Biomedical subjects
E J da Silva
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An unusual foreign body in the tongue.
A T-shaped metal object from an umbrella embedded in the tongue of a 4-year-old male child is described, along with its subsequent removal. The types of foreign bodies reported in this area are also mentioned.
[Critical analysis of the gastroacidogram in gastroduodenal pathology].
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[Acute upper digestive hemorrhage: value of endoscopy in the diagnosis and prognosis].
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[Electrocardiographic changes in experimental alcoholism].
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[Electrocardiographic changes in experimental alcoholism. I].
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[Intestinal absorption in uremic patients].
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[Effect of DCR-515 essental arterial hypertension of moderate severity(preliminary communition)].
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A 3-year follow-up of a Brazilian AIDS patient with protracted diarrhea caused by Enterocytozoon bieneusi.
Enterocytozoon bieneusi is the most prevalent microsporidian parasite that causes gastrointestinal infection in persons with AIDS. Microsporidia are increasingly recognized as important opportunistic pathogens all over the world but in Brazil only few cases have been reported due either to the non awareness of the clinical presentation of the disease or to difficulties in the laboratory diagnosis. We report a 3-year follow-up of a Brazilian HIV-positive patient in whom microsporidial spores were detected in stools and were identified as E. bieneusi using electron microscopy and PCR. The patient presented with chronic diarrhea, CD4 T-lymphocytes count below 100/mm3 and microsporidial spores were consistently detected in stools. Albendazole was given to the patient in several occasions with transient relief of the diarrhea, which reappeared as soon as the drug was discontinued. Nevertheless, a diarrhea-free period with weight gain up to 18 Kg occurred when a combination of nucleoside and protease inhibitors was initiated as part of the antiviral treatment.
Emerging and opportunistic intestinal parasites in HIV-infected patients with chronic diarrhea in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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