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Valve replacement with an Angell-Shiley bioprosthesis was accomplished in 449 patients. To evaluate the bioprostheses from this total series, 344 patients who did not undergo associated operation, had no previous operations, or had no other valve substitutes were selected. Hospital mortality was 2.6% for aortic (4 out of 156), 7.2% for mitral (9 out of 125), and 12.7% for multiple-valve replacements (8 out of 63). The 323 patients discharged from the hospital were followed for 6 to 36 months. There were 15 late deaths. Hepatitis, bleeding, thromboembolism, endocarditis, and residual valvular incompetence, always periprosthetic, were the major complications. Forty-five patients with single-valve replacement (16 mitral and 29 aortic) without clinical valve dysfunction were electively recatheterized to assess hemodynamic performance. Measurements were recorded at rest and during exercise on a bicycle ergometer. Functional aortic valve orifice averaged 1.23 +/- 0.33 cm2 and the mean systolic gradient was 21.51 +/- 6.68 mm Hg at rest. During exercise, aortic gradient increased to 26.60 +/- 7.54 mm Hg and mean functional area to 1.51 +/- 0.34 cm2. In the mitral position, the mean diastolic gradient at rest was 8.44 +/- 3.17 mm Hg and the functional orifice area averaged 1.67 +/- 0.51 cm2. Exercise increased the mean gradient to 11.92 +/- 3.8 mm Hg and the mean orifice area to 2.05 +/- 0.57 cm2.
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PMID:Clinical and hemodynamic assessment of the Angell-Shiley porcine xenograft. 743 16

Systemic pathological alterations were studied in thirty-seven autopsied patients with Kawasaki disease. Systemic vasculitis was the most characteristic pathological finding and was present in all the patients. In addition to the vasculitis, there was a high incidence of inflammatory lesions in various organs and tissues: in the heart, endocarditis, myocarditis, and pericarditis; in the digestive system, stomatitis, sialoduct-adenitis, catarrhal enteritis, hepatitis, cholangitis, pancreatitis, and pancreas ductitis; in the respiratory system, bronchitis and segmental interstitial pneumonia; in the urinary system, focal interstitial nephritis, cystitis, and prostatitis; in the nervous system, aseptic leptomeningitis, choriomeningitis, gangliontis, and neuritis; in the hematopoietic system, lymphadenitis, splenitis, and thymitis. Dermatitis, panniculitis or myositis were also observed in some patients. Therefore, Kawasaki disease is a systemic inflammatory disease which mainly affects the cardiovascular system. These systemic inflammatory lesions are considered to correspond to the variegated clinical manifestaitions. The relationship between Kawasaki disease and infantile polyarteritis nodosa (IPN) were discussed, based on the clinicopathological characteristics.
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PMID:General pathology of Kawasaki disease. On the morphological alterations corresponding to the clinical manifestations. 744 9

A 20 year-old white man was admitted with fever and weight loss since 60 days previous to his admission and cardiac failure (functional class IV). The heart was enlarged in the echocardiographic examination without valvular involvement. Liver biopsy showed granulomatous hepatitis with a necrosis focus. The patient was treated with a combination of venous dilators and digital. Serum agglutination test for Brucella showed a titer of 1/250, and complement fixation 1/40. Seven days later, agglutination titer was 1/4000. He was treated with rifampin and trimethoprimsulfametoxazol. He got better; fever disappeared, and the signs of cardiac failure improved. Brucellosic myocarditis is an uncommon complication of brucellosis in the absence of endocarditis. In our knowledge, this case would be the first reported in Argentina and the third in adult patients out of the five cases reported worldwide.
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PMID:[Febrile syndrome: myocarditis and brucellosis]. 756 52

From March 1992 through March 1995 we have performed 45 Ross procedures for total aortic root replacement in our institution. There were 32 males and 13 females with a mean age of 31 years (range: 3-49 years). Indications for surgery were: aortic stenosis (n = 20), aortic regurgitation (n = 16), native valve endocarditis (n = 6), replacement of prosthetic valve (n = 3). Of these 45 patients 13 (28%) had at least one prior repair. Additional procedures were Dacron graft extension of the autograft (n = 7), enlargement of aortic annulus (n = 3), mitral valve repair (n = 2), CABG (n = 1), closure of VSD (n = 1). The mean cross-clamp time was 132 minutes (76-187 minutes) and the mean bypass time 156 minutes (106-240 minutes). There were two postoperative cardiac deaths, not valve-related, and five non-lethal postoperative complications: right ventricular failure (n = 1), low cardiac output (n = 1), sternal re-entry for bleeding (n = 3). The follow up is complete (1.5-37 months) for the 43 survivors. There was one non-cardiac late death (acute fulminating hepatitis) in an eight years old boy eight months post-operatively. Discharge echo-Doppler studies showed normal autograft and homograft valve function except in one patient who had a grade two aortic regurgitation. Serial echo-Doppler studies showed no significant progression of aortic regurgitation, no significant pulmonary gradients, no dilatation of the autografts during the follow up. It is suggested in conclusion that aortic root replacement with a pulmonary autograft is a safe procedure in selected patients.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Total aortic root replacement with pulmonary autografts: short term results in 45 consecutive patients. 758 43

Although Q-fever is still a relatively rare disease in the Netherlands, its incidence seems to be increasing. In this article we describe the case-history of a 65-year-old woman with a Pudenz-drain, who acquired Q-fever pneumonia while manuring her garden. The course of the disease was deviant, which most likely was caused by colonization of the ventriculo-peritoneal drain with Coxiella burnetii. Q-fever usually presents as a self-limiting illness. In the case of chronic Q-fever, complications such as endocarditis, hepatitis or meningo-encephalitis can be fatal and require long-term treatment. Patients with artificial drains or valves carry a greater risk of developing such complications. Therefore, especially in patients at risk, Q-fever should be included in the differential diagnosis when dealing with a patient with unexplained fever.
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PMID:Q-fever in a patient with a ventriculo-peritoneal drain. Case report and short review of the literature. 820 25

