Abstract:
:We present a case of renal cell carcinoma extending into the inferior vena cava and resulting in total occlusion. Perioperative transesophageal echocardiography allowed us to assess cardiac function, follow the extent of vascular involvement, and prevent embolization of tumor and air.
journal_name
South Med Jjournal_title
Southern medical journalauthors
Hasnain JU,Watson RJdoi
10.1097/00007611-199402000-00027subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1994-02-01 00:00:00pages
273-5issue
2eissn
0038-4348issn
1541-8243journal_volume
87pub_type
杂志文章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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.SMJ.0000051060.95210.9A
更新日期:2003-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198406000-00003
更新日期:1984-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Patients with cirrhosis have a high rate of 30-day hospital readmission that affects their quality of life and contributes to increased healthcare-related costs. The aim of our study was to identify frequency, predictors, and preventable causes of hospital readmissions among patients with decompensated cirrh...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000371
更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Rarely, a misguided or delusional patient will attempt to self-administer a relatively more invasive form of medical or surgical treatment. I believe this report to be the first described case of an attempt to self-administer ECT. A patient with schizoaffective disorder reported benefits from regularly applied electri...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198908000-00036
更新日期:1989-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::This paper describes a transverse approach to the knee which gives unequalled access to the joint for extensive synovectomies, extensive surgical debridement, installation of total knee prostheses, or reduction of supracondylar fracture of the femur involving the articular surfaces. The temporary patellar tendon subst...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197605000-00023
更新日期:1976-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The prevalence of smoking in the general US population has declined significantly over the past few decades. Despite this, few studies have examined changes in cigarette attributes perceived by less educated, rural, or southern populations. METHODS:A survey was administered to individuals in clinic waiting ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2002-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Diabetes during pregnancy is associated with insulin resistance, an increase in insulin requirement, and a greater tendency to ketosis and ketoacidosis. Increased perinatal mortality is related to maternal hyperglycemia and can be decreased dramatically with strict control of plasma glucose during pregnancy and a smoo...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197801000-00012
更新日期:1978-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Bile drainage through normal lymphatic pathways has been described, but bile drainage from the liver to the duodenum via lymphatic collaterals has not. We have described a patient with a common bile duct stricture and lymphatic drainage of bile into the duodenum. ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198401000-00028
更新日期:1984-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::"Sick building syndrome" (SBS) is one of the more colorful terms describing an increasingly common pattern of symptoms found among workers in modern office buildings. Core symptoms include lethargy, mucous membrane irritation, headache, eye irritation, and dry skin. To prompt a diagnosis of SBS, these otherwise common...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00007611-199101000-00015
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the statewide experience in mode of delivery for pregnancies complicated by stillbirth by annual delivery volume and presence of graduate medical education programs. METHODS:This is a descriptive study of all stillbirths without known congenital anomalies or aneuploidy born in our state from Jul...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001180
更新日期:2020-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Two patients with obstruction of the pulmonary veins by bronchogenic carcinoma, an unusual cause, are presented. These and other cases reported have had features suggestive of mitral stenosis. The differential diagnosis is discussed. ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197611000-00027
更新日期:1976-11-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000887
更新日期:2018-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Whereas painless gross hematuria in the hemophiliac is usually secondary to the basic coagulation defect, it is not always so. An elderly man presented with this clinical situation which, after a protracted course, was ultimately proven to be associated with an infarcted kidney. In retrospect, the patient's age and th...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198207000-00029
更新日期:1982-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::We found magnetic resonance imaging helpful in the localization of both an adrenal and an extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma, since these tumors produced a high-intensity "light bulb" image. MRI is an excellent method for localizing pheochromocytomas because it detects adrenal and extra-adrenal pheochromocytomas missed by...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198911000-00017
更新日期:1989-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Each year an estimated 1.3 million Americans suffer eye injuries. There is little information in the literature regarding the prevalence, demographic characteristics, and prognosis of these patients. The Eye Injury Registry of Alabama (EIRA) serves as the first and only statewide system of its kind for the collection ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198707000-00004
