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G C Levi

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PubMed1985

Cytomegalovirus mononucleosis in children and adults: differences in clinical presentation.

In 2 previously healthy groups of 14 children and 17 adults with cytomegalovirus mononucleosis, significant clinical differences were observed. Cervical lymphadenopathy, hepatomegaly and lymphocytosis (greater than 5000/microliter) were more common in children and protracted fever more common in adults. Exudative tonsillitis indistinguishable from infectious mononucleosis was sometimes seen in children but never in adults.

Adult↗
PubMed1984

Exercise testing in the latent phase of Chagas' disease.

Exercise stress testing was performed in 50 completely asymptomatic patients in the latent phase of Chagas' disease. In 32 (64%) abnormalities were found consisting of either abnormal ST depression, exercise-induced arrhythmias, or chronotropic incompetence. The latter was determined by comparing the heart rate response to 50 age- and sex-matched control patients without serologic evidence of Chagas' disease. In the absence of an adequate control population we can only speculate as to the significance of the ST depression and arrhythmias during exercise. However, chronotropic incompetence may be a specific marker for Trypanosomal infestation in an endemic area. It probably is an early manifestation of autonomic dysfunction secondary to Chagas' disease.

Adult↗
PubMed1977

Efficacy of various drugs for treatment of giardiasis. A comparative study.

A total of 172 patients with giardiasis were treated with four of the drugs most commonly used for this infection. All drugs were used in their usual posologic schedules. The cure rates achieved with furazolidone, nimorazole, metronidazole, and tinidazole were; respectively, 72%, 94%, 87%, and 97%, while in a control group given no medication stools of only 35% of the patients became negative. Side effects were of minor importance in patients treated with nimorazole and metronidazole, and were somewhat more frequent and severe in those treated with furazolidone. Tinidazole produced no side effects.

Antiprotozoal Agents↗
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Behçet's syndrome/AIDS/cerebral toxoplasmosis: an unusual association.

Few cases of AIDS associated to manifestations suggesting Behçet's syndrome have been reported. This case is of a young married woman who presented, during a period of 7 years, clinical manifestations consistent with the late diagnosis of Behçet's syndrome, when she developed recurrent lymphomonocytic meningoencephalitis. At this time, she was found to be infected by HIV-1. Immunosuppressive doses of glucocorticoid produced an unsatisfactory response and she evolved to death due to CNS toxoplasmosis. The latter diagnosis was presumed on the basis of magnetic resonance imaging findings and proved by necropsy after her third hospital stay. One of the factors hindering the appropriate diagnosis was the low level of CD4 and the CD4/CD8 ratio, sometimes observed in active Behçet's syndrome and higher than those observed in patients with this severe opportunistic infection. No information about the exact period of time she had been infected with HIV-1 is available. So, we do not know whether both diseases were overlooked, if the patient, infected by HIV-1, developed an unusual clinical feature consistent with Behçet's Behçet's syndrome, and subsequently evolved to AIDS.

AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections↗