[Radiologic and clinical analysis of pneumonia caused by cytomegalovirus (CMV) in patients after kidney transplantation]. / Analiza radiologiczna i kliniczna zapalen pluc wywolanych wirusem cytomegalii (CMV) u chorych po zabiegu przeszczepienia nerki.

An analysis included 15 patients followed-up for 1.5 years. An infection with CMV was confirmed with clinical and laboratory tests. No radiological changes in chest X-ray were found in 5 patients. Interstitial lesions with micronodular dissemination in lower lung fields were seen in 2 (22.2%) out of the remaining patients, peribronchitis in 2 (22.4%) patients, segmentary pneumonia in 4 (44.4%) patients, and bronchopneumonia was found in 1 (11.1%) patient. Features of subsegmentary streaky atelectasis were noted in 4 of these patients. Streaky atelectasis as a sole symptom of CMV infection occurred in 1 patient. The obtained results indicate that streaky atelectasis may be a sole sign of pulmonary infection with CMV. It was also found that such an infection may be radiologically asymptomatic.

Malformations in 10,000 consecutive births in Tunis.

Malformations were assessed in 10,000 consecutively born infants, dead or alive, at the Wassila Bourgiba Maternity Hospital in Tunis. The medical and social history including the rate of consanguinity was studied in the malformed group as well as in a control group of 229 infants. Three hundred and ninety-six infants were malformed; 248 had major malformations and 148 had minor ones. Thirteen per cent of the stillborn were malformed compared to 3.7% of the liveborn. The rates of most specific malformations were comparable to those in other studies but a relatively high rate of neural tube defects, 2.2/1000, can be noted. There is a significant overrepresentation of consanguinity (65%) in parents of non syndromic multi-malformed infants.