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S Attia

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Valsalva retinopathy induced by labour.

PURPOSE: To describe a patient with Valsalva retinopathy induced by labour. METHODS: Case report. RESULTS: A 29-year-old woman at her second pregnancy complained of a sudden loss of vision in her left eye during spontaneous labour. Visual acuity was reduced to counting fingers. Funduscopy revealed a large preretinal hemorrhage at the macula in the left eye. Three weeks after delivery, the hematoma was treated with Nd:YAG laser. Two weeks after treatment, visual acuity was 20/20 and the premacular hemorrhage had resolved. CONCLUSIONS: A rise in intra-abdominal pressure during labour may result in Valsalva retinopathy. Nd:YAG laser may be useful in treating such hemorrhage.

Adult↗
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[Clinical and therapeutic profile of broncho-pulmonary adenocarcinomas].

Broncho-pulmonary adenocarcinoma get interest since many years because his increased prevalence. Between december 1998 and January 70 male patients, mean age 56 years, with broncho-pulmonary adenocarcinome were collected retrospectively. The epidémiologic, clinic, radiologic and evolutive data of this pathologic form of cancer was studied. The ratio increased from 10% in 1988 to 14% in 1996. Clinic manifestations was common. Radiologic features was represented essentially by a unique (82%) and péripheric (56%) opacity. The diagnosis, based on cytologic and histologic data, was assessed in 39% of cases by endoscopic biopsy. The investigation for the primitive neoplasic process was made in 18% of patients and found only 2 cases of extra-pulmonary neoplastic process. Curative treatment based on surgery is performed only in 28% of our patients regarding the advanced stage of disease explaining the low survival rates.

Adenocarcinoma↗
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[A rare complication of antineoplastic BCG therapy: pulmonary tuberculosis].

Local treatment with intra vesical BCG for bladder carcinoma have few complications. Pulmonary side effects are rare, like interstitial pneumonitis. We report a case of a 77-year-old man, treated with BCG for bladder carcinoma who developed illness and tumoral chest-X-ray opacity. Mycobacterium tuberculosis bovis was isolated in culture and 2 years after in sputum. Physio pathologic mechanism of pulmonary features remains controversial, however this case suggest that lung lesions can be result of an infection process.

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[Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies positivity in a case of idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis].

Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis is a rare disease of unknown etiopathogeny which is characterized by hemoptysis due to alveolar haemorrhage. We report the case of a 16 years-old girl with idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis, diagnosed through clinical, radiological, cytological and histopathological data. The finding of myeloperoxydase-anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) positivity led us to suspect an associated vasculitis which was not further demonstrated.

Adolescent↗