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P L Duvina

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PubMed2000

Cephaloskeletal dysplasia (Taybi-Linder syndrome: osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type III): report of two cases and review of the literature.

We report two unrelated infants with cephaloskeletal dysplasia or Taybi-Linder syndrome, also referred to as osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism Type III. They presented with peculiar facial features, microcephaly and skeletal and cerebral abnormalities documented radiographically and with cranial MRI and/or CT. Some dissimilarities were observed in the skeletal findings between the two patients, most likely reflecting phenotypic variability within the same disorder. Some radiographic features were shown to evolve with time in both patients. Also of interest is the unusually long survival of these patients, more than 4 years in the first and of over 6 years in the second.

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PubMed2000

[A severe case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria].

Malaria infections has been an important public health problem in Europe and Western countries in the last years. The international travels and moreover immigration from Africa and Asia countries has been rapidly increasing especially in Italy. The transmission and diffusion of malaria has increased, especially over last decade, due to vector resistance to insecticides and chemoresistance of these parasites to most antimalarial drugs. The authors presents a severe case of malaria infection that was caused by Plasmodium Falciparum in a one year-old female children, born in Italy, infected during a return in the parents' country of origin, Nigeria. She was admitted because of febrile gastroenteritis for five days. Since the child was in a good state of health, normal the medical examination, blood tests and radiography of the chest. The next day, persisting the fever, the child was somnolent, pale, and was present a haemoglobin concentration of 5.1 g/dl and a thrombocytopenia, a complicated falciparum malaria was diagnosed (8% parasitaemia). Treatment was started immediately with a single oral dose of Mefloquine (25 mg/Kg). Red blood cells were transfused once. The parasitaemia dropped to 4% and 0.8% in less than 48 hours. Weekly controls for the following four weeks remained negative.

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