Background: The cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is most often asymptomatic, serious forms are confined to immunocompromised.
Aim: We report a new case of post-transfusionnel hepatitis CMV of fatal outcome.
Case: A 83 year old man, asthmatic known for 26 years treated by corticosteroids, without particular hepatic antecedents, has presented an acute hepatitis post-transfusionnel CMV of fatal outcome.
Background: The fast development of New Communication and Information Technologies (NTIC) and their use in increasingly numerous fields in medicine; raised new ethical issues. The aim of this paper is to highlight ethical and deontological guidelines for health professionals and physicians which must guide their use of the NTIC.
Method: A research in the Anglophone and French medical literature and on the Internet, using various key words related to ethics and medical computing.
Algodystrophy syndrome is characterized by pain, vasomotor disorders and/or trophic skin changes, without laboratory signs of inflammation. Among the etiological factors of this syndrome (trauma, cerebrovascular accident, diabetes mellitus..
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective of this studies is to review clinical and laboratory features of lupus panniculitis. The authors report 3 cases of lupus profundus from a group of 70 lupus erythematosus. In both cases the lupus panniculitis presented as subcutaneous infiltrated and indurated nodules.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHerein, we report a case of a 51 year old man who experienced three ischemic cerebral infarcts in a time of few months. The patient consulted after the third accident. Neurological presentation included pseudobulbar syndrome with a mild cognitive deficit, aphasia, left hemiparesia, hemiasomatognosia and homonymous lateral hemianopsia.
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