Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to F Fetissoff.
The authors relate the case of a 24 year old man with deadly evolution in keeping with a paroxysmal paralytic myoglobinuria. Clinical, biological and histological studies of this disease are successively recorded. The pathogenesis is obscure. Symptomatic medical treatment must be supervise in an intensive department.
With this paper, we want to settle the part of eosinophilia in the definition of diseases as entities. Consequently, we emphasize the contribution of eosinophils in the histological diagnosis. Eosinophilic infiltration is the main marker of several lesions. We review successively some of these entities. They belong to tumoral or inflammatory (without or with vasculitis) pathology. The function of eosinophils must improve our knowledge about the significance of all these lesions (parasitic infestation, hypersensitivity...). These physiopathological mechanisms must be helpful to draw some new borders between these different entities.
We report two cases of acquired cystic disease of the kidneys in patients on long-term hemodialysis. The gross appearance of these polycystic kidneys can be distinguished from the congenital adult type by their normal size and weight and by the small range of their cysts. We found some similarity between these numerous cysts and the simple retention cysts. This polycystic disease could concern about 30 % of the whole patients on long-term hemodialysis ; the mechanisms of its development are unknown. Clinically, this lesion is mostly asymptomatic but could sometimes be discovered by intra or perirenal haemorrhage.