Neuroleptospirosis with hydrocephalus and very elevated cerebrospinal fluid protein.

abstract：:The diagnosis of intestinal obstruction is readily made when a patient presents with typical history and signs, and when plain films of the abdomen display characteristic findings. Some patients, however, constitute diagnostic problems because abdominal roentgenograms are still equivocal, even after repetition in four...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Han SY,Laws HL,Aldrete JS

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival of infants with necrotizing enterocolitis may be complicated by intestinal stricture(s) as a result of healing of ischemic segments of bowel. An asymptomatic cecal stenosis not visible on barium enema was identified at operation for reestablishment of intestinal continuity. Infants recovering from acute necro...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Woodard BH,Bradford WD,Filston HC

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methimazole is a widely used and generally well-tolerated antithyroid agent. A 43-year-old woman had severe jaundice and itching 1 month after receiving methimazole (10 mg tid) and propranolol (20 mg tid) for treatment of hyperthyroidism. The patient continued treatment for another 4 days after the appearance of jaund...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Mikhail NE

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extramural programs may be evaluated in terms of effectiveness in achieving their particular goals. The components of structure, process, and outcome are examined as related sets of program elements. Goals influence appropriate structure in organization, facilities, and manpower. Structure in turn influences process o...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Chappell JA,Hain JD

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 46-year-old woman had features of acute pulmonary edema soon after taking hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) for the first time. Although 31 cases of HCTZ-induced pulmonary edema have been reported in the world literature since it was first described in 1968, little is known about this clinical entity. Because its presence ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Almoosa KF

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported a third case of miliary tuberculosis and associated consumption coagulopathy. It is proposed that clotting factors may be locally consumed, thus producing the syndrome of "multifocal vasculopathic coagulation." ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Krauss JS,Walker DH

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Adherence to National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for ovarian cancer treatment improves patient outcomes. The aim of this study was to assess disparities associated with ovarian cancer treatment in the state of Kentucky and central Appalachia. METHODS:Data on patients diagnosed as having ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ore RM,Chen Q,DeSimone CP,Miller RW,Baldwin LA,van Nagell JR Jr,Huang B,Tucker TC,Johnson MS,Fredericks TI,Ueland FR

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown recluse spider bites may result in extensive soft tissue injury, causing months of disability. We have described a patient who had a series of extensive surgical debridements after envenomation. Despite skin grafting, persistent cutaneous lesions and extensive satellitosis progressed to involve the entire lower ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hoover EL,Williams W,Koger L,Murthy R,Parsh S,Weaver WL

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is among the most common of clinical conditions. Like problems such as anemia, it is not one disease, but a constellation of signs and symptoms which may occur as the result of several psychopatho-physiologic processes. This paper summarizes the recent dramatic advances in research into the neurochemistry o...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bowden CL

更新日期：1975-02-01 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：: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 case of nephrotic syndrome due to minimal change renal disease was associated with minimally symptomatic nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's disease in a 15-year-old girl. Although minimal renal disease is the most frequently described biopsy finding in this paraneoplastic syndrome, the combination of nodular sclerosing Ho...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cale WF,Ullrich IH,Jenkins JJ

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tramadol (Ultram) is a new analgesic agent with a dual mechanism of action that includes weak agonistic effects at the mu-opioid receptor as well as inhibition of neurotransmitter (serotonin, norepinephrine) re-uptake. Although it has proven to be a safe and effective agent for the control of pain, adverse effects can...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tobias JD

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patients awaiting heart transplantation can be listed for prolonged periods of time and, as a result, the prevalence of anxiety and depression is high. Our study evaluates the feasibility of canine-assisted therapy (CAT) in this population. METHODS:A prospective, multicenter study was performed on all statu...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Snipelisky D,Smidt J,Gallup S,Myrick J,Bauer B,Burton MC

