A clinical report of adverse health effects due to bed sharing in two children with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury.

abstract：:Lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis (LIP) is a rare complication of AIDS in adults. Patients with AIDS and LIP are at high risk for bacterial pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Staphylococcus aureus. We have described an HIV-positive patient with LIP complicated by recurrent pneumo...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Harley W,Horton JM,Corbin RP

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Code status specifies the action that healthcare providers should take in the event of cardiac arrest. Studies have shown, however, that patients with do-not-resuscitate/do-not-intubate (DNR/DNI) orders have worse outcomes and do not consistently receive the standard of care. Several studies have demonstrate...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Engels R,Graziani C,Higgins I,Thompson J,Kaplow R,Vettese TE,Massart A

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of an extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP), which presented with a solitary pelvic tumor, is reported. Complete tumor resection was performed, followed by radiation therapy. Our experience demonstrates a satisfactory short-term oncological outcome. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lai CR,Chung SD,Tai HC,Huang SY,Chang YL,Chueh SC

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the surgical procedures proposed for the treatment of fecal incontinence associated with prolapse are associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. We used a modified Thiersch procedure with a Silastic mesh implant (Dow-Corning 501-3) on a series of 12 patients over a period of 2 1/2 years. Nine patien...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Larach SW,Vazquez B

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prognosis of angiosarcoma, the most common primary malignant cardiac tumor, is very poor. An early detection and treatment may extend survival beyond one year. Newer imaging modalities, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), play an important role in the evaluation of cardiac masses. The case of a man admitted to...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Vautrin E,Barone-Rochette G,Thony F,Lantuejoul S,Towie DH,Bach V,Baguet JP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of stress echocardiography (SE) in an elderly population was retrospectively evaluated and compared with myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) in a similar group. Patients > or = 80 years of age were evaluated by treadmill or pharmacologic SE (group 1; n = 65) to determine its predictive value for cardiac ev...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Font VE,Lara WC,Bournigal DR

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix is a common malignancy, but like other genital malignancies, it rarely metastasizes to the heart, even in advanced stages. This case illustrates several points, including the presentation of a cardiac metastasis mimicking ischemic cardiac disease on electrocardiogram. The diagnosi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kountz DS

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described two circumcised children who developed a urethral fistula caused by long hairs constricting and ulcerating the penis. These cases are presented to remind physicians to examine the infant's penis when he presents with a swollen glans, abnormal urinary stream, and a parent with long hair. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Toguri AG,Light RA,Warren MM

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyrotoxicosis is an uncommon cause of low-output congestive heart failure. The case of a 41-year-old male who presented with severe symptomatic congestive heart failure, and was subsequently diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy secondary to hyperthyroidism, is presented. The cause of his hyperthyroidism was Graves d...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Khandwala HM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Community violence is associated with health-compromising behaviors (HCBs) and adverse general health and pregnancy outcomes. It is unknown whether these effects persist after adjusting for health behaviors. METHODS:Retrospective cohort study of 36,637 pregnancies, 2005-2009, using birth certificate/hospita...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Okah FA,Oshodi A,Liu Y,Cai J

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid loss of erythrocyte galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase in hemolysates from an infant 26 days after transfusion led to investigation of the possiblity of an unstable enzyme or other variant of galactosemia. However, the child was found to have the classic type of galactosemia. The seeming transferase instab...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Schwartz RP,Roesel RA,Blankenship PR,Hall WK

更新日期：1975-03-01 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：:The role of antibiotics in large bowel surgery was established by experimental studies indicating that antibiotics could protect a colonic anastomosis subjected to unusual stress. A number of different agents were studied to patients to determine which ones significantly altered the bacterial flora of the colon. Clini...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cohn I Jr

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Millions of concussions occur every year in the United States. The public interest in concussion has increased after a number of high-profile deaths in high school athletes from sports-related head trauma and in some professional athletes from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. One of the most active areas of research ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Terrell TR,Cox CB,Bielak K,Casmus R,Laskowitz D,Nichols G

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled trial of treatment of chronic osteomyelitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus compared nafcillin alone with nafcillin plus rifampin for a six-week period. Treatment was well tolerated, the only adverse effect being mild neutropenia in four of 18 patients; no toxicity was observed from rifampin. Eight of ten...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Norden CW,Bryant R,Palmer D,Montgomerie JZ,Wheat J

