Polymyositis and covid-19: A morbide association (a case report).

The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on health systems had a significant effect on the management of inflammatory diseases in the long term and myopathies could be signs of COVID-19, making it difficult to diagnose the cause and effect relationship. An unvaccinated 62-year-old female patient followed for polymyositis was tested positive for COVID-19 on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of nasopharyngeal swab revealed by dyspnea and rhinorrhea with fever and pulmonary involvement of 75%. She had an enlarged left ventricle with complete left branch block, inaugural diabetes mellitus with ketosis, kidney dysfunction, and inflammatory syndrome.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Al-Badarna: a prospective study among school children.

This paper presents the results of a prospective study cutaneous liashmaniasis in 2 schools in Al-Badarna, during the period from July to December 1992. The pupils were interviewed and examined. Positive cases were referred to the Health Unit for treatment.

[Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy disclosing Friedreich's disease. Report of a case].

The authors report the case of a 21 year old woman admitted to hospital for congestive cardiac failure due to concentric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Echocardiography showed severe systolo-diastolic left ventricular dysfunction without obstruction to ejection. Neurological examination showed a stato-kinetic cerebellar syndrome, a posterior radiculo-cordonal syndrome and a dysmorphic syndrome which characterise Friedreich's disease.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya: a study of the Yafran area.

We studied 445 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Yafran area during the period February 1991 to December 1992. The highest incidence rates were recorded at the end of the transmission seasons in two peaks, one in November 1991 and the second in December 1992. The ratio of infected males to females was 1.

Cardiac hydatid cyst revealed by complete heart block.

Hydatid cyst of the heart is an uncommon lesion. The infection is most common in sheep-raising areas of the world. We report a rare case of cardiac hydatid cyst revealed by complete heart block, which was removed with the patient under cardiopulmonary bypass.

Prospective study among cutaneous leishmaniasis cases in Tripoli Central Hospital, Tripoli, Libya.

One hundred and nine cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis were referred to Dermatology unit, Tripoli Central Hospital from 24 localities in north-west Libya during the period from September to December 1994. Clinically most of the lesions were multiple and distributed on the uncovered parts of the body, and the size ranged from 1 to 5 cm. In diameter.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Libya: epidemiological survey in Al-Badarna.

One hundred fifty-one cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) cases were recorded during the period from October 1991 to September 1992 from Al-Badarna in Jabal Nafusa, an endemic area of CL in Libya. The infection was clinically suspected and confirmed by the demonstration of Leishmania on smears from lesion biopsies. The age distribution of cases showed that the age group 1-10 yrs was the most affected, indicating that the endemic status of CL in Al-Badarna is not a new occurrence.