Personality profile and health-related quality of life in adults with previous continuous spike-waves during slow sleep syndrome.

Introduction: Epilepsy with continuous spike-waves during slow sleep syndrome (CSWSS) is characterized by various seizure types, a characteristic EEG pattern and neuropsychological disorders. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term outcome of CSWSS occurred in childhood and to evaluate the variables that could influence the quality of social adaptation and the personality profile.

Material And Methods: This is a prospective study on 24 young adults with previous CSWSS (median age 24.

[Goodpasture syndrome: treatment initiation with plasmapheresis before histologic diagnostic verification].

A 28 years old male patient presented, after a history of previous recurrent hemoptysis, with diffuse bilateral air space consolidation at chest radiography (CXR). Within 48 hours, partial respiratory insufficiency developed and required intubation. On a clinical and roentgenographic basis, the diagnosis of a Goodpasture syndrome was suspected.

[Current aspects of lymph node tuberculosis of the neck].

In 1994, the incidence of tuberculosis (Tb) in Germany is 16/ 100,000, and the incidence of extrapulmonary Tb is 2,3/100,000. The peripheral lymph nodes represent with 41% the most commonly involved extrapulmonary organ system. At present, cervical lymph node Tb is of clinical relevance on one hand in patients from endemic areas of Tb in the developing countries and on the other hand in immunocompromised patients, particularly in course of HIV infection.

[Computerized tomography aspects of amiodarone poisoning].

Amiodarone, an antiarrhythmic drug, may cause pulmonary toxicity with typical high-attenuation-pleuro-parenchymal lesions and increased attenuation of liver and spleen. Characteristic CT findings are diagnostically significant.