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9,500 | 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... | C21 |
9,501 | 2,943 | Tracheal and main bronchial disruptions after blunt chest trauma: presentation and management
Tracheobronchial disruption is one of the less common injuries associated with blunt thoracic trauma.
This injury can be life threatening, however, and failure to diagnose it early can lead to disastrous acute or delayed co... | C21 |
9,502 | 5,334 | Genucom knee analysis system: reproducibility and database development.
The Genucom is a relatively new computerized system that performs a multidimensional analysis of knee laxity.
Therefore, the purposes of the present investigation were twofold: 1) to estimate the reproducibility of the testing system in its abili... | C21 |
9,503 | 7,040 | The impact of an AIDS symposium on attitudes of providers of pediatric health care.
Following reports of concern among health-care workers regarding the occupational risk of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a symposium was designed in 1987 to demonstrate to health-care providers at three hospital... | C21 |
9,504 | 7,041 | Attitudes of medical school faculty and students toward acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
Attitudes of faculty and students will influence the success of educational programs to address acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
In 1988-89, 170 medical school faculty and 227 students completed needs assessment ques... | C21 |
9,505 | 8,119 | Gasoline burns: the preventable cause of thermal injury.
Gasoline related burns are a significant cause of thermal injuries each year in the United States.
In this retrospective review of 1858 admissions to our Regional Burn Center from 1979 to 1988, 270 (14.5%) were persons with gasoline-related injuries.
Natural g... | C21 |
9,506 | 2,181 | Age-related spontaneous intracerebral hematoma in a German community.
We investigated incidence, age distribution in relation to etiology, and localization of spontaneous intracerebral hematoma in 100 consecutive cases.
Incidence in the total population of the Giessen area was estimated to be greater than 11/100,000 ... | C21 |
9,507 | 5,455 | Intradural herniation of a thoracic disc presenting as flaccid paraplegia: case report.
A case of intradural herniation of a thoracic disc in a patient with a flaccid paraplegia is described.
Intradural herniation of a thoracic disc is considered a rare event.
A review of the relevant patient literature revealed 14 ... | C21 |
9,508 | 5,472 | Effect of dosage and timing of administration of naloxone on outcome in the rat ventral compression model of spinal cord injury.
The effect of the dosage and timing of administration of naloxone after spinal cord injury in rats via the ventral compression technique is presented.
The rat ventral compression technique ... | C21 |
9,509 | 8,588 | The corneoscleral limbus in human corneal epithelial wound healing.
We studied re-epithelialization of the ocular surface in 17 human eyes (14 patients) with large corneal and conjunctival abrasions.
We focused on the healing of the limbal region.
During re-epithelialization, cell movement was found to occur circumf... | C21 |
9,510 | 3,358 | The role of medical schools in the prevention of alcohol-related problems.
There is agreement that physicians can play a major role in the prevention of alcohol problems among their patients and that medical schools should prepare physicians for this role by teaching three major subject areas: knowledge, attitudes and... | C21 |
9,511 | 5,203 | Agreement between two dietary methods in the measurement of alcohol consumption.
This study compares estimates of alcohol consumption from two dietary methods: a self-reported diet diary and a quantitative food frequency questionnaire.
In the 1984-85 University of Michigan Food Frequency Study, 228 black and white, m... | C21 |
9,512 | 8,078 | Human dose-response relationship for decompression and endogenous bubble formation.
The dose-response relationship for decompression magnitude and venous gas emboli (VGE) formation in humans was examined.
Pressure exposures of 138, 150, and 164 kPa (12, 16, and 20.5 ft of seawater gauge pressure) were conducted in an... | C21 |
9,513 | 9,623 | Lack of late skin necrosis in man after high-dose irradiation using small field sizes: experiences of grid therapy.
Out of a total of 437 patients with superior vena caval syndrome or advanced malignancy, given single-dose grid radiotherapy, four survived to 7 years.
The dose to the skin under each of the 77 holes in... | C21 |
9,514 | 7,402 | Excess injury mortality among children in the United States: comparison of recent international statistics.
Using data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the World Health Organization, child injury death rates in the US were compared to those of Canada, England and Wales, France, Netherlands, and Norwa... | C21 |
9,515 | 9,794 | Toxic epidermal necrolysis after bone marrow transplantation: study of nine cases.
