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This paper describes the derivation of the chronic reference concentration (RfC) for human inhalation of phosgene that was recently added to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) data base (U.S. EPA, 2005. Toxicological Review of Phosgene: In Support of Summary Information on the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). Available online at:
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Chemical Warfare Agents/adverse effects , Phosgene/adverse effects , Risk Assessment , Toxicity Tests , Animals , Humans , Inhalation Exposure , Lung/drug effects , Lung/pathology , No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level , Reference ValuesABSTRACT
Angiokeratomas are benign cutaneous vascular lesions characterized by dilated thin-walled blood vessels lying in the upper part of the dermis, mostly associated with an epidermal reaction such as acanthosis and/or hyperkeratosis. Angiokeratomas of Fordyce are predominantly located on the scrotum and are only rarely found on the penis and then usually on the glans penis. We report a rare case of angiokeratoma of Fordyce located on the shaft of the penis and associated with two recurrences after appropriate surgical excision.
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Angiokeratoma/pathology , Skin Neoplasms/pathology , Adult , Angiokeratoma/surgery , Humans , Male , Neoplasm Recurrence, Local , Penis , Skin Neoplasms/surgeryABSTRACT
We report an unusual case of recurrent primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in an apparent low-risk cadaveric renal allograft recipient only 2 days after transplantation, who did not respond to repeated courses of plasmapheresis.
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Glomerulosclerosis, Focal Segmental/surgery , Kidney Transplantation , Age Factors , Cadaver , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Plasmapheresis , Recurrence , Time FactorsABSTRACT
The use of older cadaveric donors in kidney transplantation is increasing. The transplant outcome of the single older kidney is generally inferior prompting some to recommend dual kidney transplantation. The ability to predict the outcome of the solitary marginal kidney becomes clinically important. Such insight might allow for better allocation strategies that would minimize poorer outcomes while permitting optimal rationalization of this scarce resource. A retrospective, single center review of 79 single kidney transplants from 50 donors aged > or =55 yr was performed. We tested the validity of published scoring strategies to predict subsequent recipient kidney function. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis was used to quantify the donor strategies separating good and poor outcomes based upon recipient creatinine clearance (CrCl) <30 mL/min. Two pre-transplant donor assessment strategies, Nyberg score and donor CrCl (dCrCl) were found to predict subsequent kidney function in recipients. When Nyberg variables (cold ischemia time, donor diabetes and hypertension status, incremental donor age >55 yr and cause of death) in conjunction with the dCrCl were considered, they were no better than dCrCl alone. Although dCrCl had a reasonable negative predictive ability, the positive predictive value was <50%. Our analysis suggests that a dCrCl of > or =70 mL/min is a better discriminator of subsequent kidney function outcomes than a dCrCl of 90 mL/min as recommended by the Dual Transplant Registry.