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Selene Genova

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Intestinal tuberculosis in a child living in a country with a low incidence of tuberculosis : a case report

2014

Background: Relatively common in adults, intestinal tuberculosis is considered rare in children and adolescents. The protean manifestations of intestinal tuberculosis mean that the diagnosis is often delayed (sometimes even for years), thus leading to increased mortality and unnecessary surgery. The main diagnostic dilemma is to differentiate intestinal tuberculosis and Crohn’s disease because a misdiagnosis can have dramatic consequences. Case presentation: A 13-year-old Caucasian, Italian female adolescent attended the Emergency Department complaining of abdominal pain, a fever of up to 38°C, night sweats, diarrhea with blood in stool, and a weight loss of about three kilograms over the p…

Abdominal painBiopsymedicine.medical_treatmentAntitubercular AgentsCase ReportInflammatory bowel diseaseGastroenterologySettore MED/38 - Pediatria Generale E SpecialisticaCrohn DiseaseLaparotomyWhole Body ImagingMedicine(all)biologymedicine.diagnostic_testIleal DiseasesIncidenceGeneral MedicineEmerging infectionsTreatment OutcomeItalyIntestinal tuberculosisAbdominal ultrasonographyDrug Therapy CombinationFemalemedicine.symptommedicine.medical_specialtyMiliary tuberculosisTuberculosisAdolescentGeneral Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular BiologyDiagnosis DifferentialMycobacterium tuberculosisPredictive Value of TestsInternal medicineGastrointestinal infectionsmedicineHumansTuberculosisDiagnostic ErrorsEmerging infections Gastrointestinal infections Intestinal tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis TuberculosisTuberculosis MiliaryBiochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)business.industryMycobacterium tuberculosisAbdominal distensionmedicine.diseasebiology.organism_classificationSurgeryTuberculosis GastrointestinalTomography X-Ray Computedbusiness
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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Associated with Tumor Lysis Syndrome in a Child with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

2015

Tumor lysis syndrome is a serious and dangerous complication usually associated with antiblastic treatment in some malignancies characterized by high cell turn-over. Mild or severe electrolyte abnormalities including high serum levels of uric acid, potassium, phosphorus, creatinine, bun and reduction of calcium can be responsible for multi-organ failure, involving mostly kidneys, heart and central nervous system. Renal damage can be followed by acute renal failure, weight gain, progressive liver impairment, overproduction of cytokines, and subsequent maintenance of multi-organ damage. Life-threatening acute respiratory failure associated with tumor lysis syndrome is rare. We describe a chil…

Central nervous systemlcsh:MedicineCase ReportAcute respiratory distressacute lymphoblastic leukemiaPediatricschemistry.chemical_compoundmedicineacute respiratory distress syndrome tumor lysis syndrome acute lymphoblastic leukemia childhoodDiffuse alveolar damagechildhoodCreatininebusiness.industrylcsh:Rlcsh:RJ1-570lcsh:Pediatricsacute respiratory distress syndromemedicine.diseaseTumor lysis syndromemedicine.anatomical_structurechemistryImmunologyUric acidmedicine.symptomtumor lysis syndromeComplicationbusinessWeight gainPediatric Reports
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Effectiveness of cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil in a child with refractory evans syndrome

2011

Evans Syndrome is a rare autoimmune disease consisting of hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and/or neutropenia. It may be associated with other autoimmune or lymphoproliferative diseases. Its course can be extremely serious and, rarely, even life-threatening

Hemolytic anemiaVincristinePediatricsmedicine.medical_specialtyEvans syndromeoutcome.CyclophosphamideEvans’ syndrome Cyclosporine Mycophenolate mofetil Treatment Outcomelcsh:MedicineCase ReportNeutropeniaPediatricshemic and lymphatic diseasesmedicineevans syndromeOutcomeAutoimmune diseasebusiness.industryMycophenolate mofetillcsh:Rlcsh:RJ1-570lcsh:PediatricsEvans’ syndromemedicine.diseaseDiscontinuationTreatmentImmunologyCyclosporineRituximabbusinessmedicine.drugPediatric Reports
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