A 64-year-old woman , in previous good health except for a questionable history of mild hypertension, complained of frontal headache with nausea and dizziness on the evening before admission. She was found unresponsive the next morning. Physical examination revealed a left hemiparesis and a blood pressure of 150/ 64 mm Hg. CT revealed a large frontal intracerebral hematoma with minimal shift. L...

Erratum The original publication [1] misses 4 tables and 1 figure which should have been available as additional files. The missing additional files have been included with this erratum as well as a list with description which can be found below. Table S1: As shown in Additional file 1, both groups had similar demographic, clinical and parasitologic characteristics. Table S2: By intention-totre...

The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of a new combination drug, florfenicol-flunixin meglumine, with tulathromycin for initial treatment of undifferentiated fever (UF) in fall-placed calves that received metaphylactic tilmicosin on arrival at the feedlot. No significant differences were observed in UF relapses between the two drugs. Calves treated with florfenicol-flunixin had ...

We present a case of an 18-year-old male patient who, after two years of inappropriate treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis, began to show nodules arising at the edges of the former healing scar. He was immune competent and denied any trauma. The diagnosis of recurrent cutaneous leishmaniasis was made following positive culture of aspirate samples. The patient was treated with N-methylglucamin...

INTRODUCTION Visceral leishmaniasis is a public health problem, with lethality reaching 10%. The recommended drug treatment is methylglucamine antimoniate. This study aimed to evaluate drug use for cases of visceral leishmaniasis treated at the Infectology Clinic of the Campo Grande University Hospital Center, State of Mato Grosso do Sul. METHODS To collect data, we examined the medical recor...

The expression of IgG, IgG1 and IgG2 specific antibodies for Leishmania infantum was studied in five groups of dogs in Catalonia (Spain): I, 99 asymptomatic dogs (infected and uninfected) from a highly endemic area for leishmaniosis; II, 139 untreated dogs with clinically patent leishmaniosis; III, 11 naturally infected asymptomatic dogs monitored for up to 5 years since they were found seropos...

We used instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) to determine antimony in small quantities of hair from individuals living in an area of endemic leishmaniasis. The groups studied were 12 patients undergoing treatment with N-methylglucamine antimoniate, 34 patients who had received such treatment a year ago, and 17 control subjects (untreated) who were living in the same area. Patients re...

SELECTIVE angiocardiography as a practical means of delineating anatomic details of cardiac malformations has been advanced by the development of contrast agents with greater radiopacity, lower viscosity, and less apparent toxicity. The severe immediate reactions of collapse, so common with older media, are rarely seen today; many patients, however, still have vomiting, intense headache, and ot...

Digital arch arteriography is a technique in which the cervicocerebral vasculature is studied by injecting small amounts of contrast material (20 ml or less of diatrizoate meglumine 60%) into the aortic arch. It was used as the initial phase of arteriography in 100 patients with cerebrovascular disease. Five to ten series were obtained in various projections to evaluate the cerebrovascular syst...