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400 | 5,599 | The prevalence of cardiac valvular pathosis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of valvular pathosis in a population of patients with SLE, to assess the candidacy of such patients for antibiotic prophylaxis before dental treatment.
The hospital reco... | C01 |
401 | 9,888 | Low gastric acid as a risk factor for cholera transmission: application of a new non-invasive gastric acid field test.
Although gastric acid is thought to be an important host defense against certain enteric infections, field studies of the role of gastric acid in preventing enteric infections have been hampered by th... | C01 |
402 | 5,508 | Streptococcus bovis meningitis: report of 2 cases.
We describe 2 cases of Streptococcus bovis meningitis and review the 9 cases previously reported.
This microorganism is a rare cause of meningitis in which there are no distinctive clinical or laboratory features.
The Gram stain of the CSF is usually negative.
Ten ... | C01 |
403 | 6,316 | Bacteremia in an ambulatory setting. Improved outcome in children treated with antibiotics.
We undertook a study of 414 bacteremic patients (167 with Haemophilus influenzae and 247 with Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteremia) to evaluate their clinical presentation, laboratory and clinical results, and subsequent outcome... | C01 |
404 | 884 | European experience with itraconazole in systemic mycoses.
Since January 1985 more than 100 patients with deep fungal infections have been treated with itraconazole (200 to 400 mg/day) in Northern Italy.
Evaluation of the drug efficacy and tolerance was possible in one patient with sporotrichosis, in 34 with aspergil... | C01 |
405 | 9,169 | Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
A controlled study was conducted on patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection referred for upper endoscopy to evaluate the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori (H.
pylori) infection.
Four different stains and culture fo... | C01 |
406 | 5,168 | Positive Lyme serology in subacute bacterial endocarditis. A study of four patients.
Lyme borreliosis is a multisystem inflammatory disorder caused by the tick-borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi.
Clinical manifestations are protean, involving the skin, joints, peripheral and central nervous systems, and the heart.... | C01 |
407 | 4,628 | Platelet-activating factor or a platelet-activating factor antagonist decreases tumor necrosis factor-alpha in the plasma of mice treated with endotoxin.
When L-platelet-activating factor (PAF) or alprazolam (a PAF antagonist) was administered to lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-treated mice, the level of plasma tumor necrosi... | C01 |
408 | 2,878 | Beta-lactamase production and susceptibilities to amoxicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanate, ticarcillin, ticarcillin-clavulanate, cefoxitin, imipenem, and metronidazole of 320 non-Bacteroides fragilis Bacteroides isolates and 129 fusobacteria from 28 U.S. centers.
beta-Lactamase production (nitrocefin disk method) and aga... | C01 |
409 | 8,315 | Approach to the patient with genital ulcer disease.
The three major diseases characterized by genital ulcers--genital herpes, syphilis, and chancroid--are common, with genital herpes being most common in industrialized countries and chancroid being most common in developing countries.
One fourth to one half of patien... | C01 |
410 | 8,314 | Approach to men with urethritis and urologic complications of sexually transmitted diseases.
The most important causes of urethritis, and epididymitis in younger men, are C.
trachomatis and N.
gonorrhoeae.
Management of these syndromes requires a thorough sexual history, genital examination, evaluation for objectiv... | C01 |
411 | 4,618 | The role of human immunodeficiency virus infection in pneumococcal bacteremia in San Francisco residents.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an important risk factor for invasive pneumococcal disease, but information on clinical course and infecting serotypes is limited.
To help develop strategies to reduce the mo... | C01 |
412 | 7,167 | Sexually transmitted diseases of the colon, rectum, and anus. The challenge of the nineties.
During the past two decades, an explosive growth in both the prevalence and types of sexually transmitted diseases has occurred.
Up to 55 percent of homosexual men with anorectal complaints have gonorrhea; 80 percent of the p... | C01 |
413 | 7,907 | Adult respiratory distress syndrome due to blastomycosis during pregnancy.
A 23-year-old healthy woman in her third trimester of pregnancy developed adult respiratory distress syndrome secondary to Blastomyces dermatitides.
Pregnancy-related immunosuppression was believed to be responsible for the fungal infection.
... | C01 |
414 | 2,906 | Management of gastroenteritis.
Childhood gastroenteritis remains a common reason for admission to British paediatric units, although the severity of the disease appears to be diminishing in recent years.
