Recurrent herpes simplex virus type 2 meningitis in elderly persons.

Objective: To review the ages of patients with recurrent herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) meningitis.

Design: Case report and literature review back to 1970.

Setting: Referral Veterans Affairs hospital.

Radionuclide and radiation protection data handbook 2nd edition (2002).

This handbook is a reference source of radionuclide and radiation protection information. Its purpose is to provide users of radionuclides in medicine, research and industry with consolidated and appropriate information and data to handle and transport radioactive substances safely. It is mainly intended for users in low and intermediate activity laboratories.

Laboratory medicine in France. A jeopardized situation.

The expenses for health care in France have risen considerably during the present decade, ranking third after USA and Canada in the Western world. In spite of the very low cost of laboratory medicine (2.4% of the total expenditure in 1995), clinical laboratories have undergone a severe squeeze, due to two limiting factors; a decrease in the ordering of laboratory tests from private physicians and a reduction in the total expenses for laboratory services from the Social Security.

[Sclerosing peritonitis. A series of 10 cases and review of the literature].

Objective And Methods: The aim of this study was to describe the main features of sclerosing peritonitis, using a retrospective study in 10 patients.

Results: The main causes of sclerosing peritonitis were continual ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (n = 3), peritoneal chemotherapy (n = 2) and liver cirrhosis (n = 2). Sclerosing peritonitis was revealed by acute or chronic bowel obstruction (n = 8).

Antibiotic versus maintenance therapy in the prevention of duodenal ulcer recurrence. Results of a multicentric double-blind randomized trial.

Objectives: Reduction of gastric acid secretion by maintenance therapy and eradication of Helicobacter pylori by antibiotic treatment have been shown to reduce duodenal ulcer relapse. This study compared the effect of two regimens, a 6-month maintenance on an H2 receptor antagonist versus a one-week antibiotic therapy, on the rate of duodenal ulcer relapse in duodenal ulcer patients with gastric H. pylori infection.