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Capgras syndrome associated with limbic encephalitis in a patient with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Dement. neuropsychol; 10 (1), 2016
We report the case of a patient with insidious onset and slowly progressive cognitive impairment, behavioral symptoms, temporal lobe seizures and delusional thoughts typical of delusional misidentification syndromes. Clinical presentation along with extensive diagnostic work-up revealed limbic encephalit...

Nutritional assessment as predictor of complications after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

ABSTRACT Introduction: Nutritional support is pivotal in patients submitted to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Nutritional status has been associated with time of engraftment and infection rates. In order to evaluate the association between nutritional parameters and clinical outcomes after tra...

Serum free light chain assays not total light chain assays are the standard of care to assess Monoclonal Gammopathies

Abstract The diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma is a challenge to the physician due to the non-specific symptoms (anemia, bone pain and recurrent infections) that are commonplace in the elderly population. However, early diagnosis is associated with less severe disease, including fewer patients presenting wit...

Hematopoietic progenitor cell mobilization for autologous transplantation - a literature review

ABSTRACT The use of high-dose chemotherapy with autologous support of hematopoietic progenitor cells is an effective strategy to treat various hematologic neoplasms, such as non-Hodgkin lymphomas and multiple myeloma. Mobilized peripheral blood progenitor cells are the main source of support for autologo...

Modern techniques of magnetic resonance in the evaluation of primary central nervous system lymphoma: contributions to the diagnosis and differential diagnosis

Abstract In addition to findings from conventional magnetic resonance imaging, modern magnetic resonance imaging techniques have provided important information about tumor metabolism, in vivo metabolite formation, water molecule diffusion, microvascular density, and blood-brain barrier permeability, all ...

Crioglobulina con propiedad crioaglutinina en un paciente con linfoma esplénico de zona marginal

El objetivo del trabajo fue describir un caso de linfoma esplénico de zona marginal (LEZM) con un componente monoclonal que posee propiedades de crioglobulina y crioaglutinina, un hallazgo de muy baja frecuencia. Una paciente con LEZM padeció una anemia hemolítica autoinmune 5 años después del diagn...

Sustitución de procarbazina por etopósido en un nuevo esquema de tratamiento OEPA/COPE en los niños y adolescentes con linfoma de Hodgkin: una evaluación de los resultados en el Instituto Nacional de Cancerología

Rev. colomb. cancerol; 19 (4), 2015
Objetivo: El linfoma de Hodgkin (LH) tiene en los Estados Unidos una incidencia estandarizada por edad de 5,3 casos por cada 100.000 habitantes y una tasa de curación que supera 90% de los casos. Su pronóstico depende de múltiples factores siendo los más relevantes: etapa, tipo histológico e índice...

Curso clínico de pacientes de trasplante autógeno de médula ósea portadores del virus linfotrópico humano

Infectio; 19 (3), 2015
La infección por virus linfotrópico humano 1 es frecuente en la costa pacífica colombiana y se ha relacionado con leucemia/linfoma de células T del adulto y mielopatía en una proporción baja de los seropositivos. En pacientes con trasplante de órganos sólidos pareciera que estas patologías se de...

Comparative study of histopathology and immunohistochemistry of indefinite round cell cutaneous tumors and characterization of canine lymphoma

With the purpose of shedding light on some doubts in veterinary oncology, the present article intends to compare the results of histopathological and immunohistochemical examinations of unspecific round cell neoplasia, to realize immunophenotyping of canine lymphoma cases, to establish the T or B origin ...