更新日期:1987-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::A patient with a large paraesophageal hernia had a Nissen fundoplication via laparoscopy. He returned a year later with the transverse colon herniated into the chest. At operation, the hernia ostium was found to be the aortic hiatus. We believe that the original ostium was missed because of the limited exposure of the...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199703000-00016
更新日期:1997-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Bile acid sequestrants (BAS) continue to command a position in the treatment of dyslipidemias 25 years after their introduction. Partial diversion of the enterohepatic circulation using BAS depletes the endogenous bile acid pool by approximately 40%, thus stimulating an increase in bile acid synthesis from cholesterol...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.smj.0000208120.73327.db
更新日期:2006-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::A case of acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweet's syndrome) is described in a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia, with a review of all published reports in the English literature. The disease is characterized by an acute febrile illness with painful plaques involving the extremities, face, and neck, and ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197811000-00010
更新日期:1978-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Safety restraints have proven effective in the prevention of serious automobile injuries and deaths, but safety education has been ineffective in getting consumers to use restraints. We surveyed the personal and counseling practices of a group of pediatricians over a one-year period to determine whether prenatal and p...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198110000-00003
更新日期:1981-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Among exocrine pancreatic tumors, adenosquamous carcinoma (ASC) is a rare, aggressive subtype with a worse prognosis and a higher potential for metastases compared to its more conventional glandular counterpart, adenocarcinoma. The disease distribution shows an approximately 1:1 male/female ratio and a median survival...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181ebadbd
更新日期:2010-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::In a patient with an asymptomatic left upper lobe pulmonary arteriovenous fistula, preoperative chest roentgenograms simulated bronchogenic carcinoma, but no overt feeding vessel was demonstrated. Intraoperatively no lesion could be palpated. Postoperative evaluation revealed a pulmonary arteriovenous fistula. This en...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198307000-00017
更新日期:1983-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The objective of this study was to determine the effect(s) of pregnancy and of advancing gestation on maternal serum amylase and lipase levels. Thus, serum amylase and lipase concentrations were quantitated in three groups of women. Groups included (1) 118 pregnant women whose serum amylase and lipase levels were meas...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/00007611-199602000-00008
更新日期:1996-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Studies at "the Farm," a community of spiritually gathered young people in Summertown, Tenn, have shown that it is possible to sustain a normal pregnancy on a vegan diet. The source of dietary protein (ie, animal or vegetable) does not seem to affect birth weight, as long as vegans are health conscious, receive contin...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198706000-00007
更新日期:1987-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::We reviewed the results of lymphocyte karyotypes from 232 couples who had had two or more pregnancy losses (spontaneous abortions or stillbirths). Despite the use of strict criteria to correct for possible bias of ascertainment, 8% of these couples (19 of 232) had a chromosome abnormality. Six of these abnormalities w...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198812000-00014
更新日期:1988-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Patients treated with ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt procedures for hydrocephalus may have abdominal pain related to complications stemming from the shunt tubing itself or to other intra-abdominal disease. In patients with VP shunts, usually children, lack of absorption of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) may produce a pain...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199208000-00014
更新日期:1992-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:In 1998, the Patient Care Partnership Project was conducted by general internal medicine physicians and hospital administration in an academic health care center. The project was designed to optimize cost, quality, and service results to inpatients. METHODS:The project focused on improved communication amon...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2002-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report the case of a 29-year-old woman who had acute cytomegalovirus hepatitis superimposed on previously unrecognized chronic hepatitis B infection. We then review the diagnostic approach to acute hepatitis and positive hepatitis B surface antigen. ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199612000-00017
更新日期:1996-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199407000-00015
更新日期:1994-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Eikenella corrodens was isolated from an orally contaminated hand wound which resulted in cellulitis, osteomyelitis, and arthritis. E corrodens is a gram-negative, microaerophilic bacillus which only lately has received attention as a possible pathogen. The organism grows characteristically as small, corroding, or pit...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197605000-00018
更新日期:1976-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::A combined patient flow and work sampling study was done at the Ambulatory Pediatric Service of the Medical University of South Carolina. The biggest problem was that almost two thirds of the patient's time was spent waiting to see the doctor. Reasons for delay included too few examining rooms, the single block appoin...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197706000-00004
更新日期:1977-06-01 00:00:00