Acute graft-versus-host reaction after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation has been reported to induce toxic epidermal necrolysis.
To assess the respective role of acute graft-versus-host disease and of drug reaction in this setting... | C21 |
9,516 | 2,086 | Herniated intervertebral discs associated with unstable spinal injuries.
To examine the occurrence of traumatic herniated intervertebral discs associated with unstable spinal injuries, the authors reviewed the records of all patients with spinal cord level unstable spine injuries managed at their institution over a 26... | C21 |
9,517 | 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... | C21 |
9,518 | 2,412 | Carbon monoxide poisoning. Five-years' experience in a defined population.
A review is presented of 302 cases in East Denmark in 1982-1986 in which the manner of death was fatal carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.
The incidence of this far too frequent single-substance poisoning has as yet not decreased over the years de... | C21 |
9,519 | 6,078 | Gastric outlet obstruction caused by traumatic pseudoaneurysm of superior mesenteric artery.
Traumatic pseudoaneurysms of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) are extremely rare.
We describe two cases of posttraumatic proximal SMA pseudoaneurysms with symptoms of gastric outlet obstruction.
Repair was accomplished b... | C21 |
9,520 | 5,000 | Acute aortic valvular incompetence following blunt thoracic deceleration injury: case report.
Blunt trauma leading to aortic valvular incompetence is rarely encountered, with 27 cases reported to date.
All cusps and commissures are involved to a similar degree.
Treatment includes either reattachment of cusps to the ... | C21 |
9,521 | 7,841 | Bone fragility of the peripheral skeleton during fluoride therapy for osteoporosis.
Bone fragility during fluoride therapy for osteoporosis was observed in 24 (37.5%) of 64 patients treated with sodium fluoride, calcium, and vitamin D for 2.5 years who developed episodes of lower-limb pain during treatment.
Eighteen ... | C21 |
9,522 | 4,999 | Pediatric blunt liver injury and coagulopathy managed with packs and a silo: case report.
Packing the abdomen can be lifesaving when severe hepatic trauma is complicated by refractory hypothermia, coagulopathy, and continuing hemorrhage requiring large-volume transfusion.
This report describes the successful use of a... | C21 |
9,523 | 6,939 | The hippocampus and parahippocampus in schizophrenia, suicide, and control brains [published erratum appears in Arch Gen Psychiatry 1991 May;48(5):422]
Recent postmortem studies in schizophrenia have shown abnormalities in medial temporal lobe structures, including the hippocampus and parahippocampus.
We tried to rep... | C21 |
9,524 | 2,680 | Esophageal motor disorder in alcoholics: result of alcoholism or withdrawal?
Both acute and chronic ethanol consumption may cause esophageal dysmotility.
In order to systematically evaluate the effect of ethanol on esophageal motility, we studied esophageal motility in 13 healthy subjects before and following acute i... | C21 |
9,525 | 8,121 | Marjolin's ulcer: a review and reevaluation of a difficult problem.
The formation of an epidermoid carcinoma in nonhealing scar tissue, a Marjolin's ulcer, is a well described neoplasm.
These lesions are, however, frequently overlooked and often inadequately treated.
This paper reviews six cases of scar-tissue carci... | C21 |
9,526 | 9,736 | Open fractures of the tibia in children.
Forty-one children who had forty-two open fractures of the tibial metaphysis or diaphysis were studied retrospectively.
Twelve fractures were Type I; eighteen, Type II; six, Type IIIA; four, Type IIIB; and two, Type IIIC, according to the classification of Gustilo et al.
All ... | C21 |
9,527 | 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... | C21 |
9,528 | 3,013 | Physiologic responses to prolonged electrically stimulated leg-cycle exercise in the spinal cord injured.
This study determined the physiologic responses to prolonged functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS) leg-cycle exercise in seven quadriplegic and seven paraplegic subjects.
Each subject completed 30 minutes of... | C21 |
9,529 | 3,829 | The other alcohols. Methanol, ethylene glycol, and isopropanol.
The alcoholic patient, in an attempt to maintain an altered mental status, may ingest ethanol substitutes containing methanol, ethylene glycol, or isopropanol.
