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Rev Neurol ; 35(6): 528-30, 2002.
Article in Spanish | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12389170

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: Reye s syndrome (RS) is a potentially fatal disease described in 1963 by Reye, Morgan and Baral as an acute encephalopathy associated with a lipid degeneration of the liver. It affects children of all ages, with a peak incidence between 5 and 15 years old, but on rare occasions it can also affect adults. Its aetiology is not known, but is has been linked with viral infections and with the ingestion of salicylates. Its occurrence in adults is not at all frequent and only 27 cases have been recorded in the literature. CASE REPORT: We report the case of a 33 year old primiparous patient who, during lactation, began suffering from epilepsy and a lowered level consciousness in the course of an infection of the pharynx and tonsils, and died on the 12th day after admission to the ICU. Anamnesis revealed she had taken ASA for the first time in her life, which guided diagnosis, and this was confirmed post mortem in the anatomopathological examination. CONCLUSION: RS in adults occurs only rarely but should be a part of the differentiating diagnosis of any encephalopathy of unknown origin and especially of the epileptic status of an adult, above all if there is a history of ingestion of salicylates, previous viral infection and vomiting.


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Epilepsy/etiology , Reye Syndrome/diagnosis , Adult , Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal/therapeutic use , Aspirin/therapeutic use , Brain/pathology , Fatal Outcome , Female , Humans , Lactation , Liver/pathology , Pharyngitis/complications , Pharyngitis/drug therapy , Reye Syndrome/etiology , Reye Syndrome/pathology , Tonsillitis/complications , Tonsillitis/drug therapy , von Willebrand Diseases/complications
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Rev. neurol. (Ed. impr.) ; 35(6): 528-530, 16 sept., 2002.
Article in Es | IBECS | ID: ibc-22218

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Introducción. El síndrome de Reye (SR) es una enfermedad potencialmente letal, descrita en 1963 por Reye, Morgan y Baral como una encefalopatía aguda asociada a una degeneración grasa del hígado. Afecta a niños de todas las edades, con un pico de incidencia entre los 5 y los 15 años, pero en raras ocasiones también puede ocurrir en adultos. Su etiología es desconocida, pero se ha relacionado con infecciones víricas y con la ingesta de salicilatos. La presentación en adultos es rara y sólo hay 27 casos recogidos en la literatura. Caso clínico. Presentamos el caso de una paciente de 33 años de edad, primípara, que en el período de lactancia se inició con un status epiléptico y una disminución del nivel de conciencia en el seno de una infección faringoamidgalar, y falleció al 12.º día de su ingreso en la UCI. En la anamnesis se recoge una ingesta de AAS por primera vez en su vida, lo que orientó el diagnóstico, que se confirmó postmortem en el examen anatomopatológico. Conclusión. El SR del adulto es una entidad rara y poco frecuente, pero debería formar parte del diagnóstico diferencial de cualquier encefalopatía de causa desconocida y en particular del status epiléptico en un adulto, sobre todo si hay antecedentes de ingesta de salicilatos, infección vírica previa y vómitos (AU)


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Adult , Female , Humans , Tonsillitis , von Willebrand Diseases , Fatal Outcome , Pharyngitis , Reye Syndrome , Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal , Aspirin , Lactation , Liver , Epilepsy , Telencephalon
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Rev Med Univ Navarra ; 33(1): 15-8, 1989.
Article in Spanish | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2490176

ABSTRACT

Two cases of Pseudomembranous Colitis are presented in old aged people with multi-systematic failure (renal, respiratory, cardiac) doing mention of favorable circumstances, of the clinic, of the physiopathological hypothesis of the diagnostic and therapeutical ways. They get to the conclusion of the easiness of the development in old people because of their precarious "vascularization" and the need of a systematic study of diarrhea in advanced ages, even though the picture seems simple.


Subject(s)
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous , Aged , Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/complications , Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/etiology , Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/therapy , Female , Humans , Male
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