Degeneraçäo marginal de Terrien: relato de caso / Terrien`s marginal degeneration: clinical case

Descriçäo de um caso de degeneraçäo marginal de Terrien em criança do sexo feminino, dez anos de idade, com queixa de baixa acuidade visual e ao exame biomicroscópico com hérnia de íris. Optou-se pelo tratamento cirúrgico através de patch de córnea

Aspectos epidemiológicos da teníase-cisticercose na área endêmica de Lagamar, MG / Epidemiological aspects of cysticercosis due to Taenia solium in the endemic area of Lagamar, MG

An epidemiological inquiry of humancysticercosis due to Taenia solium was carried out in Lagamar, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, in 1992. A survey of 1109 houses with 3344 inhabitants was made. The inquiry included 875 (86 per cent) families and the questionnaire was answered by an informer, who was the father in 80 per cent of the cases. One hundred pigsties, sheltering 406 swines in extremely precarious conditions, were found in 100 (11.4 per cent) houses. A history on taeniasis in some member of the family was verified in 300 (34.2 per cent) houses. A history of seizures was referred to by 125 (14.2 per cent) of families. The outset of convulsion in adult age was characterized in 39 (37.8 per cent) families. A history of mental disorder was reported in 53 (6.0 per cent) of houses. Stool examinations were positive for Taenia spp in 24 (1.3 per cent) of samples examined per cent.

Achados neurologicos e laboratoriais em populacao de area endemica para teniase-cisticercose, lagamar, M.G, Brasil / Neurologic and laboratory findings in population of endemic area for teniasis-cysticercosis, Lagamar, MG, Brazil (1992-1993)

Realizou-se um inquerito clinico-epidemiologico em area endemica para teniase-cisticercose. Foram examinados 1080 (32,2 por cento) individuos da populacao total, encontrando-se 198 (18,3 por cento) individuos referindo antecedente de teniase, e 103 (9,5 por cento) apresentaram historia anterior ou atual de convulsoes. Destes ultimos, 39 (37,8 por cento) referiram inicio das crises na vida adulta, e 62 (60 por cento) foram avaliados laboratorialmente. Em 21 (33,8 por cento) casos, o resultado da tomografia mostrou calcificacoes intracranianas compativeis com neurocisticercose, em numero e localizacao variaveis, mas sem evidencia de atividade da doenca....

Reaçäo de fase aguda e parasitismo na veia central da supra-renal de chagásicos crônicos / Acute-phase reaction and parasitism in the central adrenal vein in Chagas' disease patients

The systemic reaction to severe trauma and/or infection, acute phase response (APR), are often associated with immunosuppression and reactivation of chronic latent infection. Our main purpose was to verify, in a group of 71 autopsied chronic chagasic with or without APR, the frequency of T. cruzi nests in the central vein of adrenal gland (CVAG). APR, defined by: 1) death secondary to sepsis and/or trauma plus, 2) bleeding stress gastric ulcerations or 3) spleen reactional state or 4) liver steatosis, was observed in 30 chronic chagasic (APR+). Weight, height and body mass index (BMI) were obtained. APR(+) chronic chagasic had worse nutritional status than APR(-) ones: weight = 49.0 vs 54.5 kg; BMI = 17.5 vs 20.6 kg/m2 (median p < 0.05). CVAG T. cruzi nests frequency were similar (43.3 per cent and 43.9 per cent , respectively) between both Groups. We conclude that APR(+) chronic chagasic had worse nutritional status than APR(-) ones, and that APR development did not change the CVAG T. cruzi nests frequency