The subsequent clinical presentation in the Emergency Department is highly variable and depend... | C21 |
9,530 | 5,645 | Hair dryer burns in children.
Three children with burn injuries caused by home hair dryers are described.
In one patient the injury was believed to be accidental, and in the other two cases the injuries were deliberately caused by a caretaker.
The lack of prior experience with hair dryer burns initially led to suspi... | C21 |
9,531 | 8,224 | Radiological diagnosis of aspirated foreign bodies in children: review of 343 cases.
In our series of 400 Chinese children with foreign body aspiration (FBA), 343 cases were evaluated by fluoroscopy and/or plain chest X-rays before endoscopic removal of the foreign bodies.
The majority of the foreign bodies (FBs) wer... | C21 |
9,532 | 2,970 | The influence of age vs peak serum concentration on life-threatening events after chronic theophylline intoxication.
To identify risk factors for the development of seizures and cardiac arrhythmias after chronic, unintentional theophylline intoxication we monitored the clinical course of 72 consecutive patients referr... | C21 |
9,533 | 9,663 | Crico-tracheal disruption and common carotid artery occlusion: a case of blunt trauma.
A case of blunt trauma to the neck is presented.
While driving an all terrain vehicle (ATV), a 20-yr-old male was struck across the anterior neck by a cord suspended between two poles.
Initial findings were suggestive of an isolat... | C21 |
9,534 | 3,638 | Trochanteric fractures. Mobility, complications, and mortality in 607 cases treated with the sliding-screw technique.
Six hundred seven trochanteric fractures (563 patients) were treated with a sliding-screw technique and followed clinically and roentgenographically for at least one year.
Of 351 patients admitted fro... | C21 |
9,535 | 9,949 | Assessing nutritional needs for the burned patient.
Assessment of nutritional needs following thermal injury remains an important adjunct to providing dietary therapy designed to minimize the detrimental effects of hypermetabolism and subsequent catabolism.
Most anthropometric measurements, frequently utilized in non... | C21 |
9,536 | 2,416 | Accidental death from a black-powder rifle breech plug.
Authentic black-powder muzzle-loader weapons and replicas are used today primarily for hunting game such as deer and hogs.
The following is a case presentation of accidental death from cerebral trauma caused by a .45-caliber black-powder-rifle breech plug implan... | C21 |
9,537 | 6,898 | Medical management of acute traumatic rupture of the aorta.
Surgical reconstruction is the treatment for acute traumatic aortic rupture and should be accomplished immediately in most patients.
In patients in whom concomitant injuries or the development of life-threatening complications preclude safe and successful ao... | C21 |
9,538 | 6,509 | Epidemiology of reported cases of AIDS in lesbians, United States 1980-89.
National surveillance data for reported cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were used to assess demographic characteristics and behavioral risk factors in lesbians.
From June 1, 1980 through September 30, 1989, 79 women with AID... | C21 |
9,539 | 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... | C21 |
9,540 | 5,871 | Improved technique for a one-stage repair of significant defects of the ear.
An improved technique for repair of severe acquired partial defects of the auricle in one stage is described.
The common postauricular flap with its base on the margin of the auricular defect is usually unable to repair a severe partial auri... | C21 |
9,541 | 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 ... | C21 |
9,542 | 7,643 | Intraocular foreign bodies: results of 27 cases.
Twenty-seven consecutive cases of various kinds of perforating injuries with foreign bodies, referred to the Ophthalmology Department of Hacettepe Medical School between January 1984 and April 1988, were evaluated retrospectively.
Whenever technically possible magnetic... | C21 |
9,543 | 7,641 | Outpatient management of traumatic microhyphemas.
Traumatic microhyphema is an entity encountered in emergency rooms and general ophthalmology practices.
The management of traumatic microhyphema has not been well defined in the literature.
We discuss the effectiveness of our treatment regimen and the incidence of re... | C21 |
9,544 | 3,114 | The spectrum of emergency care of agricultural trauma in central Wisconsin.
Agriculture is among the most dangerous occupations in the United States.
When injuries do occur, the emergency department (ED) is the primary source of care.
