Publications by authors named "HADNAGY C"

The author reviews the age distribution of cases of idiopathic cold agglutinin disease. The mean age in 183 cases is 61.9 years, 82.

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Besides of four pica cases (eating of dirt, paper, cotton, oakum, sand, lime, chalk) the authors report on a girl with trichophagia. The treatment of choice in pica consists in a sufficient supply of iron. The authors suggest that the intravenously administered iron acts on some centers of the central nervous system.

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The median age of occurrence of primary acquired sideroblastic anemia is 74.4 years, with a range of 12 to 96 years (calculated from 452 cases). Of 445 cases, 60.

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The case of a trichophagic child is presented. Oral and intramuscular iron therapy brought only temporary effect at the age of 3. Seven years later the 10-year-old highly intelligent girl ate again hair.

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In two beta-thal cases, hemiparesis and cerebral circulatory insufficiency were observed. The so-called "neurohemolytic syndrome" may be causally related to extramedullary hemopoiesis; microscopic or even macroscopic formations may cause spinal cord or other nerve compressions.

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In 352 patients affected with chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL) the authors simultaneously detected a solid second tumour 22 times (= 6.22%) (6 cancers of the prostrate, 5 cancers of the skin, 4 cancers of the uterus, 2 cancers of the stomach, 2 cancers of the lung, one case of rectal and mamma cancer each and one case of eye sarcoma). In one third of the cases the two malignomas were simultaneously detected, thus it was excluded that the second tumour was induced by the antimitotic treatment of the primary disease.

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Two unrelated cases of congenital dyserythropoietic anaemia (CDA) are described. They show striking similarities which could not be attributed to one of the well-known types of CDA or any other congenital disease of the erythroid system. Both patients were followed for many years before and after splenectomy.

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There are reported two cases of infectious mononucleosis in elderly. In the first case (80 years; probably the oldest in the geriatric literature) the infection provoked a very serious illness and the patient deceased three months after dimission, because of diminished resistance. In the second case the mononucleosis induced an autoimmune haemolytic anemia.

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The serum folate level of 100 aged persons (after 70) was decreased (less than 4 ng/ml) in 41% of the cases (manifest deficiency of folic acid). In the group of aged persons having normal folate values, in 41% of the cases the clearance method proved a latent folic acid deficiency, being the 15 minute value after 15 gamma/kg folic acid i.v.

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We examine in the last month of the pregnancy, resp. in the first week of their lactation period, the frequency of sideroblasts in the bone marrow of 265 pregnant women without iron or folate supplements. In 69,4% of the cases the frequency of sideroblasts was not more than 10% (in 34,7% of the cases sideroblasts were absent).

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