Ruptured ovarian artery aneurysm complicating a term vaginal delivery.

abstract：:Myxoma is the most common primary tumor of the heart. The typical presentations include a triad of embolic phenomena, intracardiac flow obstruction, and constitutional symptoms. We report a case of cardiac myxoma presenting as prolonged fever. Leukocytosis with a left shift, anemia, and elevated C-reactive protein wer...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lin JN,Lai CH,Lu LF,Lin HH

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-year-old woman with poorly controlled hypertension and diabetes mellitus presented with left iliac fossa pain, constipation alternating with diarrhea, and weight loss. She had been diagnosed with idiopathic cardiomyopathy five years previously. Echocardiogram had shown a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tan F,Thai AC,Cheah WK,Mukherjee JJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand fully a physician's role in society, and to deal successfully with the current sense of crisis, the medical profession must evolve a world-view that appropriately relates a physician to the patient, to the practice environment, to the base of knowledge, and to the physician's own sense of self. Such a wo...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bessinger CD Jr

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Between 1995 and 1997, a tuberculosis outbreak occurred in a large, urban jail. We investigated whether the outbreak strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) was circulating in the surrounding community after that outbreak. METHODS:We performed a retrospective cohort study of people with tuber...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Jones TF,Woodley CL,Fountain FF,Schaffner W

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 63 year-old woman who had had mitral valve commissurotomy 12 years earlier was seen because of rheumatic mitral stenosis and left brachial paresis due to cerebral embolism. On clinical evaluation, a diastolic rumble was heard over the mitral area, and the echocardiogram revealed a mass attached to the mitral subvalv...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cesena FH,Pereira AN,Dallan LA,Aiello VD,Mansur AJ

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report describes an accidental ingestion of a gold dental inlay prosthesis that became lodged in the appendix. A nonsurgical approach was pursued because this blunt foreign body posed a minimal perforation risk. A second opinion for an elective appendectomy was chosen by the patient until a preoperative abdo...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Palmer GM,Shortsleeve MJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demonstration of clonality is supportive of a diagnosis of malignancy in cases of lymphoproliferative disorders. Determination of clonality at the molecular level is currently accomplished by Southern analysis; however, the polymerase chain reaction offers a potential alternative that is rapid, simple, and less expens...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Mihalov ML,Huber S,Rachwalski E,Price JS,Hosso JM,Dizikes GJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the efficacy of perioperative antibiotics in preventing bacteremic infection of vascular suture lines, Dacron grafts, and bovine heterografts. One hundred forty-nine dogs had either segmental excision of the abdominal aorta with primary repair, Dacron prosthesis, or bovine heterograft placement...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Wilson SE,Wang S,Gordon HE

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cirrhosis affects millions of people around the world and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a common complication of liver disease with cirrhosis and accounts for up to 30% of infections in patients with cirrhosis. Patients with a history of SBP and those ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Oliver A,Wong M,Sanchez C

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doyle's medical writings represent a valuable contribution to both the scientific and nonscientific aspects of medicine of the late 19th Century. Up to the present, accounts of these writings have been few, and none of them have been evaluative of their scientific merit. Analysis of Doyle's writings on infectious dise...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rodin AE,Key JD

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective review of one year's experience in the management of neck trauma, 88 cases comprising 42 gunshot wounds, 29 stab or slash injuries, and 17 injuries by blunt trauma were reviewed. Multiple injuries were noted in all groups, but a higher percentage was found in the blunt trauma series. Anesthetic mana...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Herrin TJ,Brzustowicz R,Hendrickson M

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of breast cancer survivors has increased and this increase is expected to continue, likely as a result of population and age growth, the implementation of earlier detection strategies, and the development of more effective therapies. Breast cancer treatment requires a multidisciplinary approach with surgery...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Loftus LS,Sokol GH,Laronga C

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an intriguing, difficult problem characterized by anxiety-producing intrusive thoughts and performance of anxiety-reducing rituals. Current evidence suggests that OCD may be associated with dysregulation of serotonin and dopamine neurotransmission. Numerous early studies involvin...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Jackson CW,Morton WA,Lydiard RB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of 45 granulocyte transfusions in children using continuous flow centrifugation is reported. During 13 episodes of proven or presumed infection, only two children failed to show a favorable response to granulocyte transfusion. The neutropenic child shows a significantly increased absolute granulocy...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Maybee DA,Millan AP,Ruymann FB

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical facial pain or neuralgia and lower-half headache are confusing terms and should be discarded. Recurrent unilateral, throbbing, frontal headaches should be referred to as facial migraine. Patients whose trigeminal branches have been subjected to repeated surgical procedures and who have relentless unilateral f...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： McFarland HR