Over a 2-year period, the emergency medicine section of the Marshfield Clinic/St J... | C21 |
9,545 | 4,732 | Field performance of the Intoxilyzer 5000: a comparison of blood- and breath-alcohol results in Wisconsin drivers.
Intoxilyzer 5000 and blood-alcohol results from drivers arrested for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and for related offenses were compared during a two-year period.
Three hundred and ninety-... | C21 |
9,546 | 7,404 | Childhood injuries: where we are.
In this paper we present the leading causes of fatal childhood injury in the United States.
We examine three types of explanations for why injury rates are so high in the United States compared with what they could be and actually are in a number of industrialized European countries.... | C21 |
9,547 | 5,014 | Rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure associated with cocaine abuse.
Cocaine abuse has emerged as a major public health problem among young adults.
Illicit use of cocaine has been associated with an increasing array of medical complications.
Both traumatic and nontraumatic rhabdomyolysis, often complicated by acute... | C21 |
9,548 | 5,035 | Arteriographically determined occlusive disease within the hypogastric-cavernous bed in impotent patients following blunt perineal and pelvic trauma.
To determine the presence, location and pattern of arterial occlusive disease within the hypogastric-cavernous arterial bed in impotent men following blunt perineal and ... | C21 |
9,549 | 4,984 | Auto-PEEP in the multisystem injured patient: an elusive complication.
Auto-PEEP (A-PEEP), unrecognized alveolar positive and expiratory pressure during mechanical ventilation, is an acknowledged hazard in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease.
We evaluated 50 consecutive trauma patients for the presence of ... | C21 |
9,550 | 5,439 | Posterior interosseous nerve palsies.
One hundred seventy patients with radial nerve disorders were reviewed at the Louisiana State University Medical Center over a 15-year period.
Of these, 32 had involvement of the posterior interosseous nerve exclusively.
Findings included weak wrist extension with a radial drift... | C21 |
9,551 | 2,711 | Relationship between anesthetic procedure and contact of anesthesia personnel with patient body fluids.
We recorded the frequency with which anesthesia personnel came in contact with patient body fluids in order to provide an empirical basis for the recommendation of relevant precautions.
Anesthesia personnel complet... | C21 |
9,552 | 4,760 | Articulatory impairment associated with tardive dyskinesia.
The speech of two patients with tardive dyskinesia was studied, and one neuroleptic-treated patient having no signs of overt tardive dyskinesia served as control.
A structured interview, including reading, repetition of sentences, and spontaneous conversatio... | C21 |
9,553 | 5,211 | The effect of gender and subtype on platelet MAO in alcoholism.
Decreased platelet MAO activity has been identified in male alcoholics with suggestions that this is primarily true of Type 2 alcoholics as defined by criteria from the Stockholm Adoption Study.
Little information has been available regarding platelet MA... | C21 |
9,554 | 9,290 | Prevalence of occupational asthma and immunologic sensitization to psyllium among health personnel in chronic care hospitals.
Psyllium is a high molecular weight laxative that can cause occupational asthma among health care workers who prepare this product for chronically ill patients.
The prevalence of immunologic s... | C21 |
9,555 | 6,789 | Management of tracheobronchial foreign bodies in children: an update.
Tracheobronchial foreign bodies continue to be a source of morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population.
Technical advances in anesthesia and equipment have made the removal of these troublesome objects more feasible.
Diligence must still b... | C21 |
9,556 | 7,767 | Combined modality therapy for locally advanced non-small cell lung carcinoma.
Multi-modality treatment consisting of cisplatin, VP-16, and 5-fluorouracil chemotherapy given concomitantly with external beam radiation was used to treat 64 patients with locally advanced Stage III non-small cell lung carcinoma.
This regi... | C21 |
9,557 | 364 | Critical care for clonidine poisoning in toddlers.
Clonidine may be a source of serious toxicity when ingested by toddlers.
We describe 11 cases of clonidine ingestion by toddlers (mean dose 0.15 mg/kg; range 0.01 to 0.57).
The source of the clonidine was a grand-parent in six of 11 cases.
Symptoms included altered... | C21 |
9,558 | 251 | Left ventricular rupture complicating percutaneous mitral commissurotomy: salvage using percutaneous cardiopulmonary bypass support.
