Clinical and laboratory features of disseminated histoplasmosis in HIV patients from Brazil.

Objectives: To identify the main clinical and laboratory features of disseminated histoplasmosis (DH) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients and compare them with those of HIV patients with other opportunistic diseases.

Methods: Retrospective study of HIV patients comparing the clinical and laboratory data of patients with and without DH. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to verify the risk factors related to DH.

Behcet's disease and IgA nephropathy: report of this association in a patient from Brazil and literature review.

Behcet's disease (BD) is associated with renal involvement in about one-third of the cases and a variety of renal lesions have been reported. A 27-year-old man presented a history of recurrent oral and genital ulcers, associated with pseudofoliculitis and arthritis in his left knee. The first laboratory tests revealed: urea = 53mg/dL, creatinine = 1.