Results: 4

Hepatitis A and hepatitis E virus co-infection with right pleural effusion, ascites and acute acalculous cholecystitis. A case report

ABSTRACT Hepatitis A and hepatitis E are the leading causes of acute viral hepatitis in developing countries due to our poor sanitary conditions, both spread by fecal-oral route or through contaminated water and food. Being both self-limiting diseases, they are usually benign but may present with atypica...

Hepatitis viral A colestásica complicada en un niño con deficiencia de glucosa 6 fosfato deshidrogenasa proveniente de una zona altoandina

Toxocarosis y colecistitis aguda alitiásica: ¿consecuencia o coincidencia?

Rev. chil. infectol; 33 (3), 2016
La toxocarosis humana es una parasitosis larvaria crónica catalogada dentro de las cinco enfermedades subestimadas más importantes por los CDC. Las larvas pueden diseminarse por vía sistémica y migrar a distintos tejidos (larva migrans visceral) incluyendo el hígado y vesícula biliar. La colecistit...

Acute acalculous cholecystitis in systemic lupus erythematosus: a rare initial manifestation

Rev. bras. reumatol; 56 (2), 2016
ABSTRACT Acute acalculous cholecystitis is a very rare gastrointestinal manifestation in systemic lupus erythematosus and becomes rarer as an initial manifestation. There are only two cases reported. The authors report a 20-year-old black woman that presented acute acalculous cholecystitis revealed by ab...