Stendhal syndrome: a clinical and historical overview

Varicella: historical perspective and clinical overview.

In immunocompetent children in Europe and the United States, varicella is usually a benign disease. However, infants born to women who acquire varicella during or shortly after pregnancy are at high risk of infection. For unknown reasons, the disease is more severe in adolescents and adults, with pneumonia the most common cause of death. Varicella may also be lethal in patients of any age in th...

Vitamin a deficiency and clinical disease: an historical overview.

Vitamin A deficiency has a plethora of clinical manifestations, ranging from xerophthalmia (practically pathognomonic) to disturbances in growth and susceptibility to severe infection (far more protean). Like other classical vitamin deficiency states (scurvy, rickets), some of the signs and symptoms of xerophthalmia were recognized long ago. Reports related to vitamin A and/or manifestations of...

Antiphospholipid syndrome--clinical overview.

A antibody syndrome (APS), a noninflammatory autoimmune disorder, is now recognized as one of the commonest cause of acquired thrombosis. It is characterized clinically by recurrent arterial and venous thrombosis (in contrast to other prothrombotic states like protein C, protein S, AT III deficiency where only venous thrombosis is the feature), adverse pregnancy outcome and/or thrombocytopenia ...

[Historical and clinical review about Asperger syndrome].

RTV4HCI: A Historical Overview