El Síndrome de Ramsay-Hunt (SRH), es la segunda causa parálisis facial periférica (PFP). Causado por el virus Varicella zoster (VVZ), ipsilateral a PFP, presenta una erupción herpetiforme y cefalea en distribución del nervio facial. Presentamos caso mujer, 54 años, con SRH persistente cuyo líquido cerebroespinal (LCE) fue compatible meningitis. Se indicó aciclovir endovenoso (EV). La literatura...

4-year-old child presented oral and genital eruptions for 2 days, he had history of herpetic stomatitis 3 days before. Examination revealed oral painful erosive lesions with genital erythematous purpuric patch mimiking atypical target-like lesions . No others cutaneous lesions were observed. Skin biopsy showed apoptotic individual keratinocytes, degeneration of basal keratinocytes and intercell...

Genital herpes is a chronic infection characterized by periodic reactivation. It can produce symptomatic disease in the host although asymptomatic viral excretion can also occur. It is currently the main cause of genital ulceration and an important public health problem that has substantial clinical, psychological, and economic repercussions. This review analyzes the currently available therape...

The present manuscript reviews the study of Delany et al. on the impact of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) suppressive aciclovir on genital and plasma HIV-RNA in 269 HSV-2/ HIV-coinfected women in South Africa [1]. HIV infection continues to be among the leading causes of global morbidity and mortality, especially in Africa. An estimated 40 million people are HIV positive with an annual mor...

Co-crystallization experiments of 4-halophenylboronic acid with several pharmaceutical compounds (including aciclovir, caffeine, nitrofurazone, and proline) produced new molecular complexes. The involved varying the solvent molar ratio boronic to a compound (e.g., 1:1, 2:1, 1:2). screening process for crystal phases revealed that formation different complexes was strongly influenced by presence...

Nefrologia 2012;32(1):114-32 Furthermore, Mastorakos et al. reported that plasma antidiuretic hormone levels were elevated after IL-6 injection in cancer patients, suggesting that IL-6 activated the magnocellular ADHsecreting neurons and that it might be involved in SIADH. Activation of the subfornical organ and the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis by IL-6 could eventually lead to th...