Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis: An Unusual Presentation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection.

Background: Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a rare inflammatory and demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system, with a distinct tendency to a perivenous localization of pathological changes. Children are the most affected population and frequently presented after exanthematous viral infections or vaccination. Due to the rarity of this disease, the annual incidence rate in the population is not precisely known.

[Diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism].

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is an important disease entity in clinical medicine. It consists of obstruction of pulmonary arterial blood flow of a clot embolism from distant sites of the vasculature. Its incidence is variable depending on the source analyzed and most existing data is in hospitalized patients.