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M T Yebra Pimentel

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PubMed1998

[Malignant diffuse mesothelioma: contribution of 23 cases].

Malignant diffuse mesothelioma is a tumour related to asbestos exposure, more common in males and located primarily in the chest cavity. Its diagnosis requires ruling out other tumours with pleural or peritoneal metastases, a biopsy showing a morphological pattern consistent with mesothelioma and in many cases to perform immunohistochemical markers to rule out an adenocarcinoma. We report here 20 cases of diffuse pleural mesothelioma and three cases of peritoneal mesothelioma in 20 males and three cases of peritoneal mesothelioma in 20 males and three females. Asbestos exposure was observed for 31% of cases. The most common clinical manifestations included headache and dyspnea; interestingly, three cases had hydropneumothorax with poor response to drainage. The diagnostic confirmation was obtained mainly with thoracotomy or laparoscopy biopsies and to rule out an adenocarcinoma immunohistochemical stainings were performed.

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PubMed1995

[Corticoid-resistant rejection and humoral rejection. The diagnostic criteria and therapeutic management].

The standard treatment of rejection episodes post-heart transplantation is based on high dose of steroids followed by monoclonal or policlonal antibodies directed against T lymphocytes like ATG or OKT3. When this treatment is insufficient it can be used other drugs like metothrexate, ciclofosfamide and another procedures such as total lymphoid irradiation, plasmapheresis or photopheresis. Cardiac allograft rejection is defined by histologic features that include the presence of lymphocytic infiltration of the myocardium with or without necrosis and this histologic pattern is termed cellular rejection. However there is a second form of acute rejection, associated with capillary injury, usually mediated by humoral immune response and without interstitial infiltrates which has been named vascular or humoral rejection. Vascular allograft rejection is commonly resistant to standards forms of immunosuppressive therapy and may result in irreversible allograft dysfunction and reduced patient survival.

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PubMed1993

[Asymmetric polyarthritis in Sézary's syndrome].

We present the case of a patient with negative serology asymmetric polyarthritis and erythematous-squamous cutaneous lesions of two years evolution, initially attributed to psoriasis, which histopathology (hyperkeratosis, epidermic infiltration due to atypical CD4+ lymphocytes with formation of Pautrier's microabscesses) together with hematological findings (persistent lymphocytosis with cells with cerebriform nucleus, 97% CD4+) allowed the diagnosis of Sézary's syndrome. To our knowledge, this is the eight documented case of arthritis in Sézary's syndrome and the first one with asymmetric chronic polyarthritis.

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