[Rupture of the aneurysm of Valsalva's sinus. Clinical diagnosis and surgical correction. Presentation of a case].
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We report four pregnancies in four patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET). In two cases pregnancy resulted in spontaneous abortion at 6 and 11 weeks of gestation, respectively. The other two had a full-term, normal delivery; one of them received no therapy during the pregnancy, whereas the other was treated with acetylsalicylic acid from 11 weeks for signs of threatened abortion. No thrombotic or hemorrhagic complications were observed in any of the patients during pregnancy or the post-partum period. We believe that pregnancy in patients with ET represents a risk. Close monitoring is therefore indispensable and antiaggregant therapy might be of benefit.
A case of sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy (Rosai-Dorfman syndrome) in a 42-year-old man is described. The disease involved the respiratory tract and skeletal apparatus, led to considerable general impairment and was unusually responsive to glucocorticoids. Molecular and immunophenotype analysis seem to confirm the reactive nature of a disorder that shows profound T-cell immunodeficiency.