Diarrhea, CD4 counts and enteric infections in a hospital – based cohort of HIV-infected patients around Varanasi, India

Background  

As most of the studies in HIV patients with diarrhea were cross sectional, focusing on the etiological agents, we are reporting data on the rate of diarrhea, associations between diarrhea and CD4 counts and variation in frequency of identifying a pathogen with consistency of diarrhea and duration in a prospective hospital based study.     

Function of the hypophyseal-ovarian-adrenal system in trophoblastic disease

Hyperproduction of chorionic gonadotropin was shown to be the first link in the chain of hormonal disturbances involved in trophoblastic disease, which induced changes of pituitary gonadotropic function. Ovarian function is affected by disturbances in trophoblastic and pituitary gonadotropic functions and depends on the extension and severity of the disease. This makes a case for corrective hormonal therapy in chorionepithelioma patients resistant to cytostatic or substitution therapy with sex hormones and in whom ovaries have been removed during combined treatment.