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An 11 year old, hispanic girl with a history of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia was admitted to the hospital for symptoms compatible with Bartonella henselae infection. The first molecularly diagnosed case of disseminated Bartonella henselae infection was reported in an immunocompromised patient in Lima, Peru. The analysis was confirmed by Polymerase Chain Reaction and automated sequencing of a liver biopsy sample, even though the serologic tests were negative. In conclusion, Bartonella spp. infection should have a particular diagnostic consideration in immunocompromised patients with fever of unknown origin and further investigation regarding the patient's past exposures with cats should also be elicited., (Copyright © 2016 Hainan Medical University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)

Cat scratch's disease caused by Bartonella henselae, is known to be a self-limited benign process in immunocompetent children. The association with neurologic manifestations is very uncommon especially in patient with no immunologic defects and in cases without specific treatment. A 7 years old male patient, without any immunocompromised defect, presented an atypic presentation of the cat scratch disease. The patient came to the hospital in two opportunities in a status epilepticus, in both cases the diagnosis was encephalitis by Bartonella henselae and the evolution with treatment was monitored with PCR (polymerase chain reaction) in cerebrospinal fluid and blood, as well as IFI (IgM, IgG) serology (indirect immunofluorescence). The patient had a favorable clinical and laboratory evolution for 6 months showing no recurrence of the disease., (Copyright © 2016 Hainan Medical College. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)

An analytic prospective study was done in cirrhotic patients with Portal hypertension to study a new pathology known as Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy. In 73.3 per cent of patients with cirrhosis, hospitalized inthe Gastroenterology Area, Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy was present. Males in the 4th decade of their life were predominant. Mild gastropathy with a mosaic or snake skin endoscopy pattern was the most frequent (60.6%), while in severe gastropathy, the most common pattern was cherry red spots. These lesions were often located in the stomach fundus and body. All the patients presented some vascular alteration and lymphoplasmocytic inflammatory infiltration. No relation was found between the severity of Portal Hypertension or Advanced Liver Disease and changes of the gastric mucosa.