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Acute glaucoma crisis is an emergency in ophthalmology. Ocular and systemic clinical signs are typical and due to a paroxystic and severe increase of intraocular pressure. It is a biometric disease: little eye with a big lens.
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March 2003
Servicio de Neurología, Hospital de Conxo, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, España.
Catatonia is a large neuropsychiatric syndrome with multiple etiologies (psychiatric disorder, cerebral structural lesion, systemic disease, secondary to drugs and toxic agents) and varied clinical manifestations (cognitive and behavioral disorders, motor and speech disorders and vegetative disorders). The presence of disautonomy means a situation having vital risk, that requires immediate therapeutic intervention. A 22 year old woman was admitted due to a picture of stupor, fever, maintained postures, rigidity, seizures and tachycardia and hypertension episodes; this picture initiated four weeks earlier, with psychotic and affective symptoms and she slowly developed speech and motor activity impairment.
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October 1998
Service de médecine vasculaire et d'hypertension artérielle, Hôpital Saint-Joseph, Paris.
Raynaud's phenomenon is a common paroxystic vasomotor disorder. Diagnosis is easily made based on white fingers caused by cold. Aetiological evaluation must distinguish between functional disorders (primary Raynaud's phenomenon or Raynaud's disease) and secondary Raynaud's phenomenon.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArq Neuropsiquiatr
September 1998
Universidade Federal de São Paulo-Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP), Brasil.
The HIV is responsible for important metabolic and structural alterations of the brain. This affected brain must react to continuous systemic metabolic fluctuations. We search for possibly resulting cerebral electric disturbance that could be found by EEG exploration.
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