Disseminated alveolar echinococcosis resembling metastatic malignancy: a case report.

Background: Alveolar echinococcosis is a potentially lethal zoonosis caused by larval forms of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. Humans are aberrant intermediate hosts who become infected by ingestion of egg-contaminated food or water or via physical contact with domestic or wild animals that carry the parasite in their small intestine. In humans, the disease usually affects the liver and can spread to other organs causing metastatic infiltration.

Retreatment by antithymocyte globulin for second kidney transplantation: efficacy, tolerance and safety.

Background: It is unknown whether kidney transplant patients who receive rabbit antithymocyte globulin (rATG) become immunized against rabbit antibodies, leading to reduced efficacy, or are at higher risk of cytomegalovirus infection or post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) on retreatment. The efficacy and tolerance of rATG when used as induction for the second time in patients undergoing retransplantation have not been evaluated.

Methods: In a retrospective case-control study, 54 retransplanted patients who received rATG (Thymoglobulin) induction for the second time during 2004-2010 were compared to a matched cohort of 108 patients receiving rATG induction for a first kidney transplantation during the same period.

[Tumor lysis syndrome in a patient with a renal carcinoma treated with sunitinib].

The tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is a metabolic disorder resulting from a massive tumor breakdown. It is characterized by hyperuricemia, hyperphosphatemia, hypocalcemia and hyperkalemia and predisposes to acute renal failure. TLS usually occurs after the initiation of cytotoxic therapy and is more frequent in the case of neoplasias with a high proliferative rate or that are highly chemo-sensitive.