Infection associated with immunosuppressive therapy.

Infection associated with immunosuppressive therapy.

sarcoma' refers to a miscellaneous group of undifferentiated tumours which may represent rather different malignant diseases. An increased incidence of lymphomas has also been observed in three congenital immunological deficiency diseases, namely, ataxia-telangiectasia, the Wiscott-Aldrich and Chediak-Higashi syndromes (Table 4). The evidence that malignant disease is increased in patients who ...

Cytomegalovirus infection complicating immunosuppressive therapy for dermatomyositis.

The occurrence of opportunistic infections is not rare during the treatment of connective tissue diseases, including dermatomyositis because of the patient's immunosuppression. We describe here cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection that affected two of our patients with dermatomyositis. CMV infection has not been considered to be a frequent event in dermatomyositis, and its significance for disease p...

Sideroblastic anemia treated with immunosuppressive therapy.

Hepatitis-associated aplastic anemia: successful outcome following immunosuppressive therapy.

Hepatitis-associated aplastic anemia is an uncommon variant seen in young, previously healthy individuals. The pancytopenia follows hepatitis by a few weeks and is usually severe and prolonged. Bone marrow transplantation remains the cornerstone of therapy. However, immunosuppressive therapy has been found to be effective. We report an 8-year-old girl who had non-A, B, C and E hepatitis-associa...

Improvement Without Immunosuppressive Therapy

We describe a pregnant young woman with branch retinal arteriolar occlusions, encephalopathy, and hearing loss in whom we demonstrated a patent foramen ovale. She improved while receiving anticoagulants and no immunosuppressive therapy. The microangiopathic syndrome of retinopathy, encephalopathy, and deafness may be due to a disturbance of coagulation and/or microembolism. (Stroke 1991;22:933-...