Classic migraine with cerebral cortical infarction causing permanent hemianopia.

abstract：:We have described massive intermittent intestinal hemorrhage due to a vascular anomaly in an ileal duplication cyst in a 30-year-old man. This unusual case illustrates that these lesions disguise themselves symptomatically and must be considered in the differential diagnosis of gastrointestinal bleeding. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Salameh RN,Hausner RJ,Thomas SJ,Johnson CD

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective review of all admissions to the University of Kentucky Medical Center from 1977 to 1987 revealed six persons in whom splenic vein thrombosis could be documented. The patients had either upper gastrointestinal bleeding from gastroesophageal varices or abdominal pain. Pancreatic disease was present in fi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Simpson WG,Schwartz RW,Strodel WE

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Mycobacterium kansasii in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome usually involves the lung or disseminated infection. We report a case of infection with M kansasii confined to the adrenal gland and possibly to an adjacent vertebral body that presented as a fever of undetermined origin. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cook PP,Christie J

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：: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：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：:Prednisone therapy induced prompt clinical remission in a 38-year-old woman with hypereosinophilic vasculitis. Smoldering vasculitis accounts for the 38% fatality rate in treated patients with the Churg-Strauss syndrome. Complete suppression of the peripheral hypereosinophilia will reflect the efficacy of therapy more...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gilbert GJ

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients with heart failure today are treated by primary care practitioners, not cardiologists. The Consensus Recommendations for the Management of Chronic Heart Failure, developed by the Advisory Council to Improve Outcomes Nationwide in Heart Failure, provide practice guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, a...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Basile J

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported a fatal complication of a therapeutic dose of ipecac syrup administered in a hospital emergency room. This child received 15 ml of ipecac syrup shortly after ingesting one to five tablets of chlorpheniramine maleate (4 mg). A prolonged course of vomiting (more than 24 hours) eventually resulted in gas...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Knight KM,Doucet HJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three members of a family with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome had intussusception due to intestinal hamartomas. In addition, the grandfather had carcinoma of the jejunum, and the granddaughter had benign ovarian sex cord/stromal tumor causing sexual precocity. Benign and malignant tumors, not often associated with Peutz-Jeghe...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Laughlin EH

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To our knowledge, this is the first known case of a patient with leptospirosis and very elevated CSF, which caused hydrocephalus. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sakellaridis N,Panagopoulos D,Androulis A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-four cases of meningococcal disease were identified in a retrospective survey of nine US Army posts in the southeastern United States from June 1977 to August 1979. Group B organisms predominated in dependents and civilian communities surrounding two of the posts, while active-duty personnel had a greater varie...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Haburchak DR

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with sickle cell anemia who were less than 5 years old were observed over a three-year period. Those born to recent Haitian immigrants accounted for 108.4 patient-years. They had seven episodes of Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteremia and five due to Haemophilus influenzae for rates of 6.5 and 4.6 episodes per ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pegelow CH

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia may not have a systemic inflammatory response characterized by fever and leukocytosis. We compared lack of fever and leukocytosis with mortality in elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Patients with fever and leukocytosis (group A, 47 patients) were com...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ahkee S,Srinath L,Ramirez J

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：:The use of silver wire retention sutures requires added operating room time and expense, and it incurs the potential hazards of caught viscera, the possibility of more adhesions, leakage of intraperitoneal fluid through the exit wound, mild infection of exit wounds, and, on removal of the sutures, pain despite sedatio...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Old WL Jr,Stokes TL

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perennial allergic rhinitis (PAR) can have a significant impact on a patient's quality of life. While allergen avoidance is the first line of management for PAR, complete avoidance is difficult. Therapeutic options available for PAR include intranasal corticosteroids (INS), H1-antihistamines, decongestants and local c...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Brunton SA,Fromer LM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant catatonia is a severe form of catatonia which is acute in onset, and is systemically devastating, as it is associated with fever and autonomic instability. Although rarely described in children and adolescents, malignant catatonia should feature prominently in the differential diagnosis of acute pediatric en...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Dhossche DM,Shettar SM,Kumar T,Burt L

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:The clinical presentations of liver abscess, hepatoma, and metastatic tumor to the liver may be quite similar, and procedures such as computerized tomography, radionuclide scanning, and ultrasonography of the liver cannot make a specific diagnosis. Therefore, we compared the clinical presentations of 38 patients seen ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Klotz SA,Penn RL

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented an unusually swift progression of progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS), with death from cardiogenic shock in a 22-year-old woman who had severe hypertension and acute renal insufficiency. She arrived at our hospital with pericardial tamponade and shock. Despite initial improvement after pericardiocen...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lawrence ME,Robinson JC,Terry EE

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mineral oil scrapings from an infant with a persistent, puzzling, generalized eruption revealed the mite, Sarcoptes scabiei. Various diagnostic technics and treatment for scabies are discussed. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hazelrigg DE,Jarratt M

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is controversy in the medical literature regarding the significance of "sickle cell cardiomyopathy." In an attempt to clarify this, we studied 14 patients with sickle cell anemia (age range 16 to 36 years) using simultaneous echocardiography and phonocardiography. The values of systolic time intervals and echoca...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Covarrubias EA,Sheikh MU,Solanki DL,Morjaria M,Fox LM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred sixty-two adolescents being seen for sick or well visits at two suburban private pediatric practices completed an anonymous, written questionnaire about drug habits. The respondents' ages ranged from 14 to 17 years; all were white and from middle-class or upper-middle-class families. The adolescents report...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Schwartz RH,Hayden GF

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional rate limits for sinus rhythm--100/min as the tachycardia threshold and 60/min as the bradycardia threshold--were established by consensus and never formally examined. Because clinical experience indicated that both figures were too high, we investigated this formally in 500 normal individuals. Results wer...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Spodick DH

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients with classical transient ischemic attacks that were not directly related to extracranial carotid disease are presented. These cases were selected to include a variety of pathologic conditions: one case each of brain tumor, arteriovenous malformation, chronic subdural hematoma, cervical spondylosis, and tw...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Auld AW,Shafey S

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with pseudotumor cerebri for which a lumboperitoneal (LP) shunt was placed. After a pseudomeningocele was noted at the lumbar incision site, an LP shunt revision was done, at which time migration of the catheter into the thecal sac was noted. Three months later, radiologic studies revealed crania...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Alleyne CH Jr,Shutter LA,Colohan AR

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chordomas are tumors originating from remnants of the notochord, most commonly found in the cranial and caudal regions. This is a report of the seventh intrathoracic chordoma in the world literature and the second to be reported in a woman. Histologically the physalipherous (blister-bearing) cell is characteristic of ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Castellano GC,Johnston HW

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-year-old female patient with atypical orbital and periorbital cellulitis was found to have an occult lymphangioma of the orbit. Recognition of this entity provided an explanation for the atypical features of the case and guided appropriate medical management. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Brooks SE,Pillai JJ,Bains H

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of allergen with T-cells is associated with patterns of cytokine release by immunocompetent cells characterized as T-helper Th1 or Th2 T-immune responses. The Th2 pattern of inflammation induced by this cytokine release is associated with allergic diseases. The molecular mechanisms underlying allergic infl...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Venarske D,deShazo RD

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00