Kaposi’s sarcoma
Kaposi`s sarcoma associated herpesvirus infection among female sex workers and general population women in Shanghai, China: a cross sectional study
... Kaposi`s sarcoma associated herpesvirus infection among female sex workers and general population women in Shanghai, China: a cross-sectional study Tiejun Zhang1†, Ying Yang2†, Feng Yu2,[r] ...
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Trends in prevalence of diarrhoea, Kaposi’s sarcoma, bacterial pneumonia, malaria and geohelminths among HIV positive individuals in Uganda
... Kaposi’s sarcoma was clinically defined as persist- ent skin lesions developing into plaques or nodules; geo- helminthiasis was defined as laboratory confirmed positive stool slide for the eggs of any of the ...
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Primary Kaposi’s sarcoma of the nasal cavity: a case report and review of the literature
... Kaposi’s sarcoma have been described, which often have overlapping features (patch, plaque, nodular, lymphadenopathic, infiltrative, florid, telangiectatic, ecchymotic, keloidal, angiomatous, inflammatory, ...
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Kaposi’s sarcoma associated herpesvirus G protein coupled receptor activates the canonical Wnt/β catenin signaling pathway
... Kaposi’ s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is a tumorigenic gammaherpesvirus that is the etiologic agent of Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS). KS is a multifocal, highly vascu- lar tumor that ...
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Rapidly progressive Kaposi’s Sarcoma in an Iraqi boy received Valproic acid: a case report and review of literature
... Kaposi’ s sarcoma (KS), an endothelial neoplasm, was first reported by Moritz Kaposi in 1872 [1]. Chang et al., in 1994, isolated KS-associated herpesvirus, also known as human herpesvirus ...
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Seroprevalence and risk factors of Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus infection among the general Uygur population from south and north region of Xinjiang, China
... Background: Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is a complex multifocal neoplasm and is the major cause of death for about 50% of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) ...Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus ...
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Classic Kaposi's sarcoma in morocco: clinico -epidemiological study at the national institute of oncology
... Kaposi Sarcoma is a solitary or multifocal lymphatic tumor, initially described as Classic Kaposi Sarcoma almost 140 years ago, in elderly men of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean descent ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC4948314.pdf
... Viruses usurp the host cell machinery to replicate, disseminate, and propagate themselves. Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated her- pesvirus (KSHV) encodes a viral protein kinase (vPK) also known as ORF36. Using in silico ...
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Safety and efficacy of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in HIV-associated Kaposi’s sarcoma
... Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin is the treatment of choice for serious cases of Kaposi’s sarcoma in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. Before reviewing its properties, results of clinical ...
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Kaposi sarcoma in an patient with atopic dermatitis treated with ciclosporin
... incidence is estimated to be between 84 and 500 times the rate in the general population, with studies demonstrating that the ability of cytotoxic T cells to respond to Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus ...
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Cancer risk after renal transplantation in South Korea: a nationwide population-based study
... Overall, the SIRs for patients with thyroid cancer, renal cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, skin cancer, myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymph- oma, Kaposi ’ s sarcoma, cervical cancer[r] ...
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MAPPING OF NATURAL KAPOSI SARCOMA INHIBITOR USING NETWORK BIOLOGY APPROACH
... Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is a systemic disease which can present with cutaneous lesions with or without internal ...Kaposi’s sarcoma. Also, 121 natural anti- Kaposi Sarcoma compounds were ...
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Using antimicrobial adjuvant therapy in cancer treatment: a review
... preclinical studies. While several retrospective studies show prophylactic usefulness of ganciclovir or foscarnet against KS in patients with AIDS, other studies did not demonstrate the same results. The role of ...
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Histological variants of cutaneous Kaposi sarcoma
... pose tissue. The lesional cells tend to be more spindled and arranged in short, sometimes haphazard fascicles [1- 4]. Fascicles cut in cross section demonstrate a sieve-like appearance. Mitotic figures are sparse and ...
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HIV-Associated Oral Kaposi Sarcoma: Case Report and Literature Review
... The diagnosis is confirmed by Anatomical Pathology. KS is typically characterized by slit-like vasculature, endothelial cell proliferation, extravagated red blood cells and hemosiderin pigment. A positive staining for ...
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Cancer based pharmacogenomics network supported with scientific evidences: from the view of drug repurposing
... treat Kaposi ’ s sarcoma, as well as the lung, ovarian, and breast can- cer, as documented in the “Indications & Usage” section of the structured product label ...
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Kaposi Sarcoma in HIV Positive Nigerian Children: A Case Series
... multiple sites. Multiple sites of KS were seen in almost 45% of the children with HIV and AIDS with the skin being the most common site, occurring either alone or in combination with other sites. The skin was involved in ...
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Effect of electrochemotherapy on human herpesvirus 8 kinetics in classic Kaposi sarcoma
... Total RNA was isolated from frozen biopsies and PBMCs using Trizol™ Reagent (Invitrogen™) following the manufacturer’ s instructions. Briefly, tissues and PBMCs were resuspended in Trizol reagent and tissues were ...
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Three year survival among patients with aids-related Kaposi sarcoma treated with chemotherapy and combination antiretroviral therapy at Moi teaching and referral hospital, Kenya
... Methods: Study participants are part of a randomized phase IIA trial on the use of gemcitabine compared to bleomycin plus vincristine for the treatment of Kaposi sarcoma after combination antiretroviral ...
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Clinical characteristics, predictors of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome and long-term prognosis in patients with Kaposi sarcoma
... Kaposi sarcoma (KS) was first described in the nine- teenth ...as Kaposi sarcoma-asso- ciated herpesvirus (KSHV) [3, 4] indeed HHV-8/KSHV fulfilled Koch principles for an infectious disease ...
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