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R Vélez

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PubMed2001

[Imported myiasis: 7 cases of cutaneous parasitism caused by Dermatobia hominis flie larvas].

Myiasis is the parasitism of organs and tissues of warm-blooded vertebrates by flies larvae. D hominis is a flie geographically restricted to tropical America from Mexico to northern Argentina. The adult flie, which is not hematophagous, needs to put its eggs on the abdominal surface of hematophagous arthropods which serve as carriers of future larvae which are deposited on the skin of the hosts (mammals, birds and accidentally men) when biting. Seven patients (two females) aged 7 to 35 years old, of different nationalities, recalled receiving mosquito bites, after staying in tropical American areas in the previous forty days. They presented furuncle-like lesions in exposed surfaces of the body. These lesions, 2-3 cm long, pruritic and mildly tender, broke and released a serous or serohematic fluid. Through the resulting opening, it was possible to partially observe the larva. Larvae were extracted by manual pressure (4) or surgical incision (3) and identified as D hominis larvae. Diagnosis of dermatobiasis, an imported myiasis, must be based on the characteristics of lesions and the previous residence in endemic areas of America.

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PubMed1994

Geographical pathology profile of AIDS in Puerto Rico: the first decade.

Postmortem histopathological changes in 100 adult patients with AIDS who died in Puerto Rico from 1982 to 1991 were studied and tabulated. Modes of HIV transmission were reviewed. Patient ages ranged from 21 to 60 yr. Gender composition for the patient group was 83 men (average age, 35 yr) and 17 women (average age, 39 yr). Sixty-eight of the patients were injecting-drug users, 20 were homosexual and bisexual men, seven were women who had had heterosexual contact with men at risk for HIV, and one was a man who had had heterosexual contact with prostitutes. Only one case was linked to transfusions of blood. Twenty-seven men and seven women were serologically tested for antibodies and all were HIV seroreactive. The most common causes of infection and the frequency of each were as follows: Pneumocystis carinii in 49 patients; cytomegalovirus in 43; Toxoplasma gondii in 30; Candida species in 24; Histoplasma capsulatum in 18; Mycobacterium species in 14; Cryptococcus species in eight; and Strongyloides stercoralis in six patients. Infection by Schistosoma mansoni (10 patients) was considered incidental because this trematode is endemic in Puerto Rico. The lung was the organ most frequently infected by a single microorganism: Pneumocystis carinii affected 49 patients. However, Cryptococcus species was the microorganism that infected more body systems: 20 different organs in eight patients. Nineteen patients had microglial nodular encephalitis, 86 patients had lymphocyte depletion in the spleen, and 58 had lymphocyte depletion in lymph node tissue. Twenty-seven men had testicular maturation arrest and variable germ cell loss. Three patients had malignant lymphoma, and two had Kaposi's sarcoma.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections↗
PubMed1992

Cytomegalovirus infection.

Post-transfusion CMV infection most frequently results in asymptomatic seroconversion. Among immunocompetent patients only seronegative pregnant women require such products because of the risk of fetal CMV infection. In selected groups of immunocompromised patients, significant disease can occur. It is desirable to provide blood and blood components with reduced CMV risk to the following patients: seronegative infants weighting less than 1200 g at birth, seronegative bone marrow transplant patients who receive marrow from seronegative donors and seronegative renal transplant patients receiving kidneys from seronegative donors. Heart and liver transplantation seronegative patients may receive seronegative blood if the donor is seronegative. CMV--seronegative HIV infected cases may also be transfused with CMV--seronegative blood.

Cytomegalovirus Infections↗
PubMed1989

[Osseous metastasis of an intracranial angioblastic meningioma: report of a case].

A case of multiple bone metastases from an angioblastic meningioma (intracranial hemangiopericytoma) is reported. From the clinical and pathologic point of view, it is essential to be aware that the hemangiopericytic variant of meningioma (angioblastic meningioma) displays a significantly higher rate of recurrence and extracranial metastasis than other forms of meningioma.

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Simultaneous occurrence of Hodgkin's disease and chronic lymphocyte leukemia: a unique presentation.

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a chronic, low-grade hematologic malignancy that can transform to a large cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (Richter's syndrome), which is associated with an unfavorable prognosis. A distinct Hodgkin's disease subgroup of lymphomatous CLL transformation has been well characterized. We describe a patient presenting with simultaneous manifestations of CLL and Hodgkin's disease. This patient is unique, presenting with separate sites of involvement of each disease within the same organ, in this case the bone marrow. The morphologic and immunohistochemical findings at diagnosis are correlated with the findings of the postmortem examination.

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