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Anomalies des cellules de l'immunite naturelle et risque infectieux chez le patient diabetique Alterations in Natural Immunity and Risk of Infection in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus

Author(s) : Moutschen, Michel
Description : This review addresses the recent litterature devoted to the risk of severe infections in patients with diabetes and to the potential influence of diabetes on the function of natural immunity. Although much controversy still exists regarding the incidence of infections in diabetic patients, several s...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : French

Bases immunologiques a la comprehension du concept d'anticorps monoclonal. Basic immunological knowledge for understanding monoclonal antibodies

Description : Antibodies (Ab) are molecules with dual functions: on the one hand, they bind to antigens (Ag) through their variable regions (Fab, "Fragment antigen binding"), located at one of their extremities; on the other hand, they recruit cells of the immune system, via the other extremity, the constant regi...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : French

Les anticorps monoclonaux en thérapeutique. Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies

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Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : French

Patients infectes par le VIH. Et syndrome lipodystrophique Lipodystrophy Syndrome in Hiv Infected Patients

Description : Prolonged utilization of some antiretroviral drugs in patients infected by HIV can lead to the outbreak of a lipodystrophy syndrome. This syndrome is characterized by modification of fats corporal repartition, sometimes associated with metabolic disturbancies (dyslipemia and insulin resistance). Two...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : French

Des interactions complexes entre les origines du VIH et sa pandemie, les activites coloniales en Afrique et la medecine coloniale Belge au Congo About the complex interactions between HIV origins and its pandemy, colonial activities in Africa and colonial medicine in Belgian Congo

Description : In this review article on the origin of HIV, we start from a historical fact which involved physicians from Liege working in Belgian Congo: the vaccination against polio of hundreds of thousands of Congolese between 1957 and 1960. We explain the genesis of an alternative hypothesis postulating that ...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : French

Doit-on encore recommander le vaccin BCG? should the Bcg Vaccine Still Be Recommended?

Description : The BCG vaccine has demonstrated its efficacy to protect young children from severe extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis. Nevertheless, the immunity induced by the vaccine disappears in adults and cannot be boosted by readministration of BCG. Adverse effects of BCG are rare, but potentially dangerou...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : French

Lesions cerebrales demyelinisantes decouvertes chez un patient immunocompetent VIH-1+. Demyelinating cerebral lesions in an immunocompetent HIV-1 patient

Description : We report the case of a 32-year-old immunocompetent HIV patient, presenting with acute demyelinating leukoencephalopathy. The patient displayed clinical and radiological features similar to multiple sclerosis. Histology revealed inflammation with necrosis, demyelination and destruction of axons. Ser...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : French

Prevention du paludisme chez l'adulte Prevention of Malaria in the Adult

Description : Great scourge of poor countries, malaria is the most important tropical parasitic disease. It is responsible for a large number of deaths in concerned countries and represents a real danger for travellers going to endemic regions. So, prophylactic measures are essential. On the one hand protective m...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : French

A pauci-symptomatic case of documented Hantavirus (Puumala) infection in a patient under anti-TNF treatment.

Description : We describe the case of an 18-yr-old male under anti-TNF treatment for Crohn's disease for more than 8 months. He developed fever and biological inflammatory syndrome without absolutely no accompanying sign or symptom or paraclinical abnormality despite extensive work-up performed in the context of ...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : English

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