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View Post: A Pilot Trial to Determine the Safety and Efficacy of Fluvastatin ...
5 Jan 2009
Compensated liver disease, Child-Pugh Class ≤ 6; Negative urine pregnancy test (for women of childbearing potential) documented within the 24-hour period prior to the first dose of the study drug; All patients enrolling in the study ...
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View Post: Secondary Heart Disease: Heart Attacks Are Just One Possibility
13 hours ago
Infective endocarditis is caused by infectious agents like bacteria, although vegetative growth can also be non-infectious /sterile and due to autoimmune reactions. An example of an autoimmune disorder leading to endocarditis is ...
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View Post: Jaci: MCTD and Autoimmune Hepatitis
20 Dec 2008
My hospital visit was successful in the fact that I finally had a diagnoses of autoimmune hepatitis, a rare liver disease. I was put on steroids. In that time, I felt a little better, but I was still feeling unwell, tired and my body ...
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View Post: Diabetic Cognitive Decline Begins Earlier Than Previously Thought ...
7 hours ago
Cognitive impairment in older patients battling type 2 diabetes is a troubling but expected effect of the disease but researchers at the University of Alberta, Canada, have just published a report that suggests cognitive damage occurs ...
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View Post: The Corder Family
26 Dec 2008 by Paul and Jennifer  
This blog began in August of 2007 as an effort to keep our friends and family up to date about our family, and especially about Pearl Ann and the difficulties that she faces with having Crohn's Disease and liver disease. ...
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View Post: Su-jaundice symptoms are high, since the free virus infection ...
24 Dec 2008 by admin  
Autoimmune liver disease, and in short, since the flu-free, not virus is generated by auto-immune disorder disease, the treatment of a very big problem. Autoimmune liver diseases including autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary ...
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View Post: Sjögren's Syndrome Basic Facts: Sicca Syndrome (Dry Eyes, Dry ...
2 Jan 2009
It is an autoimmune disease with symptoms as described above. The person feels as if she has dry eyes and mouth, and this dryness is called sicca, Latin for dryness. Autoimmune means for some reason the body seems to be having an immune ...
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View Post: medical consult center: CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER
25 Dec 2008 by medical center  
Risk factors for any cause of liver disease must be determined. (e.g., family history of alcoholic abuse, primary liver cancer, autoimmune disease). Physical Exam See positive findings under "Diagnosis, Signs." ...
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View Post: New Study Finds No Link Between Kawasaki Disease And Newly ...
12 hours ago
A newly described virus is not a cause of Kawasaki disease, according to an article by a group of researchers in Denver, Colorado. Their article appears in the Dec. 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. ...
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