BACKGROUND Hepatosplenic fungal infection is an important infectious complication in adult patients with acute leukemia. METHODS From 2001 to 2004, 163 adult patients were diagnosed with acute leukemia at our center: 41 patients had acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 122 patients had acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Their charts were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS Of these 163 patients,...

Severe hepatosplenic injury of mansonian schistosomiasis is caused by Th2 mediated granulomatous response against parasite eggs entrapped within the periportal tissue. Subsequent fibrotic scarring and deformation/sclerosing of intrahepatic portal veins lead to portal hypertension, ascites, and oesophageal varices. The murine model of Schistosoma mansoni (S. mansoni) infection is suitable to est...

Introduction: Thrombocytopenia is commonly found in patients living in highly endemic areas for Schistosoma mansoni. Recently, different degrees of liver steatosis have also been associated with low platelet counts worldwide. We investigated the association of platelet counts with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis and with liver steatosis in an area of low prevalence of schistosomiasis in Brazil. ...

CONTEXT Blood transfusion is one of the major risk factors for the transmission of the hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) viruses. However, there are no reports describing the endoscopic transmission of these viruses in patients with the hepatosplenic form of schistosomiasis. OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of serological markers of HBV and HCV in patients with the hepatosplenic form of schis...

About 12% of all lymphoid tumors worldwide are peripheral t cell lymphomas, which uncommon subtypes non-hodgkin lymphoma. they have a poor prognosis and more common in populations countries asia. T lymphomas with gamma delta receptors expressed them very rare (less than 1% neoplasms) extremely aggressive; originate from cells; small subset cells direct antigen recognition capability acting at t...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to examine the incidence, epidemiology, and clinical characteristics of symptomatic and asymptomatic candidiasis in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and to determine the risk factors associated with symptomatic candidiasis. METHODS This retrospective study included 67 patients from a 7-bed PICU in a tertiary care hospital that had Candida-positive cultures...

BACKGROUND In hepatosplenic schistosomiasis occurs diffuse hepatic fibrosis associated with venous congestion of the portal system resulting in hepatosplenomegaly. It can produce digestive hemorrhage caused by rupture of esophageal and stomach varices or peptic gastroduodenal mucosal lesions. AIM To study the effects of splenectomy and ligature of the left gastric vein on portohepatic hemodyn...

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is the most common form of lymphoma. It usually begins in the lymph nodes; up to 40% may have an extranodal presentation. According to a definition of primary extranodal lymphoma with presentation only in extranodal sites, there are reports of large B-cell lymphomas limited to liver or spleen as separate entities, and to date there have been only three documented c...

Granuloma formation, the principal pathologic consequence of infection with Schistosoma mansoni, is a complex process involving intricate cell-cell interactions in which intercellular adhesion molecules are likely to participate. To examine this possibility, sera of schistosomiasis patients in various clinical groups were assayed for the presence of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (sI...