We studied 215 infants and children with gastroenteritis admitted consecutively to four paediatric units in South ... | C01 |
415 | 436 | Gastrointestinal tuberculosis. Report of four cases.
Gastrointestinal tuberculosis is a rare disease in the United States.
Correct identification is often delayed because it is not considered early on in the differential diagnosis.
Four patients with gastrointestinal tuberculosis and the symptoms, diagnosis, complic... | C01 |
416 | 4,629 | Protective effects of polyclonal sera and of monoclonal antibodies active to Salmonella minnesota Re595 lipopolysaccharide during experimental endotoxemia.
Mice were passively immunized with sera from blood donors active for rough lipopolysaccharides (LPS), the J5 (Rc chemotype) mutant of Escherichia coli O111:B4, and... | C01 |
417 | 2,917 | An unusual cause of thoracic mass.
A previously well 10 year old boy presented with scoliosis, a mass in the chest wall, and a pleural effusion.
Chest radiography showed the triad of chronic consolidation, pleural effusion, and rib periostitis.
Investigations confirmed thoracic actinomycosis.
Tissue spread was eval... | C01 |
418 | 5,921 | Pneumococcal endometritis and neonatal sepsis.
A recent case of postpartum maternal endometritis and neonatal sepsis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae prompted this report and a review of previous citations.
Although this rare presentation of pneumococcal infection is potentially fatal to both mother and child, early e... | C01 |
419 | 6,441 | Pregnancy outcomes among mothers infected with human immunodeficiency virus and uninfected control subjects.
Between June 26, 1985, and Feb.
24, 1989, 101 seropositive pregnant women and 129 seronegative pregnant women from the same prenatal clinics in Brooklyn and the Bronx were recruited into a prospective study of... | C01 |
420 | 3,996 | Host response to mycobacterial infection in the alcoholic rat.
Animals, chronically treated with alcohol, were inoculated with mycobacteria (bacillus Calmette-Guerin, 10.2 x 10(6) organisms) into the spleen to produce a granulomatous hepatitis.
Before infection, chronic alcohol ingestion was associated with a depress... | C01 |
421 | 5,341 | Coccidioidomycosis during human immunodeficiency virus infection. A review of 77 patients.
Through a retrospective review, we identified 77 previously unreported cases of coccidioidomycosis during HIV infection.
Patients were classified into 1 of 6 categories based on their primary clinical presentation: 20 had focal... | C01 |
422 | 9,361 | Disseminated Conidiobolus infection with endocarditis in a cocaine abuser.
A crack cocaine abuser developed disseminated infection caused by a species of Conidiobolus not known to cause disease in vertebrates.
The fungus gained entry via skin abrasions on the lower extremities, spread through the hematogenous route, ... | C01 |
423 | 4,312 | Use of latex agglutination technique for detecting Legionella pneumophila (serogroup 1) antibodies.
Following the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Stafford in 1985, 500 serum samples were submitted to the indirect immunofluorescence antibody test and a latex agglutination.
Latex agglutination using ultrasonically... | C01 |
424 | 5,929 | Primary meningococcal conjunctivitis: report of 21 patients and review.
Neisseria meningitidis is an uncommon cause of acute bacterial conjunctivitis.
Twenty-one cases of primary meningococcal conjunctivitis (PMC) are reported herein and 63 cases published in the literature since 1899 are reviewed.
In the 84 cases o... | C01 |
425 | 4,339 | Treatment of chronic tinea pedis (athlete's foot type) with topical terbinafine.
Twenty-seven patients with chronic tinea pedis, athlete's foot type, were enrolled in a randomized, double-blind trial of topical treatment with terbinafine 1% cream versus its vehicle (placebo).
Patients were examined weekly during 4 we... | C01 |
426 | 334 | Febrile infants less than eight weeks old. Predictors of infection.
Febrile infants less than eight weeks old frequently are admitted and receive parenteral antibiotics for treatment of possible sepsis.
The authors assess 52 infants less than eight weeks old with a rectal temperature of 38.1 degrees C or higher as ha... | C01 |
427 | 8,316 | Vaginal infections in adult women.
Often trivialized by the medical profession, vaginitis in adult women is not only extremely common but is the source of considerable distress and often results in marked suffering.
Epidemiologic studies described in this article indicate the high prevalence of vaginitis and the larg... | C01 |
428 | 2,517 | Association of Helicobacter pylori infection with dyspeptic symptoms in patients undergoing gastroduodenoscopy.
PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia and ulcer disease as well as in a control population undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography... | C01 |
429 | 3,821 | Infections in alcoholic patients.
Alcoholic patients have an increased susceptibility to certain bacterial infections.
Among the more important of these infections are pneumonia, tuberculosis, spontaneous peritonitis, and bacteremia.
This susceptibility is caused by alteration of immune function and mechanical defen... | C01 |
430 | 6,674 | Toxic streptococcal syndrome.
The streptococcal toxic shocklike syndrome is a recently recognized, multisystem disorder that shares many of the features of staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome, but is caused by toxins elaborated by group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus.
We describe a patient who fulfilled the major cri... | C01 |
431 | 4,663 | Tumor necrosis factor-alpha plays a role in host defense against Histoplasma capsulatum.
Tumor necrosis factor-alpha was detected in supernatants collected from BALB/c mouse peritoneal macrophages incubated continuously with Histoplasma capsulatum.
The levels of TNF alpha measured by actinomycin D bioassay peaked wit... | C01 |
432 | 7,858 | Femoral artery cannulation for monitoring in critically ill children: prospective study.
Seventy-seven attempted percutaneous femoral artery cannulations were prospectively evaluated in 74 children.
Artery cannulation was successfully accomplished in 73 (95%) cases and lasted for a mean of 6 days.
Sixty percent of t... | C01 |
433 | 7,597 | Lung function in children following empyema.
Spirometry was performed and response to exercise was measured in 15 children following recovery from empyema to evaluate the impact of pleural infection on subsequent lung function.
Seven children underwent chest tube drainage; eight did not.
The two groups were similar ... | C01 |
434 | 9,183 | Liver abscess complicating intratumoral ethanol injection therapy for HCC.
We report a patient who developed multiple liver abscesses and sepsis caused by lactobacilli after the percutaneous intratumoral injection of ethanol for hepatocellular carcinoma.
We diagnosed the liver abscess at an early stage because of a t... | C01 |
435 | 5,915 | Resolution of lung abscess due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa with oral ciprofloxacin: case report.
A case of lung abscess due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa is presented that did not resolve with the use of conventional antipseudomonal antibiotics, including tobramycin with ticarcillin-clavulanate and ceftazidime with gentamic... | C01 |
436 | 834 | Serum pepsinogen I and gastrin concentrations in children positive for Helicobacter pylori.
Serum pepsinogen I, serum gastrin concentration, and inflammatory scores were measured in a population of 71 children undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for investigation of upper abdominal pain.
Forty four were initi... | C01 |
437 | 8,952 | Surgical wound infection and cancer among the elderly: a case control study.
Surgical wound infection occurs in fewer than 5% of operations.
Nevertheless, it represents the second most common type of hospital-acquired infection and results in increased morbidity and mortality.
As with all nosocomial infections, the ... | C01 |
438 | 6,736 | Human intestinal tissue antibiotic concentrations. Clindamycin, gentamicin, and mezlocillin.
An antibiotic, to be effective for prophylaxis in abdominal trauma, should quickly achieve high concentrations in the intestinal wall and at enough inhibitory levels to kill most aerobic and anaerobic bacteria that are potenti... | C01 |
439 | 391 | Resolution of the adult respiratory distress syndrome following colectomy and liver transplantation.
A 32-year-old woman with liver failure from end-stage cirrhosis and ulcerative colitis developed septicemia and severe ARDS.
Subtotal colectomy and a successful liver transplantation resulted in complete resolution of... | C01 |
440 | 9,283 | Severe anemia is an important negative predictor for survival with disseminated Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [published erratum appears in Am Rev Respir Dis 1991 Feb;143(2):451]
Disseminated Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI) in patients with the acquired immunodeficie... | C01 |
441 | 8,323 | Amoxycillin plus probenecid versus doxycycline for treatment of erythema migrans borreliosis.
72 adults with erythema migrans (early Lyme borreliosis) were enrolled in a randomised prospective trial comparing amoxycillin 500 mg plus probenecid 500 mg three times a day with doxycycline 100 mg twice a day for 21 days.
... | C01 |
442 | 4,343 | Treatment of chronic moccasin-type tinea pedis with terbinafine: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
Terbinafine is an orally and topically active fungicidal drug of the allylamine series.
