[Antibiotic-induced diarrhea: recent findings about Clostridium difficile].

From the beginning of the antibiotherapy, diarrhea frequently occurred as a side effect of the treatment. The spectrum of diarrheal disease associated with antibiotic therapy ranges from antibiotic associated diarrhea and colitis, to the more severe pseudomembranous colitis, which is always associated with Clostridium difficile (CD). Because most of the antibiotics are not active against this sporulated Gram positive anaerobe.

Giardiasis. Functional, immunological and histological study of the small bowel. Therapeutic trial with a single dose of tinidazole.

Fourteen patients between the ages of 9 months and 5 years with chronic diarrhea and giardiasis were studied. Ten were eutrophic and 4 undernourished. The parasitological diagnosis was based on stool examination, a trophozoite search in duodenal aspiration, mucus adhered to mucosa and parasite identification in the intestinal biopsy material.

[Fibrocystic disease of the pancreas: a presentation feature. Anatomopathological report].

Five patients with CF (cystic fibrosis) dead between 1974 to 1982 at ages ranging from one to six months are presented. All of them showed edema, hypoalbuminemia and anemia in a severely compromised clinical situation, and failure to gain weight in spite of being breast-fed in the first weeks of life, in four of them. All of them were second or third degree malnourished babies (Gomez classification) at admission.

[Prolonged diarrhea in infancy: effect of deconjugated bile acids and cholestyramine action].

527 patients whose ages ranged from 3 months to 5 years, with acute diarrhea were studied. 517 showed satisfactory response to treatment. Diarrhea persisted in 10 patients (2 %) and bile acids were determined in intestinal juice before and after cholestyramine administration.