An Unusual Presentation of Pseudothrombotic Microangiopathy in a Patient with Autoimmune Atrophic Gastritis.

Introduction. We hereby describe the case of a young female patient who presented with pseudothrombotic microangiopathy, as well as pancytopenia accompanied by autoimmune atrophic gastritis. Case Presentation.

Extensive infectious myelitis post bariatric surgery.

Background: Inflammatory myelopathy is an inflammatory neurological disorder of the spinal cord (myelopathy). It occurs in 1 (severe) to 8 (mild) cases/million per year. It is often referred to in the literature as "transverse myelitis" or "acute transverse myelitis".

Mycobacterial infection of breast prosthesis--a conservative treatment: a case report.

Background: Bacterial infection is a well-known risk of breast implant surgery. It is typically caused by bacterial skin flora, specifically Staphylococcus aureus and the coagulase negative staphylococci. There have been infrequent reports of breast implant infection caused by the atypical mycobacteria, of which Mycobacterium canariasense not yet reported in the literature.

Isolated fever induced by mesalamine treatment.

Adverse reactions to mesalamine, a treatment used to induce and maintain remission in inflammatory bowel diseases, particularly ulcerative colitis, have been described in the literature as case reports. This case illustrates an unusual adverse reaction. Our patient developed an isolated fever of unexplained etiology, which was found to be related to mesalamine treatment.

Brain abscesses in HIV-positive patients due to Pneumocystis jiroveci.

Cerebral toxoplasmosis is common in AIDS patients; however, pneumocystosis of the brain is rarely documented. We report a patient with AIDS hospitalized for brain abscesses. Stereotactic brain biopsy with immunofluorescence staining was positive for Pneumocystis jiroveci.

Filariasis infection is a probable cause of implantation failure in in vitro fertilization cycles.

Objective: To describe a parasitic infection that probably affected the implantation of good-quality embryos in an in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle.

Design: Case report.

Setting: Tertiary care center in a university hospital.

[Human brucellosis in Lebanon. Clinical features and therapeutic responses in 88 patients].

Objectives: Present clinical features of brucellosis in Lebanon.

Methods: Eighty-eight patients were seen at Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital of Beirut between 1994 and 2002. Diagnostic criteria were brucellar agglutinins at a titer; 1/160 with symptoms suggestive of brucellosis in the absence of other diagnosis and a therapeutic response.

Percutaneous endoscopic gastro-duodenostomy: modified technique.

Objectives: Percutaneous endoscopic gastro-jejunostomy is appropriate for patients with severe neurologic deficit to avoid repeated tube feeding-related aspiration. We describe a modified technique of endoscopic gastro-duodenostomy.

Patients And Methods: This technique was performed in 9 patients with severe neurologic deficit.

[Typhoid fever. Clinical and therapeutic study in 70 patients].

Objective: Present clinical features of typhoid fever in Lebanon.

Methods: Retrospective study of 70 patients admitted to a university hospital center between 1995 and 2002. The criteria for inclusion were a positive Salmonella typhi or paratyphi hemoculture and/or a Widal serodiagnosis > or = 1/160 for O agglutinin, in the presence of evocative symptoms.