Its oral efficacy at 125 mg taken twice daily was evaluated in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in mocc... | C01 |
443 | 9,641 | Surgical presentation of Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome).
Five patients with Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome) are reported whose varied presentations included acute abdominal pain, peripheral arterial aneurysms, digital gangrene and sterile pyuria and whose presenting pathology... | C01 |
444 | 6,979 | Does survival depend on the amount of autotransplanted splenic tissue?
Susceptibility to Streptococcus pneumoniae infection was studied in 11 groups of rats allocated to sham operation, splenectomy, or splenic autotransplantation of 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, or 90% of the removed spleen.
Three months la... | C01 |
445 | 4,658 | Bacterial meningitis in the United States, 1986: report of a multistate surveillance study. The Bacterial Meningitis Study Group.
A prospective, laboratory-based surveillance project obtained accurate data on meningitis in a population of 34 million people during 1986.
Haemophilus influenzae was the most common cause... | C01 |
446 | 6,578 | Role of surgery in antibiotic-induced pseudomembranous enterocolitis.
With the increased use of prophylactic and broad-spectrum antibiotics, pseudomembranous colitis has emerged as a significant clinical problem.
Management with specific anti-Clostridium difficile therapy (vancomycin or metronidazole) has reduced mor... | C01 |
447 | 6,168 | HIV disease: a review for the family physician. Part II. Secondary infections, malignancy and experimental therapy.
The first part of this two-part article included recommendations for the initial evaluation of patients suspected of having HIV infection, the Centers for Disease Control's classification scheme for HIV ... | C01 |
448 | 5,639 | Clinical features of adenovirus enteritis: a review of 127 cases.
We retrospectively analyzed the clinical features of 127 hospitalized pediatric patients whose fecal samples were positive for adenovirus (Ad) by electron microscopy during an 18-month period.
Serotyping results obtained by microneutralization tests an... | C01 |
449 | 7,419 | A randomized prospective study of topical antimicrobial agents on skin grafts after thermal injury.
We prospectively studied 52 consecutive patients who were treated by early tangential excision and grafting following thermal injury.
The usefulness of two topical antimicrobial agents--0.5% silver nitrate (Ag) and neo... | C01 |
450 | 5,447 | Chronic Lyme disease with an expansive granulomatous lesion in the cerebellopontine angle.
Expansive granulomatous lesions in the posterior cranial fossa are rare and have not been reported in conjunction with Lyme disease.
We report a patient with verified Borrelia burgdorferi infection who developed a tumor in the ... | C01 |
451 | 7,839 | Simplified two-stage below-knee amputation for unsalvageable diabetic foot infections.
A simplified two-stage below-knee amputation for unsalvageable diabetic foot infections was done on 19 limbs with 84% good results for healing.
The first stage was the standard below-knee amputation with a long posterior flap in wh... | C01 |
452 | 4,186 | Treatment of infection after total knee arthroplasty by debridement with retention of the components.
Thirty-one total knee arthroplasties were followed by infection in twenty-seven patients who were subsequently treated with debridement, retention of the components, and intravenous administration of antibiotics.
The... | C01 |
453 | 6,533 | HIV seroprevalence among male IVDUs in Houston, Texas.
HIV seroprevalence was 8.4 percent in a sample of 921 heterosexual male intravenous drug users in Houston, Texas who were not in drug treatment at the time of the study.
Males who were Black, injected drugs daily, or had a history of syphilis had greater odds of ... | C01 |
454 | 7,518 | How and why aztreonam works.
Aztreonam is the first monocyclic beta-lactam antibiotic (monobactam) to be tested clinically.
Its synthetic structure determines specific areas of activity, including enhanced activity against Pseudomonas species, exceptional activity against gram-negative bacteria, stability to beta-lac... | C01 |
455 | 8,767 | Urinary infection following out-patient flexible cystoscopy.
Of 161 flexible cystoscopies performed in an out-patient endoscopy suite, the incidence of urinary tract infection was 7.5%.
Infection rates were higher in patients with a history of previous urinary tract infection or where an additional procedure was also... | C01 |
456 | 2,174 | Pulmonary disease following intravesical BCG treatment.
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is an attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis that has been used in the treatment of malignant disease for over 20 years and for the treatment of bladder cancer since 1976.
Major complications of this treatment are infrequent.
We... | C01 |
457 | 6,548 | South American blastomycosis: ophthalmic and oculomotor nerve lesions.
