The importance effect on the population of the new virus Influenza A/H1N1 and the potential therapeutic with Oseltamivir. Clinical case. Patient of 62 years old, without history of interest, contracted Influeza A, that she undergoes a confusional syndrome responding to antipsychotics and with complete recovery after the episode. Conclusions. Establish the possible relationship between the vario...

Case Report (Dr R F Miller) The patient was a 39 year old male homosexual book publisher. He first presented to this hospital in December 1988 with a diagnosis of oral hairy leukoplakia and at the time was found to be HIV 1 antibody positive and to be hepatitis B immune. Not long after this he developed a cough, increasing exertional dyspnoea and a reduced exercise tolerance. He was admitted fo...

INTRODUCTION Intracranial hypertension, which often occurs in patients with tuberculous meningitis, is associated with high morbidity and mortality. We describe a patient with tuberculous meningitis who had intracranial hypertension -induced fulminant headache that responded to intravenous butorphanol-midazolam combination therapy. CASE PRESENTATION A 50-year-old woman with a fever and headac...

Background: Post-malaria neurological syndrome (PMNS) is defined as the acute onset of neurological or neuropsychiatric syndrome in a patient who had recently recovered from malaria and have negative blood film at the time of onset of neurological symptoms. This, therefore, distinguishes it from cerebral malaria, which occurs during the period of parasitaemia. The time from eradication of syste...

Virgil Sydenstricker was a member of a notable American family which included authoress Pearl S. Buck and the eminent epidemiologist Edgar Sydenstricker. Dr. Sydenstricker's contributions in the fields of hematology and nutritional disease are legion. His landmark work in sickle cell anemia characterized a definite symptom complex with specific hematologic findings and inheritance pattern. He w...

Chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5 FU) has been widely used to treat advanced gastric cancer. Knowing the side effects is therefore important in order better prevent them. Fluoropyrimidine-induced hyperammonemic encephalopathy a rare complication and characterized neurological status elevated ammonia level without radiological abnormalities. We report first case of 5 FU-induced women patients ...