Pancreatic pseudocyst with splenic involvement: an uncommon complication of pancreatitis.

abstract：:Restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch anal anastomosis has become the most commonly used procedure for elective treatment of patients with mucosal ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis. Since its original description, the procedure has been modified in an attempt to obtain optimal functional res...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Garbus JE,Potenti F,Wexner SD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For various reasons, patients seek care at different hospitals within a region, resulting in fragmented medical records at the point of care. In the emergency department, this is a particularly important issue because the emergency department provides open access to all patients and requires rapid high-stakes decision...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Carr CM,DiGioia CH,Wagner J,Saef SH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive disease that can be treated with several medications. Macitentan, an endothelin receptor antagonist (ERA), has received approval as a PAH therapy. We report our data regarding the tolerability in patients with PAH who were switched from bosentan to macit...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Safdar Z,Thakur A,Frost A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium fluoride has clearly been shown to have pronounced effects on the skeleton, probably more than any other currently available therapeutic agent. Unfortunately, these effects appear to be both beneficial and potentially toxic at the same time. A more clear understanding is needed of the basic mechanisms whereby t...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kleerekoper M,Balena R

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is concern that anti-affirmative-action measures will negate gains made ill educating underrepresented minority physicians and that this underrepresentation may have a negative impact on access to health care for these same underrepresented groups. METHODS:A review of the literature was completed to e...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Thurmond VB,Kirch DG

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：:Tobacco use is associated with numerous illnesses and contributes to as many as 400,000 deaths in the United States each year. Most tobacco use in the United States is in the form of cigarette smoking, but smokeless tobacco use is particularly high in certain areas and within certain subpopulations. Among US adults, s...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bell RA,Spangler JG,Quandt SA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated the risk factors for gallstone disease in Taiwan. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed medical records of patients receiving periodic health examination at China Medical College Hospital from January to December 2000. A detailed history, physical examination, biochemical measurements, and abd...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lai SW,Ng KC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The University of Virginia Department of Medicine has reorganized its adult diabetic ambulatory care program to provide optimal primary care and subspecialty services. This new program, the Diabetes Consult Service of the University Medical Associates, is organized to provide primary care by a single physician in addi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pohl SL,Hodge RH Jr,Evans WS,Hodge SS,Lumelsky-Weinbaum J

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To characterize pain and exposure after Prolift placement and identify risk factors. METHODS:A case series of women who underwent Prolift vaginal mesh were surveyed. Pain was assessed using a visual analog scale. Exposure was evaluated clinically. RESULTS:Of 183 eligible patients, 160 completed the survey,...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Illston JD,Garris JB,Richter HE,Wheeler TL 2nd

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune neutropenia (AIN) is defined as a neutrophil count <1.5 × 109/L caused by increased peripheral destruction of neutrophils from an underlying autoimmune mechanism in which autoantibodies are directed against a patient's own neutrophils. AIN has a multifactorial etiology ranging from an idiopathic primary phe...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Afzal W,Owlia MB,Hasni S,Newman KA

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30-year-old man had endocarditis and hip arthritis associated with the recently recognized fungus, Scedosporium inflatum. Inhibition, and possibly cure, of endocarditis occurred with medical therapy alone. Data from in vitro susceptibility testing did not predict clinical response. This case also illustrates the nee...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Toy EC,Rinaldi MG,Savitch CB,Leibovitch ER

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) has been used in treatment of a variety of clinical conditions, including acute respiratory failure (ARF) due to status asthmaticus. We present the case of a patient admitted with acute exacerbation of asthma who had ARF and required mechanical ventilation. After extuba...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Clark DR,Lahren KM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve cases of Shigella sonnei infection, with two deaths, occurred at a custodial institution in Donelson, Tennessee, in April and May 1973. Nine of the cases and both deaths were in patients hospitalized at the institution's infirmary. The patients with nosocomial shigellosis were significantly younger and had been...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Weissman JB,Hutcheson RH

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported is the fifth known case of Addison's disease due to adrenal involvement by North American blastomycosis (Blastomyces dermatitidis infection). The fact that amphotericin B therapy precipitated an addisonian crisis suggests that patients with disseminated blastomycosis should have their adrenal function and res...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Chandler PT