A case of South American blastomycosis began with an oropharyngeal lesion which was followed by a granulomatous uveitis.
The patient was treated with Amphotericin B and showed a clinical regression.
Four months later, he developed a right 3rd cra... | C01 |
458 | 881 | Treatment of vaginal candidiasis: orally or vaginally?
Vaginal candidiasis continues to be the most common cause of vaginal discharge.
A large variety of topical drugs and a selection of orally active antifungals are currently available.
The choice between the use of oral drugs or intravaginal agents will depend on ... | C01 |
459 | 5,932 | Quinolone antibiotics in the treatment of Salmonella infections
The 4-fluoroquinolones are a new class of antimicrobial agents that possess broad in vitro antibacterial activity, including efficacy against enteric pathogens such as Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, Yersinia, and Vibrio species.
These drugs are cl... | C01 |
460 | 2,814 | Ceftazidime/clindamycin versus tobramycin/clindamycin in the treatment of intra-abdominal infections.
In order to assess the efficacy and toxicity of ceftazidime as a substitute for aminoglycosides in the treatment of intra-abdominal sepsis, a prospective randomized trial was conducted.
Ninety-four patients (49% trau... | C01 |
461 | 9,174 | Comparison of two ascitic fluid culture methods in cirrhotic patients with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
The conventional method of ascitic fluid culture detects bacteria in only 50% of cirrhotic patients with neutrocytic ascites and suspected spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP).
We have prospectively compar... | C01 |
462 | 7,406 | Postneonatal infectious disease mortality: the French situation.
Mortality caused by infectious and parasitic diseases represents a limited part of all postneonatal deaths in France, which have been stable for the past decade.
This component is worthy of careful analysis because it is at least partially preventable.
... | C01 |
463 | 2,798 | Epidemiology of infection by nontuberculous mycobacteria IX. Evidence for two DNA homology groups among small plasmids in Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, and Mycobacterium scrofulaceum.
A 12.9 kb plasmid, pVT2, from a clinical Mycobacterium avium isolate, MD1, was cloned and radiolabeled for use as ... | C01 |
464 | 9,904 | Castanospermine vs. its 6-O-butanoyl analog: a comparison of toxicity and antiviral activity in vitro and in vivo.
Inhibitors of glycoprotein processing, such as castanospermine (1,6,7,8-tetrahydroxyoctahydroindolizine), have been shown previously to inhibit human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) with acceptable ... | C01 |
465 | 8,312 | Common nonvenereal genital lesions.
There are a wide variety of local and systemic skin diseases that produce lesions in the genitoanal region.
These lesions may resemble those produced by sexually transmitted microorganisms.
The purpose of this article is to make physicians aware of the common skin diseases that pr... | C01 |
466 | 9,488 | Peritoneal macrophage beta-2 microglobulin production and bacterial peritonitis in CAPD patients.
To evaluate the role of bacterial peritonitis in peritoneal macrophage (PM) Beta-2 Microglobulin (B2M) production, and its relationship with PM Interleukin-1 (IL-1) and Leukotriene B4 (LTB4) release, the authors studied 2... | C01 |
467 | 9,945 | The systemic septic response: concepts of pathogenesis.
Following resuscitation from shock, the clinical phase of persistent hypermetabolism is entered from which a substantial number of patients transcend into progressive organ failure and expire.
The available epidemiologic, physiologic, and metabolic data are cons... | C01 |
468 | 5,758 | A rhesus monkey model for sexual transmission of a papillomavirus isolated from a squamous cell carcinoma.
Recently we molecularly cloned and characterized a papillomavirus from a lymph node metastasis of a primary penile carcinoma found in a rhesus monkey; this virus species, rhesus papillomavirus type 1 (RhPV-1), is... | C01 |
469 | 4,820 | Early hospital discharge of children with cancer treated for fever and neutropenia: identification and management of the low-risk patient.
Children with leukemia and solid tumors are often hospitalized for empiric broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy because of fever during periods of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia.
C... | C01 |
470 | 9,168 | Helicobacter pylori infection: a simplified diagnostic approach.
We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of endoscopic finding of nodular antritis and rapid urease test (RUT) in order to simplify the approach to the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori (H.
pylori) infection.
Forty-four consecutive patients (mean age 7.9 yr... | C01 |
471 | 2,892 | Comparison of cilofungin and amphotericin B for therapy of murine candidiasis.