Neurologic manifestations of severe infectious complications of drug abuse and chronic alcoholism are reviewed in this article. Portals of entry from cutaneous postinjection infections and multiple vascular injection sites may lead to pyomyositis, tetanus, infective endocarditis, meningitis, brain abscesses, and vertebral osteomyelitis. Chronic intranasal abuse of cocaine may be followed by frontal osteomyelitis, botulism, brain abscess, and visual loss. Problems of hepatitis, malaria, and syphilis in drug abusers are discussed also.
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PMID:Infections other than AIDS. 837 45

Chronic Q fever has been associated with endocarditis, granulomatous hepatitis, and osteomyelitis but only rarely with pregnancy. The apparent predilection of Coxiella burnetii, the organism causing Q fever, for the human placenta suggests that chronic Q fever of pregnancy is due to placentitis. We describe a patient with chronic, clinically apparent Q fever in pregnancy and a successful outcome. The diagnosis was made both by serology and by isolation of C. burnetii from the patient's serum and placenta. Therapy with erythromycin and rifampin contributed to the delivery of a healthy baby. The mother's infection was clinically cured by subsequent therapy with doxycycline and rifampin.
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PMID:Chronic Q fever of pregnancy presenting as Coxiella burnetii placentitis: successful outcome following therapy with erythromycin and rifampin. 858 67

Stevens-Johnson syndrome is a rare immunologic reaction that may involve skin or various mucosal surfaces. The etiology may range from multiple pharmacologic agents to viral infections. Associated findings can range from minimal skin and mucosal involvement to extensive dermal exfoliation, nephritis, lymphadenopathy, hepatitis, and multiple serologic abnormalities. We report a 36 year-old caucasian male who developed a pruritic, raised maculopapular eruption on Day 17 of intravenous vancomycin for treatment of probable bacterial endocarditis. The vancomycin was discontinued. The patient had received a prosthetic aortic valve subsequent to acute rheumatic valve disease 20 years earlier, but had been well until development of endocarditis. The rash became more extensive to involve the torso, abdomen, legs, and arms. His fever persisted, and he developed neutropenia and eosinophilia. Axillary and inguinal lymphadenopathy, pharyngeal irritation, lip swelling, conjunctival injection, and elevated liver function studies also developed following cessation of the vancomycin. Eight days after eruption and fever began, corticosteroid therapy was instituted, with subsequent improvement of symptoms in less than 24 hours. Allergic reactions to vancomycin have included Stevens-Johnson syndrome rarely, and only one other case of adenopathy has been recorded. Most reactions have been in patients with severe renal insufficiency. We believe this patient is the first case of vancomycin-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome in a previously healthy patient to be complicated by lymphadenopathy, hepatitis, and multiple serologic abnormalities.
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PMID:Vancomycin-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome. 893 97

We report 81 of 107 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), admitted between July 1994 and February 1996, following an outbreak of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 dysentery in Kwazulu/Natal. All patients, excluding 1, were black with a mean age of 38 months (range 1-121); 50 (61.7%) were males. The mean duration of dysentery was 11.3 days (range 1-41) and HUS 15 days (range 1-91). Most patients had acute oliguric renal failure (90.1%), 42 (51.6%) required peritoneal dialysis. Complications included encephalopathy 30 (37.0%), convulsions 12 (14.8%) and hemiplegia 2 (2.3%), gastrointestinal perforation 8 (9.9%), protein losing enteropathy 26 (32.1%), toxic megacolon 4 (4.9%), rectal prolapse 5 (6.2%), hepatitis 11 (13.6%), myocarditis 5 (6.2%), congestive cardiac failure 3 (3.7%), cardiomyopathy 3 (3.7%), infective endocarditis 1 (1.2%), septicemia 15 (18.5%), disseminated intravascular coagulation 17 (21%). Leukemoid reactions were found in 74 (91.3%) patients, hyponatremia in 56 (69.1%), and hypoalbuminemia in 67 (82.7%). Stool culture for Shigella dysenteriae type I was positive in only 7 (8.6%) patients; Shiga toxin assays were not performed. Outcome was as follows: recovery 32 (39.5%), impaired renal function 8 (9.9%), chronic renal failure 26 (32.1%), end-stage renal disease 1 (1.2%), and death 14 (17.3%) patients.
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PMID:Post-dysenteric hemolytic uremic syndrome in children during an epidemic of Shigella dysentery in Kwazulu/Natal. 932 80

This study presents the adverse effects of acupuncture as recorded in the Medline database for the years 1981-1994. A total of 125 papers were localized by the keywords acupuncture adverse effects. Articles without case reports were excluded, and 78 reports forms the basis for the present paper. A total of 193 patients were reported with adverse effects of acupuncture in 14 years. Pneumothorax is the most common mechanical organ injury, while hepatitis dominates among infections. Acupuncture treatment is claimed to be responsible in the death of three patients. One patient died from bilateral pneumothorax, another got endocarditis, and died of complications. The third patient died of severe asthma while under acupuncture treatment. Most adverse effects of acupuncture seem to rely on insufficient basic medical knowledge, low hygienic standard, and inadequate acupuncture education. The study confirms the adverse effects of acupuncture under certain circumstances. Serious adverse effects, however, are few, and acupuncture can generally be considered as a safe treatment.
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PMID:Adverse effects of acupuncture: a study of the literature for the years 1981-1994. 939 56


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