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La difteria es una enfermedad prevenible por vacunas. En la actualidad existe un brote en nuestro país que se inició en abril de 2016. Desde entonces se han descrito casos en diferentes sitios del país predominantemente de la forma faríngea. La difteria cutánea no ha sido reportada en este brote. A nivel mundial el compromiso simultáneo en piel y mucosas, no ha sido descrito. La paciente cuya enfermedad describimos aquí es un caso de difteria de presentación atípica que se inicia con expresión cutánea y evoluciona a compromiso nasal, ocular y faríngeo con complicaciones severas en la órbita ocular expresadas como un síndrome del vértex orbitario, en una paciente con diabetes mellitus tipo 2 no controlada, que tuvo una evolución tórpida que la llevó a la muerte. Se revisa la literatura(AU)
Diphtheria is a vaccine-preventable disease. Actually, there is an outbreak in Venezuela since April 2016. Cases in different parts of the country have been described, predominantly pharyngeal. Cutaneous diphtheria has not been reported in this outbreak. The simultaneous presentation of the cutaneous form with mucosal involvement has not been described in the revised literature. We present a case of diphtheria with atypical presentation that begins with cutaneous expression and evolves to nasal, ocular and pharyngeal compromise with severe complications of the orbit, expressed in an orbital vertex syndrome in a patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus, who had a torpid evolution that led her to death. The literature is reviewed(AU)
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Humans , Female , Middle Aged , Corynebacterium diphtheriae/pathogenicity , Diphtheria/pathology , Mucous Membrane , Communicable Diseases , Internal MedicineABSTRACT
<p>Tokito is used to treat patients with an asthenic, cold constitution, who have symptoms of chronic pleuritic pain, epigastralgia, and backache. There is no previous report on treatment of pruritus cutaneus with tokito. However, here we report a case of combined cutaneus pruritus and coldness, successfully treated with tokito. Our patient was a 38-year-old female, who reported having had facial pruritus cutaneus for one year. She attended our clinic in May of the year, because she had taken a turn for the worse. She was sensitive to cold, had poor circulation, felt cold in the abdomen, and reported that sleeping was difficult due to a cold back. We prescribed tokito (5.0 g/day). Her symptoms improved within six days. However, her symptoms, especially cold abdomen and cold back, returned when she drank cold water or stopped taking tokito. She was quite informative in that she prepared detailed records of her symptoms on visiting our clinic.<br>Tokito contains herbal medicines common to daikenchuto and tokikenchuto and hangekobokuto. Therefore, tokito could be a suitable herbal medicine for patients with pruritus cutaneus caused by coldness and <i>qi </i>stagnation and spleen deficiency.</p>
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Small cell lung carcinoma is a rapidly progressive neuroendocrine tumor having a poor prognosis. It is considered as a systemic disease, because it has diffuse involvement, distant organ metastasis, and regional lymphatic involvement at the time of initial diagnosis. While small cell lung carcinomahas a lot of metastasis to bone, liver, surrenal and other hemithorax in the onset of disease, cutaneous metastasis are rarely seen. Skin metastasis are encountered in lower than 0.5% of the patients with metastatic diseases. In this article, we aimed to present a case of small cell lung carcinoma with cutaneous metastasis which is rarely seen in the literature.
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La sarcoidosis en una enfermedad granulomatosa que puede afectar casi cualquier órgano. Se presenta más frecuentemente entre la tercera y la cuarta década de la vida y hasta el momento su etiología es desconocida, aunque se sugiere que factores ambientales, exposición a algunos microrganismos y la predisposición genética pueden ser importantes en su desarrollo. La piel puede comprometerse hasta en un 30 % en los pacientes con sarcoidosis sistémica, con manifestaciones específicas, dentro de las cuales la de tipo papular es la más común, o inespecíficas, como el eritema nodoso. Debido a que las lesiones cutáneas proveen un sitio accesible para realizar el diagnóstico de la enfermedad, es importante aprender a reconocerlas. En esta revisión se hace un repaso de las manifestaciones cutáneas más frecuentes de la sarcoidosis y de su tratamiento, para ello se realizó una búsqueda en las bases de datos de Pubmed, Hinari y Cochrane hasta febrero del 2013, empleando palabras clave como sarcoidosis, y sarcoidosis cutánea, en artículos publicados en castellano e inglés, durante los últimos 10 años.
Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease that can affect almost any organ. It occurs most commonly between the third and fourth decade and its etiology is unknown, but it is suggested that environmental factors, exposure to certain microorganisms and genetic predisposition may be important in its development. The skin may be affected in 30 % of patients with systemic sarcoidosis, presenting in this organ specific manifestation, being the papular de most common, or unspecific as erythema nodosum, which is a reactive phenomenon of the disease in which there are non-granulomas. Because skin lesions provide an accessible place for diagnosis of the disease, it is important to learn to recognize. In this review, we repass in the most common cutaneous manifestations of sarcoidosis and its treatment, for that we researched in the databases PubMed, Cochrane Hinari and until February 2013, using keywords such as sarcoidosis, and cutaneous sarcoidosis, in articles published in Spanish and English, for the past 10 years.
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Introdución: El síndrome de Sturge-Weber (SSW) es una entidad neurocutánea congénita caracterizada por una malformación vascular facial (mancha en vino de Oporto) asociado a angiomatosis leptomeníngea. Su prevalencia es aproximadamente de uno por cada 50 000 nacidos vivos. Afecta por igual a ambos sexos. Las manifestaciones clínicas incluyen a las convulsiones, nevus vascular cutáneo unilateral en relación a la división oftálmica del nervio trigémino, glaucoma ipsilateral, hemiparesia contralateral, hemiatrofia, hemianopia y retraso psicomotor. La característica radiológica es la presencia de calcificaciones giriformes en los lóbulos occipital y parietal. Reporte de caso: Una paciente de 1 año 7 meses llegó a la emergencia presentando convulsiones generalizadas que cesaron con diazepan, y se inició tratamiento con ácido valproico. Mostraba una mancha congénita color vino de Oporto en la frente, además se evidenció un leve retraso psicomotor. La tomografia mostró una calcificación cortical en los lóbulos parietal y occipital izquierdos. En la resonancia magnética se evidenció un reforzamientoleptomeníngeo parietal izquierdo. Conclusiones: El SSW es una entidad rara y de curso progresivo, el diagnóstico no es difícil cuando las manifestaciones típicas están presentes. Una malformación cutánea facial y la presencia de retardo mental debería alertar a los médicos cuando se encuentran frente a niños con convulsiones focales o parciales complejas secundariamente generalizadas en el primer o segundo año de vida.
Introduction: Sturge- Weber syndrome (SWS) is a congenital neurocutaneous syndrome characterized by unilateral facial cutaneous vascular malformation (Port-wine stain) in association with ipsilateral leptomeningeal angiomatosis. Prevalence is approximately one per 50 000 live births. Males and females are equally affected. Clinical manifestations include seizures, unilateral cutaneous vascular nevus following the ophthalmic divisions of the trigeminal nerve, ipsilateral glaucoma, contralateral hemiparesis, hemiatrophy, hemianopia and psychomotor retardation. The radiographic hallmarks of SWS are gyriform calcifications usually involving the occipital and parietal lobes. Case report: A 1 year and 7 month-old girl carne to emergence department showing generalized seizures that resolved with diazepam and valproic acid was started. She had a facial Port-wine birthmark located on the forehead; a mild psychomotor retardation was evidenced. Head CT demonstrated a cortical calcification of the left parietal and occipital lobe. MRI showed a left parietal leptomeningeal enhancement. Conclusions: SWS is a rare and progressive entity, the diagnosis is not hard when typical manifestations are present. Mental retardation and facial cutaneous malfonnations should alert physician when they are in front of infants with focal or complex partial/secondarily generalized seizures in the first or second year of life.