Developmental and service needs of school-age children with human immunodeficiency virus infection: a descriptive study.

Objective: To describe the developmental functioning and service needs of a group of school-age children with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

Design: Retrospective data were collected through chart reviews and follow-up telephone calls to primary care givers.

Setting: A multidisciplinary team provided care at a developmental diagnostic and treatment center.

[Systemic embolism and aortic atheroma. Contribution of transesophageal echography. Apropos of a case of systemic embolism caused by cholesterol crystals].

Systemic embolisms involving cholesterol crystals sometimes occur following vascular catheterization and may be responsible for a variety of clinical signs. The authors report a case in which the etiological diagnosis included a transesophageal echography (TEE) which revealed atheromatous plaques on the thoracic aorta which were probably responsible for the projections. It is possible that episodes of embolism, either fibrinocruoric or due to the release of cholesterol crystals, arising from the thoracic aorta, have hitherto been underestimated by imaging methods such as scans and angiographs.

[Endocarditis caused by heart valve prosthesis. Apropos of 35 cases].

35 cases of prosthetic valve endocarditis are reported. The diagnostic is based on clinical, echocardiographic, bacteriological and anatomical aspects. Heart failure, neurologic complications, positive culture of prosthesis, Staphylococcus aureus infection and perivalvular abscess are factors of a bad prognosis.