Revista medico-chirurgicală̆ a Societă̆ţ̜ii de Medici ş̧i Naturaliş̧ti din Iaş̧i
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Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi · Oct 2015
Case ReportsTHE AUTOIMMUNE CONSTELLATION IN LICHEN AMYLOIDOSIS.
Localized cutaneous amyloidosis is a rare disease among white people, being more common in South-Asia, China and South America. The disease is characterized by deposition of amyloid material in the papillary dermis without visceral involvement. Nevertheless, there is a growing list of immune-mediated disorders that have been linked to cutaneous amyloidosis. We present two cases of concomitant occurrence of lichen amyloidosis and autoimmune thyroiditis/atopic dermatitis in two Caucasian women.
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Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi · Oct 2015
ETIOLOGY AND RESISTANCE PROFILE OF ISOLATED STRAINS FROM SEVERE SYSTEMIC INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH IMMUNODEPRESSION--EXPERIENCE OF THE IASI INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL 2011-2014.
Microbial resistance is an increasingly serious threat to global public health and it is linked to patient's age, immune status, and also antibiotic overuse or misuse and repeated hospitalizations. The high incidence of infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria requires rethinking the first-line therapeutic schemes. ⋯ The etiological agents implicated in the occurrence of severe sepsis in patients with acquired immunosuppression were Gram-positive bacteria (GPB) as well as Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) with moderate resistance to usual antibiotics. The infections caused by GNB were predominant in immunocompromised patients, but also in those with associated urinary and respiratory tract infections and chronic indwelling urinary catheters. In our severe sepsis patients Gram positive bacteria caused mainly skin and joint infections.