Monitoring Exposure to Ebola and Health of U.S. Military Personnel Deployed in Support of Ebola Control Efforts - Liberia, October 25, 2014-February 27, 2015.

In response to the unprecedented Ebola virus disease (Ebola) outbreak in West Africa, the U.S. government deployed approximately 2,500 military personnel to support the government of Liberia.

Patient-centered medical home implementation effects on emergency room utilization: a case study.

The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) concept has been commended for its potential to increase access to primary care while improving quality and health outcomes. Numerous studies have documented the benefits of the PCMH healthcare delivery modality inclusive of decreased emergency room (ER) visits among PCMH enrollees. Yet a debate wages on whether PCMHs are conceptually sound and clinically effective with few empirical studies dedicated to the study of this relatively new care delivery model (Friedberg et al.

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in two returning Operation Iraqi Freedom soldiers who developed hemolytic anemia while receiving primaquine prophylaxis for malaria.

Use of antimalarial prophylaxis continues to be routine practice among military personnel returning from areas where malaria is endemic. Primaquine may be used for terminal prophylaxis against Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium vivax. Serious complications of this regimen are infrequent.

[Familial esophageal leiomyomatosis associated with Alport's syndrome in a 9-year-old boy].

The authors describe a family in which the mother and one son are affected by oesophageal leiomyomatosis and nephritis with haematuria. The mother also presents hypertrophy of vulva and clitoris, and her son has perceptive deafness and congenital cataract. In the medical literature only 15 cases of oesophageal leiomyomatosis in children and adolescents could be found.

[Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome, chronic diffuse tubulo-interstitial nephritis and liver involvement].

The authors report the case of a 6-year-old girl with Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome and chronic tubulo-interstitial nephritis with glomerulosclerosis requiring chronic peritoneal dialysis, then haemodialysis. One year later, minimal hepatic involvement occurs, leading to portal hypertension. The liver biopsy reveals periportal fibrosis with many small bile ducts.

[Accidental poisoning by volatile hydrocarbons in children (apropos of 57 cases)].

Most of the accidentally intoxicated children who are admitted into hospital have swallowed volatile hydrocarbons. The ingested products are either aliphatic hydrocarbons, whether white spirit or petrol, or aromatic hydrocarbons. We have collected informations upon 57 children admitted into the pediatric department of The American Memorial Hospital in Reims, from 1973 to 1982.

[Choroid plexus papilloma (author's transl)].

The authors report a new case of choroid plexus papilloma. Hydrocephalus produced by this tumour has special features. Diagnosis is made by CAT scan.

[Localized form of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis in a child. Case report].

The authors report the case of a 4 1/2-year-old boy with a localized xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis. Review of the literature shows that this rare condition is often misdiagnosed before surgery, a preoperative diagnosis of Wilms' tumor being proposed instead of the exact one which is of benign prognosis. The pathogenesis is unknown.

[Renal lesions in congenital syphilis. A case report].

The authors describe a case of congenital syphilitic nephropathy in an infant. The review of the reports in the literature shows many similarities of this congenital disease with the syphilitic nephrotic syndrome in the adult. The prognosis is favorable provided the diagnosis is made sufficiently early.

[Visceral Kaposi sarcoma associated with a thyroid medullary carcinoma in a child in prolonged remission of lymphoblastic leukaemia (author's transl)].

This report concerns a 12-years-old child, in remission for 8 years from lymphoblastic leukaemia. The course was rapidly fatal. The authors compare this case with those published in the literature of Kaposi sarcoma occuring in transplant patients and discuss the possible mechanisms, in particular the role of immunodepression.