A 22-year-old male with obstructive uropathy presented to hospital with severe sepsis syndrome secondary to pneumonia.
* The base case represents a relatively health 70 year old male with obstructive respiratory disease, but no smoking history.
To evaluate the clinical factors predicting the significantly elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) concentrations, defined herein as hs-CRP ≥ 3 mg/L, in adult males with untreated obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS).
Patients with M. xenopi infections have generally been described as middle-aged smoking males with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or prior tuberculosis with upper lobe cavitary infections [ 23].
They followed 9 young healthy adults (2 females) and 10 elderly male subjects with obstructive lung function impairment.
A 47-year-old male patient, with obstructive end-stage renal disease, underwent renal transplantation from a deceased donor in September 2009.
In humans, ∼10% of males with non-obstructive azoospermia suffer from a ploidy defect termed Klinefelter Syndrome, where ∼1/750 boys are born with a 47, XXY karyotype [9], [10].
A 53-year-old male with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hepatitis C, alcohol abuse, and chronic back pain presented with altered mental status after a presumed suicide attempt after estrangement from his girlfriend.
For electronic patient charts, GPs will search with the key terms "copd", "chronic bronchitis", "emphysema", "asthma" and a combination of "smoking", "≥ 40 years of age" and "male" to identify patients with obstructive airway disease.
Pathogenic mutations or variants in the cystic fibrosis (CF) transmembrane receptor gene (CFTR) have been implicated in male infertility and are associated with obstructive AZ due to congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD).
