Gas-producing infections are related to anaerobic bacteria and usually associated with immunosuppressive pathologies such as diabetes and have a fulminating course. We present the clinical course of a patient with diabetes whose infection progressed rapidly and ended in her dramatic death in a short ...
Patients with EPN usually present with nonspecific signs and symptoms such as fever, pain in the flanks, abdomen, or back, nausea, changes in mental status, and even shock. More unusual initial presentations of EPN include pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema, or multiple septic emboli to ...
We did not observe any significant changes in the lung compliance between the saline and elastase groups as we expected to only see a mild emphysema with our treatment. We believe that this might be because of the low dosage that has been administered to the rats (50U per animal). Another...
The combination of emphysematous cholecystitis, liver abscess and pneumoperitoneum are even rarer. Herein we present a case of emphysematous cholecystitis in a senile diabetic lady who had worsening hemodynamics while undergoing hemodialysis. Case presentation A 64-year-old woman with history of type 2 ...
This revealed the presence of air surrounding the endovascular graft, with associated inflammatory changes and aortic wall thickening. The air was seen extending to the proximal common iliac artery (Figure 1). Medical therapy and appropriate antibiotics were initiated, with a plan to embark on ...
Lymphocytes may be atypical and are usually CD8+. Granulomas may be present. It has been argued that EBV acute interstitial nephritis is simply an immunologic phenomenon. In situ hybridization for EBV RNA and immunohistochemistry findings may be negative; however, EBV DNA has been identified...
The present invention has been described with reference to specific exemplary embodiments. Those skilled in the art will understand that changes may be made in details, particularly in matters of shape, size, material and arrangement of parts without departing from the teaching of the invention. Acc...
some authors have suggested the superiority of ultrasonography to radiography for the detec- tion of emphysematous changes particularly at an early stage and when only a small amount of gas is present.8,12,17 Ultrasonographic findings of mural EC include a hyper- echoic stripe with reverberation ar...
Results: Radiologic emphysematous changes analyzed using 3D-CT per pack-year smoked, defined as the Smoking-Emphysema Index (SEI), were greater in females than males. The difference was more profound in adenocarcinoma patients than in non-adenocarcinoma patients (0.70 卤 2.30 vs. 0.21 卤 0.28, ...
Conclusion: In CB or EM phenotypes, COPD patients with FE present several differential clinical characteristics compared to patients with iFE, while the characteristics of ACOS phe- notype in patients with FE need more investigation. Keywords: chronic bronchitis, emphysema, ACOS, COPD, frequent ...