Secondary immunodeficiences are associated with an increased incidence of infection and malignancy, as well with development ofautoimmune disease. Immune system function is altered by many conditions, such as aging, malnutrition and mycobacterial infections. However, the treatment of the primary condition often results in the improvement of the immune compromise. The authors present a case of cytomegalovirus en...
Tese de doutoramento. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 1995
A 20-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital after two generalized seizures with severe hypocalcemia. She was diagnosed with Idiopathic Hypoparathyroidism. In the follow-up she was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) by the presentation of four criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) for SLE. This is the sixth reported case of this association. ; A 20-year-old woman was admitte...
Cryptococcus neoformans infection is an opportunistic infection affecting mainly patients lacking cell mediated immunity whose incidence has dramatically risen with the advent of HIV infection. This infection has rarely been reported in patients with humoral immunity deficiencies. We report two patients with Cryptococcus neoformans infection with a fatal outcome: a man with disseminated criptococcosis leading t...
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