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We identified 35 patients who had epididymitis from 1965 to 1984 by hospital chart review. The common clinical presentation was swelling, pain, and erythema. Twenty-two patients had onset of symptoms within 24 hours of hospital admission. Surgery was performed in 31 patients, 22 of whom had cultures taken from the epididymis at the time of surgery. Bacterial agents were recovered from cultures of 13 patients: coagulase-negative staphylococci were identified in nine patients. In two patients, a polymicrobic cause was found. Six patients had associated urologic abnormality. Three patients had concurrent urinary tract infection. Urologic investigation should be undertaken in children younger than 2 years old and in older patients with recurrent episodes suspected to be due to reflux of urine and associated genitourinary abnormality.
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PMID:Epididymitis in children and adolescents. A 20-year retrospective study. 378 80

Splenic abscess remains a rare condition which is difficult to diagnose and is usually only an autopsy finding. However, it is a serious situation despite surgical treatment which is curative for most abscesses. The authors report 3 cases of single splenic abscess seen at random over a short period of 9 months. Urinary tract infection and diabetes as favoring factors, with a clinical picture of fever, pain in the left hypochondrium and leucocytosis led to additional investigations (CT scan and echotomography) confirming the diagnosis. Splenectomy with drainage of the splenic bed, as surgical treatment, was successful in all 3 cases.
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PMID:[Splenic abscesses. Apropos of 3 new cases]. 390 Jan 11

Twenty-nine patients suspected of having appendicitis while pregnant had appendectomies, and 20 patients had appendicitis. Right lower quadrant pain and tenderness of less than 24 hours duration with nausea and vomiting, a fever of 38 C or less, and a leukocyte count of more than 15,000 were the more common findings in patients with appendicitis. Right lower quadrant pain and tenderness of more than 24 hours' duration, fever of more than 38 C, and a leukocyte count of less than 15,000 were more common findings in patients with idiopathic right lower quadrant pain or such pain associated with urinary tract infection. Neither fetal nor maternal death or complication occurred. The use of antibiotics and progestational agents appeared to be a matter of choice and did not appear to influence fetal or maternal outcome. These data support the concept that peritonitis rather than appendectomy is the cause of fetal and maternal death and complication in pregnant women suspected of having appendicitis and further argue for early appendectomy in such patients.
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PMID:Appendectomy during pregnancy. 399 67

There are complications of spinal cord paralysis peculiar to the extended care period. These may be motor skeletal, neurogenic, visceral and psychogenic. If practised regularly, prevention can be very effective in reducing the disability in all groups. Limb oedema, joint contractures, myasthenia and pain can be materially reduced by regular activity, maintaining joint mobility and the use of recreational motor skeletal activities. Urinary tract infection and decubiti can be largely eliminated by careful attention to anti-bacterial suppression and better hygiene, both personal and at home. Decubiti can be eliminated by regular skin care and eliminating friction and pressure. Most episodes of such complications can be effectively prevented and treated by the expert home visiting nurse. Social complications and drug abuse are areas of increasing concern. These can be kept to a minimum by regular assessment and, most importantly, when diagnosed early by the home visiting professional.
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PMID:Preventive measures in the tertiary care of spinal cord injured people. 400 Jun 94

Upper urinary tract calculi can be difficult to diagnose and to treat. One has to be aware that there is a risk for the mother which is often not recognized in the long term. The authors describe 17 cases of pregnant women aged between 20 and 33 who were treated for calculi in the Urological Service in Poitiers. They were diagnosed at different stages of pregnancy and a few had a previous urological history. The women presented in different ways, several of them with urinary colic and 10 with urinary colic and fever. Urinary tract infection and septicaemia also occurred. Six patients passed the stones spontaneously. The rest had to be treated by some form of operation, either during the pregnancy or afterwards, including one case of a patient who had to have her kidney and ureter removed and another who had to have a kidney removed. One patient had to have an emergency caesarean section for fetal distress although she had had stone removed at the 20th week of pregnancy. It is not possible to know from this series the incidence of stones in the tract. Various theories of the formation of the stones, including the anatomical changes that occur in the urinary tract in pregnancy, are suggested and these include the hormonal theory of dilatation of the ureters as well as the mechanical theory of changes in the course of the ureters. There are also likely to be changes in the phosphocalcium metabolism. Pain in the lumbar and lower abdominal region is the most frequent symptom occurring in 90-100% of cases and urinary tract infection is common.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Pregnancy and lithiasis of the upper urinary tract. Clinical aspects and therapeutic management]. 400 92

This is a report on a case of blind-ending ureter. The patient was a 56-year-old female who had complained of a pain in the left flank. There was no urinary tract infection. Excretory urography revealed a left blind-ending bifid ureter. It was resected and the removed specimen was about 8 cm in length. Histologically, it had all layers of the ureteral structure, but no renal tissue was found. The post-operative course was uneventful. We collected 55 cases of blind-ending bifid ureters reported in Japan including our own and discussed the difference between blind-ending bifid ureter and ureteral diverticulum.
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PMID:[Blind-ending bifid ureter: a case report]. 402 85

