Osteoarticular and muscle infectious lesions in patients with the human immunodeficiency virus.

Between 1988 and 1995, 1832 HIV positive patients were evaluated in our institution. We studied the epidemiologic, immunologic and bacteriologic data, laboratory tests, and X-Ray films in those with musculoskeletal infection. We reviewed twenty-one cases of musculoskeletal infection in twenty patients aged 23-35 years (mean 28,6 years, M:F= 15:5).

[Inferior vena cava obstruction syndrome caused by urinary retention].

Objective: To report an unusual case of inferior vena cava obstruction secondary to urinary retention.

Methods/results: A 72-year-old male patient with a history of bilateral inguinal hernia and a recent hip surgery, presented with deep venous thrombosis in the left leg. A CT scan disclosed significant thickening of the bladder wall and grade III-IV hypertrophy of the prostate.

Hydatid disease of bone with adjacent joint involvement. A radiological follow-up of 12 years.

Osseous lesions have been reported in only 1-2% of patients with hydatid disease. Joint involvement is usually due to secondary extension from the adjacent bone, although primary hydatid synovitis after haematogenous spread of the infection can be seen. We present a long-term radiological follow-up (12 yr) in a patient who developed hydatid disease of the left pelvic and femoral bones with cartilage destruction of the ipsilateral hip joint.