Left ventricular rupture resulting in death has been reported to be a complication of percutaneous mitral commissurotomy.
We report a 71-year-old man in whom a left ventricular rupture ... | C21 |
9,559 | 2,977 | Mortality following hip fracture before and after implementation of the prospective payment system.
Recent studies of patients with hip fractures from two hospitals have suggested that the marked reduction in length of stay that occurred following implementation of the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) resulte... | C21 |
9,560 | 2,989 | Long-term therapeutic use of benzodiazepines. I. Effects of abrupt discontinuation [published erratum appears in Arch Gen Psychiatry 1991 Jan;48(1):51]
We compared the effect of abrupt discontinuation of therapeutic doses of short half-life and long half-life benzodiazepines in 57 benzodiazepine-dependent patients (da... | C21 |
9,561 | 6,686 | Geriatric injury: an analysis of prehospital demographics, mechanisms, and patterns.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate emergency medical services (EMS) system use, injury mechanisms, and prehospital assessments among elderly victims of trauma.
DESIGN: We analyzed all prehospital data for injuries among patients 70 years o... | C21 |
9,562 | 7,393 | Seven hundred medicolegal cases in ophthalmology.
Seven hundred medicolegal claims in ophthalmology were reviewed by one ophthalmologist who served as an expert for four decades.
The ophthalmologist was personally involved in 620 claims.
The 700 cases have been categorized and analyzed.
The reasons for the claims a... | C21 |
9,563 | 3,091 | Alcohol and bone disease.
Alcohol is considered to be an important risk factor for various bone diseases but recent studies have shown that moderate alcohol intake can be beneficial to bone structure.
Alcohol decreases osteoblastic activity, leading to decreased bone formation and defective mineralization.
The chang... | C21 |
9,564 | 623 | Occupational distribution of inflammatory bowel disease among German employees.
Previous reports have shown that both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis affect people in white collar occupations associated with higher income and higher social class more frequently than other groups in the population.
This study s... | C21 |
9,565 | 9,222 | Living with artificial grass: a knowledge update. Part 2: Epidemiology.
Part 2 of our study evaluated the effect of artificial grass on the athletes that play on it.
In this section we have reviewed the epidemiological studies that have evaluated the influence that artificial grass has on the frequency and site of in... | C21 |
9,566 | 2,654 | Reconstruction of mandibular defects in irradiated patients.
In this prospective study, mandibular reconstruction using titanium plates was evaluated in 31 patients treated between July 1988 and January 1990.
Sixteen patients had prior surgery; 13 had prior radiotherapy.
In 11 patients, prior radiation and surgery h... | C21 |
9,567 | 9,020 | Efficacy of tetracaine-adrenaline-cocaine topical anesthetic without tetracaine for facial laceration repair in children [published erratum appears in Pediatrics 1991 Feb;87(2):185]
To determine whether the tetracaine component traditionally used in tetracaine-adrenaline-cocaine (TAC) is necessary to obtain effective ... | C21 |
9,568 | 9,011 | Treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy with topical capsaicin. Case report.
A 31-year-old woman with intractable reflex sympathetic dystrophy experienced nearly complete, though temporary, resolution of pain following 3 weeks of topical capsaicin.
We propose that capsaicin may be a useful treatment for reflex symp... | C21 |
9,569 | 348 | Contact sensitization by pesticides in farmers.
30 farmers with contact dermatitis and 20 controls were patch tested with a series of locally used pesticides.
Allergic reactions to 1 or more pesticides were seen in 11 patients but none of the controls.
Carbamates (maneb, carbofuran, carbaryl) were the most frequent ... | C21 |
9,570 | 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... | C21 |
9,571 | 8,999 | Ocular trauma caused by exploding glass bottles containing dry ice and water.
We treated three patients with severe ocular injuries caused by exploding glass bottles containing a mixture of dry ice chips and water.
One patient had a corneal laceration and traumatic cataract with several retained intraocular glass fra... | C21 |
9,572 | 2,812 | Comparison of ulcer surgery at a Veterans Administration and University Hospital.