We compared the efficacies of cilofungin and amphotericin B treatment in a murine model of disseminated candidiasis.
Three different dosages of each drug plus controls were evaluated.
Statistically improved survival was noted only among m... | C01 |
472 | 9,620 | The role of indium-labelled leukocyte imaging in pyrexia of unknown origin.
Indium-111-labeled white blood cell scanning is often used in the investigation of pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) to locate an otherwise occult source of sepsis.
From a series of 166 white blood cell studies performed for sepsis, 28 cases of... | C01 |
473 | 8,802 | Helicobacter pylori and gastric carcinoma. Serum antibody prevalence in populations with contrasting cancer risks.
This investigation examined the correlation between Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection, as reflected in immunoglobulin G serum antibodies, and the risk of gastric cancer.
Serum samples were obtained from... | C01 |
474 | 6,398 | Epidemiology of Lyme disease in Virginia.
Prior to January 1986, only one case of Lyme disease was reported from Virginia.
In 1986-87, however, the Virginia Department of Health observed an increase in reports of suspected Lyme disease by physicians, despite the fact that Ixodes dammini is not highly prevalent in the... | C01 |
475 | 4,742 | Causes of death in hospitalized intravenous drug abusers.
The authors reviewed at autopsy the causes of death of 274 patients with evidence of intravenous drug abuse who had been admitted to a large public hospital.
There were 127 who died from diseases unrelated to intravenous drug abuse, and in 41% of these, chroni... | C01 |
476 | 7,675 | Group B streptococcus endocarditis following second-trimester abortion.
An 18-year-old woman who underwent an elective second-trimester abortion developed Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococcus) endocarditis characterized by a large, pedunculated vegetation involving a previously normal tricuspid valve.
Poly... | C01 |
477 | 5,627 | Thrombocytosis after pneumonia with empyema and other bacterial infections in children.
Thrombocytosis is seen in association with many conditions, including infectious diseases.
We studied thrombocytosis after severe bacterial infections, particularly pneumonia with empyema in children.
A systematic survey of the p... | C01 |
478 | 8,289 | Vaginitis emphysematosa. A report of four cases.
It has been hypothesized that vaginitis emphysematosa is a manifestation of trichomonal or Gardnerella infection.
In support of this etiologic concept, four cases of the disorder are described showing the apparent curative effect of treating the associated infection.
... | C01 |
479 | 7,870 | Risks of human immunodeficiency virus infection to patients and healthcare personnel.
The risk of nosocomial human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among hospitalized patients comes almost exclusively from transfusion of fresh blood products.
Current estimates of the risk of HIV infection from the transfusion o... | C01 |
480 | 6,692 | Erythromycin failure with subsequent Pasteurella multocida meningitis and septic arthritis in a cat-bite victim.
We report the case of a 75-year-old woman who developed Pasteurella multocida meningitis and septic arthritis while being treated for a cat-bite wound infection with erythromycin.
Review of the literature ... | C01 |
481 | 5,909 | Early postoperative care of the cardiac transplantation patient: routine considerations and immunosuppressive therapy.
The authors have attempted to outline the current state of the art with respect to the early postoperative management of the cardiac transplant recipient with special attention to immunosuppressive th... | C01 |
482 | 5,072 | Fatal sepsis following intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin administration for bladder cancer.
Intravesical administration of bacillus Calmette-Guerin has been shown to be highly effective treatment of superficial bladder cancer.
Complications from bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy are usually minor but serious and e... | C01 |
483 | 5,261 | Impact of active immunisation against enteritis necroticans in Papua New Guinea.
Enteritis necroticans, known locally as pigbel, has been a major cause of illness and death among children in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
After a successful trial of active immunisation against the beta toxin of the causative orga... | C01 |
484 | 9,948 | Altered Ca2+ homeostasis and functional correlates in hepatocytes and adipocytes in endotoxemia and sepsis.
Decreased cytosolic [Ca2+] and impaired Ca2+ release in response to an IP3 challenge are among perturbations in hepatocyte Ca2+ homeostasis associated with endotoxemia and sepsis.
These changes are consistent w... | C01 |
485 | 7,271 | Isolation of HIV-1 from the blood of seropositive adults: patient stage of illness and sample inoculum size are major determinants of a positive culture. The Walter Reed Retroviral Research Group.
