Electrical injuries.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Alloantibody formation secondary to transfusion in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) is a well-known phenomenon. Pretransfusion testing (eg, "antibody screening") protects patients from receiving incompatible red blood cell transfusions. Because alloantibodies have a tendency to evanesce (ie, become un...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Williams LA 3rd,Lorenz RG,Tahir A,Pham HP,Marques MB

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:Gastrosplenic fistula resulting from erosion of a primary splenic lymphoma is a rare cause of massive upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage associated with benign peptic ulcer disease, gastric Crohn's disease, gastric adenocarcinoma, and primary gastric and splenic lymphomas. Upper intestinal hemorrhage can be successfull...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bird MA,Amjadi D,Behrns KE

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semiquantitative amniotic fluid volume (AFV) determination is a component of the fetal biophysical profile (BPP). To assess decreased AVF we did BPPs of 174 fetuses within 1 week of delivery. Two methods were used: measurement of the single largest vertical pocket (oligohydramnios = depth < 1 cm) and the four-quadrant...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Youssef AA,Abdulla SA,Sayed EH,Salem HT,Abdelalim AM,Devoe LD

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pronounced predilection of bronchogenic carcinoma for tuberculous lobes of the lungs is not generally recognized. In this plus 11 other series of patients with coexisting disease, an average of 52% had the neoplasm in a tuberculous lobe. In the present study, tuberculosis was confined to one or two lobes in 24 of ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Farwell DJ,Rutledge LJ,Bryant LR,Schechter FG

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore temporal trends and geographic variations in mortality from prescription opioids from 1999 to 2016. METHODS:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research Multiple Cause of Death files were used to calculate age-adjusted rates and 95% confidence int...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Palumbo SA,Hennekens CH,Robishaw JD,Levine RS

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a case in which the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis with findings of progressive paraplegia and a neurogenic bladder led to supravesical urinary diversion. Pyocystis led to creation of a urethrovesicovaginal fistula. Psychotherapy later uncovered hysterical conversion reaction. Which was cured with h...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Frentz GD,Wilcox ME,Epstein AW

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a young man who had acute myocardial infarction after his first use of cocaine. This case demonstrates that potentially lethal myocardial infarctions may be associated with such initial "experimentation" with cocaine even in relatively small doses. Cocaine intoxication should be considered in young p...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Wehbie CS,Vidaillet HJ Jr,Navetta FI,Peter RH

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meropenem is a new carbapenem antibiotic shown to resist degradation by renal dehydropeptidase I. In a multicenter, open-label, prospective trial, we compared the efficacy and safety of meropenem with imipenem/cilastatin in patients with skin and soft tissue infections. Patients received either 500 mg of meropenem eve...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Nichols RL,Smith JW,Geckler RW,Wilson SE

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：: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：: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：:The neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is a rare but potentially lethal disorder associated with the administration of neuroleptic agents. This syndrome may be underdiagnosed because it is poorly understood and often unrecognized. It affects all age groups and has a 20% mortality. Presenting features include extrapy...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rampertaap MP

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand fully a physician's role in society, and to deal successfully with the current sense of crisis, the medical profession must evolve a world-view that appropriately relates a physician to the patient, to the practice environment, to the base of knowledge, and to the physician's own sense of self. Such a wo...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bessinger CD Jr

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports results of a project designed to examine factors related to compliance with referral for follow-up and treatment of cervical dysplasia. Women studied had cervical dysplasia diagnosed by Pap smear between May 1989 and April 1990. These women had regular follow-up at the gynecology clinic of the Reyno...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Laedtke TW,Dignan M

更新日期：1992-01-01 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

abstract：:Over the past 10 years, one of us (M.C.A.) has treated 92 patients who required operation for symptoms associated with alcohol-induced chronic fibrocalcific pancreatitis. Four of these patients had duodenal obstruction. All four had had lateral pancreaticojejunostomy to relieve pancreatic ductal obstruction and associ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Taylor SM,Adams DB,Anderson MC

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All indexed cases of typhoid fever occurring in children over a ten-year period in Jacksonville, Fla, were studied retrospectively. This review revealed that anorexia was the most common gastrointestinal complaint and that neurologic symptoms and signs were nearly as common as gastrointestinal signs. There was a signi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tolaymat A,Fakhreddine F,David CB,Whitworth JM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported the case of a 19-year-old black man with sickle cell disease who had swelling over the right frontal and periorbital areas. Plain roentgenograms and CT scans were consistent with frontal sinus disease. At trephination, however, sterile liquescent blood clot was found in the frontal sinus. Awareness of...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Seibert RW,Seibert JJ,Frazier EA

更新日期：1987-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Postpneumonectomy electrocardiographic (ECG) changes have not been well-defined. METHODS:We reviewed the clinical data and the preoperative and postpneumonectomy ECGs of 15 patients who had pneumonectomy. RESULTS:All postpneumonectomy ECGs showed a higher heart rate and two (13%) showed diffuse ST elevatio...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Frye DM,Sahn AS

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a 9-year-old girl with pigmented villonodular synovitis of the right knee. She presented with a chronic bloody effusion of the knee. The diagnosis of pigmented villonodular synovitis was suggested by the findings on magnetic resonance imaging and confirmed at the time of arthroscopic synovectomy....

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Saulsbury FT

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an investigation of withdrawals and delays among students enrolled at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine over a four-year period, we found significantly higher rates of attrition among minority than nonminority students and among female than male enrollees. There were, however, no significant sex-relat...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Fogleman BY,Vander Zwagg R

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among patients with pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) seen recently at our center, a substantial number have had extensive calcified mediastinal, hilar, and peribronchial lymphadenopathy, a finding historically inconsistent with pulmonary MAC disease. METHOD:We retrospectively studi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Chan ED,Iseman MD

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:Angioedema has not been associated with losartan therapy in hemodialysis patients, as it has been with angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. We report the case of a hemodialysis patient who previously had angioedema after therapy with ACE inhibitors and again had angioedema while taking losartan. We suggest ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sharma PK,Yium JJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively reviewed 20 surgically confirmed tubo-ovarian abscesses in postmenopausal women for the period 1973 to 1989. Pain and bleeding were the two most common presenting symptoms. Nine of the 20 patients (45%) had recently had endometrial instrumentation. Fever and the presence of a pelvic mass and elevate...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lipscomb GH,Ling FW

更新日期：1992-07-01 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：:Most patients with intestinal obstruction have had previous surgery. Rarely, the development of adhesions and resulting small bowel obstruction is attributed to previous intra-abdominal trauma. We present the case of a young man, without a history of surgery, who had been a restrained driver in a motor vehicle crash. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Harrison JR,Blackstone MO,Vargish T,Gasparaitis A

更新日期：2001-05-01 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