LIVER INVOLVEMENT IN INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS 1

Infectious mononucleosis with pulmonary parenchymal involvement.

studied 43 patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia for evidence of lens changes. Of these, eight patients undergoing treatment with busulphan had lenticular opacity and two (mean age 54 years) had definite posterior subcapsular changes consisting of central irregularity and polychromatic sheen. Cataracts have not been reported in leukaemic patients though lesions of other parts of the eyes have...

Biochemical Studies on Hepatic Involvement in Infectious Mononucleosis.

Eighty cases of infectious mononucleosis have been investigated by serum enzyme studies and other liver function tests. Maximum abnormalities occurred between the second and fourth weeks of illness and all tests were usually normal by the sixth week. Serum isocitric dehydrogenase activity was increased in 93% of cases and serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase in 74%. Conventional liver functi...

Fatal infectious mononucleosis with liver failure in two sisters.

Case 1. A girl aged 22 months was admitted to hospital with a history of swelling of the cervical glands on the right side of a few days' duration. There had been no response to oral penicillin, and the swelling had spread to the right side of the face. Both parents were well, the father Austrian and the mother British; there was a healthy brother aged 4 years. Only five weeks previously, a sis...

Glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis).

Glandular Fever: Infectious Mononucleosis