La Revue de médecine interne
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has recently been recognised as a new clinical entity and a new emerging infectious disease that is highly contagious with significant mortality. ⋯ Research on specific therapies and vaccines is on-going.
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Emergency departments become a useful way to access to hospital care. Since these last years difficulties of hospitalization, mainly of the elderly, after visit to the emergency department, are on the increase. ⋯ This situation must allow us to purpose a better regulation of hospitalizations which includes emergency departments in a network system including the different hospital ways of taking care. A downstream way of care adapted to the emergency hospitalizations would be developed. This could include the emergency department, the observation unit and the emergency short stay unit in interface with internal medicine and general medicine units, geriatric unit and specialized units, all of them will be included in a town-hospital care network.
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Apoptosis during HIV infection has been evoked for ten years. The role of apoptosis during HIV infection have be confirmed by several authors but the exact relationships between viral replication, apoptosis and lymphocyte depletion remain to be clarified. ⋯ Apoptosis is thought to be one of the mechanism involved in CD4 T lymphocyte cell death during HIV infection. However relationships between apoptosis and HIV replication may be more complex. In fact it has been recently reported that while HIV replication induced lymphocyte apoptosis, apoptosis may in turn induced HIV replication in a loop amplification pathway