Amoebic Liver Abscess: Potential Application of New Diagnostic Techniques for an Old Pathogen.

Amoebic liver abscess is a severe and potentially life-threatening infection requiring prompt diagnosis and early targeted treatment. Diagnosis is challenging because conventional diagnostic methods such as light microscopy and serology are often unreliable. Molecular techniques have emerged as an additional diagnostic tool, suddenly becoming the new diagnostic reference standard.

Abdominal compartment syndrome: an underrated complication in pediatric kidney transplantation.

The transplantation of a large kidney in small children can lead to many complications, including an underrated complication known as abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS), which is defined as intra-abdominal pressure (IAP)≥20 mm Hg with dysfunction of at least one thoracoabdominal organ. Presenting signs of ACS include firm tense abdomen, increased peak inspiratory pressures, oliguria, and hypotension. Between June 1, 1985, and September 30, 2013, our center performed 420 kidney transplants (deceased/living related donors: 381/39) in 314 pediatric recipients (female/male: 147/167).

Factors predicting the outcome following medical treatment of mesial temporal epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis.

Purpose: There is a lack of information from South America regarding factors that predict the clinical outcomes of patients treated medically for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS). This study was conducted to determine which of these factors are the most important.

Methods: This study included 110 South American patients with MTLE-HS treated with antiepileptic drugs.

Impact of Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score on transfusion rates in liver transplantation.

Background: Liver transplantation (OLT) can entail a high risk of blood loss requiring transfusions, which increase morbidity and mortality. In recent years many efforts have been spent to improve the surgical and anesthetic management to decrease transfusion rates during OLT. Preoperative predictors for transfusion in OLT, remain uncertain.

[Pneumocystis jiroveci and cytomegalovirus pneumonia in patients with alcoholic hepatic cirrhosis].

We have described a fatal case of interstitial pneumonia with pleuritis in woman, 54 years old, suffered from end stage liver disease caused by ethanolic hepatic cirrhosis. Broncholavage microbiological culture was negative but biomolecular assays with polymerase chain reaction demonstred Pneumocystis jiroveci and Cytomegalovirus. She died despite aetiological therapy with cotrimoxazole and gancyclovir.