Fatal myocardial failure secondary to pulmonary hypertension is reported in three infants, from 24 days to 4 months old. The three cases showed persistent tachycardia and marked leukocytosis (> 40.000 leukocytes/mm³), one infant reached hyperleukocytosis values (120.000 leukocytes/mm³). All three died,...
We present a case of a 41 years old C3 phase AIDS patient on antiretroviral therapy for 5 years, who developed a severe hemolytic anemia refractory to usual treatment, which progressed to death. Anemia in AIDS patients is a common finding (60-80%); however hemolytic anemia is unusual and when it is prese...
Seijo, Alfredo;
Coto, Héctor;
San Juan, Jorge;
Videla, Juan;
Deodato, Bettina;
Cernigoi, Beatriz;
Garcia Messina, Oscar;
Collia, Oscar;
de Bassadoni, Diana;
Schtirbu, Ricardo;
Olenchuk, Alejandro;
de Mazzonelli, Dorta Gleyre;
Parma, Alberto.
Two patients who lived in Buenos Aires suburbs died from leptospirosis in July 2000 and March 2001. They developed a nonspecific febrile illness followed by hemorrhagic pneumonia and respiratory distress in absence of typical manifestations such as jaundice, nephropathy, thrombocitopenia or hemorrhages i...
CONTEXT: The term pulmonary-renal syndrome has been used frequently to describe the clinical manifestations of a great number of diseases in which pulmonary hemorrhage and glomerulonephritis coexist. The classic example of this type of vasculitis is Goodpasture´s syndrome, a term used to describe the as...
Os autores relatam um paciente com 11 dias de vida, internado em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal devido a múltiplas malformações congênitas, apresentando sepse e endocardite bacteriana. Entre os fatores de risco para endocardite foram destacados o cateterismo venoso central, hemocultura com cre...
Sepsis/complicaciones,
Endocarditis Bacteriana/etiología,
Infecciones Estafilocócicas/etiología,
Factores de Riesgo,
Endocarditis Bacteriana/diagnóstico,
Endocarditis Bacteriana/tratamiento farmacológico,
Resultado Fatal,
Cateterismo Venoso Central/efectos adversos,
Respiración Artificial/efectos adversos,
Infecciones Estafilocócicas/diagnóstico,
Infecciones Estafilocócicas/tratamiento farmacológico
É descrita a correlação anatomopatológica de um paciente usuário de drogas injetáveis com talcose sistêmica acometendo pulmões, pleuras, fígado, baço e linfonodos e que desenvolveu hipertensão arterial pulmonar e cor pulmonale. Destaca-se o fato de que apesar do uso crônico de drogas injetáv...
BACKGROUND: Several vascular complications are known to occur in association with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and recent publications have called attention to the development of pseudoaneurysms of large arteries in patients with AIDS. CASE REPORT: We report on 2 patients with AIDS aged ...
Aneurisma Falso/complicaciones,
Aneurisma de la Aorta Abdominal/complicaciones,
Aneurisma Ilíaco/complicaciones,
Aneurisma Falso/cirugía,
Aneurisma Falso/22058,
Arteria Ilíaca/cirugía,
Arteria Ilíaca/22058,
Aneurisma de la Aorta Abdominal/22058,
Aneurisma de la Aorta Abdominal/cirugía,
Resultado Fatal,
Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X
Context: The association of primary carcinoma of the ureter and lithiasis is extremely rare. We report a rare case of a primary carcinoma of the ureter with corariform calculus. Case Report: 60-year-old phaeodermal female, reported a history of right-side nephritic colic, hyperthermia and pyuria during t...
