Infectious diseases

Articles

• cryptococcosis
  14 March 2007

  cryptococcal infections, cryptococcoses

• syphilis
  18 October 2005

  Definition: Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum is the microaerophilic spirochete that causes syphilis, a chronic venereal disease with multiple clinical presentations.
  Images
  Primary syphilis - Chancre
  https://twitter.com/JHW806/status/733298742502129666
  Secondary syphilis: psoriasiform pattern + lichenoid infiltrate with histiocytes great clue. Plasma cells ++
  https://twitter.com/JRamirezMD/status/782747788907991040
  Secondary syphilis: "condyloma" appearance. Dense plasma (...)

• adult polyglucosan body disease
  3 January 2006

  Adult polyglucosan body disease is a late-onset, slowly progressive, autosomal recessive disorder affecting the central and peripheral nervous systems. Patients typically present after age 40 years with a variable combination of cognitive impairment, pyramidal tetraparesis, peripheral neuropathy, and neurogenic bladder. Other manifestations include cerebellar dysfunction and extrapyramidal signs. THis disease is an allelic disorder to type IV glycogen storage disease with GBE1 mutations (...)

• CMV hepatitis
  8 December 2004

  Definition: CMV is the most important cause of opportunistic hepatitis in immunocompromised patients. 20% of patients with liver allograft develop CMV hepatitis.
  Images
  CMV inclusion in a portal space
  https://twitter.com/liverpath/status/818267259944767488
  Synopsis
  cytomegalic cytopathic effects
  enlarged cells
  cytomegalic nuclear inclusions
  large, glassy masses in the nucleus, separated by a clear halo from the irregularly thickened nuclear membrane
  cytomegalic cytoplasmic (...)

• tuberculosis
  22 August 2004

  Digital case
  HPC:154 : Mycobacterial adenitis
  Links
  Tuberculosis in The Yale Rosen Collection of Pulmonary Pathology on Flickr
  Localization
  pulmonary tuberculosis
  SNC tuberculosis
  meningeal tuberculosis (tuberculous meningitis )
  cerebral tuberculosis
  synovial tuberculosis
  tenosynovial tunerculosis (tuberculous tenosynovitis )
  renal tuberculosis
  serous tuberculosis
  pleural tuberculosis
  pericardial tuberculosis
  peritoneal tuberculosis
  genital tuberculosis
  tubal (...)

• adenoviral ascending cholangiohepatitis
  8 December 2005

  adenovirus ascending cholangiohepatitis

• adenoviral cholangitis
  8 December 2005

  adenovirus cholangitis

• HHV6-associated hepatitis
  9 November 2005

  Synopsis
  severe liver dysfunction
  drowsiness
  fulminant hepatic failure
  microvesicular steatosis (resembling that of Reye syndrome)
  human herpesvirus-6 variant B (HHV-6B) DNA in liver tissue by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and in the endothelium of the portal vein by in situ hybridization (ISH).
  References
  Aita K, Jin Y, Irie H, Takahashi I, Kobori K, Nakasato Y, Kodama H, Yanagawa Y, Yoshikawa T, Shiga J. Are there histopathologic characteristics particular to fulminant (...)

• hepatic fungal granuloma
  30 January 2006

  See also
  hepatic granulomas hepatic tuberculoid granuloma (hepatic tuberculoid granuloma)
  fungal granulomas

• hepatitis E
  19 January 2006

  Lesional patterns
  acute hepatitis
  lymphocytic destructive cholangitis bile duct intraepithelial lymphocytic infiltration bile duct epithelial damage.
  Differential diagnosis
  lymphocytic destructive cholangitis primary biliary cirrhosis primary sclerosing cholangitis autoimmune hepatitis so-called overlap syndrome acute or chronic viral hepatitis C drug-induced hepatitis acute liver allograft rejection graft-versus-host disease in bone marrow transplantation acute hepatitis E
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