Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a dermatology outpatient population.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Current US healthcare delivery systems do not adequately address healthcare demands. Physicians are integral but rarely emphasize prevention as a primary tool to change health outcomes. Home visitation is an effective method for changing health outcomes in some populations. The Florida International Universi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rock JA,Acuña JM,Lozano JM,Martinez IL,Greer PJ Jr,Brown DR,Brewster L,Simpson JL

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since April 1975, 292 patients have had gastric operations for morbid obesity: gastric bypass with Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy (RY), 105 patients; gastric bypass with loop gastrojejunostomy (loop), 69 patients; greater curvature gastroplasty, 40 patients; and gastric partition with gastrogastrostomy, 78 patients. Foll...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Herbst CA Jr,Buckwalter JA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food safety is an increasing concern to Americans. Recent recalls of peanuts and pistachios, and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warnings to pregnant women to avoid eating fish have increased government oversight of food processing and handling. Consumers can play an important role in alerting their healthcare prov...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Codori N,Marinopoulos S

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease in which the genetic predisposition to allergic disease is the strongest identifiable predisposing factor. (1) Optimal outpatient treatment of asthma includes identifying and minimizing exposure to asthma triggers, whether they Me allergens or irritants. When these triggers are...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Peebles RS,Hartert TV

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are presently more than 7,000 Vietnamese refugees living in the greater New Orleans area. This paper summarizes the health and information on nutrition now available regarding Vietnamese refugees living in the United States. It is hoped that this effort will add to the documentation of the health changes occurri...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Waldman EB,Lege SB,Oseid B,Carter JP

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-four patients with metastatic brain neoplasms received glycerol instead of corticosteroids during periods of brain irradiation. Headache, nausea, and vomiting were controlled in more than 90% of symptomatic patients, while paralysis, confusion, and papilledema improved in 55% to 80%. Patients with minimal or no ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bedikian AY,Valdivieso M,Heilbrun LK,Withers RH,Bodey GP,Freireich EJ

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because household surveys are expensive and time consuming, determination of state or local family planning needs is based on national household survey estimates of contraceptive use rather than state-specific estimates. In June 1982, the University of Georgia Survey Research Center invited the Georgia Department of H...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Spitz AM,Schuster E,Oberle MW,Zaro SM,Morris L

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new era in the treatment of immune-mediated inflammatory disorders has begun with the clinical availability of anticytokine therapy. Biological agents that are currently available include 3 agents that decrease the activity of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (infliximab, adalimumab, etanercept) and an interleukin-1 rece...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Efthimiou P,Markenson JA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last five years, much information has been gathered about the efficacy of several technics for managing obesity. Hospitalization with fasting, surgery, drugs, weight reducing clubs, and behavior modification methods have proven efficacious for select groups of obese individuals. Methods of behavior modification...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Malcolm T

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was done to ascertain whether there was an increased incidence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in west Alabama, similar to that reported elsewhere within the United States. Hospital records for the previous 10 years were reviewed and 5-year intervals were compared (1980 through 1984 vs 1985 through 1989). A ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hefelfinger DC

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical inpatients in inner-city hospitals have both potentially lead-related disorders and potential lead exposure. To see whether there is substantial unexpected lead intoxication in this population, we did a cross-sectional study of 117 consecutively admitted patients to a general medical ward of an inner-city univ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kilmarx PH,Allen DW,Brancati FL

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a patient with small cell cancer of the lung manifested as the Eaton-Lambert syndrome. Primary therapy proved effective in reversing the syndrome, whereas anticholinesterase agents did not. This case illustrates the value of primary therapy for the tumor-produced syndrome and the need to avoid losing...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kalter S,Dhingra HM,Farha P

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Program directors have noted that first-year residents struggle with many of the patient care responsibilities they assume as they enter the US graduate medical education system. A national description of medical students' patient care experience in advance of graduation has not been published. We sought to ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： King CJ,Bolton A,Guerrasio J,Trosterman A

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the island gluteus maximus musculocutaneous flap to cover sacral pressure sores. In this report, we describe the surgical anatomy, cadaveric dissections (n = 25), and postoperative follow-up (one to 40 months) in 13 clinical cases. Our results compare favorably with those of other previously reported seri...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rees RS,Reilley AF,Nanney LB,Lynch JB

