Cutaneous events during treatment of chronic inflammatory joint disorders with anti-tumour necrosis factor alpha: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Anti-tumour necrosis factors (anti-TNF) are more and more used, but the rate of skin adverse events is not known.

Objective: The aim was to assess the number of skin infections and other dermatoses in patients treated with anti-TNFalpha.

Patients And Methods: One hundred eighty-seven patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis underwent a dermatological exam.

[Late epilepsy in cerebral cysticercosis. 2 cases confirmed by tomodensitometry].

Invasion of the central nervous system by the larvae of Tenia Solium classically leads to severe illness. In some instances, however, the course is protracted and benign. The authors report on two patients with cysticercosis cerebri, revealed by delayed seizures without cerebral hypertension or any other manifestation.

[Hepatic syphillis with amyloïdosis and chronic diarrhea. A discussion of etiologic mechanisms (author's transl)].

A sixty-four year-old woman was admitted for chronic diarrhea with severe weight loss. Investigations showed hepatomegaly, positive serologic tests for syphilis, and nephrotic syndrome with proteinuria. Anasarca occurred and the patient died shortly after admission.

[Bacterial endocardiitis complicating fibroplastic endocarditis: a case report (author's transl)].

A young Protugese man, who had never travelled outside of Europe, was found to have a bacterial complication of a fibroplastic endocarditis. The onset was by a spontaneous chest pain, associated with a posterolatero-apical subepicardial ischemia and giant T waves in V3, V4, and calcification in the apex of the heart on radiography. Diagnosis was confirmed by intracardiac explorations: ventricular telediastolic pressures were increased; the lower border of the right ventricle was smooth, the left ventricle had a globular appearance with a smooth anterior border, the apex appearing to be completely excluded; coronarography was normal.