[Cutaneous manifestations in hemodialysis patients].

Background: Hemodialysis patients have frequent and various cutaneous manifestations of often hypothetical pathogenesis. Chronic renal failure (CRF) presents with an array of cutaneous manifestations. The objective was to evaluate the prevalence and nature of cutaneous lesions associated with CRF patients on hemodialysis patients.

[Submental intubation in maxillofacial traumatology].

Introduction: Free access to the upper respiratory tract may be a challenge for the management of severe facial trauma. Tracheotomy is routinely used in this case. Submental intubation is little used, but it is an alternative to tracheotomy.

IgG anti-toxoplasma antibodies among asymptomatic HIV-infected patients in Marrakesh-Morocco.

Detection and monitoring of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies are of a great interest among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients, since cerebral toxoplasmosis is a life-threatening opportunistic infection within this vulnerable population. The IgG anti-T. gondii seroprevalence was assessed in 95 asymptomatic HIV-infected adults living in Marrakesh city and its surrounding areas.

[Epidemiology of burns in Marrakech: 152 cases considered].

This paper is a retrospective epidemiological study of 152 burn patients hospitalized between 2006 and 2008. The patients were aged less than 20 years in 65% of cases. The sex ratio (m/f) was 1.

[Exsudative retinal detachment indicative of a giant cell arteritis. A case report].

Giant cell arteritis (Horton's disease) is an inflammatory panarteritis occurring most frequently in the elderly. Its common ocular manifestations are anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, choroidal ischemia and central retinal artery occlusion. We describe a case of Horton's disease revealed by a retinal detachment, optic neuropathy and severe choroidal ischemia.

Dorsal dislocation of the first metatarsophalangeal joint associated with fractured second metatarsal head.

Traumatic dislocations of the first metatarsophalangeal joint were first described by Mouchet in 1931. The anatomical complexity of the first metatarsophalangeal joint makes this injury one of a kind. There have been a limited number of case reports of this injury.

[Facial wounds: an epidemiological review of 850 cases].

Background: Facial wound are among the most frequent emergencies. They often affect a young population. We studied the epidemiological profile of facial wounds admitted in our hospital.

[Severe hypertriglyceridemia and macrophage activation syndrome: a case report].

We report the case of a 36-year-old patient admitted for Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS), revealed by inflammatory dermo-hypodermal lesions, tumor syndrome, pancytopenia, biological cholestasis, increased lactate dehydrogenase rates and hemophagocytosis in skin biopsies. The patient also exhibited an exponential increase in triglycerides serum levels that reached 22 g/L. The patient died after multiple organ failure.

[Iris metastasis from lung cancer].

A 47-year-old man with a history of lung adenocarcinoma presented a red and painful right eye with loss of visual acuity after the 5th course of chemotherapy. The ophthalmologic exam showed visual acuity at 3/10 and diffuse iris nodular lesions in the same eye. The fundus was not visible.

[Two cases of Wolfram syndrome].

Wolfram syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease; it is characterized by the appearance of diabetes mellitus in childhood associated with bilateral optic atrophy that often leads to blindness. Insipid diabetes, deafness, psychiatric disorders, anosmia, anomalies of the urinary tract, nystagmus, ataxia, and myoclonias are less frequent. We report two cases of Wolfram syndrome, diagnosed in a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy.

[A recent case of palpebral anthrax].

Anthrax disease is an acute infection caused by Bacillus anthracis. It appears in three forms: pulmonary, intestinal, and cutaneous, whose palpebral location is rare but serious. The authors report the case of a 38-year-old patient who presented 3 weeks after the appearance of an upper and lower palpebral tumefaction.