lymphocitosis

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a global public health problem; its meningeal form leads to greater lethality and sequelae, particularly if it is associated with HIV / AIDS infection. AIM: To describe the demographic characteristics, clinical presentation, laboratory and images of patients with meningeal TB (isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in CSF), analyzing differences between HIV and non-HIV patients. METHODS: We performed an observational and descriptive study, with retrospective analysis of patients attending at the Dr...

BACKGROUND: Transient headache and neurologic deficits with cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis (HaNDL) is benign and self-limited, with neurologic deficits including sensory disturbance of one body side, aphasia, nausea/vomiting, weakness, decreased vision, homonymous hemianopsia, photophobia. Acute confusional state can rarely occur. Papilledema and intracranial hypertension have also been described. It is a rare entity mainly affecting adults; however, it has been sporadically described in children and adolescents...

A case of a patient suffering three episodes consistent in fever, lung infiltrates, lymphocitosis in bronchoalveolar lavage and non-caseificant granulomata in transbronchial biopsy is reported.A relationship between exposition to the air conditioner in the office and the clinical picture was stablished, and the patient was finally diagnosed from humidifiers fever. We enfatize the manifestations of this uncommon disease, probably infradiagnosed, and the patogenic mechanisms are reviewed.

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