Four patients whose rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was complicated by staphylococcal arthritis were identified. All patients had active, long-standing disease with destructive changes. Affected joints included hip (two patients), knee (one patient), and shoulder (one patient). Pain and loss of motion in the affected joint were prominent, but toxic features of pyogenic infections--hectic fever, chills, sweats, local warmth, or erythema--were conspicuously absent. Two patients had moderate fever and three patients had mild leukocytosis. No patient was leukopenic. When present, fever was attributed to infected decubiti or urinary tract infection and treated with antibiotics. Therapy with corticosteroids and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) probably masked symptoms and delayed the correct diagnosis. Purulent synovial effusions were discovered serendipitously--during arthrography (knee), attempted Girdlestone procedure (hip), and aspiration prior to steroid injection (shoulder). Sepsis was included in the preoperative diagnoses only once (hip). Prior instrumentation (aspiration or injection) of the affected joint was not a feature in any patients, although one patient had undergone insertion of a knee prosthesis one year prior to sepsis. Infectious organisms were Staphylococcus aureus in three patients and Staphylococcus epidermidis in one. Severe sequelae ensued in three of four patients: death from recurrent sepsis (one patient), loss of prosthesis leading to knee arthrodesis (one patient), and protracted sepsis with additional pyarthrosis (one patient). The only patient to regain preseptic joint function (shoulder) had not been on long-standing corticosteroids. Pyarthrosis must be considered in RA patients with unusually painful or stiff joints even in the absence of toxic symptoms.
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PMID:Unrecognized staphylococcal pyarthrosis with rheumatoid arthritis. 408 87

Abdominal pain is a common gastrointestinal symptom in children. The purpose of this paper is to determine the upper gastrointestinal mucosal pathology in a group of children with abdominal pain. 48 consecutive children referred to the authors with the problem of abdominal pain were studied. These were divided into 2 groups. Those with only one episode of pain and lasting for less than 2 weeks were considered to have acute abdominal pain. Those with repeated episodes of pain and lasting for more than 2 weeks were considered to have recurrent abdominal pain. Careful clinical examination was done to exclude an acute surgical abdomen. Other common causes of abdominal pain in our population such as urinary tract infection, lactose intolerance, hepatitis and choledochal cyst were excluded by clinical examinations and laboratory investigations. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was done by one of the authors. Five out of the 16 children with acute abdominal pain had macroscopic features of acute gastritis and another 2 had duodenitis. In the other 32 children with recurrent abdominal pain, 5 had duodenal ulcers and 3 had reflux oesophagitis. It was concluded that upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was a useful means of identifying the upper gastrointestinal pathology in children with abdominal pain. 43% and 25% of the children with acute and recurrent abdominal pain respectively had a cause identified by gastroscopy.
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PMID:Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in children with abdominal pain. 408 98

Cefazolin sodium, a cephalosporin for parenteral use, was evaluated in vitro and in 26 patients. Cefazolin had activity equivalent to cephalothin against Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, group A streptococci, and Proteus mirabilis. Cefazolin was four- to eightfold more active against Escherichia coli and slightly more active against Klebsiella pneumoniae, whereas cephalothin was slightly more active against indole-positive Proteus species. After a 500-mg dose of cefazolin intramuscularly, peak concentrations in the serum were high enough to inhibit all strains of S. pneumoniae, S. aureus, group A streptococci, E. coli, K. pneumoniae, and P. mirabilis, as well as 60% of strains of Proteus species other than P. mirabilis. All of 26 patients (18 with pneumonia, 6 with urinary tract infection, and 2 with skin infections) responded clinically and bacteriologically to cefazolin therapy. There were no major side effects of therapy, and no patient complained of pain at the site of intramuscular injection. Cefazolin is an effective cephalosporin which can be used intramuscularly for therapy of serious bacterial infections. Its major advantages over other cephalosporins are higher, more sustained concentrations in the blood and apparent lack of pain on intramuscular injection.
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PMID:Clinical and in vitro evaluation of cefazolin, a new cephalosporin antibiotic. 479 May 84

In a survey of 101 cases with an index diagnosis of torsion of the testis or its appendage, there were 86 instances of torsion of the testis and 14 of torsion of the hydatid of Morgagni. In 38 of the patients with testicular torsion there were one or more "warning" attacks of pain and swelling, due to torsion which became spontaneously untwisted. In 19 cases operative fixation was performed because of this warning history, and all the testes were preserved. In the other 19 the testes were not explored until the patient came in with a severe "classical" episode of torsion: seven of these testicles were lost from gangrene or delayed atrophy.In 31 cases torsion resulted in failure to save the testis. Of these, 20 were misdiagnosed and treated initially as epididymo-orchitis, despite there being no evidence of a urinary tract infection. There is no excuse for not exploring any actuely inflammed testicle which is unaccompanied by definite evidence of urinary or urethral infection.
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PMID:Torsion of the testis and its appendages. 500 48


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