Review of 333 living donor nephrectomies.

abstract：:In addition to assuring an adequate and safe blood supply, blood collection agencies are responsible for the well being of donors. Several aspects of the current blood donor experience may negatively impact donor health and require modification. Physicians need to be aware of health-related issues associated with bloo...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Reiss RF,Kessler D

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Phenformin-associated lactic acidosis is an important though unusual cause of acute abdominal pain. Its clinical picture suggests other catastrophic abdominal entities. A representative case is presented. Aids to arriving at this diagnosis are presented and the specific therapy is outlined. The pathophysiology of this...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bartecchi CE,Williams JD

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although successful transposition of the ovaries at the time of staging laparotomy for Hodgkin's disease is well documented, little comment has been made on potential complications. This case report of a primary ovarian neoplasm (benign) developing in a transposed ovary serves to alert physicians as to possible ovaria...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Andersen WA,Chambers J,Wanebo HJ,Taylor PT

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Airway failures are the second leading cause of potentially preventable death on the battlefield. Improvements in airway management depend on identifying current challenges. We sought to build on previously reported data on prehospital, combat airway management. METHODS:We used a series of emergency departm...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Schauer SG,Naylor JF,Maddry JK,Beaumont DM,Cunningham CW,Blackburn MB,April MD

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Lung cancer and pancreatic cancer are the most lethal tobacco-associated malignancies. To elucidate possible clinical interrelationships, the authors reviewed the clinicopathologic characteristics of patients treated for both pulmonary and pancreatic neoplasms. METHODS:Patients presenting with a potentially...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Schwarz RE,Chu PG,Grannis FW Jr

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citalopram is the newest selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) available in the United States. It is currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of major depression. However, a number of studies have found it to be effective in the treatment of panic disorder as well. While there h...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Brauer HR,Nowicki PW,Catalano G,Catalano MC

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly trained medical specialists now possess a vast array of sophisticated technical apparatus with which to fight diseases. These tools, coupled with a growing emphasis on cost accounting and a medical paradigm emphasizing facts and depicting the human body as a machine, depersonalize health care by militating agai...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Thompson LM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described two cases of spontaneous intracerebral hematoma, characterized by sedimentation level seen on unenhanced cerebral CT, in patients receiving anticoagulation therapy. Anticoagulation or coagulopathy may be important in producing sedimentation levels. The "sedimentation level" is a more accurate term th...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Huang TY,Ahn SS

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I describe the case of a 25-year-old man who, after a scuba dive, had ocular barotrauma caused by mask squeeze. As in most cases, the condition occurred because the patient failed to exhale into the mask during descent to equalize the pressure within the mask. Although alarming in appearance, the condition is generall...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rudge FW

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 58-year-old man had sudden and progressive heart failure after a severe myocardial infarction. Aggressive medical treatment consisting of diuretics, vasopressors, and digitalis failed to improve his condition significantly. Cardiac catheterization disclosed a critical stenosis in the left anterior descending branch ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Chavez CM,Rodriquez G,Conn JH

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with stable non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus had five successive cranial nerve palsies, all of which resolved. This syndrome is rarely encountered in patients with diabetes and in otherwise healthy individuals. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Brett AS

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 29-year-old previously healthy man had a Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia and bacteremia. Early recognition of the organism and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy led to rapid clinical response and recovery. Although Pseudomonas is rarely the cause of pneumonia in a healthy host, it should be considered i...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Fishman H,Eaton B,Lipson A,Delaney MD

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I have reported three case of paraurethral cysts in female neonates. These are uncommon lesions, and urologic evaluation is required to differentiate them from ectopic ureteroceles, urethral diverticula, or paraurethral tumors. Histologic appearance of the cyst epithelium identifies the embryologic origin. The cysts e...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bergner DM

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic peripheral neuropathy affects 5 to 50% of people with diabetes in the United States. It is a progressive disorder that results in a gradual decrease in peripheral sensation and eventually complete loss of sensation. Patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy are challenging to treat because of intolerable a...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kline KM,Carroll DG,Malnar KF

