Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to H Bastos.
The authors describe a case of Sheehan's syndrome that followed hemorrhagic complications due to late abortion, and emphasise the infrequency of changes in plasma lipid levels in this disease. They report a particular case of hypopituitarism and point out the main concepts of pathophysiology, diagnosis, therapeutics and complications that follow this increasingly rarer condition.
The authors present a case of a nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, with progression to liver cirrhosis in an obese female patient. A review of the literature, possible evolution, and principle pathological processes involved is made. Attention is drawn to obesity as a risk factor in the progression of steatohepatitis and the advantage of performing liver biopsies in selected cases as a fundamental technique of diagnosis.
The authors present two cases of myotonic dystrophy (Steinert's disease) with cardiac involvement in young adults. They point out the rareness of this disease, the multisystemic involvement and also the diagnostic problems in the absence of the classic clinical picture.