Results of HIV-1 blood cultures from 609 seropositive adults across all stages of illness at the Walter Reed Army Medical ... | C01 |
486 | 883 | Itraconazole treatment of phaeohyphomycosis.
Nineteen patients with phaeohyphomycosis were treated with itraconazole.
Of these, 17 were assessable for clinical outcome.
Of these, two had received no prior therapy, five had failed amphotericin B therapy, four had failed ketoconazole or miconazole therapy, and five ha... | C01 |
487 | 6,843 | Thoracoplasty: current application to the infected pleural space
Thoracoplasty, once commonly used in the management of cavitary pulmonary disease, continues to find application in the obliteration of infected pleural spaces.
This study reports a series of 13 patients receiving thoracoplasty between 1976 and 1989.
... | C01 |
488 | 718 | Mechanical cardiopulmonary support for refractory cardiogenic shock.
From February 1982 to February 1990, 38 patients (30 male patients and 8 female patients) ranging in age from 10 to 78 years (mean 49.4 years) have been supported with arteriovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) at St.
Louis University ... | C01 |
489 | 4,341 | Efficacy and tolerability of topical terbinafine in the treatment of tinea cruris.
Thirty men with clinical and mycologic evidence of tinea cruris were enrolled in a controlled, randomized, double-blind trial comparing terbinafine 1% cream and its cream vehicle as placebo.
Patients applied the test medications to the... | C01 |
490 | 7,667 | Clindamycin vs penicillin for anaerobic lung infections. High rate of penicillin failures associated with penicillin-resistant Bacteroides melaninogenicus.
Thirty-seven adult patients with anaerobic lung infections (27 lung abscesses and 10 necrotizing pneumonias) were submitted to transthoracic needle-aspiration and/... | C01 |
491 | 2,546 | High infectious morbidity in pregnant women with insulin-dependent diabetes: an understated complication.
Patients with insulin-dependent diabetes are prone to infection, possibly related to poor metabolic control.
Relative immune deficiency exists in pregnancy.
We hypothesized that pregnant patients with insulin-de... | C01 |
492 | 761 | The modified Schollner costoplasty.
The modified Schollner costoplasty is a cosmetic procedure for the correction of rib prominence deformity in scoliosis.
We present the results of the procedure in 21 patients who had previously undergone spinal fusion for scoliosis.
We found the procedure to be well tolerated with... | C01 |
493 | 8,108 | Why use drains?
There is no firm published evidence to support the use of closed suction drains.
Over 20 years ago, large studies by the Public Health Laboratory Service and the National Research Council found that drains were risk factors for wound infection.
A prospective randomised study of the use of closed suct... | C01 |
494 | 2,988 | Desensitization in the management of vancomycin hypersensitivity.
Vancomycin is the preferred antimicrobial agent in the treatment of methicillin-resistant staphylococcal infections.
One of the well-known hypersensitivity reactions to this agent is the "red-man syndrome," which is believed to involve drug-induced his... | C01 |
495 | 9,300 | A rat model of prolonged pulmonary infection due to nontypable Haemophilus influenzae.
Pulmonary colonization and infection with nontypable (unencapsulated) Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) occurs commonly in the setting of chronic lung diseases.
Because the study of NTHI pulmonary infection in animal models has been li... | C01 |
496 | 8,310 | Human papillomavirus infections of the genital tract.
Infection of the genital tract by HPV is a sexually transmitted disease of increasing prevalence.
The association of HPV infection with genital tract malignancies is of great concern, and further studies are needed to clarify this association.
Few investigators b... | C01 |
497 | 8,653 | Helicobacter pylori and associated duodenal ulcer.
Twenty three children with coexistent duodenal ulcer and Helicobacter pylori infection were treated with either two weeks of amoxycillin (25 mg/kg/day) in addition to six weeks of cimetidine, or cimetidine alone.
Endoscopy with antral and duodenal biopsies for urease... | C01 |
498 | 8,993 | Endophthalmitis after placement of a Molteno implant.
I report a case of early postoperative endophthalmitis following placement of a Molteno implant.
Excellent results were obtained by immediate removal of the implant and surgical management of the infection, followed by replacement of the implant. | C01 |
499 | 3,728 | Quality of well-being before and after antibiotic treatment of pulmonary exacerbation in patients with cystic fibrosis.
General quality of life has only recently been measured with an objective tool in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), and there have been no reported attempts to document changes in patients' overall... | C01 |
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