Presse Med
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Case Reports
[Tuberculoma and tuberculous meningeal-radiculitis with paradoxical progression during treatment].
Neuromeningeal tuberculosis of deleterious, paradoxical, progression despite appropriate antibiotic therapy is rare. ⋯ During anti-tuberculosis therapy clinical worsening is rare, particularly when 2 different manifestations are associated and the worsening occurs in an immunocompetent patient. This possibility should be systematically evoked in such cases. The explanation of this phenomenon is still unclear.
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REGARDING THE DEFINITION: The primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) - autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) overlap syndrome is defined by the simultaneous or consecutive association of at least two of three diagnostic criteria usually recognized in both pathologies. The prevalence of this syndrome is of the order of 8-20% of all the CBP and HAI diagnosed as such.
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THE INTEREST OF ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT OF SHIGELLA INFECTIONS: to reduce the carriage and contamination, duration of the symptoms and the risk of complications.
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TRUE RISKS AND THEORETICAL RISKS: The texts ruling the obligation of the physician to inform the patient appears not to include theoretical risks in their application. In France however, the field of blood transfusions extends this obligation to the theoretical risk of potential transmission through the blood of the infectious agent responsible for Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease.
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To identify the various sources of noise in a neonatal intensive care unit in a university hospital centre and to assess the noise level. ⋯ The impact of hospital staff on the extent and frequency of sources of noise is crucial. An enhanced awareness strategy should therefore be developed.