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The management of acute pain is an aspect of hospital-based practice that has been neglected. Control of pain is important for ethical reasons, for compliance with new guidelines and standards, and for optimizing patient satisfaction and outcomes. METHODS:Be review the rationale for establishing priority to...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Blau WS,Dalton JA,Lindley C

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed 76 cases of the empty sella syndrome. Headache was the chief complaint in 47 cases (62%), and 45 patients (60%) presented with signs and symptoms related to increased intracranial pressure and/or pituitary dysfunction. The CSF pressure was elevated in 35 of the 62 patients who had lumbar puncture, suggesti...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Jaffer KA,Obbens EA,El Gammal TA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been suggested as a cause for pulmonary embolism (PE). We aimed to explore the prevalence and clinical impact of AF in patients with PE. METHODS:Using the 2012-2014 National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample database, we identified "adult patients with PE" as the principal discharge...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Yang Y,Liu B,Taylor J,Huang Z,Gupta S,Thumma S,Wu L,Wang S,Everett G

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients seen recently at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center emphasize the point that coccidioidomycosis may resemble lymphoma because of persistence of adenopathy on the chest roentgenogram after the initial infiltrate has resolved. Such a clinical picture strongly indicates dissemination and is probably sufficie...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Jenkins DW Jr

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risks of morbidity and mortality associated with transfusion are so great that no transfusion should be given until it is decided that it is absolutely necessary and then only with the utmost care. The unfavorable effects of transfusion reviewed are: hemolytic reaction; bacterial contamination; febrile reaction du...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Shaffer AW

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) is a tick-borne disease transmitted during the summer months in the mid-Atlantic, southeastern and south-central United States. A large proportion of patients presenting with ehrlichiosis must be hospitalized because of the severity of their presenting signs, symptoms and lab abnorma...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Prince LK,Shah AA,Martinez LJ,Moran KA

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To determine the comparative impact of the standard Parents as Teachers (PAT) to the nutrition and physical activity enhanced version (PATE) of the perinatal educational curriculum on compliance with infant feeding recommendations and changes in maternal infant feeding knowledge and beliefs. METHODS:Women a...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tussing-Humphreys L,Thomson JL,Goodman M,Landry A

更新日期：2019-10-01 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

authors： Agrawal K,Kumar P,Markert R,Agrawal S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The correct diagnosis of benign hyperthyroxinemia in this patient and his family members will spare them the unnecessary testing and treatment for thyrotoxicosis that has befallen some such patients. Results of the usual blood tests for assessment of thyroid function, such as T4, T3, and thyrotropin determinations, we...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tucker WS Jr

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the prevalence of non-group-A beta-hemolytic streptococci (NGAS) in the pharyngeal cultures of symptomatic and asymptomatic children. Throat cultures were obtained by house officers in the Emergency Department at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh to aid in the evaluation of children with symptoms or signs o...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hofkosh D,Wald ER,Chiponis DM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with recurrent thrombosis may have one of the thrombophilias described in recent literature. These clotting disorders may involve abnormalities in platelets, fibrinogen, plasminogen, protein C, protein S, or antithrombin III. There is usually a family history of clotting disorders, since most of these are inh...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Patton D

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases are reviewed which presented findings strongly suggesting congenital synostosis between the third metatarsal and third cuneiform bones. Supplementary x-ray films proved these joints to be present and intact. This point, though well known to skeletal radiologists, is worthy of emphasis to nonskeletal radiolog...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gutman E

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of an adrenal incidentalomas in the setting of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency. The adrenal mass was shown to be a cavernous hemangioma. Such neoplasms are rare but have the risk of retroperitoneal hemorrhage and may be difficult to differentiate from malignant ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pignatelli D,Vendeira P,Cabral AC

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with Barrett's esophagus, each with a differing presentation, serve as the basis of this report. Hiatal hernia is noted to be frequently present in Barrett's esophagus, and the incidence of adenocarcinoma is thought to be distinctly increased. The condition is easily diagnosed by fiberoptic endoscopy and...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Burke EL,Mullen JT

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00