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The primary aim of this study was to determine reasons why health care personnel (HCP) in a public health department chose or refused free influenza vaccinations offered at the worksite. METHODS:In an internal review board-approved study, we offered, through a health nurse at the site, self-administered sur...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Millner VS,Eichold BH 2nd,Franks RD,Johnson GD

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technic for correcting hammertoe and other toe deformities by waist resection of the proximal phalanges of the toes effectively corrected these conditions in 95 patients and 466 toes. This procedure can be done quickly and easily with low morbidity. Through a very short incision over the waist of the proximal phalan...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： McConnell BE

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2003, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control established the Carolina Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance System (CARSS), an active sentinel surveillance system for antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae. METHODS:CARSS includes twelve hospitals. Each hospital was assigned...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Dauner DG,Roberts DF,Kotchmar GS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with retained laparotomy pads after laparotomy had pain, abscess formation, and bleeding, with erosion of the pad into the small bowel and colon. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Richards WO,Keramati B,Scovill WA

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insomnia disorder is present in as much as 30% of the general adult population. Given the significant adverse effects of pharmacotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been found to be an effective alternative in individuals with insomnia. CBT for insomnia (CBTi) encompasses sleep hygiene, stimulus control, s...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Haynes J,Talbert M,Fox S,Close E

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I have described two patients who had recurrent spontaneous myoclonic jerking in the alcohol withdrawal state. These movements were distinguishable clinically and electroencephalographically from partial seizures and epilepsia partialis continua. The jerking did not respond to anticonvulsants but resolved as the withd...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Drake ME Jr

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 98 patients, we cannulated the subclavian and internal jugular veins with modified Shaldon catheters, using the Seldinger technic. Catheters were left for long periods, and multiple dialyses were accomplished with each catheter. The incidence of major complications was less than 5%. None of the catheters were belie...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Snider HC,Ingalls CE,Schloeder FX,Sivanna P

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cough syncope occurs primarily in middle-aged male smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It has also been described in children with asthma. I report the case of a 34-year-old nonsmoker who had syncope due to coughing, and who also related a 1-year history of cough with wheezing. Chest examination...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Beckman TJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a ten-year period 139 patients with epidermoid carcinoma of the esophagus were treated by palliative feeding procedures, palliative radiation therapy, radiation therapy for cure, or resection. Analysis of the results of these modes of therapy indicates that long-term palliation is best achieved when resection is th...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hollenbeck JI,Tobias JA,Wheat MW,Daicoff GR

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a case of thrombocytopenic purpura caused by methyldopa. A methyldopa-dependent antiplatelet antibody as the mechanism of the patient's thrombopenia was suggested by a positive clot retraction inhibition test. This simple in vitro test should be done more often in suspected cases of drug-induced thro...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Polk OD,Kletter GG,Smith J,Castro O

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable controversy exists with regard to therapeutic efficacy of plasmapheresis in the immune-mediated demyelinating disorders of the peripheral and central nervous system: acute inflammatory polyneuropathy (Guillain-Barré syndrome), chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, and multiple sclerosis. In a...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tindall RS,Rollins JA

更新日期：1986-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To assess the relation between renal function and delirium and to assess and compare the relation between cerebral white matter lesion (WML) and renal function as estimated by three formulas for the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in older adult hospitalized veterans with and without delirium. M...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Detweiler MB,Lutgens BW,Choudhury D,Kenneth A,Kalafat N,Sherigar RM,Bader G

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective review of eight years' experience with the Mallory-Weiss syndrome emphatically supports the need for accurate, early localization of the site of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Pertinent aspects of the history and physical and laboratory evaluation of this group of patients were analyzed to determine ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hixson SD,Burns RP,Britt LG

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe lactic acidosis is often associated with poor prognosis. Recognition and correction of the underlying process is the major step in the treatment of this serious condition. Intravenous administration of sodium bicarbonate has been the mainstay in the treatment of lactic acidosis. Aggressive use of this therapeut...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Warner A,Vaziri ND

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00