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H Z Yang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis
Zhongguo ji sheng chong xue yu ji sheng chong bing za zhi = Chinese journal of parasitology & parasitic diseases, 1992Co-Authors: M H Zhang, H Z YangAbstract:Retinochoroiditis is a frequent ocular lesion in toxoplasmosis. It may be severe, and even lead to blindness. Sixteen cases of toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis verified through IFA were presented in this paper. Among these cases, 1 was of the multifocal type, its appearance being similar to that of the Coats disease; while the other 15 were of the focal type resembling to the central Exudative Retinitis (Rieger disease) or retinochoroidal scar. Serological finding of all the cases showed a positive IFA titer of > 1:80. A combination of pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine as well as spiramycin in addition to dexamethasone had been administered and proved effective. Since toxoplasmosis mostly occurs as latent and examination of the eye cannot differentiate from other causes of retinochoroiditis, so such clinical report of toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis was rare with particular reference in our country. The authors claimed that any individual presenting with retinochoroiditis suspected of toxoplasmosis should be subjected to serologic antibody test for establishing diagnosis.
M H Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis
Zhongguo ji sheng chong xue yu ji sheng chong bing za zhi = Chinese journal of parasitology & parasitic diseases, 1992Co-Authors: M H Zhang, H Z YangAbstract:Retinochoroiditis is a frequent ocular lesion in toxoplasmosis. It may be severe, and even lead to blindness. Sixteen cases of toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis verified through IFA were presented in this paper. Among these cases, 1 was of the multifocal type, its appearance being similar to that of the Coats disease; while the other 15 were of the focal type resembling to the central Exudative Retinitis (Rieger disease) or retinochoroidal scar. Serological finding of all the cases showed a positive IFA titer of > 1:80. A combination of pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine as well as spiramycin in addition to dexamethasone had been administered and proved effective. Since toxoplasmosis mostly occurs as latent and examination of the eye cannot differentiate from other causes of retinochoroiditis, so such clinical report of toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis was rare with particular reference in our country. The authors claimed that any individual presenting with retinochoroiditis suspected of toxoplasmosis should be subjected to serologic antibody test for establishing diagnosis.
H. Mxchell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Therapy of Severe Hypertension Complicated by Renal Failure
2003Co-Authors: H. MxchellAbstract:S INCE IT BECAME practical to control hypertension with drugs 10 years ago, the life expectancy of patients with the malignant (accelerated) phase of the disease has increased significantly.‘-4 Of all the secondary manifestations of severe hy-pertension, cardiac failure responds most dramaticallyto therapy. Dilatation and hypertrophy regress, apparently without residual, when the diastolic pressure is reduced. In contrast, the failing kidney is characteristically unimproved by treatment. Control of markedly elevated diastolic pressure halts or delays otherwise progressive renal decompensation, but there is little return of lost function. Only two phases of the problem of severe hypertension complicated by renal failure are considered below. First, data are presented suggesting that, among the untreated or ineffectively treated patients who come to us, the kidney has recentlyreplaced the eye as the earliest organ to he secondarily compromised. As a result azotemia is becoming an increasingly frequent complication of hy-pertension. In the absence of new and improved methods of therapy, the value of the available antihypertensive agents is then emphasized despite their evident shortcomings. Instead of representing our group results, this report considers individual patients who derived unusual benefit from treatment. The fates of three patients with varying degrees of azotemia, patients who were chosen for presentation six years ago, are cited; and the course of a moderately azotemic patient who married and became pregnant is described during seven years of therapy. INCREASE IN RENAL FAILURE We have observed a change in the clinical pattern of severe hypertension among patients who have apparently never had significant reductions in their markedly elevated diastolic pressures. The percentage of such patients who have abnormal nitrogen retention without the characteristic ocular manifestations of malignant hypertension has increased recently. When we first began to treat severely hypertensive patients 10 years ago, renal decompensation without hemorrhagic or Exudative Retinitis was rare, but this is no longer true. An increase in azotemia among efectively treated patients might be explained on the basis of increased longevity which permitted slowly progressive destruction of the kidney. It must be emphasized, however, that the change mentioned here involves primarily the impoverished Negro patient from whom no history of effective antihypertensive therapy can be elicited and who almost certainly has never received any. At the same time it should be noted that many of these patients give a definite history of having ingested rauwolfia or veratrum alkaloids, benzothiodiazines or small doses of hydralazine.
Aileen Taylor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Hereditary woolly hair with ocular involvement.
The British journal of dermatology, 2006Co-Authors: Aileen TaylorAbstract:SUMMARY A case of hereditary woolly hair associated with Coats’ disease of the eyes, a rare type of Exudative Retinitis, is reported.
