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A 17-year-old, previously healthy woman developed an acute "mononucleosis-like" illness with an associated "atypical" pneumonitis, followed by years of debilitating chronic fatigue, fevers, a 10-kg weight loss, night sweats, and neurocognitive symptoms. Thereafter, her sister developed a similar but
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is characterized by chronic, debilitating fatigue lasting greater than 6 months. Frequent chronic and recurrent findings include fever, pharyngitis, myalgias, adenopathy, arthralgias, difficulties in cognition and disorders of mood. In the majority of patients, the
BACKGROUND
Results of readily available clinical laboratory tests in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome were compared with results in healthy control subjects.
METHODS
Cases consisted of all 579 patients who met either the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga, British, or
Bird breeder's lung disease is the most common form of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and is a rare entity in young children. We report three cases of children under 7 years of age in whom this diagnosis was confirmed early in the course of the disease. Three children aged 4.4 to 6.5 years presented
BACKGROUND
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is an immune-mediated hypersensitivity reaction to a variety of inhaled particles that may lead to acute, subacute, or chronic interstitial pneumonitis and possibly end-stage lung disease. Avian antigens most commonly cause HP in children, but fungi have
METHODS
Current literature.
RESULTS
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a stem cell disorder characterized by an overproduction of lymphoblasts in the bone marrow that eventually spill into circulation, producing lymphocytosis. As with the other acute leukemias, the most common symptoms
The activity of 38 calves aged 15-30 days of the Simenthal breed and of crosses with Ireshire was studied before and after transportaton at a distance of 38-100 km. It was established that transportation causes fatigue, thirst and a weight reduction of 4.3 kg, due to loss of liquid in the calf's
In the immunocompromised patients and during foetal life an acute infection due to the cytomegalovirus (CMV) causes great morbidity. In adults without predisposing factors the acute infection with CMV is rarely symptomatic, but can also provoke fever, fatigue, headache and anorexia for weeks. The
OBJECTIVE
A prospective multicenter phase II trial was undertaken to define the activity of a low-dose subcutaneous regimen of interleukin-2 (IL-2) and interferon alfa-2a (IFN) in patients with metastatic renal cancer.
METHODS
Between December 1990 and October 1991, 42 patients with metastatic renal
Background: As the role of PET-FDG imaging is being established in the staging and monitoring of response to therapy in children with lymphoma, we encountered a case of an infection common in adolescence that may present with lymphoma-like signs and symptoms.Methods: A 13-year-old previously healthy
BACKGROUND
Leishmaniasis is a chronic infectious disease from the group of anthropozoonoses. It is caused by protozoa in the genus leishmania flagellate. There are five major foci of this disease in the world: India, Mediterranean countries, East Africa, South China and South America. Endemic
In order to calibrate his haemoglobin meter, a general practitioner had his own haemoglobin level checked regularly at a nearby laboratory. At 37 years of age, one of these assays revealed 7,0 mmol/l. Because he had no symptoms, he prescribed himself iron-substitution therapy but the haemoglobin
We report a case of branch retinal vein occlusion associated with sarcoidosis in a child. A 13-year-old boy with a history of chronic fatigue was referred for ophthalmologic examination. Fundus examination in the right eye showed periphlebitis of the inferotemporal branch retinal vein, with nerve
Cryptogenic organizing pneumonitis is a clinical and pathologic syndrome characterized by a "pneumonia-like" illness with excessive proliferation of granulation tissue within small airways and alveolar ducts associated with chronic inflammation in the surrounding alveoli. The duration of illness
BACKGROUND
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) positive infectious mononucleosis (IM) is a common disease in adolescents. However, IM is often considered a rare disease in early childhood. We aimed to describe the classical presentation of adolescent EBV-associated IM compared to EBV infection at younger