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this population-based study was to examine the relationship between race, socioeconomic characteristics (socioeconomic status, SES), physician density, and colon cancer incidence in Alabama. METHODS:Data for 5,788 colon cancer cases from 1996 to 1999 provided by the Alabama Statewide Cancer...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Shipp MP,Desmond R,Accortt N,Wilson RJ,Fouad M,Eloubeidi MA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported a case of a large paraesophageal herniation with a small sliding component. Abnormal positioning of the esophagogastric junction or the necessity for mobilizing it during repair requires the addition of an antireflux procedure to the standard reduction and repair. Elective repair of a paraesophageal h...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Chapman JE Jr,Kamath MV,Wilson BW

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three foreign bodies were successfully removed from the upper gastrointestinal tract with a fiberoptic endoscope. They included a food bolus lodged above an esophageal stricture, a metallic nebulizer tip impacted in the mid-esophagus, and a spoon lodged in the stomach. A razor blade could not be removed from the duode...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Brady PG,Johnson WF

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported a third case of miliary tuberculosis and associated consumption coagulopathy. It is proposed that clotting factors may be locally consumed, thus producing the syndrome of "multifocal vasculopathic coagulation." ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Krauss JS,Walker DH

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented an unusual case of CJD in which the magnetic resonance images obtained four months before death revealed high signal intensity in the caudate nuclei bilaterally. These findings correspond to severe involvement of this region at autopsy. This radiologic pattern has not generally been included in the d...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pearl GS,Anderson RE

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through a cooperative study, 87 ocular injuries caused by class C fireworks have been recorded in the State of Arkansas over a four-year period. The most common injuries were corneal abrasion, lid laceration or burn, and hyphema. Rockets and firecrackers caused 80% of the injuries. In over half the cases there was mod...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Wilson RS

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute intermittent porphyria associated with inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion and secondary aldosteronism is presented. Hypokalemic alkalosis was a prominent feature of this case, and appeared to be at least partly caused by secondary aldosteronism. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Farese RV,Karsh SJ,Bidot-López P

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subsequent misuse and abuse of sedatives and hypnotics prescribed to 190 patients of the family practice program at the Medical University of South Carolina was investigated by medical record abstract and patient interviews. Results indicated little misuse and no abuse, with most respondents indicating they took f...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bush PJ,Spector KK,Rabin DL

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoma of the colon occurring to the right of the middle colic vessels is usually described as morphologically and clinically distinctive from cancers occurring in the left colon. Cancers of the right colon are characterized as polypoid tumors that are discovered in the search for occult blood loss, whereas carcino...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Geelhoed GW,Crossland SG

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elderly woman complaining of a gait disorder was found to have the GALOP syndrome (gait ataxia, late-onset polyneuropathy). She exhibited mild distal weakness and sensory loss in the legs, a positive Romberg, and an unsteady gait. Serum immunofixation disclosed a monoclonal IgM-kappa protein. There was specific IgM...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Alpert JN

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid, extreme expansion of the extracellular fluid with solutions devoid of acid or alkali theoretically can produce a metabolic acidosis, due to buffer dilution. This phenomenon has previously been demonstrated only in experimental animal studies. We have reported what we believe to be the first documented case of h...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Goodkin DA,Raja RM,Saven A

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melatonin, a hormone produced by the pineal gland, may be a promising treatment option for tinnitus. The primary functions of this hormone are believed to be the initiation and maintenance of sleep because its secretions coincide with circadian rhythms. Some investigators have noted that melatonin may alleviate subjec...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Merrick L,Youssef D,Tanner M,Peiris AN

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain can be treated by combining hypnosis with brief psychotherapy. Hypnosis alone, though useful for acute pain, is seldom effective in relieving chronic pain because it does not address the significant psychologic components in the patient's illness. Treatment using self-hypnosis in conjunction with brief ps...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Savitz SA

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus presents various clinical manifestations. The coexistence of systemic lupus erythematosus and celiac sprue has been rarely reported. We present a patient who had systemic lupus erythematosus with malabsorption demonstrating characteristic clinical and pathologic findings of celiac sprue (g...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Komatireddy GR,Marshall JB,Aqel R,Spollen LE,Sharp GC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although recent increases in the incidence of syphilis are well known to public health officials, the general medical community is less well informed regarding the dramatic rise in cases. We present trend data from Nashville and Tennessee over the past decade. These statistics emphasize specific factors, such as drug ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Quinn RW,Federspiel CF,Lefkowitz LB Jr,Keller R

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our objective was to assess the educational benefits of a formal pathology rotation during an obstetrics and gynecology residency program and to determine the utility of this information in clinical practice. METHODS:In this descriptive study, the benefits of a 2-month rotation in pathology for obstetrics a...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： McGehee RP,Meeks GR,Davey-Sullivan BJ,Cowan BD,Morrison JC

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00