The soft and delicate tissue of the brain, which is the center of our coordination, is protected by its surrounding layers. The disruption of these layers results in complicated situations and serious health problems. The brain has three protective layers of bone or skull tissue, the blood tissue layer, and finally the meningeal layer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurulent meningitis (PM) is a severe disease, characterized by high mortality and a formation of a residual neurological deficit. Loss of treatment of PM leads to the lethal outcome in 100% of cases. In addition, death and the development of residual neurological complications are possible despite adequate therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere were examined 94 patients, aged from 22 to 68 years, with myasthenia, in whom morphological changes of thymic gland were revealed. In 89% of observations there was established the infectioning by cytomegalovirus, in 10%--hepatitis B, in 9%--hepatitis C. In 5% of patients there were observed coexistence of cytomegaloviral infection and hepatitis.
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