Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to I Baptista.
The authors report two clinical cases of systemic lupus erythematosus, both in patients over 65 years of age. The discussion includes a brief overview of recent publications on this condition in geriatric patients. Some aspects of systemic lupus in elderly persons are suggested and commented on.
The authors report three clinical cases of acute transverse myelitis in young patients with emphasis given to the seriousness of this kind of pathology, the need to exclude a potentially treatable cause and the controversial corticosteroid treatment.
The association of Streptococcus bovis endocarditis with colonic neoplasms has been well documented. We describe a patient in whom the finding of a Str. bovis endocarditis stimulated investigation which resulted in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of an adenocarcinoma of the colon.