A case of lymphoma in a patient on teriflunomide treatment for relapsing multiple sclerosis.

Teriflunomide is an oral therapy approved for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis which has been shown to reduce relapse rate and disability progression. We report the case of a 54-year -old black woman with multiple sclerosis who developed follicular lymphoma after about 8 months of exposure to teriflunomide. Importantly, apart from age, the patient had none of the established risk factors for follicular lymphoma.

[Peusoxanthoma elasticum with multiple calcinosis and hyperphosphoremia].

Introduction: Subcutaneous and vascular calcifications are classical manifestations of pseudoxanthoma elasticum. Visceral calcifications sometimes associated with unbalanced phosphocalcium leels are uncommon.

Case Report: We observed pseudoxanthoma elasticum in a French Caribbean patient who had extensive acneiform skin lesions with transepidermal elimination.

[HTLV1 infection and sicca syndrome].

Unlabelled: PURPOSE OF THE STUDY AND MATERIAL: A search for sicca syndrome was performed in 54 HTLV 1 positive patients. Cases of sicca syndrome due to associated pathologies, or iatrogenic, were eliminated from this study.

Results: Lacrimal hyposecretion was found in 79% of the cases.

[Tropical sprue: diagnostic difficulties. Apropos of 2 cases in Guadeloupe].

The authors report two cases of tropical sprue occurring in Guadeloupe, in the French Lesser Antilles, a region in which this disease had previously been reported only once. One of the patients was treated with quinolone (ofloxacin).

[Digestive histoplasmosis in a patient with AIDS from Guadeloupe].

The authors report the case of a 45-year-old HIV and HTLV1 antibody positive male patient form French West-Indies who was infected by disseminated histoplasmosis presenting as acute diarrhea. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed gastric mass and colonoscopy patchy erythematous mucosa. The diagnosis was made by histology of bone marrow specimens, upper gastrointestinal tract and colon biopsies, and late skin lesions.