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FULMINANT [6 records]

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Record 1 2015-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Liver and Biliary Ducts
CONT

Fulminant liver failure occurs when the vital functions of the liver fail, including the development of a coagulopathy, hypoglycemia, hyperbilirubinemia, hypoproteinemia, and encephalopathy. Liver failure can develop acutely, or it may be chronically progressive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Foie et voies biliaires
OBS

On parle d'insuffisance hépatique fulminante ou subfulminante lorsqu'il existe une encéphalopathie : si celle-ci apparaît moins de 2 semaines après le début de l'ictère, il s'agit d'une insuffisance hépatique fulminante, si elle survient entre 2 semaines et 3 mois après l'apparition de l'ictère, on parle alors d'insuffisance hépatique subfulminante […]

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
DEF

Any disease of the brain.

CONT

The diagnosis of fulminant hepatic failure requires the presence of encephalopathy in a patient with severe, acute liver disease.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
DEF

Affection de l'encéphale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistema nervioso
DEF

Enfermedad [...] que consiste en la degeneración del tejido cerebral; sus principales manifestaciones o síntomas son pérdida progresiva de la memoria, alteraciones del estado de alerta, convulsiones, cefalea, falta de retención e interés.

CONT

Los pacientes afectados con encefalopatía a menudo presentan alteraciones psíquicas, conductuales y anímicas [...]

OBS

Disfunción cerebral que puede ser provocada por varios factores, como efectos directos sobre el tejido cerebral y otros factores químicos, farmacológicos y metabólicos.

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Record 3 2011-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Injections, Tubing and Transfusions (Medicine)
DEF

Repetitive withdrawal of small amounts of blood and replacement with donor blood until a large proportion of the blood volume has been exchanged. Used in treatment of fetal erythroblastosis, hepatic coma, sickle cell anemia, disseminated intravascular coagulation, septicemia, burns, thrombotic thrombopenic purpura, and fulminant malaria.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Injections, tubages et transfusions (Médecine)
DEF

Technique consistant à substituer au sang circulant du malade une quantité équivalente de sang provenant de donneurs compatibles.

OBS

L'Académie de Médecine a proposé de remplacer ler terme d'exsanguinotransfusion par transfusion d'échange.

Key term(s)
  • exsanguino-transfusion

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inyecciones, intubación y transfusiones (Medicina)
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Record 4 2010-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Blood
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
DEF

The presence of fungus in the blood.

CONT

Coccidioidomycosis usually results in dissemination beyond the lungs in immunosuppressed patients, such as organ recipients or those with AIDS or lymphoma... When infections are more fulminant, they are usually in broadly immunosuppressed patients and produce fungemia detectable with blood cultures and diffuse reticulonodular embolic pulmonary infiltrates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sang
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
DEF

Présence de champignons (fungi) dans le sang.

CONT

L'intestin, contaminé par voie alimentaire est la source initiale des levures qui gagneraient par voie hématogène (fongémie post-prandiale) par infection des cellules intestinales ou directe par «persorption» ou par contiguïté ano-périnéale, le vagin.

Spanish

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Record 5 1998-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Liver and Biliary Ducts
OBS

fulminant : in medicine, developing suddenly and severely, as a disease.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Foie et voies biliaires
CONT

[...] l'hépatite suraiguë dite fulminante, très agressive, provoque une destruction massive du foie avec hémorragies diffuses et confusion mentale [...]

CONT

Les patients ayant une hépatite C chronique et surcontaminés par le virus de l'hépatite A risquent de développer une forme suraiguë (dite fulminante), et parfois mortelle de la maladie.

Spanish

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Record 6 1987-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Liver and Biliary Ducts
CONT

Autopsy findings were consistent with fulminant hepatic necrosis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Foie et voies biliaires
OBS

Relevé épidémiologique hebdomadaire, OMS, 11 juillet 1986, vol. 61, no. 28, p. 215.

Spanish

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