We compared the patient populations and outcome of surgery for peptic ulcer disease in 81 patients at a Veterans Administration Hospital (OVAH) and 97 patients at an affiliated University Hospital (UNH).
The surgeons and choice of opera... | C21 |
9,573 | 4,932 | Conventional radiographic and computed tomographic findings in cases of fracture of the mandibular condylar process.
A total of 40 patients with 46 fractures of the mandibular condylar process were examined an average of 47 months after the injury.
The conventional radiologic examination consisted of panoramic radiog... | C21 |
9,574 | 6,741 | Starch peritonitis. A case report and clinicopathologic review.
A case of starch peritonitis is presented with a review of the history of this continuing problem.
The syndrome's presentation, diagnosis, histopathology and treatment are discussed.
The rarity of starch peritonitis today may be due to more attention to... | C21 |
9,575 | 5,201 | Alcohol consumption and problem drinking in Vietnam era veterans and nonveterans.
The relationship between Vietnam era veteran status and 13 indicators of alcohol consumption and problem drinking is examined using data from the 1977, 1983 and 1985 National Health Interview Surveys conducted by the National Center for ... | C21 |
9,576 | 745 | The osteogenetic potential of fracture haematoma. Subperiosteal and intramuscular transplantation of the haematoma.
We studied the precise role of the fracture haematoma in healing by the experimental transplantation of the haematoma at two days and four days after fracture of the rat femur to subperiosteal and intram... | C21 |
9,577 | 2,745 | Separation of a ruptured angioplasty balloon with successful percutaneous retrieval--a case report.
A case of ruptured angioplasty balloon with complete separation from the catheter is presented.
Successful percutaneous retrieval of the balloon with endoscopic biopsy forceps was performed. | C21 |
9,578 | 4,749 | Inadvertent clavicular fractures caused by "chiropractic" manipulations in an infant: an unusual form of pseudoabuse.
A nine-month-old child was found unresponsive in his crib, five hours after his last feeding.
At autopsy, there were no external or internal signs of abuse or neglect, and a few visceral pleural and e... | C21 |
9,579 | 8,113 | Cyclosporine A for prolonging allograft survival in patients with massive burns.
Cyclosporine A (CsA) immunosuppression was used in three patients with massive burns to prolong skin allograft survival.
Cyclosporine A kinetic studies in patients with burns revealed markedly accelerated blood clearance and high variabi... | C21 |
9,580 | 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 ... | C21 |
9,581 | 7,112 | Quantitative gamma-ray computed tomography of the radius in normal subjects and osteoporotic patients.
A new design of gamma-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner was used to measure bone density in 516 normal adults and in 116 female patients with osteoporotic fractures.
Trabecular bone density (TBD) was measured for... | C21 |
9,582 | 6,683 | The lack of full correlation between the Injury Severity Score and the resource needs of injured patients
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the Injury Severity Score (ISS) correlates with the resource requirements of severely injured patients by studying the association of the ISS with three major interventions (... | C21 |
9,583 | 9,955 | Evaluation and management of patients with inhalation injury.
Inhalation injury, present in approximately one third of burned patients treated at burn centers, increases mortality by a maximum of 20% in relation to age and extent of burn.
The development of animal models of inhalation injury has made possible the ide... | C21 |
9,584 | 6,497 | Effects of individually motivating smoking cessation in male blue collar workers.
Adverse demonstrable health effects linked to the individual's smoking were shown to 2,689 American workers to motivate cessation during routine examinations to detect asbestosis.
This intervention was evaluated six to 25 months later b... | C21 |
9,585 | 4,184 | The osteogenic response to distant skeletal injury.
We tested the hypothesis that when one bone of the skeleton is injured, others experience an osteogenic response.
Although similar or related phenomena have been observed previously, the purposes of the study were to determine if this response was reproducible, to c... | C21 |
9,586 | 6,521 | Benzodiazepine tranquilizers and the risk of accidental injury.
To determine whether benzodiazepine tranquilizers increase the risk of accidental injury requiring medical attention, we used pharmacy claims submitted to a large third-party payer to identify 4,554 persons who had been prescribed these agents and a match... | C21 |
9,587 | 8,111 | Effects of acute ethanol ingestion and burn injury on serum immunoglobulin.