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight women were tested with a standard three-hour oral glucose tolerance test before and after three years of using a combination-type oral contraceptive containing mestranol and ethynodiol diacetate (Ovulen). At the three-year test time there was a significant elevation of the patients' weights and their 1-, ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Spellacy WN,Buhi WC,Birk SA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroprevalence surveys help determine the extent of HIV and the need for routine HIV counseling and testing. We sought to describe trends in five south Georgia hospitals and compare two protocols for conducting anonymous HIV surveys. METHODS:From 1993 to 1997, each hospita...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Beltrami JF,Franko EA,Toomey KE

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented a case of tracheobronchitis due to C pseudodiphtheriticum in a patient with COPD who was treated with prednisone and apparently was not otherwise immunocompromised. Chronic lung disease seems to predispose to infection with C pseudodiphtheriticum; it can also occur in the immunocompetent host. This o...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Craig TJ,Maguire FE,Wallace MR

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin B12 deficiency can cause profound alterations in the bone marrow. These alterations can mimic the more serious diagnosis of acute leukemia. The two patients described in this report were originally suspected of having acute leukemia or myelodysplasia on the basis of the bone marrow smear, and induction chemoth...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Aitelli C,Wasson L,Page R

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study describes the clinical problems and psychiatric diagnoses of college students who sought services at a student counseling clinic and were subsequently referred for evaluation by a psychiatrist. Several important psychiatric problems present before leaving for college that could mandate the selecti...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lowe B,Bryant-Melvin K,Peterson M,Hussain N,Holroyd S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of multifocal systemic sporotrichosis presenting with lobar pneumonia caused by Sporothrix schenkii is described. While five cases of pulmonary involvement in multifocal sporotrichosis have been previously reported, all had nodular or cavitary apical lesions. Similarly, unifocal pulmonary sporotrichosis usually...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Arango C,Davila E,Greenman R

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experience of the Southern Regional Trophoblastic Disease Center includes 222 patients who were referred from January 1972 to October 1977. The initial tissue diagnosis was hydatidiform mole in 212 patients and choriocarcinoma in ten. There was spontaneous remission of 142 (69%) of the moles and one of the chorioc...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hatch KD,Shingleton HM,Austin JM Jr,Boots LR,Younger JB,Soong SJ

更新日期：1978-11-01 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

authors： Kilgore TL,Chasen MH

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patient survival depends on a number of factors, including early diagnosis and initiation of treatment. Standard treatment options for patients with NSCLC include surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact that the i...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bullard JT,Eberth JM,Arrington AK,Adams SA,Cheng X,Salloum RG

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of breast cancer survivors has increased and this increase is expected to continue, likely as a result of population and age growth, the implementation of earlier detection strategies, and the development of more effective therapies. Breast cancer treatment requires a multidisciplinary approach with surgery...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Loftus LS,Sokol GH,Laronga C

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like the introduction of bare metal stents (BMS), that of drug-eluting stents (DES) represented a quantum leap in the interventional cardiology community's ongoing efforts to conquer restenosis. However, recent concerns over late thrombosis (LT) have tempered the initial enthusiasm. Nonetheless, when compared with BMS...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Chen JP

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper briefly reviews the available evidence for the influence of environmental and occupational factors in the development of cancer of the larynx. Although several occupational exposures have been suggested to play a role in the etiology of this disease, few have been convincingly confirmed. The strong associat...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cowles SR

更新日期：1983-07-01 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：:The use of psychostimulants as antidepressants remains controversial in the field of psychiatry. While methylphenidate hydrochloride (MPH) and dextroamphetamine (DA) are often considered to be equivalent drugs, differences in their neurobiologic mechanism of action may account for different clinical response patterns....

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kraus MF,Burch EA Jr

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Lung cancer and pancreatic cancer are the most lethal tobacco-associated malignancies. To elucidate possible clinical interrelationships, the authors reviewed the clinicopathologic characteristics of patients treated for both pulmonary and pancreatic neoplasms. METHODS:Patients presenting with a potentially...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Schwarz RE,Chu PG,Grannis FW Jr

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00