Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: EC:2.6.1.1 (aspartate aminotransferase)
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Clinical features of 36 cases of psittacosis experienced from 1980 to 1988 were analyzed. The following results were obtained. 1) Sixteen patients were male; twenty were female. The thirty-six patients ranged in age from 29 to 76 years. 2) Fifteen patients had been exposed to Parakeets prior to the onset of illness. 3) High fever (94.1%) and cough (94.4%) were prominent clinical symptoms. 4) The number of pneumonic foci per lung field by chest X-ray, showed the right inferior lobe was most frequently involved (45.2%). According to the nature of roentgenological shadows, the ground-glass-like shadow was most frequent (70.6%). 5) Leucocytosis was present in only three patients. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein were high in many patients. Half of the patients had elevated serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase and glutamate pyruvate transaminase. 6) All cases were treated with antibiotics and cured. The incidence of psittacosis may be increasing. Therefore, it is useful for clinicians to know the clinical features of this disease. These results may be useful in early diagnosis.
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PMID:[Clinical features of 36 cases of psittacosis]. 240 12

A 63-year-old man with acute psittacosis had severe hepatic damage after ingesting about 10 g of acetaminophen over a 48 hour period. Transaminase levels showed striking elevation, with a serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase level of over 15,000 IU/liter, and decreased rapidly, consistent with a toxic insult. No other etiologic agents were identified by history or serologic testing to explain this degree of damage. Liver histologic findings at autopsy showed severe central necrosis. Although psittacosis may infrequently cause a similar pattern of hepatic injury, disease of this severity has not been previously reported. It is postulated that acetaminophen may have accentuated hepatic disease produced by Chlamydia psittaci in this patient.
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PMID:Severe hepatic damage after acetaminophen use in psittacosis. 682 12