Previous studies have found that acute ethanol ingestion before burn injury caused further impairment of mitogenic response of B lymphocytes compared with burn injury alone.
The principal role of B lymphocytes is immunoglobulin production.
T... | C21 |
9,588 | 6,732 | Flexible bronchoscopic removal of radioccult polyurethane foam, with pneumonitis in a hyperventilated lobe.
An intellectually delayed adult ingested and aspirated a large quantity of polyurethane foam, developing acute respiratory failure in association with partial airway obstruction.
The foam was identified by flex... | C21 |
9,589 | 999 | Effects of 4-methylpyrazole, methanol/ethylene glycol antidote, in healthy humans.
4-Methylpyrazole (4-MP), an inhibitor of alcohol dehydrogenase, may be useful for the treatment of methanol and ethylene glycol intoxications.
A placebo-controlled, double blind, multiple dose, sequential, ascending-dose study has been... | C21 |
9,590 | 6,198 | The evolving pattern of digoxin intoxication: observations at a large urban hospital from 1980 to 1988.
Digoxin intoxication has been reported to be a common adverse drug reaction with an in-hospital incidence of 6% to 23% and an associated mortality rate as high as 41%.
A retrospective review was conducted to assess... | C21 |
9,591 | 9,837 | Changes affecting the initial evaluation and care of the pregnant trauma victim.
Pregnant women in American society today are at significant risk of injury during a period when physiologic responses to trauma, as well as expected findings of physical examination and laboratory evaluation are altered by the on-going pr... | C21 |
9,592 | 2,069 | Medicinal leeches: once again at the forefront of medicine.
Medical grade leeches have recently been used in the management of acute problems relative to venous congestion in patients with traumatic injuries and surgical problems.
Specific cases, especially in the realm of reconstructive microsurgery, have demonstrat... | C21 |
9,593 | 2,990 | Long-term therapeutic use of benzodiazepines. II. Effects of gradual taper.
We compared the effect on withdrawal severity and acute outcome of a 25% per week taper of short half-life vs long half-life benzodiazepines in 63 benzodiazepine-dependent patients.
Patients unable to tolerate taper were permitted to slow the... | C21 |
9,594 | 2,145 | Subxiphoid pericardiotomy versus echocardiography: a prospective evaluation of the diagnosis of occult penetrating cardiac injury.
Diagnostic subxiphoid pericardiotomy (SP) is presently advocated for the diagnosis of occult cardiac injuries in patients with stable vital signs with juxta-cardiac-penetrating chest wound... | C21 |
9,595 | 5,620 | Heritability of symptoms in an experimental model of neuropathic pain.
Male and female rats underwent transection and ligation of the sciatic and saphenous nerves, and the development of autonomy was monitored.
The deafferented animals were then interbred, always selecting males and females that expressed relatively ... | C21 |
9,596 | 9,624 | The relative biological effectiveness of fractionated doses of fast neutrons (42 MeVd----Be) for normal tissues. III. Effects on lung function.
The effect of single and fractionated doses of fast neutrons (42 MeVd----Be) on the early and late radiation responses of the pig lung have been assessed by the measurement of... | C21 |
9,597 | 3,104 | Prospective evaluation of gastric emptying in the self-poisoned patient.
The authors prospectively studied the effect of gastric emptying (GE) and activated charcoal (AC) upon clinical outcome in acutely self-poisoned patients.
Presumed overdose patients (n = 808) were treated using an alternate day protocol based on... | C21 |
9,598 | 2,422 | Sudden death due to delayed rupture of hepatic subcapsular hematoma following blunt abdominal trauma.
Blunt abdominal trauma can cause sudden, unexpected death due to injuries to internal organs.
Rupture of a hepatic subcapsular hematoma is a relatively rare cause of sudden death following minor blunt abdominal traum... | C21 |
9,599 | 4,471 | The Hymenoptera venom study. III: Safety of venom immunotherapy.
One thousand four hundred ten (44%) of the 3236 subjects in the Hymenoptera venom study accepted venom immunotherapy (VIT).
Time to maintenance averaged 95 days, and the largest number achieved maintenance (147 subjects, 10.4%) at day 56.
Ninety-two pe... | C21 |
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