TTV-INFECTION: CLINICAL, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC ASPECTS

Ocular Lymphoma: Clinical, Diagnostic, and Therapeutic Aspects

Ocular involvement in lymphoma is a relatively rare condition that can result from a primary intraocular lymphoma or an intraocular manifestation of systemic lymphoma. Lymphoma manifestations frequently masquerade as other more benign intraocular conditions including allergic or infectious conjunctivitis, uveitis, multiple evanescent white dot syndrome, acute retinal necrosis, or herpetic retin...

Clostridium difficile infection in children – clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects

Methods We present 4 cases of children admitted to the National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Balş” in the last year with Clostridium difficile colitis; the children had ages between 2 and 12 years. Diagnosis of infection was based on the presence of three or more stools in a 24 hour period, isolation of the organism and detection of toxins A/B in a diarrheal stool specimen...

Clinical, epidemiological and prophylactic aspects of dyspepsia.

Dyspepsia or indigestion is a term that refers to a multitude of symptoms and disorders of the digestive system which cause suffering in many patients. Dyspepsia means pain or discomfort that is centrally localized in the upper abdomen. The following categories of symptoms may also be present: pain localized in the right or left hypochondrium, dysphagia, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, acute a...

Neuroborreliosis in children: Epidemiological and clinical aspects

Mucosal leishmaniasis: epidemiological and clinical aspects.

UNLABELLED Leishmaniasis has been documented in several countries, with an estimated prevalence of 12 million people and an incidence at around 400,000 new cases per year. Leishmaniasis in the New World is one the major endemic diseases in Brazil and Latin America. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to add to the current knowledge on mucosal leishmaniasis, bringing the experience of the Immu...