Presse Med
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Case Reports
[Acute severe leukoencephalitis with posterior lesions due to Borrelia burgdorferi infection].
Central nervous system manifestations represent 0.54 to 8% of neurological complication in Lyme disease. ⋯ Acute meningo-encephalitis is often benign, protein-like and of good prognosis: the gnosic visual disorders with posterior leukoencephalopathy are unusual. A blood level of specific antibodies slightly positive on Elisa at the early stage of the infection warrants confirmation by Western blot in the blood and by Elisa in the CSF. Additional corticosteroid therapy may be required in the severe forms that evoke acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.
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Syphilis remains a current infection in France, with an increase in cases associated with the increase in sexual practices at risk. ⋯ This case report underlines the possibility of discovering syphilis when confronted with cholestatic and cytolytic hepatitis that regresses with penicillin and is isolated or associated with evocative cutaneous signs.
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There is little data available on current practice related to prescription of labile blood products (LBP) by French physicians. The aim of this study was to assess whether prescriptions were conform to Anaes (French Medicine's agency) guidelines, with regard not only to indications but also quality of the products, so as to define the improvements that could be made. ⋯ This study shows the correct management of the indications for transfusion by the prescribing physicians who participated in the study, but the lack of knowledge with regard to the indications for specifications and/or transformations of LBP. The respect of the indications for transfusion is the corner stone of safe transfusion and this phase should be optimized with improved dissemination of information on transfusion and training for the physicians and programs that would improve the quality.
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A line of transgenic mice overexpressing erythropoietin was created. These mice retained their capacity to reduce their gastro-intestinal absorption of iron and to regulate the changes in their iron metabolism and they could serve as a model for the in vivo study of iron homeostasis and erythropoiesis. ⋯ Such as anaemia in children following inadequate production of endogenous erythropoietin and/or direct inhibition of the erythroid cell line in the bone marrow or anaemia during pregnancy and, since the Sixties, anaemia during cancer. TO ASSESS THE PHYSIOPATHOLOGY OF ANEMIA:In anaemic patients suffering from a malignant blood disease, it would be useful to calculate the relationship between the predicted and observed rates of erythropoietin as well as the transferin serum receptors.