Sacral pressure sores: treatment with island gluteus maximus musculocutaneous flaps.

abstract：:Retrograde gastrointestinal intussusception is a rare entity, most commonly reported after gastric resection and gastrojejunostomy. Its occurrence in the absence of previous gastric resection is extremely unusual, with only four cases reported. All cases were associated with previously placed gastrostomy tubes and imp...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gasparri MG,Pipinos II,Kralovich KA,Margolin DA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accelerated atherosclerosis is a common and recognized complication of diabetes mellitus. We have reported the fifth case of spontaneous infarction of a portion of the quadriceps muscle group in a patient with diabetes mellitus. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ratliff JL,Matthews J,Blalock JC,Kasin JV

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of considering organic diseases when evaluating catatonic patients is illustrated by two cases of akinetic parkinsonism in which the patients became catatonic, with waxy flexibility. The catatonic syndrome occurs in association with a variety of lesions that may affect any level of the central nervous s...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Patterson JF

更新日期：1986-06-01 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：:Symptoms of hyperphosphatemia usually relate to the associated hypocalcemia. In a 33-year-old patient accidental infusion of a bolus of potassium phosphate (5 ml intravenously) was immediately followed by cardiac arrest. During CPR, clinically important hypocalcemia or hyperkalemia was not detected, but serum phosphor...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Nemer WF,Teba L,Schiebel F,Lazzell VA

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between the years 1963 to 1982, 84 consecutive cases of intracranial complications of ear disease in pediatric patients were diagnosed and treated at the North Carolina Baptist Hospital. This group consisted of 65 patients with otitic meningitis, four with otitic brain abscess, four with otitic hydrocephalus, three wi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gower DJ,McGuirt WF,Kelly DL Jr

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucus-secreting adenocarcinoma of the renal pelvis is an extremely rare tumor. It arises from multipotential transitional epithelium which is capable of undergoing metaplastic transformation when subjected to chronic irritation from calculi, hydronephrosis, or pyelonephritis. Women are affected slightly more often tha...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Wild RM,Ladaga LE,Copeland JS,Schellhammer PF

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporine is a fungal metabolite increasingly used as an immunosuppressive agent in organ transplantation. It provides immunosuppression primarily through reversible inhibition of T-lymphocytes, without myelotoxicity. Cyclosporine appears to inhibit primary activation of helper cells and to decrease the production ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Thomas SE,Gordon DS

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a ten-year review at a large community teaching hospital clostridia accounted for less than 1% of all positive bloodstream isolates (26 episodes in 25 patients). All but one of the isolates were clinically significant. Twenty-two patients (88%) had a serious underlying medical condition, and 17 of the episodes (65%...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ingram CW,Cooper JN

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastomyces dermatitidis, a dimorphic broad-based budding yeast endemic to the Mississippi River Valley region, is responsible for morbidity in humans via inhalation and dissemination. The response of acute lung injury, which produces an illness with serious morbidity and an approximately 50% mortality, uncommonly occ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Thompson CA,McEachern R,Norman JR

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed 91 cases of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NNEC), which continues to be a devastating disease occurring in 2% to 4% of all newborn intensive care unit admissions. Onset now occurs in older infants (11.9 days). The morbidity is significant (22%), with strictures (8%) and recurrences (8%) the primary pr...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Dudgeon DL,Schneider PA,Colombani P,Ghory MJ,Buck JR,Haller JA Jr

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Concerns regarding lack of privacy, poor patient understanding, and physician discomfort have led to a decline in rounding at the bedside. Our project explored patient perceptions of the implementation and value of bedside rounding. METHODS:This mixed-methods study used semi-structured qualitative interview...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Shih AF,Addo-Tabiri NO,Sofair AN

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a patient with community-acquired, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis endocarditis that occurred on a prolapsing mitral valve. The patient was successfully treated with vancomycin and rifampin for six weeks and had no signs of relapse four months later. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lockman DS,Chew WH,Rissing JP

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive bleeding from a pharyngoesophageal diverticulum is a rarely reported condition, with only two reported cases in the literature. This report describes a patient who had massive bleeding due to ulceration in the base of a pharyngoesophageal diverticulum, presumed to have been caused by chronic aspirin ingestion....

