2 patients with tick fever had had an encephalo-meningitis complication, a rare condition with clinical symptoms similar with other type of encephalo-meningitis. In the diagnosis of encephalo-meningitis fever caused by Ricketsia, it must pay attention to the signs of conjunctive congestion, erythrema, especially the ulcerous lesions with high diagnostic value. The change in cerebro spinal fluid is not usually specific as meningitis caused by pyogenes bacteria. These are an increase of protein level, light decrease of glucose level and a minime increased of cell count. The early detection and specific treatment reduce the severity of the condition and cerebral symptoms can be reduced slower than the fever
Meningoencephalitis ; Encephalitis ; complications

51 patients with acute hepatitis B were studied at Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, Hue Central Hospital with criteria of clinical features, transaminase 5 times higher than normal upper limit and positive HbsAg at hospitalized time. 62% of them admitted hospital from 1 to 14 days after developed disease, reminder admitted hospital later than 15thday. Symptoms: 45,1% patients no fever; 88,2% oligouria and dark urine; 58,8% without swell of liver; 9,8% bleeding; 9,8% faint. Test results: there were 11% of patients with prothrombin <60%, 82,4% with bilirubin <340µg/l. 62,7% with De Ritis<1, 35,3% with HbeAg(+) and 33,3% with HbsAg (+) remained for 6 months. HbsAg positive remained for 6 months is associated with the group of patients admitted hospital later than 15thday (X2=5.1, P<0,05), the group with no fever (X2=10.1, P<0,05), the group with oligouria and dark urine (X2=13.6, P<0,05) and the group with jaundice (X2=5.1, P<0,05). The associations also existed between bilirubin level <340µg/l and the remained HbsAg (+) for 6 months and HbsAg (+) at the patients’ admission and the remained HbsAg (+) for 6 months (X2=5.5, P<0,05 and X2=31.3, P<0,05, respectively). The latter is strongly positive association.
Hepatitis B ; Hepatitis B Surface Antigens

99 patients over 15 year old were treated at Hue central Hospital from July 2002 to May 2003. 45.5% was in male and 54.5% in female. The most prevalence of age group was from 15 to 24 years old (72.7%). The symptom of abdominal pain in Dengue haemorrhagic fever was 61.8% and 46.2% in Dengue fever, alvine flux in Dengue haemorrhagic fever was 58.8% and 47.7% in Dengue fever. Liver intumescence in Dengue haemorrhagic fever was 29.4% and 7.7% in Dengue fever, pain in epigastric region in Dengue haemorrhagic fever was 32.4% and 9.2% in Dengue fever. The signs of headache, retroorbital pain, muscles and joints, supracondylar intumescence and along to sternocleidomastoid muscle had equal prevalence in Dengue haemorrhagic fever and Dengue fever. Based on Dengue haemorrhagic fever degree of WHO, most of cases were in degree II (82.4%), degree I (11.8%) and degree III (5.8%). All 99 cases, who were diagnosed with Dengue haemorrhagic fever (100%) by basic systems, only 34.3% of cases with Dengue haemorrhagic fever were re-diagnosed by hospitals, the rest 65.7% cases were Dengue fever
Diagnosis ; adult ; dengue ; viruses ; epidemiology

At Hue Central Hospital, Transmitted disease department, 41 viral hepatitis with anorexia, flatulence and dyspepsia were divided into 2 groups: the control group using fortex, polyvitamin and the intervened group using pantyrase in addition. The study showed that acute hepatitis occurred more in male than in female patients, the most age at 16-45 years old (61%). The group using pantyrase got improvement on the symptoms of flatulence, dyspepsia, promoted the digestion and the appetition. The anorexia interrupted after 7.18  1.91 days in pantyrase group and 16.84  4.91 days in the control group
Anorexia ; Flatulence ; Hepatitis, Viral, Human