scholarly journals Cholera El Tor in Infants below 2 Years of Age as seen in Private and Hospitalized Patients

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Haroen Noerasid ◽  
Pitono Soeparto ◽  
Bing Rudianto ◽  
Hananto Wirjo ◽  
Juliati Sudanawidjaja ◽  
...  

A report was made on cholera El Tor in children under 2 years of age with mute gastroenteritis admitted to the pediatric ward of the Dr. Soetomo Hospital, Surabaya. Twenty-three out of 115 cases (20%) showed positive stool cultures. A similar report was made in the same period on patients with gastroenteritis in private practice. Four out of 108 cases (3.6%) showed positive stool cultures. A brief description of the disease pattern of infantile gastroenteritis was presented. The increasing incidence of cholera, below one year was also discussed.

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 616-623
Author(s):  
I. F. Abroms ◽  
W. D. Cochran ◽  
L. B. Holmes ◽  
E. B. Marsh ◽  
J. W. Moore

Gastroenteritis due to S. newport occurred in 11 premature infants. Meningitis due to this organism developed in a twelfth infant after an incubation period of 1 month. Oral ampicillin (following parenteral penicillin G and kanamycin) was clinically effective as specific therapy in all 11 cases of gastroenteritis, but there was a recurrence of the organism in the stools of 9 of 11 infants during or after ampicillin therapy. No toxicity with ampicillin was found. At 2 months after the start of the disease 6 of 11 infants had positive stool cultures. Of the 10 followed for 1 year, 4 had positive cultures at 8 months and 1 at 12 months.


Vascular ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saadi Alhalbouni ◽  
Anil Hingorani ◽  
Alexander Shiferson ◽  
Natalie Marks ◽  
Enrico Ascher

Infra-popliteal veins include the tibial and peroneal veins, as well as the soleal and gastrocnemial veins collectively known as the calf muscle veins (CMVs). Acute infra-popliteal deep venous thrombi (DVTs) are often considered insignificant with regard to the risk of pulmonary embolism (PE). A retrospective review of 4035 consecutive lower extremity venous duplex scans were made in 3146 hospital patients at our Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (ICAVL)-accredited vascular lab. Seven hundred sixteen (17.7%) duplex scans were positive for acute DVTs, and 112 (2.8%) were associated with PEs. The breakdown of positive duplexes for acute DVTs was as follows: 202 (28.2%) isolated femoral-popliteal DVTs with PE in 23 (11.4%), 304 (42.5%) isolated infra-popliteal DVTs with PE in 24 (7.9%) and 210 (29.3%) multilevel DVTs involving both vein segments (femoral-popliteal and infra-popliteal) with PE in 38 (18.1%). Of the 304 isolated acute infra-popliteal DVTs, 207 (68.1%) were isolated CMV DVTs with evidence of PE in 12 (5.8%). No statistically significant difference ( P = 0.27) in the risk of PE between isolated femoral-popliteal and isolated infra-popliteal DVTs was noted. A significant number of patients (5.8%) with isolated CMV DVTs developed PE. Lower limb venous scans for DVTs should evaluate the infra-popliteal veins. Hospitalized patients with infra-popliteal DVTs should receive anticoagulation.


1986 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-132
Author(s):  
T. M. Shigabutdinova

There are 840 children registered at the pediatric area, including 66 children under one year of age and 140 "unorganized" children. In the course of the clinical examination, the health status of children was studied according to the data of preventive examinations, as well as materials of the district therapist on the health status of the family.


2021 ◽  
pp. 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000001080
Author(s):  
Kevin R. Nelson ◽  
Katelyn Dolbec ◽  
William Watson ◽  
Hanwen Yuan ◽  
Mam Ibraheem

AbstractPurpose of review:Determine the prevalence and burden of neurological comorbidities in hospitalized patients with opioid abuse.Recent findings:From one year of hospital discharges 2,182 opioid abuse patients were identified (prevalence 6.3%), with abuse greater among younger patients (p<0.0001), women (p<0.0001), whites (p<0.0001), and urban population (p=0.028). Matching for age, sex, race, and urban-rural residence, 347 patients were reviewed and 179 (52%) had a neurological comorbidity. The comorbidities frequently overlapped and included: encephalopathy (130), neuromuscular disorders (42), seizures (23), spine disorders (23), strokes (20), central nervous system infections (3), and movement disorders (2). Abuse patients with neurologic comorbidities experienced substantially greater number of hospital and intensive care unit days and mortality, independent of overdose.Summary:Neurological comorbidities are a frequent and heretofore underappreciated contributor to the disease burden of hospitalized patients with opioid abuse. The importance of neurological comorbidities should be included in the public health discussions surrounding the opioid epidemic.