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hendren WG,Anderson T,Miller JI

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a family with X-linked myotubular myopathy that was clinically manifest in the neonatal period and compared it with the clinical picture and course of the disease in similar reported cases. Clinical expression of the disease in the newborn period is not always lethal. Despite a fatal outcome in the f...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Giacoia GP,Hale JE

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a retrospective study to determine the sensitivity of mammography in detecting breast cancer arising in women with augmented breasts. Of eight women with breast implants in whom breast cancer developed, six had mammograms before biopsy. Only two of the six cancers were identified mammographically (sensiti...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Douglas KP,Bluth EI,Sauter ER,McKinnon WM,Bergeron RB,Merritt CR,Sullivan MA,Finley JM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposition of the inferior vena cava, duplication of the inferior vena cava, circumaortic renal collar, and retroaortic renal vein constitute the four most common major venous anomalies occurring in the retroperitoneum. Recent clinical cases are presented to review the embryogenesis, incidence, and clinical importa...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Babaian RJ,Johnson DE

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases of drug-induced hypertriglyceridemia, one associated with interferon alfa-2b and the other with asparaginase, each of which is mediated through a different mechanism. Hypertriglyceridemia caused by these medications is not listed as an adverse reaction in the Physicians' Desk Reference, one of th...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Keung YK,Rizk R,Wu XY,Cobos E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparative value of palpation, light percussion, and auscultatory percussion for detecting the liver below costal margin was studied in 45 normal subjects and 20 patients. The presence of the liver 2 cm or more below the costal margin was considered abnormal, since this organ was found no more than 1 cm below in ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gilbert VE

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothyroidism is a common condition. Rarely, it may occur in combination with autoimmune failure of other endocrine glands (autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 2, previously known as Schmidt's syndrome). In such cases, restoring normal thyroid function may precipitate adrenal failure. Clinicians should have a...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Graves L 3rd,Klein RM,Walling AD

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred fifty-seven pregnancies complicated by different degrees of diabetes, toxemia, and hypertension were studied with serial urinary placental estrogen determinations. A simple and fast method for total placental estrogen determination was used. The level of total estrogen excretion was related to Apgar score ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Acosta AA,Besch NF,Besch PK,Buttram VC Jr,Hinkley C,Haller WS,Werch A

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal gastric vagotomy is a useful operation for duodenal ulcer disease that is intractable to medical management. It is also useful in selected patients with acute duodenal ulcer perforation. We present an overview of the indications for proximal gastric vagotomy, along with its results. The major benefits of prox...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Malangoni MA,Mullins RJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycosides have been reported to cause tetany by inducing renal wasting of magnesium and secondary hypocalcemia. A 9-year-old girl with AIDS was brought to the emergency department because of tetany. She had just finished a 3-week course of intravenous tobramycin for bronchiectasis and had an elevated serum tobra...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Slayton W,Anstine D,Lakhdir F,Sleasman J,Neiberger R

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Septic arthritis is a serious and sometimes fatal complication of rheumatoid arthritis. We have examined the clinical characteristics of 16 patients with infectious arthritis seen during an eight-year period. This represented 0.5% of all admissions to our hospital for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Although rheum...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Blackburn WD Jr,Dunn TL,Alarcón GS

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentazocine (Talwin) originally was believed to be a safe, nonaddictive analgesic, but further experience has shown that severe mental and emotional disturbance, as well as addiction, may occur. This survey documents the experience in the Texas Medical Center and elsewhere. The accumulated data show the following: (1)...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kane FJ Jr,Pokorny A

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 251 randomly selected physicians completed a survey designed to study their attitudes toward, knowledge about, and use of pneumococcal vaccine. Eighty-five percent of respondents believed the vaccine had been proven effective. For the use of the vaccine, respondents supported broad indications, including ch...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Berk SL,Verghese A,Berk ML,Dison C,Smith JK

更新日期：1984-04-01 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：: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：:Fifty-four residents in internal medicine and primary care medicine were surveyed before and after receiving a prescription drugs price guide booklet to determine whether providing written price information to the residents would improve their knowledge of drug costs. Results indicated that the pricing information did...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Babington MA,Robinson LA,Monson RA

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was performed to examine the effect of stress on pregnancy outcome in women who underwent assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures. METHODS:In a controlled clinical study of healthy volunteers in an academic research environment, stress was measured subjectively by administering patient ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lovely LP,Meyer WR,Ekstrom RD,Golden RN

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00