Leucoencefalitis hemorrágica aguda - Enfermedad de Weston Hurst

Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a trigger for Weston Hurst syndrome.

OBJECTIVE We report a case of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection as one possible trigger for Weston Hurst syndrome (acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis), a rare disorder of microvascular injury often described as a postinfectious complication of an upper respiratory illness. METHODS This is a case of a 27-year-old man presenting with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3 and an acute head CT revealing...

Fosforilación de tau y enfermedad de Alzheimer

La enfermedad de Huntington: una visión biomolecular

La enfermedad de Huntington (EH) es una afección neurodegenerativa de carácter autosómico dominante, con penetración completa, cuya prevalencia es de 5 a 10 casos por cada 100.000 habitantes [1-3]. Las manifestaciones clínicas aparecen con mayor frecuencia entre los 35 y los 50 años de edad y se caracterizan por un cuadro progresivo de movimientos anormales e involuntarios de tipo coreico, que ...

Classification of acute pancreatitis Classificação de gravidade na pancreatite aguda

The Atlanta Classification defines acute pancreatitis as mild or severe. A number of aspects have been discussed in recent years, such as, how many categories of severity should be considered; whether the patient with organ failure is similar to the patient with infected necrosis; the role of transient organ failure; and how to evaluate organ failure. The meeting “Evidence Based Telemedicine Tr...

parâmetros cardiorrespiratórios de lactentes com bronquiolite viral aguda

Objective: To compare the expiratory flow increase technique (EFIT) and vibration accompanied by postural drainage (PD) in terms of their effects on the heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR) and SpO2 of infants with acute viral bronchiolitis (AVB). Methods: Infants with clinical and radiological diagnosis of AVB were analyzed. The HR, RR and SpO2 were registered at four time points: prior to t...