Annales de médecine interne
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Ann Med Interne (Paris) · Jan 1983
Case Reports[Anemia caused by acanthocytosis in the cirrhotic patient: diagnosis and prognostic significance. 3 cases].
The authors report the cases of 3 patients with severe alcoholic cirrhosis and spur cell anemia. The spur cell anemia must be suspected when there is haemolytic anemia, highly macrocytic with normal serum level of cholesterol and without fatty liver. ⋯ The evolution did not exceed 7 and 8 months in 2 cases; the third patient is still alive but quite sick after 1.5 year. These data lead us to point out the difficulty of the diagnosis by routine light microscopy and to remind the poor prognosis after the spur cell anemia is discovered, as documented in the literature.
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Ann Med Interne (Paris) · Jan 1981
[The use of electrical transcutaneous nerve stimulations in chronic pain. Method and preliminary results in 28 cases (author's transl)].
The analgesic effect of conventional transcutaneous nerve stimulation has been studied in 29 patients, all having a chronic pain caused by peripheral neurological disease. As already reported in the literature half of patients were improved on a short-term basis. ⋯ Nine out of ten patients suffering for less than one year were satisfactorily improved. This suggests that transcutaneous stimulations should be used as early as possible after the onset of neurological pain.
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Ann Med Interne (Paris) · Jan 1981
Case Reports[Polyneuropathy complicating Horton's disease (author's transl)].
A patient diagnosed as having Horton's disease presented a complex neurological picture dominated by sensory-motor neuropathies of all four limbs, one year after the appearance of signs of temporal arteritis. No other etiological factor, apart from the Horton's disease, was discovered, and the causal relationship between this disease and the neuropathy is discussed. The possibility of dysimmunity factors being involved in Horton's disease is raised and the resulting therapeutic implications discussed.