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A Martín Herrera

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PubMed1996

[Pancreatic disease in patients with HIV treated with didanosine (DDI)].

Pancreatic involvement has been studied in 70 HIV infected patients, in diverse stages, that were treated with didanosine (ddI), both as monotherapy or associated to zidovudine; 38% of patients presented adverse reaction that obliged to withdraw the medication: pancreatitis (4%), hyperamylasemia (21%) and abdominal pain and/or diarrhea (12%). The possible causes in presentation of adverse effects were evaluated: route of infection, stage of HIV infection, use of pentamidine or trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for preventing Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, administration of ddI in monotherapy or in combined form with zidovudine, time of treatment and level of CD4 lymphocytes. The outcome of adverse effects is related significantly only with the most advanced stage of HIV infection.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1994

[Low grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after combined therapy for Hodgkin's disease].

The most serious complication of curative therapy for Hodgkin's disease is the development of a second malignancy. A patient who developed a low grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma three years and a half after combined-modality therapy for Hodgkin's disease, is described. It is exceptional this type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma as a second neoplasm after cytotoxic treatment for Hodgkin's disease. Pathogenic relationships between both processes are discussed.

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols↗