[Pericardial tuberculosis complicated with heart tamponade as presentation form of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome].

Background: Pericardial tuberculosis is an unusual presentation form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, even in HIV-1 infected patients. When complicated with cardiac tamponade the prognosis worsens; therefore, early diagnosis and therapy are essential.

Methods: A cross-sectional and descriptive study was carried out of cases with documented diagnosis of tuberculous pericarditis in a cohort of prisoner patients with tuberculosis in the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, during a 4-year period (March 1991-March 1995).

Clinical significance of splenic tuberculosis in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus.

To assess the clinical significance of splenic tuberculosis in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1, we compared 20 patients who had splenic tuberculosis with 20 randomly selected, HIV-infected patients with culture-proven tuberculosis for whom splenic involvement had been ruled out by ultrasonography. All of the patients were male prison inmates and intravenous drug users. Statistically significant differences (P < .

[Neutropenia in HIV infection].

Unlabelled: The infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are commonly associated with haematologic abnormalities (anemia, leucopenia and thrombocytopenia). We review the neutropenia. In patients infected with HIV neutropenia is seen in the 8-50% of them, and also have abnormalities in the neutrophil function.

[Microbiological study of some microorganisms implicated in sexually transmitted diseases among the female prison population].

Background: Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are of over greater interest, particularly since the appearance of the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) in the last decade. Asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic infections are very frequent, overall in women. The aim of this study was to know the prevalence of certain STD producing microorganisms in a female penitentiary population, the clinical characteristics and evaluate the risk factors which may be found in this population.

Mixed oropharyngeal candidiasis due to Candida albicans and non-albicans Candida strains in HIV-infected patients.

In order to determine the clinical significance of mixed oropharyngeal candidiasis (Candida albicans plus a non-albicans strain of Candida) in patients infected with HIV-1, a retrospective chart review was done in 12 HIV-1-infected patients with a clinical episode of oropharyngeal candidiasis, in whom a mixed culture of Candida albicans (found to be fluconazole-sensitive) plus a non-albicans species of Candida was obtained from their oral cavities. This group was compared with 26 HIV-positive patients (control group) with oropharyngeal candidiasis due to Candida albicans (found to be fluconazole-sensitive). Antifungal susceptibility testing was performed by a broth microdilution test with RPMI-2% glucose.

Erythema elevatum diutinum in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients--report of a case and review of the literature.

Erythema elevatum diutinum (EED) is a rare chronic disease of unknown origin, part of the spectrum of cutaneous leucocytoclastic vasculitis. A case of EED in a 32-year-old HIV-infected male patient, with no previous opportunistic infections and a CD4+ cell count of less than 200/mm3, is reported. Therapy with oral dapsone (100 mg/day for 15 days) resulted in clinical cure with no relapse after 6 months of follow-up.

[Disseminated Kaposi's sarcoma with hepatosplenic involvement in AIDS].

Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is the most frequent neoplasm found in AIDS patients. The disease is often disseminated and preferentially involves the skin and the lymphatic and digestive systems. Hepatosplenic involvement which is considered as a frequent autopsy finding is rarely diagnosed at life.

[Primary cutaneous cryptococcosis and bacterial pneumonia caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in AIDS: clinical case and review of the literature].

Background: Clinically symptomatic infection due to Cryptococcus neoformans is found in 5-10% of patients with AIDS. It usually appears as meningitis with or without associated blood stream infection. In the last years, severe Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in HIV (+) patients, with a high morbidity and mortality, are increasingly reported.

[Campylobacter jejuni infections in a prison population coinfected with the human immunodeficiency virus].

Background: Campylobacter jejuni is a common etiological agent of diarrhea in the general population. In recent years it has also been involved as etiological agent of intestinal and extraintestinal infections in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The clinical and microbiological features in a series of HIV+ patients infected with C.

[Intestinal parasitoses in the prison population in the Madrid area (1991-1993)].

Background: Intestinal parasitoses are frequent in populations in tropical and subtropical areas, HIV infection has favoured an increase in the prevalence of some of these parasitoses . Both conditions concur in innate populations. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and clinical characteristics of the intestinal parasitosis in a penitentiary population from the Madrid area.

[Resistant tuberculosis in a prison population during 1991-1993].

Background: To know the prevalence of resistant tuberculosis and the characteristics of the same in the penitentiary medium in the Madrid area (Spain).

Methods: From March 1, 1991 to August 31, 1993 a prospective study was carried out in patients with isolations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to some of the common antituberculous drugs within the context of tuberculosis in a penitentiary population attended in the Hospital General Penitenciario (Madrid). Demographic, clinical, analytical, and microbiological data were collected as was that on the antituberculous treatment used.

[Tricuspid endocarditis caused by penicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: 2 cases in parenteral drug addicts].

Background: Staphylococcus aureus is the main causal agent of infectious endocarditis (IE) in intravenous drug addicts (IVDA) with most of the strains, isolated in Spain being resistant to penicillin and sensitive to methycillin, although the latter condition varied in recent years. Two cases of IE caused by S. aureus strains sensitive to penicillin in IVDA are presented.

Human intestinal capillariasis in an area of nonendemicity: case report and review.

We report a rare case of human intestinal capillariasis in a young Colombian man who presented with abdominal pain and mild, self-limited diarrhea. Capillaria eggs were visualized in the feces, and treatment with mebendazole (200 mg/d for 3 weeks) resulted in clinical and parasitological cure. To our knowledge, this is the first case in a South American person and the second case reported in Europe.

[Bacteremia due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients coinfected with the human immunodeficiency virus].

Background: Since the appearance of AIDS, bacteremia by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an event described with ever greater frequency. The isolation of M. tuberculosis in blood cultures in patients coinfected by the human immunodeficiency virus and M.

[Tuberculosis in a prison population: a study of 138 cases].

Background: Tuberculosis continues to be a disease of great importance in Spain with few data known on prison populations. In the present study an analysis of the incidence and characteristics of tuberculosis in the prison population people is done.

Methods: The General Penitentiary Hospital attends a prison population from the penitentiary centers of Madrid and its surrounding areas.