abstract：:We have defined the clinical presentation and course of X-linked agammaglobulinemia (X-LA) by means of a multi-center retrospective survey of 96 patients. Infections were the most common presenting feature of patients with X-LA. The most frequent infections involved the upper respiratory tract (75%), lower respiratory...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lederman HM,Winkelstein JA

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reviewed the alveolar hemorrhage (AH) syndromes, defined as immune or idiopathic disorders associated with diffuse microvascular hemorrhage into the acinar portion of the lung. The disorders that are most often associated with AH include antibasement membrane antibodies (ABMA) disease, idiopathic pulmonary hem...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Leatherman JW,Davies SF,Hoidal JR

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella multocida, a small, gram-negative coccobacillus , is part of the normal oral flora of many animals, including the dog and cat. P. multocida is the etiologic agent in a variety of infectious disease syndromes. We have reported 34 cases of infection caused by P. multocida and have reviewed the English litera...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Weber DJ,Wolfson JS,Swartz MN,Hooper DC

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial pneumonia in the elderly is common, and causes more morbidity and mortality than in the younger adult. As patients live longer with more underlying disease and more iatrogenic disease, the incidence of nosocomial pneumonia will probably rise. Adequate sterilization of inhalation therapy equipment can reduce ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Verghese A,Berk SL

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hyperimmunoglobulin E recurrent-infection syndrome (HIE) entails a disorder of recurrent bacterial infections of the skin and sinopulmonary tract commencing in infancy or early childhood in the presence of serum levels of IgE which are at least 10 times normal (greater than 2,000 IU/ml). Variable concomitants of H...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Donabedian H,Gallin JI

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with classical heat stroke are different in many ways from those with exertional injury; contrasts included difference in demographic factors, prior general health, in-hospital complications and laboratory abnormalities (lactate, liver enzymes, pH, electrolytes). Severe hyperkalemia, acute renal failure, rhab...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Hart GR,Anderson RJ,Crumpler CP,Shulkin A,Reed G,Knochel JP

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsialpox is a mild illness characterized by the appearance of a primary eschar at the site of a mite bite followed by fever, headache, and a papulovesicular rash. It can be confused with a variety of illnesses including several other rickettsial diseases and chickenpox. R. akari, the etiologic agent, is a ricket...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Brettman LR,Lewin S,Holzman RS,Goldman WD,Marr JS,Kechijian P,Schinella R

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several points can be made from analysis of the published cases of cutaneous mycobacteriosis and those in our series: 1) mycobacterial cutaneous infections are probably more common than is reported-we collected 34 cases over a 10-year period; 2) most patients with cutaneous infections caused by nontuberculous mycobact...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Beyt BE Jr,Ortbals DW,Santa Cruz DJ,Kobayashi GS,Eisen AZ,Medoff G

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with plasma cell dyscrasias, manifested by osteosclerotic bone lesions and small amounts of M protein, and a complicating multi-system disorder are described. Their features of severe sensory-motor polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrine dysfunction, anasarca, elevated CSF protein, and skin hyperpigmentat...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Bardwick PA,Zvaifler NJ,Gill GN,Newman D,Greenway GD,Resnick DL

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic and respiratory acid-base disorders occur as single and mixed entities. When induced perturbations in PCO2, HCO3(-), pH, and serum electrolytes are interpreted in the light of sound physiologic principles, even the most complicated mixed disorders may be easily diagnosed. The pathophysiology underlying the s...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Narins RG,Emmett M

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen consecutive patients with PG have been studied during the period 1971-78. Systemic disease was found in 13 of the patients and preceded the skin disease in 10 patients by 1-25 years. Only two patients had ulcerative colitis. One patient had paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and three patients had an IgA myel...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Holt PJ,Davies MG,Saunders KC,Nuki G

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial Mediterranean Fever is a rare disease which usually begins in childhood and occurs primarily among persons of Mediterranean ancestry. It is characterized by short, self-limited, febrile episodes that may occur alone or with inflammation of serosal surfaces. Some individuals may exhibit an erysipilas-like eryt...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Meyerhoff J

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The originally dismal prognosis associated with anti-GBM Ab-mediated GN and Goodpasture's syndrome may be changing as we recognize a broader spectrum of disease, improve general supportive care, and improve specific treatment. Immunosuppressive therapy, if started early in the course of disease, may prevent or allow r...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Briggs WA,Johnson JP,Teichman S,Yeager HC,Wilson CB

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Studies on eight patients were performed to clarify the mechanism(s) of altered sodium metabolism and volume regulation in SIADH. The mechanism controlling water excretion was also studied to determine whether there is evidence that altered osmoregulation may be the basis for inappropriate ADH secretion in some pat...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Cooke CR,Turin MD,Walker WG

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a review of endocarditis caused by fastidious, slow-growing gram-negative rods, similarities in the spectrum of disease overshadow differences among cases grouped by specific organisms. Cardiobacterium hominis, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans and Haemophilus species usually seed previously damaged cardiac valv...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Ellner JJ,Rosenthal MS,Lerner PI,McHenry MC

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three brothers with mannosidosis were studied, and their clinical and biochemical manifestations are compared with those of 41 cases in the literature. All three boys have psychomotor and growth retardation, characteristic facies, recurrent respiratory infections, sensorineural deafness, craniosynostosis, protuberant ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Vidgoff J,Lovrien EW,Beals RK,Buist NR

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and radiological characteristics of 217 consecutive episodes of gram-negative bacillary pneumonia occurring in 189 adult cancer patients between November 1968 and December 1974 were analyzed. The majority of patients had acute leukemia (54%). Fever larger than or equal to 101 degrees F was the single mos...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Valdivieso M,Gil-extremera B,Zornoza J,Rodriquez V,Bodey GP

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective review of 53 patients, 58 episodes of infection due to Acinetobacter calcoaceticus var. anitratus (Herellea vaginicola) were studied. Although the organism is widely distributed in nature, it is of relatively low virulence since colonization is more frequently noted than infection and since most inf...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Glew RH,Moellering RC Jr,Kunz LJ

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 23 adult women having uncomplicated recurrent urinary tract infections treated with 10 days of appropriate antibiotic for each infection, the following findings were noted. 1. The attack rate was 0.17 infections per month. 2. 94% of infections has associated symptoms. 3. 73% of symptomatic episodes had an associate...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kraft JK,Stamey TA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and ischemic bone necrosis are reported. All patients had received corticosteroids prior to the onset of ischemic necrosis, although one patient had received none for 13 years previously. Nineteen (83%) patients had multiple bone lesions including the femor...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Klipper AR,Stevens MB,Zizic TM,Hungerford DS

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen cases of mesothelioma, 7 benign and 11 malignant, were analyzed retrospectively. There were 5 females with benign tumors and 10 males with the malignant variety. The mean age was 59 years in the benign group and 55 years in those with malignant tumors. Exposure to asbestos was documented in one benign and fiv...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Taryle DA,Lakshminarayan S,Sahn SA

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00