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Systemic mastocytosis is a rare condition that often involves the bone marrow. We report the case of a patient with systemic mastocytosis who underwent total hip replacement. Technical difficulties encountered during the procedure included a narrow medullary canal and abnormally hard bone, later confirmed by laboratory measurements. Follow-up at five years showed a good clinical and radiological outcome.
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Artroplastia de Quadril/métodos , Neoplasias Ósseas/cirurgia , Cabeça do Fêmur/patologia , Mastocitose Sistêmica/cirurgia , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Neoplasias Ósseas/patologia , Neoplasias Ósseas/fisiopatologia , Feminino , Cabeça do Fêmur/fisiopatologia , Dureza , Humanos , Mastocitose Sistêmica/patologia , Mastocitose Sistêmica/fisiopatologia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
Hyperammonemia has been reported rarely in the pediatric age group in systemically ill patients. All cases resulted from infections with urea splitting organisms, which are more common among patients who have undergone surgical procedures on the urinary tract. The authors report for the first time in the pediatric literature, one patient who presented with hyperammonemic encephalopathy that resulted from urinary tract infection with Staphylococcus epidermidis and Corynebacterium sp.
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Encefalopatias Metabólicas/etiologia , Infecções por Corynebacterium/complicações , Hiperamonemia/etiologia , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/etiologia , Infecções Estafilocócicas/complicações , Staphylococcus epidermidis , Infecções Urinárias/complicações , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Dano Encefálico Crônico/etiologia , Criança , Corynebacterium/enzimologia , Humanos , Hidronefrose/cirurgia , Masculino , Disrafismo Espinal/complicações , Staphylococcus epidermidis/enzimologia , Stents , Urease/metabolismo , Ureterostomia , Bexiga Urinaria Neurogênica/etiologia , Infecções Urinárias/metabolismoRESUMO
Inherited cancer syndromes may predispose to more than one type of cancer, and these characteristically develop at an earlier age than their sporadic counterparts. The occurrence in a single individual of multiple, early onset primary cancers may indicate an inherited cancer susceptibility. Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), an autosomal, dominantly inherited susceptibility to colorectal adenomas and cancer also predisposes to childhood medulloblastomas and to a specific rare histologic type (cribriform variant) of papillary thyroid cancer. We describe a patient who developed a childhood medulloblastoma of the cerebellum, and subsequently a cribriform papillary thyroid cancer. These cancers predated the diagnosis of FAP in this patient, who was later found to have several relatives with FAP. The adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) mutation delineated in this family was in the region associated with those causing an increased risk of thyroid cancer. We submit that the diagnosis of the cribriform variant of papillary thyroid cancer in a young individual, especially after a previous cancer diagnosis, should alert the physician to the possibility of a diagnosis of FAP.
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Adenocarcinoma Papilar/genética , Polipose Adenomatosa do Colo/genética , Variação Genética , Neoplasias da Glândula Tireoide/genética , Neoplasias Cerebelares/genética , Evolução Fatal , Feminino , Humanos , Meduloblastoma/genética , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mutação , LinhagemRESUMO
Necrobacillosis is a potentially life-threatening septicaemic illness occurring in the previously fit and healthy. The authors illustrate a case presenting as an atypical pharyngotonsillitis with renal complications, initially misdiagnosed as poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis. Necrobacillosis should be considered in cases of unusual pharyngotonsillitis.
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Infecções por Fusobacterium , Fusobacterium necrophorum , Nefropatias/microbiologia , Faringite/microbiologia , Tonsilite/microbiologia , Adulto , Quimioterapia Combinada , Infecções por Fusobacterium/tratamento farmacológico , Humanos , Nefropatias/tratamento farmacológico , Masculino , Metronidazol/uso terapêutico , Penicilina G/uso terapêutico , Faringite/tratamento farmacológico , Tonsilite/tratamento farmacológicoAssuntos
Portador Sadio/microbiologia , Infecção Hospitalar/transmissão , Surtos de Doenças , Alta do Paciente , Pediatria , Infecções Estafilocócicas/transmissão , Síndrome da Pele Escaldada Estafilocócica/transmissão , Infecção Hospitalar/epidemiologia , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Infecções Estafilocócicas/epidemiologia , Síndrome da Pele Escaldada Estafilocócica/epidemiologiaRESUMO
Thirty six people suffered from severe vomiting and diarrhoea 15 min to 3 h after eating vanilla slices from the same bakery. Five patients were admitted to hospital, and one developed unusual skin lesions after admission. Staphylococcus aureus was isolated in large numbers from vanilla slices of the same batch as those giving rise to symptoms, and from five faecal specimens obtained from affected persons. Bacillus cereus and Bacillus subtilis were also isolated from the slices. Unbaked custard provides an ideal environment for bacterial multiplication, especially when (as on this occasion) the ambient temperature is persistently high.
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Intoxicação Alimentar Estafilocócica/etiologia , Adulto , Bacillus cereus/isolamento & purificação , Bacillus subtilis/isolamento & purificação , Diarreia/etiologia , Inglaterra , Feminino , Contaminação de Alimentos , Manipulação de Alimentos , Microbiologia de Alimentos , Doenças Transmitidas por Alimentos/etiologia , Humanos , Gravidez , Staphylococcus aureus/isolamento & purificação , Vômito/etiologiaAssuntos
Diálise Peritoneal/efeitos adversos , Peritonite/etiologia , Idoso , Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Criança , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Diálise Peritoneal Ambulatorial Contínua/efeitos adversos , Peritonite/tratamento farmacológico , Infecções por Pseudomonas/etiologia , Infecções Estafilocócicas/etiologiaRESUMO
The capacity of electrostatic imaging for edge enhancement and wide latitude recording can improve visualization in neuroradiologic studies using low differential absorption contrast agents. Gas myelography and pneumoencephalography show the most satisfactory improvement in visualization. Tomography combined with xerography enhances definition further, but with gas myelography, especially in the thoracic region, plain xeroradiographic definition is frequently diagnostic.