1968 ◽  
Vol 114 (513) ◽  
pp. 945-948 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Elsarrag

This study is mainly based on my work in psychiatry in the Clinic of Nervous Disorders, Khartoum North, and with my private practice patients. I have seen altogether 2,160 patients. The distribution of psychiatric illness in these is shown in the table below. The two populations of patients attending the Government clinic and private practice are comparable, and the same patients interchange. A comparison is made in this paper between psychiatry in the West, mainly British psychiatry, and Sudanese psychiatry.


2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (04) ◽  
pp. 709-714
Author(s):  
FUAD AHMAD SIDDIQI ◽  
RIZWANA KITCHLEW ◽  
ASIF HASHMI

Objective: To study the safety and efficacy of Surecut needle in obtaining the liver tissue by percutaneous liver biopsy. Design: Single centered prospective hospital based study. Place and duration of study: Department of Internal medicine (Unit-1) & Family ward, Combined military hospital Lahore for more than one year from August 2002 to March 2004. Materials and Methods: One hundred and fifty patients of either gender having asymptomatic hepatitis C carrier state, healthy blood donors, with positive HCV-PCR were included in study. The patients liver biopsy was done with Surecut needle 16G with patient breath suspended in expiration from the periphery of right lobe of liver. Result: Majority of patients, 135 ( 90% ) were male and 15 (10%) were female. The mean age was 30.3 years with range of 25-55years. In 146(97.31%)patients successful biopsy was done while the biopsy was non-diagnostic in 4(2.69%) patients. Mean core length of liver tissue obtained was Mean+sd(1.2+0.42cm) and histopathologic diagnosis was made in 97.31% cases. Total number of attempts were 1-2. In 99% single attempt was done. No major complications related to procedure was seen. Conclusions: liver biopsy with Surecut needle is safe and effective in establishing the diagnosis of Chronic hepatitis.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-711
Author(s):  
Ricardo Perez-Martin

I am a pediatrician who started private practice recently in Pasadena, Texas. For quite some time I have been bothered by a question; but, since starting private practice I have felt compelled to ask this question of some authorities in this matter. Every pediatrician, general practitioner, and any physician (M.D.) who takes calls in the emergency room of a hospital, sometimes has found children or adults with a laceration who need a booster of D.P.T., D.T., or just plain tetanus toxoid, according to age, because it has been more then one year since they have had one, and they tell you that they are allergic to tetanus toxoid.


2020 ◽  
pp. 231-234
Author(s):  
J. Scott Slorach ◽  
Jason Ellis

This chapter discusses value added tax (VAT) in the UK. VAT is charged on supplies of goods and services made in the UK. Where a person makes taxable supplies in excess of a set limit in any one-year period, he must register with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). He must then account to HMRC for VAT on all taxable supplies made. The total amount payable may be reduced by the amount of VAT paid on certain taxable supplies made to him. The liability to pay VAT to HMRC rests on suppliers of goods and services. However, the cost of the tax is actually borne by suppliers’ customers who are charged VAT on the goods and services they purchase. VAT is charged in the UK under the Value Added Tax Act (VATA) 1994.


2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Beatriz Souza Dias ◽  
Juliana Yamashiro ◽  
Vera L. Borrasca ◽  
Valeska A. Stempliuk ◽  
Maria Rita E. Araújo ◽  
...  

The objective of this study was to describe a pseudo-outbreak of C. difficile in a hospital, following a change in the method used to detect the toxin. In February 2002, there were two cases of CDAD and in March 7 occurred, coinciding with a change of the test (from detection of toxin A to toxin A/B). An outbreak was suspected. Active surveillance and education of staff were started. A CDAD case was defined as a patient with acute onset of diarrhea (³ three episodes of liquid stools) and a positive stool test. They were classified as hospital or community-acquired. Stool samples were also collected for C. difficile culture and isolates were typed using AP-PCR. From March 2002 through December 2003 there were 138 cases of CDAD: 70% were hospital-acquired and among the 30% with CDAD present on admission, most (81%) came directly from the community (50% had no history of hospitalization). Fifty-two percent of hospital-acquired CDAD and 94% of cases on admission had already used antibiotics. The incidence of CDAD in hospitalized patients during surveillance was 3.3 per 1000 patient-admissions. The incidence of CDAD present on admission was 6.1/1000 patients. Sixteen isolates were typed and presented 13 different profiles. In conclusion, the CDAD increase in our study occurred due to change in diagnostic methods and not due to an outbreak, as suspected initially. The incidence in hospitalized patients was much lower than in reported outbreaks. There were 13 molecular types suggesting that an outbreak did not occur. CDAD was largely community-acquired.


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