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a systematic review of the available literature and our own personal experience regarding the optimal management of the rhinoplasty patient. The routine utilization of nasal splinting, casting and perioperative antibiotics is supported. The management of a number of common early complications is also discussed...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cochran CS,Ducic Y,DeFatta RJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A resurgence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) has been reported in many areas of the United States in recent years. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of inpatients with a new diagnosis of ARF from 1982 through 1988 at a children's hospital that serves a six-state referral area in the mid-South. Thirty pati...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Leggiadro RJ,Birnbaum SE,Chase NA,Myers LK

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary sarcomatous arterial tumors are rare. We have reported a case of malignant fibrous histiocytoma in an elderly woman successfully treated by resection of the involved femoral vessel and reconstruction with a PTFE graft. The long-term result in this patient is presently uncertain. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Feldtman RW,Cox CS Jr,Nirgiotis J,Guarjardo M

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wandering spleen is rare, particularly in children, and diagnosis is difficult. It usually occurs at 20 to 40 years of age, and most cases are seen in women. Diagnosis is difficult because of lack of symptoms, unless splenic torsion has occurred. Patients usually have an asymptomatic abdominal mass, an acute abdomen, ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Desai DC,Hebra A,Davidoff AM,Schnaufer L

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：:Lyme disease, now the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, has recently received much media attention, due in part to its potentially serious sequelae in untreated patients. Because a rare patient with late illness may lack antibodies to the etiologic agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, physicians may be temp...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Nadelman RB,Arlin Z,Wormser GP

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) provides additional information regarding patency or occlusion of vessels that is not always detected by conventional angiography. Patency of distal vessels is a positive prognostic factor in predicting salvage of the foot in patients having various treatment procedures for occlus...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gavant ML

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 56 patients with primary gastrointestinal lymphoma to determine the manifestations, diagnostic and treatment methods, and patient outcomes. We identified 27 cases of primary gastric lymphoma and 29 cases of lymphoma involving the remainder of the gastrointestinal tract. Initial symptoms were nonspecific and...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Fitch DD,Wilson JA

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sometimes physicians assume responsibilities to third parties when undertaking the care of patients. Physicians have been held liable to third parties, though strangers to the patients, for failing to warn regarding the communicability of contagious diseases. Two suits have been allowed against physicians by third par...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hirsh HL

更新日期：1976-06-01 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

abstract：:Dietary advice based on saturated versus unsaturated fatty acids for the purpose of controlling the plasma cholesterol level has for many years plagued the American public with unpalatable diets that are difficult to adhere to. Stearic acid, an 18-carbon saturated fatty acid, does not share the hypercholesterolemic ef...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cobb TK

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The range of procedures now routinely done through the laparoscope has continued to expand due to improved equipment for insufflation, hemostasis, and tissue manipulation, and to imaginative approaches to otherwise "routine" gynecologic problems traditionally treated by laparotomy. As with all new technologies, advoca...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Wagner J,Droesch J,Mann WJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with polycystic kidney disease and renal failure developed profound hypotension within 30 minutes after starting hemodialysis. After ruling out all recognized causes of hypotension during early dialysis, we found that their vena cavas were obstructed by compression of the vessels against the spinal column...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Raulerson JD,Juncos LI,Fuller TJ,Cade R

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A poorly understood significant drug-drug interaction compounded by ineffective communication among providers at times of care transition most likely contributed to multiple thromboembolic events in an 81-year-old patient. Increased awareness of drug interactions with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), as well as imp...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rogers KC,Neu DW,Jaeger MC,Shah R,Finks SW

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured hemodynamic and respiratory parameters before and after applying methylmethacrylate (MMC) to acetabular and femoral sites during neuroleptanesthesia and prosthetic hip surgery. No significant major changes were documented. Previously reported adverse effects probably have been due to medullary emboli, humo...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gooding JM,Weng JT,Kirby RR,Smith RA

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported is a case of mesenteric venous thrombosis occurring in a 46-year-old woman who had taken an oral contraceptive for six years. Seventeen cases of mesenteric venous thrombosis have been reported in young women taking oral contraceptives. An association between oral contraceptive agents and mesenteric venous thr...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Nesbit RR Jr,Deweese JA

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00