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A 26-year old woman, who was diagnosed as having systemic lupus erythematosus at the age of 23 year old, presented diarrhea and headache. She showed severe hypoproteinemia (serum total protein 3.7 g/dl, serum albumin 1.4 g/dl) and hyperlipidemia. She revealed to have protein-losing enteropathy with the result of alpha-1-antitrypsin clearance test using stool. Increase of prednisolone improved the loss of albumin into the bowel and abnormal laboratory findings. She also showed watershed infarction in the area of middle cerebral artery and posterior cerebral artery. Protein-losing enteropathy is a rare complication of SLE, only 18 cases are available on literature. No case is found to have cerebral infarction in patients with protein-losing enteropathy associated with SLE. It is known that blood levels of anticoagulation factors decrease in protein-losing enteropathy due to the leakage of plasma protein into intestinal lumen. Serum antithrombin III was decreased in this case. Hyperlipidemia found in this case seems to be caused by same mechanism in nephrotic syndrome. Lupus anticoagulant was also positive in this patient. These factors seems to be related to the occurrence of cerebral infarction. This case suggests the possibility of cerebral infarction in patients with protein-losing enteropathy in SLE.
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PMID:[Protein-losing enteropathy and cerebral infarction associated with systemic lupus erythematosus]. 814 30

The authors experienced 55 cases of anesthetic management in 52 elderly surgical patients, 14 men and 38 women, aged 90 to 101 years with an average of 92.1 +/- 2.1 years for the past ten years. Surgical procedures included 38 cases of orthopedic, 14 cases of general surgical and 3 cases of ophthalmic operations. Thirteen cases out of them were emergency. General, epidural, spinal, and local anesthesia were applied in 34 cases, 18 cases, 2 cases, and one case out of these elderly patients, respectively. These general anesthesia consisted of total intravenous anesthesia with propopol, fentanyl and ketamine in 27 cases, sevoflurane with nitrous oxide in 4 cases, isoflurane with nitrous oxide or air in 2 cases, and thiopental anesthesia in one case. The elderly patients had past history of heart disease, dementia, hypertension, cerebral infarction/hemorrhage, diabetes mellitus and others. Their preoperative examinations revealed anemia, hypoproteinemia, renal hypofunction, serum electrolytes imbalance, and others. Vasopessors were given to 42% of the patients during anesthesia and surgery. Their postoperative complications included myocardial infarction, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, hypotension following anemia, transient hemiparesis, delirium and so on. Two patients developed myocardial infarction postoperatively and died thereafter. The authors suggest that appropriate anesthetic management for elderly patients aged 90 years or older requires proper preoperative evaluation, sufficient vigilance of hemodynamics with direct arterial pressure measurement, reliable preparation of medical agents, and awareness of impairment of circulatory function and others by aging.
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PMID:[Anesthetic management of elderly patients aged 90 years or older]. 1501 25

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common and fatal cancer. People with HCC report higher odds of comorbidity compared with people without HCC. To explore the association between HCC and medical comorbidity, we used routinely collected clinical data and applied a network perspective. In the network perspective, we used correlation analysis and community detection tests that described direct relationships among comorbidities. We collected 14,891 patients with HCC living in Jilin Province, China, between 2016 and 2018. Cirrhosis was the most common comorbidity of HCC. Hypertension and renal cysts were more common in male patients, while chronic viral hepatitis C, hypersplenism, hypoproteinemia, anemia and coronary heart disease were more common in female patients. The proportion of chronic diseases in comorbidities increased with age. The main comorbidity patterns of HCC were: HCC, cirrhosis, chronic viral hepatitis B, portal hypertension, ascites and other common complications of cirrhosis; HCC, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease and cerebral infarction; and HCC, hypoproteinemia, electrolyte disorders, gastrointestinal hemorrhage and hemorrhagic anemia. Our findings provide comprehensive information on comorbidity patterns of HCC, which may be used for the prevention and management of liver cancer.
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PMID:Patterns of Comorbidity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Network Perspective. 3236 50