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:No standard therapeutic option exists for men with prostate cancer who have failed local therapy, have no gross metastatic disease, and whose only manifestation of disease is a rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level. Soy products are able to affect PSA kinetics in some men with prostate cancer, and this...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Joshi M,Agostino NM,Gingrich R,Drabick JJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxybutynin is a tertiary amine and has chemical similarities like protamine sulfate. Protamine sulfate's effect on bacterial viability has been shown in some studies; however, there is scanty data regarding the effect of oxybutynin on bacterial viability. Accordingly, the aim of the present study was to inve...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gedik A,Ersay A,Atmaca S,Sener A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of psychotropic medication is often associated with weight gain. We provide documentation for this effect and review the mechanisms possibly responsible for it in the case of neuroleptic agents, lithium carbonate, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, and amitriptyline. We also enumerate the undesirable medical conseq...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rockwell WJ,Ellinwood EH Jr,Trader DW

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continued improvements in computer technology have led to significant enhancement of clinical teaching. We describe a "digital toolbox" consisting of personally accessible hardware and software products to assist in clinical teaching. The areas covered are computer-assisted diagnosis, digitization and display of clini...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sandroni S,McGee J

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The use of monitored anesthesia care (MAC) for colonoscopy sedation continues to increase. This study examined trends during a 9-year period in the use of MAC and explored which patient variables may have influenced these trends. METHODS:This was a retrospective review of all colonoscopies performed in our ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Aravapalli A,Norton HJ,Rozario N,Simpson J,DelGrosso B,Scobey MW

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a pilot study had suggested that a drug augmented delayed hypersensitivity, we conducted a control study in which 19 normal volunteers had the same skin test battery applied as in the pilot study, on two occasions one month apart with no intervening treatment. No change was observed in delayed hypersensitivity r...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Maguire LC,Lackey SD,Roszman TL,Kidwell NS

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a patient with portal hypertension and retrocardiac paramediastinal density on upright PA chest x-ray film. Splenoportograms showed this density to be paraesophageal collateral veins. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Frederick HM,Clements JL Jr,Colvin RS

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is a treatable disease. Despite the therapeutic nihilism of the past, the advent of thrombolysis has changed the way stroke is approached. Acute ischemic stroke is a challenging and heterogeneous disease. Treatment needs to be based on an understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of ischemia. Intervention...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Felberg RA,Naidech AM

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme disease, now the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, has recently received much media attention, due in part to its potentially serious sequelae in untreated patients. Because a rare patient with late illness may lack antibodies to the etiologic agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, physicians may be temp...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Nadelman RB,Arlin Z,Wormser GP

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Narcolepsy is a severely debilitating neurologic disease that is not as rare as many believe, affecting an estimated 140,000 Americans. Despite the sometimes debilitating nature of narcolepsy symptoms, the disease may go undiagnosed without an organized method for evaluating patients with sleep complaints. Many of the...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Feldman NT

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency with which house staff noticed their patients to be anemic, the frequency with which they tried to find out why the patients were anemic, and the diagnostic accuracy of such endeavors were measured. Next, an intervention was conducted in which the teams were lectured on the subject of anemia, given readi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sapira JD

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several previous studies of invasive Group A streptococcal (GAS) disease have been hindered by small sample sizes (< or = 100 patients) and limited generalizability. METHODS:We conducted a population-based study of invasive GAS disease. The objectives of the study were to describe the clinical features of i...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Mulla ZD,Leaverton PE,Wiersma ST

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypokalemic periodic paralysis is an unusual disease that may begin dramatically. Although terrifying to the patient, the attacks can usually be controlled if the proper diagnosis is made. Although much has been done to determine the pathogenesis, many questions remain unanswered. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Johnson V,Winternitz WW

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of granular acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) can be problematic as the cytoplasmic granules found in many blast cells may mimic those seen in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). This rare variant of B-cell ALL is more commonly diagnosed in children, but may occur in adults. We report a case of granular B...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Fulcher JW,Allred TJ,Kulharya A,Satya-Prakash KL,Seigler M,Neibarger D,Mazzella FM

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of an 11-year-old Bolivian boy with parotitis and aseptic meningitis to demonstrate that parainfluenza virus type 2 can cause disseminated infection in a normal child. Parainfluenza virus type 2 was isolated from nasopharyngeal and CSF specimens from the patient and was confirmed to be parainfluen...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Jantausch BA,Wiedermann BL,Jeffries B

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00