Anales de medicina interna (Madrid, Spain : 1984)
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Letter Review Case Reports
[Streptococcus bovis sepsis, purulent meningitis and colonic diverticulosis].
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Review Case Reports
[Diabetes insipidus and adipsic hypernatremia in a patient with a craniopharyngioma].
A fourteen-year male patient presented a retrochiasmatic craniopharyngioma. Aer transcranial surgical resection, the patient had diabetes insipidus, which presented an interphase with manifestations of inadequate secretion of ADH. ⋯ This was attributed to loss of the thirst reflex, due to surgical lesion of the lamina terminalis, where the osmoreceptor neurons are located. This case underscores the complications with body fluids and osmolality which may occur after surgery of hypothalamic lesions; i.e. diabetes insipidus (which may have a triphasic course), and adipsia, an infrequent complication due to absence of thirst.
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Review Case Reports
[Pulmonary lymphomatoid granulomatosis associated with AIDS. Report of a case and review of the literature].
We present an AIDs patient who was admitted to our hospital because of dry cough, pleuritic chest pain, fever and bilateral lung nodules on the chest X-ray. An open lung biopsy was diagnostic for Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis (GL). We review the literature of the clinical manifestations, anatomopathological and pathogenetic features, roentgenographic and laboratory findings, as well as treatment strategies of these patients. The GL has been described in association with AIDS, although in spite of the high prevalence of AIDS in our days, the association between these two entities is not frequent according to the few references in the literature.