RESUMO
Strongyloides stercoralis is an intestinal nematode that causes human infections and whose life cycle has special features, including autoinfection. Strongyloides infection may be asymptomatic for years, owing to a low parasite load. During immunosuppressive therapy, however, if cellular immunity is depressed, autoinfection can occur at a higher rate, resulting in hyperinfection syndrome. In this specific circumstance, it can become a fatal illness. We describe a case of hyperinfection syndrome in a liver transplant recipient and also review the literature.
Assuntos
Imunossupressores/efeitos adversos , Transplante de Fígado/efeitos adversos , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/parasitologia , Strongyloides stercoralis , Estrongiloidíase/etiologia , Superinfecção/etiologia , Adulto , Animais , Anti-Helmínticos/uso terapêutico , Evolução Fatal , Rejeição de Enxerto/prevenção & controle , Humanos , Imunossupressores/uso terapêutico , Masculino , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/diagnóstico , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/tratamento farmacológico , Recidiva , Estrongiloidíase/diagnóstico , Estrongiloidíase/tratamento farmacológico , Superinfecção/diagnóstico , Superinfecção/tratamento farmacológicoAssuntos
Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1/genética , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1/prevenção & controle , Encefalomiopatias Mitocondriais/prevenção & controle , Ubiquinona/uso terapêutico , Análise Mutacional de DNA , DNA Mitocondrial/genética , Citometria de Fluxo/métodos , Humanos , Inseminação Artificial , Masculino , Encefalomiopatias Mitocondriais/genética , Mutação Puntual/genética , Espermatozoides/fisiologia , Cromossomo YRESUMO
PURPOSE: To study the prevalence of hypertension related on the exposition to the main risk factors. METHODS: We studied 153 students of the Medical Science Department of Taubaté University, aged between 17 to 35 years. The chosen method was the stratified simple aleatory sample. RESULTS: The prevalence of hypertension was 5.88% where all of them had one or more risk factor. A significant systolic blood pressure increase in male was found by comparing to the female. CONCLUSION: The risk factors considered alone, did not change the mean value of the hypertension, while the obesity when associated with one or more risk factors showed a considerable increase on the averages of diastolic blood pressure.