SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.23 issue1Reestablecimiento de la función endocrina de implantes ováricos heterotópicos no pediculizados author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Related links

Share


Revista Médica del Uruguay

On-line version ISSN 1688-0390

Abstract

FRANCO, Nikolás et al. Oclusión intestinal de yeyuno. Excepcional presentación de la histoplasmosis y debut de HIV. Rev. Méd. Urug. [online]. 2007, vol.23, n.1, pp.64-68. ISSN 1688-0390.

Summary Histoplasma capsulatum is a widespread fungus of aereal infectation. Clinically presented as bronchopneumonia, it has been lately associated with compromised immune system, specially HIV. The affectation at digestive tract level is rare but shows that dissemination is systemic; patients presenting symptomatic digestive infection, diagnosis of AIDS is clear for patients with HIV. An exceptional clinical case of jejunum intestinal occlusion caused by an anular area of stenosis in a young women with uncertain intra-operatory diagnosis and histopathologic diagnosis of histoplasma capsulatum without previous notice of HIV infection nor respiratory compromise is presented.

Keywords : HISTOPLASMOSIS; HISTOPLASMA; OBSTRUCCION INTESTINAL; YEYUNO; INFECCIONES POR VIH.

        · abstract in Spanish | French | Portuguese     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License