We have studied eight patients, six children and two adults, during a microepidemic of soil- and patient-proven histoplasmosis. Pulmonary function tests were performed between the 15th and 23rd days after the onset of symptoms, and repeated between the fifth and sixth, the ninth and tenth and the 15th and 22nd months afterward. Initial abnormalities were mild in seven cases and severe in one.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA study of liver biopsy specimens was done for 28 patients with sarcoidosis. Epithelioid cell granulomas were found in 22 cases. Among the patients with granulomas, 13 had had fever and/or arthralgia; no such symptoms were observed among the patients who did not have granulomas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors describe 51 cases of local complications due to intradermal BCG vaccination which occurred among 117 533 children between 1974 and 1979, in the city of Niteroi (Rio de Janeiro State). The ages ranged from 0 to 16 years and the lesions observed were abscesses, enlargement of regional lymph nodes, chronic ulceration, and ulceration associated with enlarged lymph nodes. The patients were treated with isoniazid, except 2 who required surgical drainage, with favourable results in all cases.
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