunity and Autoin ...
Idiopathic recurrent pericarditis is the most common and troublesome complication of acute pericarditis affecting about one third of such patients. ...
Transforming growth factor beta ...
Purpose Atrial fibrillation (AF) and acute congestive heart failure (aCHF) are characterized by an adverse cardiac remodeling. Arrhythmogenic or str ...
New-onset versus chronic atrial ...
Aims Atrial fibrillation (AF) occurs commonly in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and has been established as a marker of adverse pro ...
Influence of acute and chronic ...
Background We compared the effect of different loading conditions, parameters of structural heart disease and extracardiac confounders on NT-proBNP ...
Vascular remodeling in adults a ...
Background Patients after successful repair of coarctation of aorta (CoAo) are at risk of hypertension at rest and associated end-organ damage. The ...
Impact of therapy with statins, ...
Purpose The present study investigated whether therapy with statins, beta-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors on admission a ...
Heart rate variability and biom ...
Background Chronic low-grade systemic inflammation is a key component in atherogenesis. Decreased heart rate variability (HRV), a strong predictor o ...
Impact of oxygen uptake efficie ...
Background Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is limited by the high numbers of nonresponders. This study analyzed the impact of the cardioresp ...
Cardiac memory in humans: vecto ...
Background ‘‘Cardiac memory’’ (CM) refers to a change in repolarization induced by an altered pathway of activation. The effects of biventricular pa ...
Clinical outcome and quality of ...
Introduction The aim of this study was to prospectively assess the clinical outcome and quality of life of elderly patients who underwent either cor ...