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From 1982 to 1988, 20 patients with pulmonary nocardiosis were diagnosed at the Department of Medicine, Chulalongkorn Hospital University. The infection was found to be common in immuno-compromised hosts particularly in patients who were suffering from lymphoreticular malignancy, systemic lupus erythematosus, nephrotic syndrome, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis and in patients who were receiving corticosteroids. The clinical manifestations were usually nonspecific. Diagnosis of pulmonary nocardiosis in cases who presented with a short duration of fever and productive cough was often delayed because they were considered to have acute bacterial pneumonia. The findings on chest roentgenogram were nonspecific as nonhomogeneous airspace infiltrates, cavitary lesions, nodule, or miliary infiltrates. The complete blood count frequently showed leukocytosis and neutrophilia. The diagnosis of nocardiosis was suspected if the staining of specimens obtained from the lesions showed typically weakly gram-positive and modified acid-fast branching filament organism and the diagnosis was confirmed by culture. The skin and the central nervous system were the most common hematogenous disseminations. Sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim in combination were the drugs of choice. The treatment for a minimum of 6 months was appropriate in order to prevent relapse. Poor prognostic factors in nocardiosis were acute infection, Cushing's disease; and disseminated infection involving the central nervous system.
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PMID:Pulmonary nocardiosis in Chulalongkorn Hospital. 178 75

The lifetime prevalence of panic disorder in the United States is 1.5%; nearly 3 times that many Americans experience recurrent panic attacks. Both conditions are associated with diminished well-being, increased alcohol and drug abuse, suicide attempts, and financial dependency, at rates often exceeding those for other psychiatric disorders, including major depression. In spite of these considerable social consequences, panic disorder and panic attacks often go unrecognized. Because their symptoms can present as other medical disorders, including myocardial infarction, temporal lobe epilepsy, Cushing's disease, anemia, hypoglycemia, and lupus, these patients are instead often seen in emergency departments and cardiac and other medical clinics. General practitioners, and especially physicians working in emergency departments, should be alert to the possibility of panic disorder, especially if the patient has a first-degree family member suffering from panic disorder.
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PMID:The hidden patient: unrecognized panic disorder. 222 93

The treatment of autoimmune diseases with systemic glucocorticosteroids remains a therapeutic challenge and requires close collaboration with internists, radiologists and in some cases orthopedic surgeons. Generally, patients initially receive high-dose glucocorticosteroid therapy and are then treated for a longer period of time with moderate to low doses above the level causing symptoms of Cushing's disease. A major cause of complications is glucocorticosteroid-induced osteoporosis with hip fractures, crush fractures of the spine and other low trauma fractures as well as deformities of the skeleton leading to neurological and other systemic problems. Loss of bone mass as a result of high dose or long term systemic glucocorticosteroid treatment is well studied and can be documented in a standardized and reproducible fashion using modern radiological techniques. In recent years several controlled studies of bone loss and therapy of osteoporosis have been published, mostly including patients with rheumatoid arthritis or systemic lupus erythematosus. This review discusses recent publications and provides a brief overview on therapeutic options.
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PMID:[Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. A underestimated sequela of long-term treatment of autoimmune diseases]. 1142 74

The role of the immune system in psychiatric symptoms has been an area of much interest for many years. This review discusses medications and medical illnesses associated with immune system dysfunction, and their relationship to psychiatric symptoms, particularly psychosis. Medical illnesses including HIV infection, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and Cushing's disease are all associated with psychiatric symptoms. In addition, high dosages of prescription corticosteroids (eg, prednisone and dexamethasone) are associated with mood changes, cognitive deficits, and even psychosis. However, the role of the immune system in mediating the psychiatric disturbances with each of these conditions is not clear. Directions for further research and treatment considerations are discussed.
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PMID:Corticosteroids, immune suppression, and psychosis. 1200 78

Commonly used dermatologic eponyms and characteristic skin signs are enormously helpful in guiding a diagnosis, even though they may not be pathonemonic. They include, on the nails, Aldrich-Mees' lines (syn.: Mees' lines), Beau's lines, Muehrcke's lines, Terry's nails, and half and half nails, often associated, respectively, with arsenic poisoning, acute stress or systemic illness, severe hypertension, liver disease and uremia, and, around the nails, Braverman's sign, associated with collagen-vascular disease. Elsewhere, one may see the Asboe-Hansen and Nikolsky's signs, indicative of the pemphigus group of diseases, Auspitz's sign, a classic finding in psoriasis, Borsieri's and Pasita's signs, seen in early scarlet fever, the butterfly rash, indicative of systemic lupus erythematosus, and the buffalo hump, seen in Cushing's disease and also in the more common corticosteroid toxicity. Gottron's papules and the heliotrope rash are signs of dermatomyositis. Janeway's lesions and Osler's nodes are seen in bacterial endocarditis. A Dennie-Morgan fold under the eye is seen in association with atopic disease. Koplik's spots are an early sign of rubeola. Fitzpatrick's sign is indicative of a benign lesion (dermatofibroma), whereas Hutchinson's sign is indicative of a malignant one (subungual melanoma). Petechiae are seen in many diseases, including fat embolization, particularly from a large bone fracture following trauma. Palpable purpura is indicative of leukocytoclastic vasculitis, and is an early, critical sign in Rickettsial diseases, including Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, which must be diagnosed and treated early. Hyperpigmentation of areolae and scars is seen in Addison's disease. Acanthosis nigricans may indicate internal cancer, especially stomach cancer, whereas Bazex's syndrome occurs in synchrony with primary, usually squamous cancer, in the upper aerodigestive tract or metastatic cancer in cervical lymph nodes. Perioral pigmented macules or one or more cutaneous sebaceous neoplasms may be a sign of the Peutz-Jeghers or Muir-Torre syndrome, respectively, both associated also with intestinal polyps that have a malignant potential. Telangiectasiae in the perioral region may be associated with similar lesions internally in Osler-Weber-Rendu disease. Kerr's sign is indicative of spinal cord injury and Darier's sign of mastocytosis. Post proctoscopic periobital purpura (PPPP) is a phenomenon observed in some patients with systemic amyloidosis. Koebner's isomorphic response refers to the tendency of an established dermatosis, such as psoriasis, to arise in (a) site(s) of trauma, whereas Wolf's isotrophic response refers to a new dermatosis, such as tinea, not yet seen in the patient, arising in (a) site(s) of a former but different dermatosis, such as zoster.
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PMID:Cutaneous signs of systemic disease. 2185 27